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niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
Butternut Box | Full stack and front end engineers | London | Onsite | Full-Time

Butternut Box is a pet wellness company that creates home-cooked meals using fresh ingredients, perfectly portioned for your dog and delivered to your door. We are all dog people who love hanging out with the dogs that visit our office.

We're hiring full stack and front end engineers to grow our engineering team to help us tackle interesting challenges like building out microservices based operation systems. If working on interesting features with smart people while hanging out with dogs sounds fun, drop me a line (niall [at] butternutbox [dot] com)

We use Rails and React.js at the moment, but we're agnostic to skills once applicants are keen to learn and grow with the company.

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
Butternut Box | Full stack and front end engineers | London | Onsite | Full-Time

Butternut Box is a pet wellness company that creates home-cooked meals using fresh ingredients, perfectly portioned for your dog and delivered to your door.

We're hiring full stack and front end engineers to grow our engineering team to help us tackle interesting challenges like building out microservices based operation systems. If working on interesting features with smart people while hanging out with dogs sounds fun, drop me a line (niall [at] butternutbox [dot] com)

We use Rails and React.js at the moment, but we're agnostic to skills once applicants are keen to learn and grow with the company.

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Butternut Box | Front-End Engineer | White City, London, UK | ONSITE | Full time | £40k-£50k

Butternut Box makes the highest quality dog food and ships it directly to your door. At Butternut Box, we have two aims. Firstly, to help pets live healthier, happier and longer lives, and secondly to leave pet parents smiling on every interaction. We're looking for a Front-End Engineer to join our tech and product team to help craft the best experience for pet parents.

Our Front end stack is ES6, React, Redux and SASS for styling. You'll be working closely with myself and fellow engineers on all sorts of fun and interesting projects. If you love dogs, crafting user experiences and technology, you'll fit right in!

If you would like to learn more about the role, or have any questions, just drop me a line (niall at butternutbox.com)

Website: https://www.butternutbox.com

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2017)
Rails + React + Swift + Go developer

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Hi there! I'm a software developer with 5+ years experience, with a particular interest in Rails, React.js, Swift and Golang. Would love to chat with you about work opportunities so just drop me a line!

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rails, Swift, Go, React, Haskell, Node.js, Elixir

Resume/CV: https://angel.co/niall-paterson

Email: npaterson1@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/paterson (w/ open source contributions to Servo and Diaspora)

Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/557015/niall

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2017)
SEEKING WORK - Web and iOS developer

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Hi! I'm a full time Web and iOS freelancer who has been freelancing for three years now. I've a lot of interest in Rails, Elixir, React.js and Swift. I'd love to chat about any needs you might require!

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rails, Swift, Go, React, Haskell, Node.js, Elixir

Rate: $80/Hr

Resume/CV: https://angel.co/niall-paterson

Email: npaterson1@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/paterson (w/ open source contributions to Mozilla's Servo project and Diaspora)

Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/557015/niall

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2017)
SEEKING WORK - Web and iOS developer

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Location: Dublin, Ireland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rails, Swift, Go, React, Haskell, Node.js, Elixir

Resume/CV: https://angel.co/niall-paterson

Email: npaterson1@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/paterson (w/ open source contributions to Servo and Diaspora)

Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/557015/niall

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)
Rails + React + Swift + Go developer

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Location: Dublin, Ireland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rails, Swift, Go, React, Haskell, Node.js, Elixir

Resume/CV: https://angel.co/niall-paterson

Email: npaterson1@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/paterson (w/ open source contributions to Servo and Diaspora)

Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/557015/niall

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2017)
Rails + React + iOS + Go developer

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Location: Dublin, Ireland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rails, iOS, Go, React, Haskell, Node.js, Elixir

Resume/CV: https://angel.co/niall-paterson

Email: npaterson1@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/paterson (w/ open source contributions to Servo and Diaspora)

Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/557015/niall

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2017)
Rails + React + iOS + Go developer

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Location: Dublin, Ireland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rails, iOS, Go, React, Haskell, Node.js, Elixir

Resume/CV: https://angel.co/niall-paterson

Email: npaterson1@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/paterson (w/ open source contributions to Servo and Diaspora)

Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/557015/niall

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2017)
SEEKING WORK - Europe/Remote.

I'm an experienced Rails and iOS developer (5+ years), and have worked in New York, Amsterdam and Dublin, and have freelanced with a number of companies in San Francisco and across the world.

I'm also experienced in Golang, Haskell, React.js, Docker, Elixir, AWS etc.

I've freelanced for the last two years or so. I'd love to chat about helping to get your startup off the ground or helping your agency on a project. Feel free to drop me a line with anything you'd like to chat about!

Email: npaterson1@gmail.com

CV: https://angel.co/niall-paterson

Github: https://github.com/paterson (w/ open source contributions to Servo and Diaspora)

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2017)
SEEKING WORK - Europe / Remote.

I'm an experienced Rails and iOS developer (5+ years), and have worked in New York, Amsterdam and Dublin, and have freelanced with a number of companies in San Francisco and across the world.

I'm also experienced in Golang, Haskell, React.js, Docker, AWS etc.

I've freelanced for the last two years or so. I'd love to chat about helping to get your startup off the ground or helping your agency on a project. Feel free to drop me a line with anything you'd like to chat about!

Email: npaterson1@gmail.com

CV: https://angel.co/niall-paterson

Github: https://github.com/paterson (w/ open source contributions)

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017)
Rails + React + iOS + Go developer

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Location: Dublin, Ireland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rails, iOS, Go, React, Haskell, Node.js

Resume/CV: https://angel.co/niall-paterson

Email: npaterson1@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/paterson (w/ open source contributions)

Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/557015/niall

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I'm an experienced Rails and iOS developer (6+ years), and will be graduating in May. I'm looking for opportunities after that, along with part-time/contract work in the mean time. I've interned in New York, Amsterdam and Dublin, along with freelanced with a number of companies in San Francisco. Feel free to drop me a line!

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2016)
Location: NYC/SF

Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Swift, Objective-C, Cocoa, Python, Javascript (including Node), Java, C, Databases, AWS, Linux.

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2Wut1sx2706V1BLN1AtMlRlOGs...

Email: npaterson1@gmail.com

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I'm Niall, I am Rails and iOS developer primarily, but with experience across the stack, including Javascript, Python. I've contributed to a number of large scale open source projects and have a number of apps in the App Store that I have worked on. I'm looking for internship positions in the US for next Summer. I'm a computer science stuff and my current expected grade is approximately 4.0 on the GPA scale. Feel free to drop me a line!

niallpaterson··on Facebook was down
By my reckoning, this cost them about $600,000+. Ouch.
niallpaterson··on Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
I find it really interesting that people instinctively say 24, which to me means they know the answer, but they don't actually compute it - it's just learnt, which is why if I asked 14*19, most people would reach for a calculator. It Reflects a lot of maths and education in general nowadays - it's more important to know the answer over why that is the answer. It should be the opposite - the latter is far more important.
niallpaterson··on Irish Company Locates Office In Ireland
Actually one of the attractions for Google is the Irish weather (cooler so less costs in keeping data centers cool) anyway, perhaps you should read past the first paragraph..
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
I like bitcoin, but a government has the right to define the currency it's citizens use (i.e what is legal tender and what's not) and I think for a bank targeting ordinary people, you have to deal in legal tender. I don't think a bank for the 0.0001% who use bitcoin is going to be able to revolutionise banking..
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
Good Question. Lets take the scenario where we are partnering with another bank. So then we have two main applications or systems - 1) Integration with their api (I'm assuming this would be a fairly big thing considering the complexities) and 2) Our API/App i.e what people would actually use. I would see the second one there being open source, but not the first one, for obvious security reasons. Furthermore, apps and other smaller services would be open source. I think if you can portray an image that you are transparant and in a non technical way, have it as part of the brand as such, it might interest people. Get me?
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
Consider John Doe. John is an ordinary internet user who's heard of bitcoin, but has no iota of how it works and 0 control over it. Will John trust his life savings with it? No. I think that's pretty obvious.

Let's face it 'Assuming everyone tomorrow agrees to standardize that Bitcoin is the de-facto currency and decides to transact in BTC only' is a crazy assumption right now.

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
I think it's unavoidable to have a partner bank (at least for now) but considering they wouldn't get as much, that would surely be better? I completely get what you mean, and agree in many ways, but is there any other way?
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
I think it'd be the experience of that rather than the actual feature. Like how many non technical people are going to straight out of the box know what export to csv is then be able to run filters on it? People are much more familiar with my proposed way. It's note just the UI, it's the way it's done. Paraphrasing Steve Jobs, the design isn't the UI, it's the way it works.

Mint is great, but it's very much read only. A read and write setup, if you get the anaology, would surely be much more powerful.

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
interesting. Why would you be against an open source bank? Would you agree that banks aren't exactly cutting edge? If so, wouldn't it be better if they were? (More features, easier experience)? Thanks :)
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
I assume your credit union isn't open source though? It's great that you're happy with your bank, but I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that banks can improve a lot, and just because it you're happy now, doesn't mean we can't try to do better. It's kind of along the lines of Ford's Quote:

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
I think 99% of people aren't going to bank with an unregulated, fluctuating currency that they don't understand or control.
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
Here's an example: Imagine if your bank account had a profile, almost like a social network, and you could go to someone else's profile and quickly see recent transactions you've had with them. I'm not thinking of something like a credit union, rather something quite different, and I really feel there's lots more that can be done with banking from a tech pov
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
I think like always, the US is a bit different. As I think I mentioned, I'm not thinking of something like a credit union, rather something quite different.
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
Interesting.. but I think you can go further.
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
I think if you were to look at the three things I mentioned - online, non profit and open source, non profit is the one I think is least differentiable if that makes any sense. I think an online open source bank is the real innovative part, not the non profit part. So I'm not trying to be an alternative to credit unions, I'd prefer to be an option for 20 something year olds who spend most of their life online who want to bank online with a bank that's different to other banks. Not sure CU's have the best online systems (have experience in this)
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
I think the US (like always) is maybe a little lucky when it comes to CU's, but copying from my postscript I think if you were to look at the three things I mentioned - online, non profit and open source, non profit is the one I think is least differentiable if that makes any sense. I think an online open source bank is the real innovative part, not the non profit part.
niallpaterson··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
You read my mind :) Was one of the ideas I had. I think that'd be really cool. Will let you know thanks!
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