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nsx147

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Co-Founder PawBoost

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nsx147··on Twitter acquires Quill
Not a new market, twitter dm's are terrible. hopefully they just make that experience better. increase retention guaranteed
nsx147··on Woice.me – async voice communication for teams: work, at your own pace
Why don’t more companies simply use discord? Slack is discord for boomers
nsx147··on Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election
The answer here is to pull politics out into a separate app, made by FB or someone else
nsx147··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
PawBoost | Engineering Team Lead | Raleigh, NC | REMOTE or ONSITE | Full Time PawBoost is a small <10 person tech company founded in 2014 that helps pet owners reunite with their missing pets through web, email, and social media. Bootstrapped and employee-owned. We take pride in our ability to stay lean, profitable, and fiscally responsible while helping thousands of lost pets every day.

We're looking to hire an experienced backend PHP developer as an Engineering Team Lead to help with our growing pains. You will be transitioned ownership of the monorepo codebase and work with leadership to do things like: establish guidelines for contributions, create development workflows, implement testing procedures, establish release pipelines, etc to help the business scale as we grow and add on more engineering talent.

Our Stack: AWS, Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL, PHP7, Yii2 Framework, jQuery / Vanilla JS / SASS / Bootstrap, Docker

You will:

- Lead a team of developers to achieve business goals set by leadership

- Work with product team to build/maintain/fix features

- Establish and maintain proper development workflows from idea inception to deployment

- Mentor/grow/utilize team members efficiently and effectively

Requirements:

- 5+ years of professional PHP development

- Deep understanding of OOP/MVC/ORM/MySQL principles and design patterns

- Solid PHP test experience

- Technical lead / team leadership experience

Remote work ok, easy-going team, build stuff that genuinely helps people everyday.

If you are interested please send CV and Github link (if available) to tim@pawboost.com

nsx147··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)
PawBoost | Senior PHP Backend Engineer | Raleigh, NC | REMOTE or ONSITE | Full Time | PawBoost.com

PawBoost is a small <10 person tech company founded in 2014 that helps pet owners reunite with their missing pets through web, email, and social media. Bootstrapped and employee-owned. We take pride in our ability to stay lean, profitable, and fiscally responsible while helping thousands of lost pets every day.

We're looking to hire an experienced PHP developer to transition ownership of our core Yii2 powered backend to. Ideally someone with experience bringing a legacy codebase from the depths of MVP, duct-taped, scrappyness with little testing to a well maintained well operated application and beyond.

Our Stack: AWS, Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL, PHP7, Yii2 Framework, jQuery / Vanilla JS / SASS / Bootstrap, Docker

You will:

- Help modernize the application

- Work with product team to build out new features

- Maintain existing features and fix bugs where necessary

- Work with frontend/devops developers to automate and bridge gaps

Requirements:

- 3-5+ years of professional PHP development

- Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Bonus points for Yii2)

- Deep understanding of ORM, MySQL, queries and table structures

- Solid PHP test experience

Remote work ok, easy-going team, build stuff that genuinely helps people everyday.

If you are interested please send CV and Github link (if available) to tim at pawboost . com

nsx147··on Show HN: Endpoints.dev – Pastebin for HTTP Requests
Yeah webhook.site is great and I like the model
nsx147··on Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day
Yeah you have those things partially because they were RH competitive advantage for a while till the rest caught up
nsx147··on Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?
FB has an analytics platform that businesses can use - like a mixpanel/amplitude/google analytics.

https://analytics.facebook.com

nsx147··on Twitter Thread: Experience at Lambda School for UX
Thx
nsx147··on ‘Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire’ Review: The Enlightened Adventurer
Ralegh? Raleigh is the capital of NC named after this guy
nsx147··on Ask HN: How did your startup change after an exit?
This is a good analogy
nsx147··on Domino’s launches e-bike delivery to compete with UberEats, DoorDash
Domino’s has proven to be surprisingly innovative. As far as I know other pizza chains just....operate.
nsx147··on BitBounce – Email paywall that lets you get paid to receive marketing emails
Great idea! I really wanted to use this...but then I dug into how it worked.

You have to use their Credo cryptocurrency to get your email through / you receive Credo when someone pays. Which no one has and no one should have. They probably take a fee on every payment.

Once you get Credo you probably want to exchange it for USD or another crypto that is more broadly used and accepted at other merchants. How do you do that? Through their exchange which they take a .25% fee to buy sell.

So they double dip on a micropayment of a few cents.

I wonder which part of this enterprise will survive in the long run...the email service or the exchange or neither once the ICO money runs out

nsx147··on Tether loaned USDT to investors and illegally traded in New York, says NYAG
Holding tether is useful when you are trading on an exchange that has no fiat on ramp or checking account. Many exchanges are crypto-only, you send crypto in, trade, crypto out. You can hold tether if you want to be exposed to the USD position without having to send out
nsx147··on Apple recalls older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro over fire risk
What it looks like when it happens:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bulbhv/my_macbook_pr...

Relevant HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20240359

nsx147··on Plaid co-founder William Hockey is leaving
Maybe in the long run by pushing said institutions to adopt reasonable oauth flows
nsx147··on Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
The bigger failure here is the law that requires this
nsx147··on Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
The real question here is if there will be a way to exchange this coin with Bitcoin or other crypto
nsx147··on Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
I miss IRC too. Unfortunately I cannot find a good mac IRC client and that seriously has inhibited my desire to use it.

I used to use gamesurge and enterthegame servers mainly to hang and chat with other gaming buddies. So much has changed since then

nsx147··on Amazon's Satellite Project Will Cost Billions, Jeff Bezos Says
It would be great if Amazon Prime included internet access. One time fee for the dish, works with all their in-home stuff.

Didn't FB try do this and scrapped the project?

nsx147··on Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
Bitcoin
nsx147··on Apple tells lawmakers people will hurt themselves if they try to fix iPhones
don't forget the vacuum lines and electrical...
nsx147··on Launch HN: Travelchime (YC W19) – Doc for travel planning with friends
There is definitely something here. It would be nice to have a service aggregate and split costs for the whole trip. And help planning it
nsx147··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
PawBoost | Senior PHP Backend Engineer | Raleigh, NC | REMOTE or ONSITE | Full Time

PawBoost is a small 5-person Raleigh-based tech company founded in 2014 that helps owners reunite with their missing pets through web, email, and social media. Bootstrapped and employee-owned. We take pride in our ability to stay lean, profitable, and fiscally responsible while helping thousands of lost pets every day.

PawBoost has an opening for a senior DevOps/Testing/DB engineer. The ideal candidate has experience ranging from deployment pipelines, DB scaling, docker automation, testing, general PHP/HTML work to identifying bottlenecks and making things faster. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with the ability to take ownership and responsibility for their role in supporting the system behind the scenes.

Our Stack: AWS, Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Yii2 Framework, jQuery / Vanilla JS / SASS, Docker

Requirements:

- 5+ years of professional PHP development

- Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Bonus for Yii2)

- Deep understanding of OOP/MVC principles and design patterns

- Deep understanding of ORM, MySQL, queries and table structures esp with relation to geo

- Working knowledge of Git

Remote work ok, competitive compensation, solid benefits, easy-going team, build stuff that genuinely helps people everyday.

If you are interested please send CV and Github link (if available) to tim@pawboost.com

nsx147··on Ask HN: Why is there no activity indicator when an iPhone's camera is on?
If the camera is on it has to be shown on the screen right?
nsx147··on Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – Mobile Apps from Google Sheets
Cool! So who is the target user for this product (technical and non-technical?)? Revenue model?
nsx147··on Making the world a better place for the colorblind
I am red-green colorblind, and I’ve always just accepted that I’ll have a hard time with certain UI’s. I’ve never really thought it worth the time to design for the colorblind. Although recently I noticed Trello has a colorblind mode where you can use patterns as well as colors to denote labels...that is a simple yet effective way and has helped me a lot!

Certainly would be nice to see more of this in the design thought process.

nsx147··on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Wife MacKenzie Are Divorcing
Why flag this post? It is relevant. When Tiger woods got divorced his golf game spiraled downward. To say this will have absolutely zero impact on Amazon is naive. There are ownership issues that are worth billions to sort out.
nsx147··on US Senate Passes Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Bill
This is a good step forward IMO. Life sentence was pretty harsh for 3 strikes on drug charges - 25 years is still a lot, but this sets the bar for the next iteration to keep getting lower
nsx147··on Jeff Bezos' Day One fund gives $97.5M to first 24 recipients
That was fast.
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