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hobonumber1

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hobonumber1··on Show HN: Open source Typeform alternative
this is awesome, thanks for the permissible license. I'll definitely try this out in my app.
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Meegle – Jira alternative with workflow visualization
RIP
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Refine v3.97 – Open-source React framework for building CRUD apps
This looks great! I have been wishing for a headless CRUD framework for React. i have to dive deeper into this, but it looks promising.
hobonumber1··on Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure
I feel like they are using open source as a marketing and growth channel. Even if you self-host it, there's no way to self-host the API. You have to pay to use it. So you're just self-hosting the UI. They can change the API at any time or kick you off it. Also the AGPL is a very restrictive license.
hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Is it just me or do 99% of SWE jobs offers seem completely pointless?
It is just you. Those jobs that you deem "pointless" make the economy work. To find great jobs: 1. Be clear about what "great" means to you. What do you value? 2. Research the company to determine if what you value is the same as what they value. Every company goes after profit. This is a good thing. Profit = you're providing value to someone. If you don't believe that, work for a non-profit. That's cool too. 3. Realize that everything meaningful was built by teams. No one can build something that stands the test of time by themselves. When you zoom in, things may seem pointless, but when you zoom out to look at the timeframe of decades, you'll see meaningful change derived from many of today's companies.
hobonumber1··on Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
Is that the voice control in the MBUX, or in older Mercedes?
hobonumber1··on Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
JIRA offers an almost limitless amount of customization to fit any workflow. I think the custom attributes/fields/reporting part of it adds a lot of complexity.
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template
You can use server-rendered React. You get the benefit of having components without the cost of downloading React on the frontend (unless you have something interactive). This is what NextJS does.
hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Where to Put Money?
Your best bet is to invest that money in a Total Market ETF like Vanguard's VTI. https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/VTI

It should net you 5-6% a year compounded over the long-run.

hobonumber1··on Ask HN: How do you drive organic (unpaid) traffic to your MVP?
Mostly by writing a blog posts and driving SEO traffic. But this takes a long time and may not succeed unless your blog posts are discoverable. You solve this problem by writing guests on other people's blogs (usually blogs that are in your product's niche).
hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?
I went from a Software Engineer to an Engineering Manager about 1.5 years ago. Here are some of the things I've learned:

- Engineering and Management are very different. When writing code, there's an obvious end goal. There is no such end goal in Management. Your job is to remove obstacles to allow other people to do their best work.

- Get used to interruptions. your job will be interruption-driven. When coding, you want as much heads-down time as possible. In Management, you will be interrupted as problems come up and people look to you for solutions. And these problems dont always have obvious solutions as they are people problems.

- You will code less. Get used to giving up the "interesting" parts of the codebase to engineers. Your role now is not to code, but to provide the right environment to allow other people to be happy and productive.

- Learn how to give feedback. Different people on your team will take your feedback in different ways. You may have to be direct with some people, and more delicate with others. You have to learn how these people react to different types of feedback and deliver news appropriately.

- Understand who on your team is a "superstar" (a person wants to work on latest code, wants to move up the corporate ladder, may only be on your team for a year), and who on your team is a rockstar (the "rock" of your team, someone who doesn't want to move up because they are perfectly happy doing what they are doing). One is not better than the other. People switch between one and the other in different stages of their lives. You have to treat them appropriately in terms of projects, feedback, expectations.

One of the books that helped me a lot was Radical Candor https://www.radicalcandor.com/

hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - http://soundhound.com/careers

I'm an Engineering Manager at SoundHound. We've raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a while back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg https://www.houndify.com/ https://soundhound.com/careers

If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.

hobonumber1··on Ask HN: How to deal with social anxiety?
Why do you feel anxious? What's the root cause of the anxiety?
hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - http://soundhound.com/careers I'm an Engineering Manager at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg https://www.houndify.com/ https://app.jobvite.com/Jobvite/jobvite.aspx?b=niY2QAwd If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.
hobonumber1··on List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects
I made a website to help with this: https://www.remotejoblists.com

It only shows remote jobs, and you can search by selecting certain categories that youre interested in.

hobonumber1··on Show HN: Remote Job Lists – Search and filter remote job listings
Thanks! My tech stack is NextJS w. Express / React / Postgres. Thanks for spotting that broken link.

I built it myself, but it's based on Bootstrap. I'll ping you over email sometime to chat. :)

hobonumber1··on Show HN: Remote Job Lists – Search and filter remote job listings
Mostly going through RSS Feeds.
hobonumber1··on Show HN: Remote Job Lists – Search and filter remote job listings
Hey guys, I'm excited to share a project that I've been building out over the last few weeks. Here's the backstory:

I was helping a family member look for a job recently and spent a lot of time on job sites. Instead of focusing on just his city (where opportunities were limited) we eventually started looking at remote jobs to broaden his search.

It quickly became obvious to me that there aren't too many good ways to search for remote listings around the world. This sucks for both remote employers and remote workers.

To solve this problem, I spent a few long nights building out Remote Job Lists. It aggregates listings across the internet, categorizes them smartly using Machine Learning, and makes it easy to search for a position that is interesting to you.

Technologies Used: NextJS (Server-side rendering with React) Express Postgres

hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - http://soundhound.com/careers I'm an Engineering Manager at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg https://www.houndify.com/ https://app.jobvite.com/Jobvite/jobvite.aspx?b=niY2QAwd If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.
hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - http://soundhound.com/careers I'm an Engineering Manager at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg https://www.houndify.com/ https://app.jobvite.com/Jobvite/jobvite.aspx?b=niY2QAwd

If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.

hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - http://soundhound.com/careers

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg https://www.houndify.com/ https://app.jobvite.com/Jobvite/jobvite.aspx?b=niY2QAwd

If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.

hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. NLP only in Sacramento/Baltimore | ONSITE - http://soundhound.com/careers

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago! https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/38fdyl/this_is_insa.... https://www.houndify.com/ https://app.jobvite.com/Jobvite/jobvite.aspx?b=niY2QAwd

If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please like the thread says no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.

hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. NLP only in Sacramento/Baltimore | ONSITE - http://soundhound.com/careers

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently.

Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago!

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/38fdyl/this_is_insa... https://www.houndify.com/ https://app.jobvite.com/Jobvite/jobvite.aspx?b=niY2QAwd

If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please like the thread says no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.

hobonumber1··on Ask HN: How to estimate financial health of new company before joining?
Ask them the following in their interview:

- how much runway they have? - how much have they raised so far? - what is the attrition rate?

That should give you a decent picture of the health of the company.

hobonumber1··on React State vs. Redux State: When and Why?
Use Redux state if you want the data to be available across multiple components.

Use React Component State if no other component cares about the data.

hobonumber1··on Ask HN: Can you explain how a database index works in an interview?
I'm a full-stack web developer. I don't know how an index works, nor do I really care. I know when to use it, and how it affects lookups.

If I was a database administrator, then it's a fair question. But if I was asked this for a full-stack web engineering role, I'd consider it a little unfair.

hobonumber1··on Intelligent and Data Driven Bowling Machines in Cricket
Cool concept! But what this doesn't take into account is that in cricket, the previous balls may have set up the batsman for the dismissal delivery.

Classic example is bowling bouncers followed by a fuller delivery. In this case, just throwing a yorker on the bowling machine would probably not get the batsman out.

hobonumber1··on Electrick: Low-Cost Touch Sensing Using Electric Field Tomography
Did you watch the video? They explain it fairly well.
hobonumber1··on Lyft raises $500M
You mean Lyft.
hobonumber1··on Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill
SoundHound is doing really well in Toronto. I work there. We just raised $75M Series D and got featured on FastCompany as one of the best AI companies in the world. We are hiring a lot of engineers.
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