lloydjones

Not sure whether their 'remote' attribute is the biggest concern if they're liable to behave in that way.

"Hire the right people" might be the best advice; remote or otherwise.

Virtual Pricing Director | Remote | UK | Full-time | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | £90,000 - £100,000+, plus stock.

We’re a well-funded startup (no VC money) building the future of legal matter pricing, for small and large legal firms alike. Our software means an end to overcharging clients, arbitrary pricing, and other bad practices that have existed for years.

Our two directors are world authorities in this niche, and bring a number of signed firms ready to use our software as we transition from our current soft launch into hard launch. We're busy preparing to deploy to one of the world's largest legal teams, entailing lots of interesting architecture and integration work.

Our fully-remote dev team is small, and therefore you’ll have a lot of opportunity to make a noticeable impact, especially given the extremely flat hierarchy.

Our whole team is friendly, down-to-earth, and operates without ego. We think you’ll enjoy working with us, and we’re looking for similarly-minded folks.

The work is varied, challenging, and we place equal emphasis on front and back-end. Because of the need to deliver scheduled features, fix bugs, and respond to the needs of newly onboarded firms, we’re looking for someone who is comfortable working with customers and who still relishes lots of hands-on work, contributing across the whole stack.

We’re looking for someone adept with React (hard requirement) who is also comfortable with Node.js, Java, TypeORM (or similar), GraphQL, Apollo Client & Server (or similar), and API creation.

We're also seeking skills around: designing and implementing application architectures e.g. domain-driven design, onion architecture; integration patterns; data modeling; and secure and reliable cloud infrastructure preferably based around AWS and Heroku.

In summary, we’re looking for a versatile, full stack colleague who (after a period of learning the ropes on our specific setup) can hit the ground running and contribute to our fast-growing product and team.

If this sounds appealing to you, email our person handling applicants at: vittoria at virtualpricingdirector dot com

The landing page seems to rely heavily on:

- Users’ familiarity with Coda as a reference point for its increased quality

- Statements about the hard work that’s gone into it

I say this as a huge Panic fan. It just felt ‘off’ to me, like the initial arguments for trying it are “look how hard we tried” and “it’s better than our old product”.

This may be an unfair assessment but it’s what stood out for me.

Having said all of this, I’ll still give it a go!

You don't even need to mention this stuff, and if you're not an employee I think the chances of being compelled to divulge it are low. Especially if you're freelancing.

Secondly, if you are an employee, I think you can develop a good narrative to explain where you came from, where you are today, and how you've changed (etc), and how serious you are about putting it behind you.

You could even suggest some initial 'concessions' like a longer probation period for you, to prove your commitment and ally their potential concerns.

Borgen prophesised this!

Any site that gets traffic from social sharing on Twitter / Facebook.

The visits via those sources are competing with other tweets/posts in the feed. If there's a visually compelling social image, the likelihood of the URL being visited and/or shared increases.

Source: https://buzzsumo.com/blog/how-to-massively-boost-your-blog-t...

(Obviously this doesn't 'prove' that a more-visually-compelling image does better than a basic one, but it seems like it'd follow, given the inclusion of the image at all performs better than no image).

Virtual Pricing Director (VPD) | Remote | UK | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | £80,000 - £100,000+

We’re a well-funded startup (no VC money) building the future of legal matter pricing, for small and large legal firms alike. Our software means an end to overcharging clients, arbitrary pricing, and other bad practices that have existed for years.

Our two directors are world authorities in this niche, and bring a number of signed firms ready to use our software as we transition from our current soft launch into hard launch.

Our fully-remote dev team is small, and therefore you’ll have a lot of opportunity to make a noticeable impact, especially given the extremely flat hierarchy.

Our whole team is friendly, down-to-earth, and operates without ego. We think you’ll enjoy working with us, and we’re looking for similarly-minded folks.

The work is varied, challenging, and will be quite evenly split across the front and back end. Because of the need to get scheduled features out, fix bugs, and respond to the needs of newly onboarded firms, we’re looking for a seasoned React pro (hard requirement) who is also comfortable with Node.js, TypeORM (or similar), GraphQL, Apollo Client & Server (or similar), and API creation.

A bonus would be if you’ve had any prior experience with Ant Design (our UI framework of choice), Storybook, CircleCI, Heroku, Jira, and any client support ticket work.

In summary, we’re looking for a versatile, full stack developer who (after a period of learning the ropes on our specific setup) can hit the ground running and contribute to our fast-growing product and team.

If this sounds cool to you, email our person handling applicants at: vittoria at virtualpricingdirector dot com

I wonder whether there’s a point where photographic evidence can’t reasonably be used in court etc because of this?

I’m aware that Photoshop has been around for an age.

Virtual Pricing Director (VPD) | Remote | UK | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | £80,000 - £100,000+

We’re a well-funded startup (no VC money) building the future of legal matter pricing, for small and large legal firms alike. Our software means an end to overcharging clients, arbitrary pricing, and other bad practices that have existed for years.

Our two directors are world authorities in this niche, and bring a number of signed firms ready to use our software as we transition from our current soft launch into hard launch.

Our fully-remote dev team is small, and therefore you’ll have a lot of opportunity to make a noticeable impact, especially given the extremely flat hierarchy.

Our whole team is friendly, down-to-earth, and operates without ego. We think you’ll enjoy working with us, and we’re looking for similarly-minded folks.

The work is varied, challenging, and will be quite evenly split across the front and back end. Because of the need to get scheduled features out, fix bugs, and respond to the needs of newly onboarded firms, we’re looking for a seasoned React pro (hard requirement) who is also comfortable with Node.js, TypeORM (or similar), GraphQL, Apollo Client & Server (or similar), and API creation.

A bonus would be if you’ve had any prior experience with Ant Design (our UI framework of choice), Storybook, CircleCI, Heroku, Jira, and any client support ticket work.

In summary, we’re looking for a versatile, full stack developer who (after a period of learning the ropes on our specific setup) can hit the ground running and contribute to our fast-growing product and team.

If this sounds cool to you, email our person handling applicants at: vittoria at virtualpricingdirector dot com

As others have said: SO content is ripped-off (poorly) and mirrored. The page games Google's algorithm and shows up as a 'legit' result.

Probably more complex than simple keyword stuffing, which isn't supposed to work these days..

I was completely obsessed with Terminal Services and the powers therein

Obviously your mileage may vary (etc etc), but for me, it's all about removing carbs. It's the difference between water fasting being (honestly) easy .vs. A herculean feat that I couldn't manage.

Anecdata:

The only times I've got dizzy when '24h water fasting' are when I've been eating normal/high amounts of carbs in my diet around the fasts.

I've been doing a few days/week of 24h water fasts again, but on a very-low-carb diet, and can report no dizziness whatsoever.

An additional benefit (also mentioned by others) is that I don't have any insatiable hunger pangs on the water fasts (which I did when I attempted them on a normal/high carb diet).

Excellently put.

I'm not sure I agree. In the UK, the lower middle class are (to generalise) materially well-off; they own their own homes, they have a couple of cars, they have large televisions, one partner does not have to work, etc.

And through pure boredom/decadence, they were radicalised through years of negative messaging from the populist press into 'caring' about things like Brexit, immigration, welfare claimants, etc.

These are people that have most of their needs met and are comfortable, yet their emotional buttons were pushed over the course of years into making them foam at the mouth about things they largely don't fully grasp and that definitely don't have an impact on their lives.

You’re right. It was a bad, rushed example on my part.

I was effectively trying to say “Imagine a scenario where the wrongdoing was basically certain”, for the purposes of focusing on the ‘backing up friends with a public statement’ part of the situation.

I know that in reality this (probability of guilt) can’t readily be uncoupled from the result (the statement) but I asked people to imagine a situation of certain ‘guilt’.

This is very good. I definitely endorse this approach (and largely agree with your final sentence).

I should have caveated my comment with “screenshots that can be proved to be real”

I’d like to think I could but it’s largely context and “acknowledgement + repentance dependent” on the part of the ‘accused’ (if they did do the bad thing).

That is, I am not going to defend somebody who won’t even be honest and open about their wrongdoing.

This is a good and much more balanced/nuanced outlook.

However (in my hypothetical scenario which was meant to challenge the utility of blanket statements of support), a message of support does effectively act as a counterweight to an accusation, and unless one possesses all of the facts it may have the effect of laundering the reputation of somebody who deserves criticism (though I’d argue that in most instances, cancellation is very very over the top as a penalty).

That doesn’t feel like a worldview that would result in a fairer society or better personal conduct.

If defending a person, in the face of prima facie evidence, has the result of preserving their reputation and status (and keeping the reputation and status of the accuser in their original state) then it doesn’t feel useful or good.

The post, and your comment, IMO wrongly frames this as courage .vs. cowardice in standing up for friends.

However, that fails to take into account any context of the particular “cancellation”.

eg, A situation with damning screenshots of lewd DMs are pretty ‘smoking gun’, and the barometer of “good friends would publicly support me” feels like an insane expectation when (in this hypothetical instance) the person did a bad thing.

Perhaps being cancelled isn’t the solution (because we’re all flawed) but the automatic expectation of character references come a scandal isn’t fair on one’s friends.

100% agree with this.

Here, here

Are you open to UK-based applicants?

Are you open to experienced devs who fit the bill in other respects, but aren't Go pros (but are very willing to learn) ?

Yeah I got that actually (but thanks for clarifying). It's just a pain that the NVR is going to be left to die..

I invested in a UniFi video system (NVR + 3 cameras) in mid-2018.

It feels quite disheartening that these are considered legacy (unsupported & abandoned) products already..