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lwakefield··on Ask HN: Coronavirus: any open source WebRTC conferencing website without login?
Check out https://meet.jit.si/ - no account needed. I believe all rooms are public, but not discoverable.

I don't know how well it holds up for large groups, but for ~5 or so clients it has worked nicely for me.

lwakefield··on Australian universities are accused of trading free speech for cash
I TAed a compulsory "Introduction to Engineering" class at USyd. The class itself was dead easy, the equivalent of the fizzbuzz interview question.

The single assessment was "review an engineering article" where I caught 7 students (all international) plagiarizing. Not just borrowing a sentence or two, but lifting entire paragraphs and gluing them together with broken English. In one case a student had gone as far as submitting Stephen Hawking's "Space and Time Warps", verbatim.

I raised all of these to the professor. Despite all students signing the "I know what plagiarism is, I won't do it and understand there I will be kicked out if I do" - the professor knocked back all of my claims and all students passed.

It was a huge disappointment to realize that this is how the "education system" works.

lwakefield··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
Tictail | Growth Engineer | NYC, New York | Full-time | ONSITE

We here at Tictail are building the world's most used and loved e-commerce platform. Tictail was founded five years ago in Stockholm, Sweden, where the platform was built from the ground up to support independent brands across the world in running their business. Since then Tictail has built a marketplace to support our brands, opened an office in NYC and grown to support hundreds of thousands of brands and millions of products.

Our frontend is built on top of React, Express, and Webpack where we work hard to stay on the bleeding edge. Our backend is largely written as Flask services in Python where we use technology like PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, nginx, HAProxy, and Chef. Everything runs on top of AWS. Above all, we value the right tool for the job.

Who we are looking for:

* You are comfortable moving across, up, down, in and out of the stack - but we don't expect you to be a specialist in everything

* You take pride in your work but care most of all about getting your code in front of users

* You care about building something real – something that helps people all over the world grow their own business from their passion

We are also hiring for non-engineering roles in NYC and you can see more positions http://tic.tl/2gwWsap:

Tictail | Growth Analyst | NYC, New York | Full-time | ONSITE

Please apply to your preferred location and position here: http://tic.tl/2gwWsap and then email me at lawrence+hnsept17@tictail.com and I will make sure that we give it the proper HN treatment :)

For engineers, our interview process usually involves a phone screening, a take home task followed by an onsite interview where we will talk about the task and do a little pair programming.

lwakefield··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)
Silly me, missed some of the copy as I pasted it across:

Please apply to your preferred location and position here: http://tic.tl/2rbnRl4 and then email me at lawrence+hnmay17@tictail.com and I will make sure that we give it the proper HN treatment :)

Our interview process usually involves a phone screening, a take home assignment followed by an onsite interview where we will talk about the assignment and do a little pair programming.

lwakefield··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)
Tictail | Software Engineers | NYC, New York and Stockholm, Sweden | Full-time | ONSITE

We here at Tictail are building the world's most used and loved ecommerce platform. Tictail was founded five years ago in Stockholm, Sweden, where the platform was built from the ground up to support independent brands across the world in running their business. Since then Tictail has built a marketplace to support our brands, opened an office in NYC and grown to support hundreds of thousands of brands and millions of products.

Our frontend is built on top of React, Express and Webpack where we work hard to stay on the bleeding edge. Our backend is largely written as Flask services in Python where we use technology like PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, nginx, HAProxy, and Chef. Everything runs on top of AWS. Above all, we value the right tool for the job.

Who we are looking for:

* You are comfortable moving across, up, down, in and out of the stack - but we don't expect you to be a specialist in everything

* You take pride in your work but care most of all about getting your code in front of users

* You care about building something real – something that helps people all over the world grow their own business from their passion

We are hiring for the following positions:

* iOS Engineer (STO)

* Senior Backend Engineer (STO)

* Growth Engineer (NYC)

lwakefield··on Tmux and Vim – better together
You wouldn't happen to be an author, would you? Could that maybe be why you believe it is "the best editor for developers"?
lwakefield··on Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
I was reached out to by almost every single company that I approached (NYC) and finally ended up accepting an offer.

If I can make a recommendation, go for the companies that supply personal email addresses. If they don't supply them, go find them.

lwakefield··on [dead]
Maybe fastly related: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/pfw3gml89bz2
lwakefield··on React is the new jQuery
I thought this was going to be a "jQuery is old, bad and React is going down the same path" post. Boy, was I wrong.
lwakefield··on Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig
I was kinda bummed that they weren't referring to the iconic 303 bassline from da funk.