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maukdaddyon A 5.7 Terapixel Mosaic of the Surface of Mars

Actual site: https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/

maukdaddyon Joni Mitchell learned to play guitar again after a 2015 brain aneurysm

Original article is here:

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/26/1113608539/joni-mitchell-newp...

maukdaddyon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)

Teylor AG | Backend (Golang) & Frontend (React/TS) | Remote (Europe only) | Full-Time B2B

Teylor develops a SaaS product to bring SME lending into the 21st century by digitizing and automating the entire SME credit cycle. Our platform consists of many modules that enable banks to automate their lending processes such as onboarding, credit scoring, KYC, document analysis, contract generation and more.

Our stack is Go on the backend and React with TypeScript on the Frontend. Also using AWS technologies with CloudFormation, CI/CD and other expected modern development tools.

We're currently hiring for several remote positions:

- Backend engineer - Golang. Bonus points for finance experience: https://teylor.breezy.hr/p/4aa6b7cb10fc01-senior-backend-eng...

- Frontend engineer - https://teylor.breezy.hr/p/ff22e23ed97c01-frontend-engineer-...

- Product Manager with finance/lending experience:https://teylor.breezy.hr/p/b37a91738afd01-product-manager-le...

Please apply via the links above. If you have questions please reach out to me (CTO) at josh [@at] teylor.com

maukdaddyon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)

Teylor AG | Backend (Golang) & Frontend (React/TS) | Remote (Europe only) | Full-Time B2B

Our stack is NodeJS with TypeScript with increasing Go on the backend and React with TypeScript on the Frontend. Also using AWS technologies with CloudFormation, CI/CD and other expected modern development tools.

We're currently looking for two remote positions:

- Backend engineer - Golang. Bonus points for finance experience: https://teylor.breezy.hr/p/33e4f3aef5f001-senior-backend-eng...

- Frontend engineer. Must have React experience: https://teylor.breezy.hr/p/6176d972313101-senior-frontend-en...

We are also looking for one onsite position in our Zürich headquarters:

- Product Manager with finance/lending experience: https://teylor.breezy.hr/p/2d470ef07fb101-product-manager-le...

Please apply via the links above. If you have questions please reach out to me (CTO) at josh [@at] teylor.com

maukdaddyon The SEC “Modernizes” the Accredited Investor Definition

The actual release from the SEC

https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2020/33-10824.pdf

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Looks like the submitter has an agenda against SO: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=SnarkAsh

maukdaddyon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)

Picstars AG | Backend Engineer - Golang | Zürich | REMOTE (Europe) | https://picstars.com

At Picstars we are building a full service platform for brands to easily run influencer marketing campaigns - everything from finding the right matching influencers, creating campaign proposals, defining image overalys, social post monitoring and statistics and automated payments to influencers.

We are a small but powerful and efficient team. You will work directly alongside the CTO (me) and a few other engineers to build the backend tech stack. We are currently building all new parts of our platform in Go using AWS lambda plus various other AWS technologies. I am looking for someone with Go experience who has already written and deployed production-level code. Bonus points if you also know PHP/Laravel because let's face it...we all have legacy systems :)

This is a REMOTE position for people located in Europe, structured as a B2B contract. You will receive a time off allowance and local holidays, plus a few trips a year to our Zürich office to meet with the team. You will join an existing distributed team that is used to working remotely.

Tech stack/buzzwords: Go, Golang, Serverless, Lambda, AWS, React

Please reach out with questions or if you are interested! josh.mauk[~at~]picstars.com

maukdaddyon The Pleasures of Eating (1989)

They sure tried a lot:

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maukdaddyon Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

I consider Glacier as the final offsite backup in the event my apartment burns down or something terrible happens to all of my local backups. In that case I don't care about how long it might take to restore - I will throttle the recovery as needed to not blow the AWS budget.

maukdaddyon Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

Arq (https://www.arqbackup.com) and AWS. As close to set it and forget it that you can get.

Process:

- Local TimeMachine backups

- Arq backup to AWS Glacier

maukdaddyon Klarna launches in US

Former Klarna employee here.

Klarna has a significant presence with both Erlang and Java.

maukdaddyon Bullet Points of Doom for ESPN

Jib is right. ESPN app is terrible in Europe. The web version is Flash-based, constantly drops me to lowest quality adaptive-streaming despite 100mbit fiber, and many other problems. iPad version does the same thing too, only natively :)

NFL Gamepass is MUCH better, although the web version is still Flash.

maukdaddyon If you didn't cancel the credit card you used for linode.com, now is the time

I just got an email yesterday from Amex about suspicious activity on my account. The card was used to make purchases from at least three dating sites, groupon, Microsoft, hidemyip, and a handful of others.

This card is tied to Linode, Amazon, and one or two other large merchants. Sure looks like Linode CC numbers were breached.

maukdaddyon Twitter Hacked – 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised

I'll add a datapoint here too. I also had my password reset.

Creation date: March 2007

User ID: 2,7xx,xxx

maukdaddyon Learn You Some Erlang now out in print

Presumably a poor translation from a Scandanivian language to English. For example, in Swedish you use the reflexive verb "lära" which means both to learn and to teach. In Swedish you would say "lära dig" which does translate literally to English as "learn you" but which should get the more appropriate translation of "teach yourself".

maukdaddyon Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Storm

I'm sure it didn't literally shock you.

maukdaddyon Facebook 'boring'? 1 in 3 users are tuning it out

Here's the original source, without the blogspammed ads:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/05/net-us-facebook-su...

maukdaddyon Siasto Attempts the Improbable: Making Enterprise Software Beautiful (YC W11)

I'd hardly call that enterprise software.

When you can make any of the following somewhat more painless, and marginally prettier, you'll make $$$:

- SAP

- PeopleSoft

- Pretty much any ERP or financial application

maukdaddyon Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

Both agencies and contractors employee people with the skillsets needed to write these kinds of things. While there are a large number of incompetent government employees and contractors, there are also a small number of frighteningly talented developers working in this area.

maukdaddyon Clipboard officially open to the public

So this is like a public-facing Evernote? Crossed with Pinterest?

maukdaddyon Women Win in Venture Capital When They Don't Sue

Holy shit this kind of crap should NEVER be on HN.

Please, everyone do HN, and your careers, a huge favor by flagging this article and NOT commenting.

maukdaddyon Center of gravity in oil world shifts to Americas

Highly disappointed in the WaPo. This read like a PR piece released by the oil industry and/or their lobbyists. No mention of the environmental disaster looming from the tarsands? No mention of the effects from fracking? No discussion about how this will only delay much needed investment in renewables by the US Government?

maukdaddyon Swedish aid money to Tor, online activism

I, as an American, decided to move to Sweden for all of the reasons GP posted, and despite your list of supposed downsides. A few observations after six months here:

* The Swedish summer more than makes up for the dark winter. Not that much colder than Chicago either.

* Taxes are high, but the benefits you get from the taxes are astounding, especially from an American perspective. Great roads, clean cities, amazing public transit, free healthcare, etc.

* Six weeks of vacation, over a year of maternity leave, etc. Enough said.

* Yes, the rental market in Stockholm sucks.

Honestly, Sweden is truly a democratic model that other countries should try following. I'm very happy with my decision to move here and wish I had discovered it sooner.

maukdaddyon Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation

There are a lot of affiliate and spam bots...

maukdaddyon Sequoia's Scout Program

A classic sign of a bubble is when you start getting unsophisticated (non-professional) investors that only see money and start chasing the successes of others. Two huge examples from the past 15 years:

1. Tech bubble. Everyone and their brother became day-traders, chasing the hot stocks and trying to make their fortune. People were throwing their retirement savings, spare cash, anything they had into tech companies trying to make a quick buck.

2. Housing bubble. Everyone and their brother became flippers, chasing the hot properties and trying to make their fortune. People were throwing their retirement savings, spare cash, anything they had into properties trying to make a quick buck.

Copy/paste intentional.

maukdaddyon Sequoia's Scout Program

To all the naysayers: there's no way you can read this and not come to the conclusion that we're in the middle of a huge bubble.

maukdaddyon Will an IBM computer be your next mayor?

Seriously. We need to stop up voting any stories from ExtremeTech. What a bunch of garbage.

maukdaddyon The Creative Monopoly

What he's talking about has already been written about and is taught in many MBA programs.

Blue Ocean Strategy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy

Edit for the tl;dr crowd:

The blue ocean strategy is about creating your own market/niche/space in an new or uncontested area (blue ocean) vs. competing directly with established players in an existing market (red ocean).

The metaphor is the red ocean is full of blood from the sharks fighting over the same profits/market share while the blue ocean is open water full of opportunity.

maukdaddyon [dead]

Please link to the original source, BB doesn't add any value here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/19/metropolitan-police...

maukdaddyon Redesign: Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged.

How do you break that news to clients after they've paid $$$ for your services? Do you heavily caveat the potential before the engagement?