mildweed

aware3.com | Kansas City, MO | REMOTE | Full-time

Remote & Kansas City

We help non-profits connect with their communities via technology. Currently still a small team, but we must be doing something right, because we're growing.

We’re currently seeking two roles, a Senior PHP Developer and a Senior Native Developer help take our platform to its next iteration. Lots more detail in our job posting below.

I’m the hiring manager and would love you to apply here:

PHP - https://a3a.me/686c5

iOS & Android - https://a3a.me/54Y5b

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That's the joke

I touch on this point in my talk, “The Two Question Code Quiz”

Slides https://slides.com/scottconnerly/2questioncodequiz

Video: https://youtu.be/x8vmNXULbp4

see _Parenting with Love and Logic_ by Jim Fay.

Relevant bit here: give kids choices, yes, but you (the parent) limit the selection set to things you can live with them choosing.

Church app company that has successfully pivoted to still service churches within the new rules: https://aware3.com

If your case stores your credit cards on the back of the phone like I do, yes.

Apologizing. When they screwed up, one way or another, they owned up to it and said so to as many people who would listen. This kind of culture is infectious, in the good way.

Be respectful of calendars. When I block off some time to focus on a hard problem, they don't interrupt me. If something does come up, they cautiously IM, "when would be a good time for an important interruption?" and nothing else. No phone calls, no swinging by my desk, no details of the issue, etc.

Saw your comment on "How to Interview Engineers" but can't reply to it anymore.

I'm preparing a talk for the KC Developers Conference "The Two Question Code Quiz" on how to run an effective technical interview. Please reach out to me, https://github.com/scottconnerly, I'd love to bounce my ideas off you.

I can definitely see more standards and certifications coming to pass, which then later distill down to one or two primary certifications that everybody aspires to get. Currently there are multiple privacy/security standards (PCI, HIPPA, FERPA, etc). We'll probably have to get more opinions from more sensitive-data industries, and then for them all to find the common ground.

But how would we incentivize businesses properly to be [WHATEVER] compliant, and pay for the regular security scans? Social proof / public shame hasn't worked yet, despite MANY high profile examples. We may have to impose some sort of carrot/stick combo that says: "If your infrastructure consists of N# of networked devices, you must meet these standards. If you fail to, and get caught in a data breach (like what happens with PCI), fines that could put you out of business get levied. Additionally, if you show proof of your security certification every year, you get a tax break."

Seriously considering putting our node_modules folder in a repo of its own.

Solution:

Content providers register a (yet-to-be-written) Google News API account, get an API key, with which Google indexes the site and the site recognizes as legit.

I am an extrovert. I worked in many offices, many of the advertising agencies for most of my career. About a year ago, I started a remote job at Fire Engine Red (another fully virtual company), so I can definitely speak to your concerns.

1. Create co-working opportunities. I have a standing co-working day with a group of other work-from-home'ers every Monday. Sunday afternoon we text to coordinate where we're going to meet up. Its reliable. Its social interaction. We have an in-group. On top of this one, I have a couple other people I less frequently co-work with, both coffee shops and kitchens.

2. Its not all about work. This WFH shift for me has given me an even stronger excuse to get out and do my group hobbies even more. For me, its performing in a comedy group. Nothing more social than getting people to laugh.

3. Yes, it is a bit lonely. Happy hours are less likely to happen. But when they do, its with people you actually wanted to hang out with, not just whomever happened to be at the office that day. Casual desk drop-by's are mostly gone, and I actually like that.

All in all, not that lonely, unless you let it be.

Its almost as if the patent office should be disbanded entirely. The courts will sort it all out.

Hooray for too-big-to-fail institutions.

Additionally, the Postbox search feature is way better than Thunderbird's.

re: "Coordination (consuming when?)"

Z-Wave already has ADR (Automated Demand Response) capabilities. http://z-wavealliance.org/energy-management/

So the protocol (OpenADR2.0a) is defined, the messaging is available (from a DRAS), and the consumer client is listening (Z-Wave). We just need more appliances to build ADR integrations to Z-Wave.

Its a shame the pictures' title tags aren't entertaining.

I've learned more about Islam, ISIS, and the state of affairs in Syria from this article than anywhere else. I wish I could TL;DR this one, but I can't. It's so full of details and context I wouldn't do it justice. It's a long one, but absolutely worth it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...

Real world events make for such an awful James Bond spoiler.

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/spectre-james-bond-video-review...

You could Watch https://github.com/eggert/tz

or subscribe to this mailing list https://www.iana.org/time-zones

Can you explain the complication you're thinking about? And what additional information you'd store?

"Big Ads" is very apt. Advertising agencies are very much like start-ups: often their goal is to get acquired by one of the major agencies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advertising_agencies

Those top 5 agencies are the ones who can afford to do privacy-invading advertising, because they can do it at scale.

Is it just me, or did they leave out all the interesting details of how they used influence?

This seems to be an appeal more to the W3C and browser developers than it is to the rest of us. He's not asking us to stop, in fact, he's asking us to double down and make use of the standards that we already have.

Digital Notary Service:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENotary

Electronic notarization is a process whereby a notary affixes an electronic signature and notary seal using a secure Public key to an electronic document (such as a PDF or Word document). Once affixed to the electronic document, the document is rendered tamper evident such that unauthorized attempts to alter the document will be evident to relying parties.[1] The e-notary will use cryptography and Public key infrastructure to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke the digital certificate. The Electronic Notary also must keep an electronic register of each act performed.

After being burnt by Coin at $50, I'm not jumping at the chance to waste $150 with Plastc.

I certainly have been rejected because of the lack of Track 1 data. One merchant told me as much.

The line behind me wondering why I'm not done yet. Also, by using a Coin, I'm positioning myself as somebody who uses great, new technology. When that fails, it reflects poorly on me. Now I'm the guy who spends money on something that doesn't work, but keeps brandishing it, perhaps for some ego reason.

Years ago I wanted to make an apprenticeship locator / pairing service website. It also was going to have apprenticeship certification mixed in there. I believe apprenticeships done well can replace the majority of (but certainly not all) college degrees. Completing a certified apprenticeship should be as good of an endorsement as a college degree (or better!). So many fields, it would probably be better: advertising, insurance, journalism, programming.

If anybody wants to take this and run with it, please do. Just hit me up to brainstorm at some point, I'd love to flesh out the idea more with like-minded entrepreneurs.