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imnotjames··on Ask HN: Recommendations for ‘minimalist’ (e.g. not too ‘smart’) phones?
I like a lot of the light phone 2 but similar to the punkt the price tag for features is really lacking.

Plus, that battery.. ehh..

imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)
HumanFirst | Software Engineering / Product Management | Full-Time | US-Based REMOTE

HumanFirst is advancing remote patient monitoring by enabling the safe and effective use of connected sensors at home. We help clinical trial coordinators determine the right tool to use & establish a way for them to deploy the products into the field! We’ve closed a Series A [0] last year and are rapidly growing the team to build out the next iterations of our products!

We’re currently looking for more awesome Humans to join us across software engineering, product management, research, and more. We have a deep commitment as a team to always improve communication. Every team member has a user guide (check out mine [1]) and a personal tour of duty.

Our tech stack is Typescript, React, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL running in AWS.

You can reach out to me directly about the roles - james[@]gohumanfirst[.]com - I’m happy to chat more about the various roles, our engineering culture, team culture, or whatever! You could also look at our careers page [2].

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/humanfirst-raises-12-millio...

[1]: https://bit.ly/hn-james-userguide

[2]: https://gohumanfirst.com/careers

imnotjames··on Marak's GitHub account suspended after he erased his faker project
> receives praise but no money

Sort of. faker.js has an open collective [0] which receives some money each year. However, living off a single open source package - even one widely used like faker - is very difficult even in lower cost of living areas.

[0]: https://opencollective.com/fakerjs

imnotjames··on End of Support for Firefox Lockwise
For about 6 months or so I had to build my own release of lockwise because they had trouble supporting a point release of Android.

Their repo also hasn't seen any commits for about a year now:

https://github.com/mozilla-lockwise/lockwise-android

imnotjames··on End of Support for Firefox Lockwise
Ah, you got me by a minute to submit.

This is a bummer but not surprising. There have been a number of outstanding bugs that were never addressed and releases were slowing down - even when github commits were getting backed up.

imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
HumanFirst | Software Engineering / Product Management | Full-Time | US-Based REMOTE

HumanFirst is advancing remote patient monitoring by enabling the safe and effective use of connected sensors at home. We’ve closed our Series A [0] this year and are rapidly growing the team to build out the next iterations of our products!

We’re currently looking for more awesome Humans to join us across software engineering, product management, research, and more. We have a deep commitment as a team to always improve communication. Every team member has a user guide (check out mine [1]) and a personal tour of duty.

Our tech stack is Typescript, React, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL running in AWS.

You can reach out to me directly about the roles - james[@]gohumanfirst[.]com - I’m happy to chat more about the various roles, our engineering culture, team culture, or whatever! You could also look at our careers page over at https://gohumanfirst.com/careers

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/humanfirst-raises-12-millio...

[1]: https://bit.ly/hn-james-userguide

imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)
HumanFirst | Software Engineering / Product Management / Research | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | US-Based Remote | https://gohumanfirst.com/careers

HumanFirst is advancing remote patient monitoring by enabling the safe and effective use of connected sensors at home. We’ve closed our Series A [0] this year and are rapidly growing the team to build out the next iterations of our products!

We’re currently looking for more awesome Humans to join us across software engineering, product management, research, and more. We have a deep commitment as a team to always improve communication. Every team member has a user guide (check out mine [1]) and a personal tour of duty.

Our tech stack is Typescript, React, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL running in AWS.

You can reach out to me directly about the roles - james[@]gohumanfirst[.]com - I’m happy to chat more about the various roles, our engineering culture, team culture, or whatever! You could also look at our careers page over at https://gohumanfirst.com/careers

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/humanfirst-raises-12-millio...

[1]: https://bit.ly/hn-james-userguide

imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
HumanFirst | Software Engineering / Product Management / Research | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | US-Based Remote | https://gohumanfirst.com/careers

HumanFirst is advancing remote patient monitoring by enabling the safe and effective use of connected sensors at home. We’ve just closed our Series A [0] and are rapidly growing the team to build out the next iterations of our products!

We’re currently looking for more awesome Humans to join us across software engineering, product management, research, and more. We have a deep commitment as a team to always improve communication. Every team member has a user guide (check out mine [1]) and a personal tour of duty.

Our tech stack is Typescript, React, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL running in AWS.

You can reach out to me directly about the roles - james[@]gohumanfirst[.]com - I’m happy to chat more about the various roles, our engineering culture, team culture, or whatever! Otherwise, apply via our careers page at https://gohumanfirst.com/careers

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/humanfirst-raises-12-millio...

[1]: https://bit.ly/hn-james-userguide

imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
Hi there! As far as I know we've not ghosted anyone - early or late in the interview stage.

We follow up with everyone throughout our interview process and have an internal goal of less than 72 hours between stages in our interview process.

imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
HumanFirst | Software Engineering / Product Management / Research | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | US-Based Remote | https://gohumanfirst.com/careers

HumanFirst is advancing remote patient monitoring by enabling the safe and effective use of connected sensors at home. We’ve just closed our Series A [0] and are rapidly growing the team to build out the next iterations of our products!

We’re currently looking for more awesome Humans to join us across software engineering, product management, research, and more. We have a deep commitment as a team to always improve communication. Every team member has a user guide (check out mine [1]) and a personal tour of duty.

Our tech stack is Typescript, React, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL running in AWS.

You can reach out to me directly about the roles - james[@]gohumanfirst[.]com - I’m happy to chat more about the various roles, our engineering culture, team culture, or whatever! Otherwise, apply via our careers page at https://gohumanfirst.com/careers

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/humanfirst-raises-12-millio...

[1]: https://bit.ly/hn-james-userguide

imnotjames··on Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report
ECS trades kubernetes manifests and generalized tools for cloudformation or the AWS UI, though..

Most everything else seems to be the same thing as if you ran with EKS, just different names for everything.

Setting it up yourself, though, no, I wouldn't do that unless I had a large enough team to maintain it.

imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)
Just a heads up - your SSL cert is invalid. Looks like you're using a github pages with a custom domain but for some reason it's not getting a cert.
imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
HumanFirst | Software Engineering / Product Management / Research | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | US-Based Remote | https://gohumanfirst.com/careers

HumanFirst is advancing remote patient monitoring by enabling the safe and effective use of connected sensors at home. We’ve just closed our Series A [0] and are rapidly growing the team to build out the next iterations of our products!

We’re currently looking for more awesome Humans to join us across software engineering, product management, research, and more. We have a deep commitment as a team to always improve communication. Every team member has a user guide (check out mine [1]) and a personal tour of duty. We do a weekly all hands, have a monthly (optional) book club, have given everyone on the team an obligation to speak up, and somehow started doing regular 5K runs!

Our tech stack is Typescript, React, and Postgres running in AWS.

You can reach out to me directly about the roles - james[@]gohumanfirst[.]com - I’m happy to chat more about the various roles, our engineering culture, team culture, or whatever! Otherwise, apply via our careers page at https://gohumanfirst.com/careers

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/humanfirst-raises-12-millio...

[1]: https://bit.ly/hn-james-userguide

imnotjames··on How do you fund that game prototype?
The article starts off by saying they want to poll white men, because marginalized developers are struggling.

It includes quotes from people such as this:

> I think most local white dudes > don't think of a prototype as something they "funded". They > ”just made it” because they had > time, space and hardware.

Generally, refers to hidden privilege throughout as subtext. If you're white and male you have more access to these kinds of opportunities, etc.

imnotjames··on Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS
That's great for libraries but isn't it a pretty huge cost for an app you only really are going to be running on one version at a time?

Dealing with BC breaks for versions you aren't intending to run in production seems like unnecessary overhead.

imnotjames··on PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
I haven't read the actual guidelines / rules / etc put out by OFAC in over a year but that was the gist of it from the legal team.
imnotjames··on PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
PayPal gets a list of banned strings from the Office of Foreign Asset controls.

If any match those strings it's flagged for a review.

This is more or less legally required for any company that moves money in the United States of America. You will probably find the same issues with the same terms on any other banking for financial body.

Technically, these aren't being blocked. They're being audited. The payments will still go through. The way this is taking place is following very specific legally "known good" pathways - so that when paypal does accidentally let a payment through to a sanctioned entity they are able to argue that they took every available precaution and should not have to pay the $250k per transaction fine.

The last time PayPal had to pay these fines - for example - it was ~$7m. That's not including legal fees. https://fcpablog.com/2015/03/27/ofac-fines-paypal-77-million...

imnotjames··on Ask HN: Why do many sites now put username+password entry on different pages?
Because you could have thousands.

Log in with Corp acme. Log in with palantir. Log in with Facebook (Corp). Log in with Facebook (end user)... Etc.

You'd have to iterate through every customer with SAML / OIDC set up.

Even if you are just using end user, it's sometimes confusing if there are 10+ options because you have to remember... Ok not only do I gotta remember my email I used, how did I originally sign up? .. was it with Google? With Facebook... No wait did I use email and password...

imnotjames··on Honeypot as a Service
Depends on what networking layer they're proxying. Layer 4 with something like PROXY protocol and it's not as easy to tell.
imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
CR | Frontend/Backend | REMOTE (US only) | Full-Time

We're a stealth seed stage company building a social platform for organizers to create stronger ties to their communities - with our first stop being dev communities.

Currently on the look out for software engineers with bias to action in the USA interested in remote work.

You'll be part of a small (but ambitious) team working with NodeJS, CockroachDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, and React Native. This an opportunity to be an early employee, help shape the organization, and grow into leadership roles as we scale. We provide competitive benefits and salary and are dedicated to bring together a diverse and engaged team in an inclusive environment.

Our current Interview Process is pretty straightforward:

* Conversation with technical co-founder.

* Short programming exercise.

* Conversation with the CEO

* Pair programming exercise

* Conversation with another team member

Have questions or just want to chat? Email me with "[HN]" in the subject so I don't miss it - james@notjam.es - and don't let impostor syndrome prevent you from reaching out! I'd be thrilled to talk with you about our awesome startup. :)

imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
------------- | Frontend/Backend/Design | NYC / SEA / REMOTE (US only) | Full-Time

We're a (stealth?) seed stage company building a social platform for organizers to create stronger ties to their communities - with our first stop being dev communities.

You'll be part of a small (but ambitious) team working with Python, CockroachDB, and React Native on Kubernetes. This an opportunity to be an early employee, help shape the organization, and grow into leadership roles as we scale. We provide competitive benefits and salary and are dedicated to bring together a diverse and engaged team in an inclusive environment.

The interview process is straightforward:

  * Brief technical or design question over a video call.
  * 30 minute chat about the roles, the company, and the product we're building.
  * 30 minute chat with our CEO.
  * 2 hour take home project.
  * 1 hour pairing session.
Have questions or just want to chat? Email me - james@notjam.es - don't let impostor syndrome prevent you from reaching out!
imnotjames··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
Venmo | Software Engineers and more | Boston, MA / New York, NY / Chicago, IL | Full-time, onsite

# We're looking for amazing people to work with us at Venmo.

Who doesn't use Venmo? Owe your friends for pizza? For rent? For drinks? Don't worry, we got your back. But who's got our back? It could be you!

We're hiring all sorts of roles - including engineering, program/project management, marketing, data science, and site reliability - in Boston, New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco. We care about our engineers, the diversity of our team, and learning from mistakes. Don't let the confidence gap ( https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-con... ) or imposter syndrome ( https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/overcoming-imposter-s... ) get in the way from applying.

## Why would you want to work with us?

* Very competitive salary. * Catered lunch EVERY DAY and snacks a-plenty. * Work from home options. * Untracked Vacation! * In-office massages. * Maternal and Paternal leave. * All sorts of other competitive benefits. Health, vision, commuter, you name it! * We sponsor H1B / Visa / Green Card / etc.

Interested?

Email me at james.ward[at]venmo[.]com with HackerNews somewhere in the subject - Otherwise, check out the openings here: https://venmo.com/jobs

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