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jdkanani··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)
Morphic | Frontend Engineer, Software Engineer, AI Research Engineer, Product Designer | Full Time | Remote (US, India)

Morphic is working on disrupting the entertainment industry by building AI powered tools for storytellers. Our first tool is Morphic Studio which is a intelligent canvas and end-to-end editor that helps creators to create high-quality controlled videos through advanced machine learning and user-friendly design. We are a team of experienced engineers working across platform and ML layers, while also building our foundational model for temporal consistency unseen in the industry.

We are looking for a couple of Software Engineers, who will work at the Product/Platform layer (Remote India) , an AI researcher with experience in Generative models (ideally with some exposure and understanding of Diffusion Transformer architecture) (Remote West Coast US), and a Product Designer with some past experience in designing complex interfaces for Video editors (Remote US).

Send me an email jd@morphicfilms.com to apply or if you have any questions.

Read More: [https://morphicfilms.notion.site/Join-Morphic-e80009adcf8742...

jdkanani··on Show HN: Nando – Team Meetings Done Well
This is fantastic. Great execution. Fast and easy to use.
jdkanani··on Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?
Count me in! Have an exact exit plan.
jdkanani··on India's Flipkart Has an Amazon Problem
You underestimated the power of Amazon here - it's not technical prowess or recommendation engine. The war was never about technical prowess. It's Amazon's customer service which pulling Flipkart/Snapdeal down to the ground and beating them hard.
jdkanani··on Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?
Which startup?
jdkanani··on CaptionBot by Microsoft
Microsoft has great tech team - no doubt, but seems it lacks in product and market strategies.
jdkanani··on Start up India: Webcast [video]
I thought the same. Tax exemption on particular kind of startups would be great - agriculture, education, etc... Tax exemption on all startups could be disaster.
jdkanani··on Gizmo, a Microservice Toolkit for Go
Great. Dropbox has also open-sourced their common Go libraries - https://github.com/dropbox/godropbox
jdkanani··on How to use interfaces in Go (2012)
Interesting. For pointers and interfaces, in this sample http://play.golang.org/p/Lf8nn_pcYO, `h3.Add2()` should fail as per OP said. I am sure, I am missing something important here. Please help.
jdkanani··on Io Programming Language (new website design)
Good UX, not UI make it easy for people to do what they're trying to do.
jdkanani··on Io Programming Language (new website design)
First, I thought my internet connection went down while loading and half of stylesheets weren't loaded properly. Second, I didn't know where should I click first.

Language site doesn't need good UI, just provide what it is and why we should go ahead with it and minimal examples on front page.

jdkanani··on Show HN: Nixar – New design of Linux command line
Interesting. It would be great if it can be integrated with bash/zsh without installing Node.js.

I think you opened up server's root access to HN. You should use sandbox environment for such experiments.

jdkanani··on Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language?
"Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl - http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Regular-Expressions-Jeffrey-... It's not on particular programming language or recently updated, but related and very helpful.
jdkanani··on Twitter Contest Winning as a Service
My friend and I once wrote a python script to participate in Q&A contest (first answer will win the contest) on twitter. That running script actually prints an recent question of particular twitter handler and asks for prompt to type an answer. Once you type an answer (after googling or whatever you want), it just posts that answer in reply of that question's tweet. We also decided to hit the google search for answer and crawl answer but I think it would need some work.
jdkanani··on Show HN: Markdown-UI – Write UI/UX with Markdown Syntax
At the end of the first draft, this YAML convention will become Jade.
jdkanani··on Apple Open Source Site
Being famous for its designs, Apple should have redesign this site. I am not good at UI/UX, but this looks ugly.
jdkanani··on Stripe Dashboard for iPhone
I would definitely want to know how they create any announcement page. I mean, a whole process - brainstorming, designs (and tools) and UI.
jdkanani··on Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives
I couldn't agree more. It also makes code hard to read. I have to look closely to check if that's a comment or directive. It would be problem when your code grows.

I am in favor of #TAG: DIRECTIVE or @TAG:DIRECTIVE

jdkanani··on Electronics for the JavaScript Developer Using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE
I think one should consider COAP or MQTT over HTTP protocol on low energy devices. May be author is using HTTP because it's simple to start with.

I like spark wifi module. But, I feel it's quiet costly (Photon $19) for some countries (Example: In India it's almost 1200Rs). Mount it on every IoT device will not be cost effective. May be that is one of the reasons, everybody is excited about it but very few are buying/using it.

Now a days, I am working with ESP8266(around $5) wifi module and found it very interesting. It is quiet new, but programming is pain on it.

Edit: ESP8266 price update

jdkanani··on Rapydscript: Python-like pre-compiler for JavaScript
I just checked it. RapydScript generates very logical code than CoffeeScript.

CoffeeScript:

    var ref;
    (ref = [2, 1]) === [1, 2] || ref === [2, 1] || ref === [3, 5] || ref === [3, 5];
RapydScript:

    function _$rapyd$_in(val, arr) {
        if (arr instanceof Array || typeof arr === "string") return arr.indexOf(val) != -1;
        else {
            if (arr.hasOwnProperty(val)) return true;
            return false;
        }
    }
    _$rapyd$_in([2,1], [[1,2], [2,1], [3,5], [3,5]]);
One thing I worried about RapydScript is generated variables. Pre-compiler needs to be scope aware. I am not sure how difficult or feasible it would be.
jdkanani··on Rapydscript: Python-like pre-compiler for JavaScript
I am not a fan of any pre-compiler. But, this looks better. I don't like "do while loop" though. I am not sure what prevents the author to make it something like:

    do while(a):
         print('This loop will run at least once')
And how about using ES6 generators for Python's generator?
jdkanani··on Myself – v1.0.3

    We did it!    

    I mean *I* did it, but you know, whatever...
    jake albaugh definitely did not have anything 
    to do with this.

    This pen loves CodePen!       
    
    See you later!
Those lines made me happy.

Human nature of software always increases the success rate of it. That may be the reason why people don't like working for/with Enterprise softwares.

Good work!

jdkanani··on Don't React
I had to come here to see what's going on. Thanks.
jdkanani··on Reasons not to use Facebook
At the end, he wrote "We call them "useds" rather than "users" because Facebook is using them, not vice versa."
jdkanani··on Reasons not to use Facebook
> We call them "useds" rather than "users" because Facebook is using them, not vice versa.

This line summarizes it all up.

jdkanani··on Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
I tried blender once, it was taking too much time so I gave up. I wanted to make animation movie. Would you mind sharing your stuff with blender?
jdkanani··on When in Go, do as Gophers do
As I go from normal Go style to idiomatic Go style, I find more error checks. That is annoying when your code grows.

http://talks.golang.org/2014/readability.slide#11

In this example, have to check error 3 times to write 4 lines of code.

jdkanani··on Editors and iframes
I couldn't find any good editor without iframe which provides delta save + content versioning. So I built one - Smalleditor (http://jdkanani.github.io/smalleditor) - it is similar to Medium's editor but with contenteditable.
jdkanani··on YC W15 emails are out
Rejected. Will launch soon.
jdkanani··on Google Material Design Icons
It is always good to see open sourced icons. I have always ignored most important parts of UI/UX. It would be great if somebody can provide some insights about why material design is so important and what is so good about it?
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