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niels··on If This Then That (Programmable Flight Controller)
This is truly a game changer for flight controllers. You can easily write programs for your FC and only your imagination is the limit.
niels··on Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS
I convinced my family to move to Signal. Perhaps try that.
niels··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
Upvoted just because of your tech stack.
niels··on Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later
Yep, Agree. I specifically used elm-mdl and elm-ui. Elm-mdl were not well maintained and elm-ui, while nice, is desktop only.
niels··on Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later
When I last tried Elm, I didn't find any really good UI libraries. Also there weren't any good solutions for i18n. Has the situation changed?
niels··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
Berlin, ONSITE

resmio GmbH, Europe's fastest growing Restaurant Management System.

Senior frontend developer (f/m)

Your tasks

Help move our frontend stack forward by making sure we are using the best technology in the right way. Make sure our frontend is performant and easy to develop with. Implement new features and improve existing ones in collaboration with the product manager, UX designer and team members.

What we expect

Experience in building non-trivial web applications. Familiar with the entire web stack: Javascript, HTML, CSS, the application layer and databases. Experience with at least one MVC JavaScript framework.

Plus for

Experience with automated tests. Experience with git, React and ES6. You contribute regularly to Open Source.

write to andreas.jeske@resmio.com

niels··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
Berlin, ONSITE

resmio GmbH, Europe's fastest growing Restaurant Management System.

Senior Backend Developer (f/m)

Your tasks

Help us design and implement a scalable backend which will be the foundation for cool new features and support us in our growth. Teach and help other engineers to make the most of our stack. Implement new features and improve existing ones in collaboration with the product manager and team members.

What we expect

Experience in building non-trivial web applications. Experience with Django or at least one other Backend MVC framework such as Ruby On Rails. Familiarity with operating an application on Amazon Web Services or Heroku. Willing to work in Berlin. Enthusiasm to work in a DevOps Environment.

Plus for Good data analysis skills. Experience with git and React. You contribute regularly to Open Source.

Write to Andreas.jeske@resmio.com

niels··on Arsenal’s ‘secret’ signing: club buys £2m revolutionary data company
The owner of SmartOdds betting company, Matthew Benham is applying his company's statistical insights to the clubs he owns. This has proven quite successful. Great to see Arsenal doing the same. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/27/how-fc-midtj...
niels··on Django REST framework 3
Django Tastypie does that as well.
niels··on User Onboarding
Great overview. Thanks a lot.
niels··on Tell HN: Call your mom
Sorry, but this is not why I go to HN.
niels··on Ants Build Complex Structures With a Few Simple Rules
Here's a good explanation of Ant Pheromones and how it's used as a routing topology in the MUTE P2P software.

http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml

niels··on Programming With Types, Not Tutorials
I started reading "Beginning Haskell". So far the most practical Haskell learning resource I've encountered. http://www.apress.com/9781430262503
niels··on Comparing Haskell Web Frameworks
There is eclipsefp. http://eclipsefp.github.io/
niels··on Mystery signal from a helicopter
This is also commonly used on Model Planes flying "First Person View". See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_AnqOFAs3Q for an example.
niels··on 37signals Works Remotely [video]
At my company we also work remote and we love Floobits.
niels··on Flying a Drone in First Person View Using the Oculus Rift
http://fpvlab.com is a good forum for all things FPV.
niels··on Dear Europe, please help Bulgaria
Sadly I don't know much about the current situation in Bulgaria. But it is one of the most beautiful and charming countries I've visited. Corruption is rampant. We paid off a police officer (for speeding) and a local official (faster paperwork) in the week were there. It's crazy cheap to stay there.
niels··on Music to Let you Concentrate
Yep, Trance works for me as well. I use di.fm/trance.
niels··on Toxic workplace, what do I do?
I think what you are describing is pretty common among developers. The good thing about your situation, is that you have the power to change your self limiting behaviours. You have to push yourself. Finish a webapp and post it to HN. Get involved in a local tech group and do a talk. Sign up for a MOOC from Coursera or Udacity. All of these requires hard work, but will give you confidence. Beeing successful as a software developer is as much about how you market yourself as how good a dev you are. So if you want success, you have to learn how do those things. I'm learning this as well. It's not easy, but necessary.
niels··on Django 1.6 alpha 1 released
There are external apps that provide this. https://github.com/gmcguire/django-db-pool https://github.com/kennethreitz/django-postgrespool https://github.com/niwibe/djorm-ext-pool
niels··on Amazon's short URL: http://a.co
It's owned by the danish top level register. I guess they just added a dns entry for that.
niels··on Django REST framework 2.3 released: ViewSets and Routers
I'd be curious to know what magic is in tastypie? It's some of the most straightforward python code I've ever read.
niels··on Heroku Postgres - GIS Support Now Available
Wow, We were one day from migrating away from Heroku because of this exact issue. I even made a custom Postgis build for dotcloud that also has extensions such as HStore. https://github.com/resmio/postgresql-on-dotcloud. Guess we have time to reconsider now.
niels··on Web Scraping 101 with Python
I agree, and for a 101 web scraping tutorial keeping it simple is nice.
niels··on Web Scraping 101 with Python
There are other python libraries than urllib.
niels··on Web Scraping 101 with Python
This will only be a good approach if you are going to scrape a small amount of pages. The problem is using synchronous requests, as this blocks the crawler until a request has finished. Using asynchronous requests such as supported by twisted (and scrapy) will allow you to crawl a lot faster using the same resources.
niels··on YC-Backed Referly Acquires LaunchGram, Eyes Ramen Profitability
It's funny how some people can spin a story.
niels··on Lego Mindstorms EV3: The Better, Faster, Stronger Generation Of Robotics
My first ever programming job was a project for Lego and as a bonus they gave my friend and I a Lego Mindstorms set each. This was version 1.5 of the first edition. I remember we installed legOS (now brickOS) which allowed you to run code on the RCX. Definitively gonna buy EV3. Would be fun to try some of the algorithms Sebastian Thrun taught in his Udacity robotics course.
niels··on John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been released
I purchased this book as a MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) in august 2008. Never expected it to take this long.
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