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k7limon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)

NBC News | NYC, LA, Seattle or Remote | Frontend Engineer - Elections and Live Experiences

We build the interactive Big Board for NBC News and MSNBC. On Election Nights, Steve Kornacki uses our application to tell the breaking story: Surprise turnout in Ohio! Kornacki will tap into the district-level view and show us what's happening in the live election result data. And by "us" we mean millions of viewers around the world.

Our team's mission is to enable world-class data journalism. To that end, we build out data visualizations and tools for breaking news topics. And right now our focus is Elections.

Because we work in service of journalism, our technical core values are being both fast and accurate. Our primary product is the Big Board, but we also maintain additional tools for data processing and management. Our technology stack includes; Vue, Mapbox, D3, Node, React, Jest and Cypress.

Email news.digital.tech@nbcuni.com to apply, and put "HN" in your subject line

k7limon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

NBC News Digital | New York (Rockefeller Center) & Seattle | Full-Time | Onsite | Several Software Engineering Positions (varying seniority) Details: NBC News is one of the most trusted news sources in the world and has a heritage of technical and product innovation in both broadcast and digital.

We hare hiring multiple positions for our front end, content tools, apps, data analytics, and API teams. Software engineers on our team work with technologies like React, Node.js, Go, GraphQL, Elastic Search and more to create the platforms that power NBC News's websites and applications. We collaborate closely with product managers, designers and the newsroom to build products that help manage NBC's content and make it accessible to our web sites, apps, developers and other experiences. We offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and awesome views from a landmark skyscrapers in Manhattan and downtown Seattle.

Major NBCUniversal benefits include: generous 401K matching, pet insurance benefits, deeply discounted internet and cable, 16 weeks paid parental leave.

A few of our roles:

- Software Engineer, APIs and Systems (NY): http://nbcnewsdigitaljobs.com/post/175483910713/software-eng...

- Senior Software Engineer, Apps Services (Seattle): http://nbcnewsdigitaljobs.com/post/177492298833/senior-softw...

- DevOps Engineer, AWS (Seattle): http://nbcnewsdigitaljobs.com/post/176964329013/devops-engin...

- Senior Frontend Engineer, Web (NY): http://nbcnewsdigitaljobs.com/post/176961245623/senior-front...

You can see all open roles here: http://nbcnewsdigitaljobs.com/work-here

If you have questions about these roles please feel free to email us at news.digital.tech@nbcuni.com

k7limon Which Unicode characters can you depend on?

ಠ_ಠ

k7limon iPad mini

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb

appears to already be sold out now

k7limon iPad mini

wait a week.

the 16GB Nexus 7 will drop to $200, with the 32GB release.

k7limon Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from reddit.

big boost to the pylons community.

good pylons code to learn from, written by smart dudes, working at a large scale.

hats off to reddit!

k7limon Tim Ferriss Revisited

I tried to get through this, despite the piss poor writing ("Let's begin at the beginning...") and the arrogant tone. I skimmed the beginnings of every chapter, and realized that this book could be written in 5 pages. Then I read the part about him cheating to win a kickboxing tournament. That's when I chucked the book aside, and picked up Warren Buffett's biography instead. Talk about contrast. Buffett is insanely talented, works hard AND smart and has incredible depth. Ironically, Ferriss himself recommended the Buffett bio at a talk he did. My prediction? Ferriss is going to do talks to plug his book at smaller and smaller venues, whoring himself out to everything but the local Elk's club, following in the crap footsteps of Andrew Keen's book tour. Then, as he realizes the ship has lost all momentum, he'll admit that this book is just another corner-cutting, outsourced, unoriginal, first-draft, lazy piece of work in a long line of shams that he's pulled.

k7limon My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain?

the author can improve this article greatly by learning how to spell the name of the drug.

perhaps there are some side-effects that affect the ability to read and write.

k7limon You have 7 years to learn Mandarin

Good luck grokking the four tones of Mandarin, it's tough, but doable. I was lucky enough to have been raised speaking Mandarin, though my skill isn't great and I probably have a thick American accent. donw, the traditional characters are beautiful, and easier to remember (though harder to write). But when it comes to China in specific, I've been told that the traditional/simplified character thing strikes up the Taiwan/PROC tension. It's a beautiful language, and there are plenty of movies that will get you to understand that. A girl I dated improved her Mandarin tonalities after we watched "Crouching Tiger," of all movies. However, many of the "mainstream" Chinese actors we're aware of here in the US do NOT speak Mandarin as a first language, and their accents aren't very good in roles where they're forced to speak Mandarin.

k7limon Be smarter at work, slack off

Ev Williams talks about how this book (Tom Demarco's _Slack_) sets the tone for his companies. And it was on his recommendation that I read it.

Ironically, he mentioned that his experience at Google did NOT typify the mentality of leaving space to maneuver. My experience there corroborates.