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

Senior Frontend Developer (Remote or South Dakota)

Fixing maintenance on rental housing. We're a small, gritty team looking for someone to lead the frontend architecture and implementation of our web app.

https://property-meld.breezy.hr/p/07962a58accd-senior-front-...

Happy to connect directly (I'm the CTO and cofounder) at david@propertymeld.com

meistroon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

REMOTE | Property Meld (http://www.propertymeld.com)

Property management software that actually saves managers time.

Software Engineer #1 Python (Django) | JavaScript (React) | Postgres | Redis | ElasticSearch

david@propertymeld.com

meistroon On software popularity

It depends on the size the library. I'm sure people will point to some outliers but I'd hard-pressed to find a large library that is both widely distributed and severely lacking in tests.

meistroon On software popularity

I don't remember his name, but one of the creators of Angular said (paraphrasing) "When choosing between libraries and in doubt, choose the one that has more testing in place". This is something I've personally found true the majority of the time.

meistroon Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL

You should learn SQL and understand relational databases. But using an abstraction (ORM) to cover 80% of the use cases is much better than writing tons of boilerplate SQL. http://java.dzone.com/articles/martin-fowler-orm-hate

meistroon Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture

Agree that the trend to assemble HTML client side has complicated development way more than it should have. However, returning html fragments isn't the solution for all use cases. Consider native apps for Android/iOS/OSX/Windows. They will need data to be delivered via an API. Instead of creating a one-off data pipeline for web browsers, consuming data from a standard API cuts out the need to assemble views for a specific platform. Creating applications via the browser just isn't up to par with the ease of creating applications in other environments (mobile, pc).

meistroon Why I pulled my daughter out of high school to teach her to code

Don't fool yourself into believing it is the same as public school. I was homeschooled until 9th grade and during that time we were always actively engaged with other homeschooling families. Still, there is no substitute for being around your peers 40 hours a week. Which is good and a bad thing.

Going into public school was a big shock for me and even more so for my brother who only went to public school senior year of high school. It took both of us years to catch up in social skills. Be aware you are making a tradeoff, whether you think so or not.

meistroon Why I pulled my daughter out of high school to teach her to code

I was frustrated that she was stuck wasting her time in high school taking yet another history class

You don't go to school purely for knowledge. We are social creatures and should be learning how to interact socially as much as we should be learning about calculus.

College is the same way, whether it's undergraduate or postgraduate. By taking his daughter out of school he is implicitly making the tradeoff that coding is more important than any social interaction with her peers. That seems dangerous.

meistroon The DHH Problem

Extremely hard to read. Maybe considering porting the message to a different medium?

meistroon Ask HN: Idea Sunday

A cheap hardwire device that I can take to the gym and not worry about breaking it. There are lot's of great workout tracking apps but I won't risk having my expensive smart phone smashed in order to record my workouts. I see more people using pen and paper even with all the amazing apps out there.

meistroon Update on Julie Horvath's Departure

This is leadership. Executive leadership at other tech companies should take note.

meistroon (cs)spinner – pure CSS loading animations with minimal effort

Doesn't work on Android, Galaxy s3.

meistroon We Have Luxurious Jobs but We Are Not Aware of It

Many of my friends and family are coal miners. I worked at one for a summer. There are fatalities, but the frequency with which they happen is so small that driving to the mine is more dangerous than the actual job. With heavy machinery doing 95% of work in modern mines, and having worked in one, I can tell you that the constant grind of producing code is much harder than sitting in haul truck or laying explosives. On top of that, most programmers don't stop working when they go home. With the constant flood of new technology and best practices, it takes a lot of effort to even stay relevant. Coal miners don't go home and read about creating cheaper explosives or more efficient haul trucks (ok maybe some do, not many). Mining outside of US, is certainly a different story.

meistroon Every line of code is always documented

> var one = "foo"

  , two = "bar"

  , three = "baz"

Agree with the author that this is easier to change, and in JS it will keep you from accidentally leaving a trailing comma. That being said, I find it to be very unreadable(which is where most your time will be spent) and most text editors/IDE's make it a burden to work with.

meistroon Ask HN: and now what?

If you're going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill

meistroon How zsh is more useful than bash

Normally, these slideshares are difficult to follow since the subtleties of an actual presentation are missing. This is not the case here: kudos to the author. After reading the comments that I can transfer over all my .bash_* information, I will be doing so.

meistroon Algoraves: dancing to algorithms

I feel awkward just watching it. But hey, if it's fun more power to them.

meistroon Meet Mr. Money Mustache, the man who retired at 30

True, but I'd say %99.99.. of those on welfare don't own their own house.

meistroon Worst CAPTCHA Ever

Two years ago I had to deal D&B's flagship product, which came packaged in a Java applet. I remember one day I upgraded to the latest version of Java(a security patch) and it broke their tool. After contacting them they said the only solution was to downgrade to the Java version with a known security hole...

meistroon The Making Of OpenERP

It looks much better than the previous iteration. One thing I don't understand is why businesses reveal a product like this before making it completely available. For those who don't already use it, how many are actually going to check openerp.com in ten days? It seems like the spotlight is wasted with these sort of unveilings. That being said, I might, if I remember.