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jsulak

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I'm James Sulak, a software developer in Houston, Texas.
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jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hey everyone, FlightAware is hiring for a number of positions, including interns, UX Lead, iOS, full stack web, SRE, and engineering manager. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States. FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hey everyone, FlightAware is hiring for a number of positions, including a UX Lead, Quality Engineering Manager, project managers, full stack web developers, iOS, and SRE. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States. FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hey everyone, FlightAware is hiring for a number of positions, including a project managers, full stack web, engineering managers, SRE, iOS, and senior product integration engineer. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States.

FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hey everyone, FlightAware is hiring for a number of positions, including a UX Lead, QA, senior backend engineers, full stack web, SRE, iOS. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States. FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hey everyone, FlightAware is hiring for a number of positions, including a data science lead, UX Lead, senior backend engineers, full stack web, SRE, iOS. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States. FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hey everyone, FlightAware is hiring for a number of positions, including a data engineering lead, UX Lead, senior backend engineers, full stack web, SRE, and iOS. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States.

FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hey everyone, FlightAware is hiring for a number of positions, including a data science lead, UX Lead, senior backend engineers, full stack web, SRE, iOS. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States.

FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hey everyone, FlightAware is hiring for a number of positions, including:

* Data Science Engineering Manager, to lead and build out our data science team. You will be tasked with building and scaling this team by recruiting and hiring talented scientists, analysts, and engineers. This role will require hands-on technical leadership and contributions up-front. You will provide the vision for architecting FlightAware’s data science platform and contribute at the senior engineer level or above as you scale the team.

* Senior Director of Product Management, to lead and build out our product management team.

* iOS developers

* Senior backend engineers

Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States.

FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hey everyone, FlightAware is hiring for a number of positions, including engineering manager, senior backend engineers, full stack web, SRE, iOS, and a manager for our new Terrestrial Operations Center. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States.

FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hey everyone, FlightAware is hiring for a number of positions, including engineering manager, senior backend engineers, full stack web, SRE, and iOS. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States.

FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)
FlightAware | Multiple | Full-time | Houston and Austin ONSITE | https://flightaware.com

FlightAware’s looking to hire some amazing humans for a variety of roles, including an engineering manager, ui/ux designer, senior data scientist, and sales engineer. And of course software engineers. We process over 180 million incoming messages / hour from >25,000 data feeds to produce the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight-tracking service in the industry. The engineering team is about 65 people and growing fast. We’re profitable and self-funded. We have some fun benefits, including a flight training reimbursement program to support people getting their private pilot’s license.

If interested, please check out https://flightaware.com/careers

jsulak··on Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
FWIW, you can set up OmniFocus to sync using a WebDAV server you control.
jsulak··on Just Landed Is Shutting Down
I'm from FlightAware...

Our network ADS-B ground stations is one of our fastest-growing data sources, but we also get data from the FAA, other national aviation authorities (UK, Australia, Eurocontrol, Central America, etc.), directly from airlines, satellite avionics providers, etc. Live flight tracking is a deceptively difficult problem - on the surface it seems as if you could simply collect data and regurgitate it (that's what I thought before I came onboard), but there is actually an enormous amount of processing and inference based on sometimes incomplete, inaccurate, and conflicting data, even for mainline airline flights. That's not even getting into GA or flights in areas of the globe where we lack complete coverage. It's a really interesting set of problems!

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
FlightAware - http://flightaware.com/about/careers/ - Houston, TX - onsite

FlightAware is the world leader in flight tracking; we accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, diligence, and integrity. FlightAware is self-financed, with millions a year in revenue, but still ambitious and with the hunger of a startup.

We're looking for:

* Web software developer * Front-end (UI/UX) developer * Systems Engineer

jsulak··on 1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School heat and AC
See also: http://www.chron.com/news/article/xx-4459714.php
jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)
FlightAware - http://flightaware.com/about/careers/ - Houston, TX

FlightAware is the world leader in flight tracking; we accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, diligence, and integrity. FlightAware is over eight years old, is self-financed, with millions a year in revenue, but still ambitious and with the hunger of a startup.

We're looking for:

* Full-stack Web Developer * Front-end Javascript developer - Maps and Visualizations * Software Test Developer * Systems Engineer

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)
FlightAware - http://flightaware.com/about/careers/ - Houston, TX

FlightAware is the world leader in flight tracking; we accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, diligence, and integrity. FlightAware is over eight years old, is self-financed, with millions a year in revenue, but still ambitious and with the hunger of a startup.

We're looking for:

* Web software developer

* Mapping software developer

* Front-end (UI/UX) developer

* Systems Engineer

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)
FlightAware - http://flightaware.com/about/careers/ - Houston, TX

FlightAware is the world leader in flight tracking; we accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, diligence, and integrity. FlightAware is over eight years old, is self-financed, with millions a year in revenue, but still ambitious and with the hunger of a startup.

Roles we're looking for:

* Web developer * Mapping software developer * Front-end (UI/UX) developer * IT Operations Support Technician

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
FlightAware - http://flightaware.com/about/careers/ - Houston, TX

FlightAware is the world leader in flight tracking; we accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, diligence, and integrity. FlightAware is over eight years old, is self-financed, with millions a year in revenue, but still ambitious and with the hunger of a startup.

Roles we're looking for:

* Web software developer

* Mapping software developer

* Front-end (UI/UX) developer

* Android developer

* IT Operations Support Technician

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)
FlightAware - http://flightaware.com/about/careers/ - Houston, TX

FlightAware is the world leader in flight tracking; we accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, diligence, and integrity. FlightAware is over eight years old, is self-financed, with millions a year in revenue, but still ambitious and with the hunger of a startup.

Roles we're looking for:

* Web software developer

* Mapping software developer

* Front-end (UI/UX) developer

* Mobile (iOS / Android) software developer

* IT operations support technician

jsulak··on [dead]
FlightAware - http://flightaware.com/about/careers/ - Houston, TX

FlightAware is the world leader in flight tracking; we accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, diligence, and integrity. FlightAware is over eight years old, is self-financed, with millions a year in revenue, but still ambitious and with the hunger of a startup.

It's a great place to work with smart people.

We're looking for:

- Mapping software developer

- Front-end (UI/UX) developer

- Web software developer

- Mobile (iOS / Android) software developer

- IT operations support technician

jsulak··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
FlightAware - http://flightaware.com/about/careers/ - Houston, TX

FlightAware is the world leader in flight tracking; we accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, diligence, and integrity. FlightAware is over eight years old, is self-financed, with millions a year in revenue, but still ambitious and with the hunger of a startup.

It's a great place to work with smart people.

We're looking for:

* Mapping software developer

* Front-end (UI/UX) developer

* Web software developer

* Mobile (iOS / Android) software developer

* IT operations support technician

jsulak··on Google timer
Can't resist mentioning my small timer site from several years ago: http://clockster.net. Takes RESTful urls, like http://clockster.net/3min30s.
jsulak··on Vim Git Gutter
Obligatory Emacs version: https://github.com/syohex/emacs-git-gutter
jsulak··on Digital Baby Book Tool Moment Garden Adds Mobile Apps
Great! I think this could be a big market, especially with the ability to post quickly from mobile devices.
jsulak··on Digital Baby Book Tool Moment Garden Adds Mobile Apps
Interesting. Is there an option to export everything? I looked around but couldn't find it. That's a critically important feature, since the idea is that this would replace a photo album (to some extent).

I recently had a daughter, and created a private jekyll-powered blog to share photos, etc. with family and friends. I went to all that trouble because:

1. I want it private. Facebook is creepy. 2. I wanted complete control over the data. Years from now, I want to be absolutely sure those memories are still accessible.

jsulak··on An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
Yeah, that background makes me nostalgic for 1997-era internet.
jsulak··on 1 year on, Hipmunk (YC S10) hits 1 million flight + hotel searches a month
Agreed. In the past, I've used hipmunk to find a flight, and once I found myself forwarded to Orbitz, went to the airline's site and looked up the same flight manually.
jsulak··on Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki
Notational Velocity is great. Just point it to a dropbox folder and set it to use plain text files and you're set with syncing. There's even an equivalent program for Windows - ResophNotes http://www.resoph.com/ResophNotes/Welcome.html.
jsulak··on Xkcd Password Generator
I prefer using a program like Password Safe (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/), and use a safe password that's a long sentence (with punctuation). Then I can use arbitrarily long and complex passwords for all my accounts, and not have to worry about memorizing them individually. The password safe can even be synced across computers using Dropbox.
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