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Chris Perkins chrisperkins99@gmail.com
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grammati··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)
Rally Software, Boulder Colorado.

Full-stack web developers, especially Clojure.

Rally Software is hiring for several positions, in all our locations (Boulder and Denver CO, Seattle WA, Raleigh NC, and Helsinki Finland).

In particular, I am interested in finding experienced polyglot programmers to join the team that I work on, which does backend infrastructure-type projects, working almost exclusively in Clojure. We are located at Rally's main office in Boulder, and offer relocation.

Feel free to contact me directly with questions ( chrisperkins99@gmail.com ).

- Chris Perkins

grammati··on How my todo list works
Hey, I use almost exactly the same system, except that instead of evernote I use backpack (http://backpackit.com/), and instead of the three sections being day, week, and month, I have "Next", "Soon", and "Backlog". Also, I have two todo lists - one for work, and one for non-work.

I like backpack because I can reorder and drag items between lists easily. There is even a checkbox beside each item, which I get an unreasonable amount of satisfaction by clicking.

grammati··on Farewell Stack Exchange
Almost all the ideas for webapps that I have had over the years have been discarded because I thought, or was told by people, that "no-one will pay money for that". No offense to Amy, but time-tracking is pretty much the canonical example of the app that "no-one will pay for".

So thank you, Amy, for proving me wrong.

grammati··on Playing chicken with cat.jpg
That's nonsense - people don't NEVER have no incentive not to help anyone.

Bam! Quad-negative! Top that.

grammati··on WebGL X-Wing
If the intent is to make me pay attention to WebGL, it just may have succeeded.

If, on the other hand, the intent is to prove that I suck at video games, then it's a resounding success.

grammati··on Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
I have just skimmed this so far, but it looks very good.

A lot of the Python scripts that I see at work look like either C programs or glorified batch files. I'll definitely point people to this when they are ready and willing to move on to the next level.

Well done.

Suggestion: one thing I didn't see mentioned is switching from "if s.find(c) == -1: ..." to "if c in s: ...". I see people do that a lot.

grammati··on Evolution of a Python programmer
The last of those books opens with "Objective Caml (OCaml) is a popular, expressive, high-perfomance dialect of ML...". This must be some hitherto unknown usage of the word "popular"...
grammati··on IBM forcing all employees to stop using MS Office
All lies. I work at IBM, and I have heard no such thing. As for "330,000 use Symphony" - everyone gets a computer with Symphony pre-installed. Nobody I know ever uses it - ever. We all use MS Office, and have not been told to stop.