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mpalmes

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Lead developer at Servall Development. Based in Calgary, AB, Canada.

Personal Website: https://mpalmes.com

Servall Development: servalldev.com

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mpalmes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Servall Development | Full Stack Web Developer | Calgary, Canada | Full Time, Onsite | https://servalldev.com

Servall Development is a custom software provider, who has been working in the field of custom software development and ID scanning for the past 8 years. We created and continue to maintain the most widely used ID scanning software used throughout North America, UK and Australia. We work with other companies and government agencies to create custom hardware + software solutions, educational games and iOS and Android apps. We are based out of Calgary, right in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near beautiful Banff National Park.

We are looking for a full-stack web developer to join our development team. This job will involve building web applications for a wide variety of software and hardware projects.

Our stack: React (React Native and Redux) or Vue.js (Vuex), Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker

Drop us an email at: hr@servalldev.com

Feel free to forward any questions to me directly as well at: michael@servalldev.com

mpalmes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
Servall Development | Full Stack Web Developer | Calgary, AB, Canada | Full Time, Onsite | https://servalldev.com

Servall Development is a custom software provider, who has been working in the field of custom software development and ID scanning for the past 8 years. We created and continue to maintain the most widely used ID scanning software used throughout North America, UK and Australia. We work with other companies and government agencies to create custom hardware + software solutions, educational games and iOS and Android apps. We are based out of Calgary, right in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near beautiful Banff National Park.

We are looking for a full-stack web developer to join our development team. This job will involve web applications on a wide variety of software and hardware projects.

Our stack: React, React Native, Redux, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Docker, Rancher

Drop us an email at: hr@servalldev.com

Feel free to forward any questions to me directly as well at: michael@servalldev.com

mpalmes··on New Raspbian Release: Scratch 2.0 and Thonny (Python IDE)
Very exciting to see an x86 image being included with this new desktop release. It even includes the ability to install unlike the live image released last year!
mpalmes··on Up a Wombat's Freckle
Definitely, we sure do love shortening words, while using an 'o' at the end. It was a bit of an adjustment moving to North America and using the full word, even in casual conversations. Small things like saying "gas/service station" instead of "servo" or "vehicle registration" instead of "rego". Us Aussie's must come across quite unprofessional at times with our slang and sayings like 'flat out like a lizard'.
mpalmes··on Up a Wombat's Freckle
As someone from rural QLD, Australia, I feel like we might be losing some of these unique sayings in our vernacular over time. Though we are definitely still hanging onto our diminutives, especially those ending with o, ie and y (E.g. ambo, rego, arvo, servo, barbie, footy).
mpalmes··on 14 People Make 500K Tons of Steel a Year in Austria
Good point, that takes care of maintenance. Definitely a small/efficient workforce for the amount of output.
mpalmes··on 14 People Make 500K Tons of Steel a Year in Austria
I would imagine there will still be a sizable number of jobs outside of Voestalpine group from contractors/companies maintaining machinery and transport companies. Will be interesting the long term impacts as well on the local communities in a country like Austria.
mpalmes··on Canadian Tech Is Having a Moment
Also RocketSpace will be opening their first Canadian office in Calgary. The local government is starting to push for a bigger tech industry and add diversity away from the oil/gas industry that has dominated the city. Also the climate isn't so bad with plenty of sunshine and warm Chinook winds occasionally during the winter.
mpalmes··on Tesla Model X Is First SUV to Achieve 5-Star Crash Rating in Every Category
This is a great result for Tesla and shows the benefits of an electric SUV. Though it would be interesting to see results from Euro NCAP and IIHS as well, as the Model X has yet to be tested by either.
mpalmes··on Firefox Screenshots
Interesting though how Mozilla will be releasing Firefox Screenshots for Chrome too in the future. Chrome's built in screenshot tool in dev tools has been improving in recent versions of Canary, with full screen capture now added. I'll be keen to see how it compares.

Great feature/add-on to have built into Firefox though without the need to get an add-on.