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revisionzero··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
WonderKiln | UI/UX & Illustration Designer | Remote

Type: Full-Time/Part-Time

Location: Remote (we are located in Akron, Ohio)

Company Name: WonderKiln

This one is a bit more straight forward (posted a dev opportunity too), we are also looking for a part-time/full-time designer to jump into a existing design team. The main focus is on UI/UX Designer but with a talent for illustration to aid in crafting assets and moving the experience forward.

Similar to the dev opportunity above, the main focus is on independence and hitting deadlines while having almost complete free-reign! The projects will vary quite a bit so looking for someone flexible to jump between projects but who is also quite capable with regards to Web and App design w/ illustration.

Design-wise we have a small group already but are looking to expand it with someone very focused and dedicated time-wise. Happy to share our existing designs/buildouts upon request!

Like the dev opportunity above, we are looking for someone to jump in as part-time and work on ramping their hours up from there. We are looking for someone available immediately. If interested definitely reach out with availability (hours per week), hourly rate, and design examples!

Contact: austin [at] wonderkiln.com

Looking forward to hearing from some of you!

revisionzero··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
WonderKiln | NodeJS/Meteor Backend Developer | Remote

Type: Full-Time/Part-Time

Location: Remote (we are located in Akron, Ohio)

Company Name: WonderKiln

We are a small boutique consultancy, with a entirely remote team, heavily focused on great experiences (design, code, animations, etc). We take great pride in our design and development, only working on projects we build from the ground up handling design, brand, and development.

We are looking for another backend developer who is flexible and willing to work with an small existing team in a fully remote capacity. The key trait we are looking for is independence and self-motivation to tackle problems and hit deadlines. Experience with frontend development and a eye for implementing designs as per mockups/etc is a huge plus but not mandatory.

We currently work with MeteorJS as our primary framework and while experience with this is a big benefit, it's easy to pickup so if you don't have much experience, still feel free to reach out! Generally looking for experience with NodeJS, MongoDB, Angular/React/Vue, etc.

The goal is to find someone who can jump in as part-time and work on ramping their hours up from there. We are looking for someone available immediately. If interested definitely reach out with availability (hours per week), hourly rate, and past experience!

Contact: austin [at] wonderkiln.com

Looking forward to hearing from some of you!

revisionzero··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2016)
----- SEEKING FREELANCE UI/UX & ILLUSTRATION DESIGNER -----

Type: Full-Time/Part-Time Location: Remote (we are located in Akron, Ohio) Company Name: WonderKiln

This one is a bit more straight forward, we are also looking for a part-time/full-time designer to jump into a existing design team. The main focus is on UI/UX Designer but with a talent for illustration to aid in crafting assets and moving the app/web experience forward.

Similar to the dev opportunity in this thread, the main focus is on independence and hitting deadlines while having almost complete free-reign! The projects will vary quite a bit so looking for someone flexible to jump between projects but who is also quite capable with regards to Web and App design w/ illustration.

Design-wise we have a small group already but are looking to expand it with someone very focused and dedicated time-wise. Happy to share our existing designs/buildouts upon request!

Like the dev opportunity above, we are looking for someone to jump in as part-time and work on ramping their hours up from there. We are looking for someone available immediately. If interested definitely reach out with availability (hours per week), hourly rate, and design examples!

---------------

Contact: austin [at] wonderkiln.com

Looking forward to hearing from some of you!

revisionzero··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2016)
------- SEEKING NodeJS/Meteor DEVELOPER FREELANCER -------

Type: Full-Time/Part-Time Location: Remote (we are located in Akron, Ohio) Company Name: WonderKiln

We are a small boutique consultancy, with a entirely remote team, heavily focused on great experiences (design, code, animations, etc). We take great pride in our design and development, only working on projects we build from the ground up handling design, brand, and development.

We are looking for another backend developer who is flexible and willing to work with an small existing team in a fully remote capacity. The key trait we are looking for is independence and self-motivation to tackle problems and hit deadlines. Experience with frontend development and a eye for implementing designs as per mockups/etc is a huge plus but not mandatory.

We currently work with MeteorJS as our primary framework and while experience with this is a big benefit, it's easy to pickup so if you don't have much experience, still feel free to reach out! Generally looking for experience with NodeJS, MongoDB, Angular/React/Vue, etc.

The goal is to find someone who can jump in as part-time and work on ramping their hours up from there. We are looking for someone available immediately. If interested definitely reach out with availability (hours per week), hourly rate, and past experience!

Contact: austin [at] wonderkiln.com

Looking forward to hearing from some of you!

revisionzero··on Unreal Engine 4.7 Released
As a semi-recent Unity Developer, I find myself really wanting to jump ship to Unreal, really great stuff all around.
revisionzero··on Anthem Breach May Have Started in April 2014
Does anyone know why Anthem's clients have not been notified, at all, yet?

I am part of Anthem and I have heard literally nothing directly about this, it's all been through news/tech sites.

revisionzero··on Anthem Breach May Have Started in April 2014
SS Numbers are definitely becoming increasingly problematic. I don't know if public disclosure is the solution, but within the next 10 years some major changes will need to be enacted.
revisionzero··on The rise of fake engine noise
"I haven't driven a car that does this, but my guess is that it's noticeably simulated."

According to the article, BMW does this, and I can say from first-hand experience in a newer model that it's not noticeably simulated.

revisionzero··on Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (2011)
More than just a 'bit'.
revisionzero··on iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn
No idea how this patch passed QA Testing internally.
revisionzero··on Microsoft introduces Universal Windows apps
Yes, unless I am missing something. It's up to the developer (same as on Web w/ CSS Breakpoints) to accommodate the various 'breakpoints' or devices visually. To say it's poor UX is inaccurate, will there be plenty of unoptimized UI/UX full-screen apps? Sure, but the functionality itself is not poor UX.
revisionzero··on Show HN: Google Music for Mac
Wow, this is exactly what I wanted a few months back when I was using Google Music extensively. This may get me to re-subscribe. Great job!
revisionzero··on Exploit Prevention as a Service for Rails
Love the idea. An upcoming project, that I am a part of, will likely be built on Rails, so this has been bookmarked!
revisionzero··on Adobe hack: At least 38 million accounts breached
I know there is an auditing process whenever a breach occurs, so it somewhat makes sense. However, it really seems like companies intentionally announce a 'smaller' breach only followed up (99% of the time) with a 'massive' breach.

I would much prefer a initial 'massive' breach announcement (when possible), as that would breath a higher a level of transparency and honesty.

revisionzero··on Show HN: Gmelius – No Ads and Better User Interface for Gmail
Does this not support the latest safari? Looks awesome and would love to try it but it says it is incompatible with my browser, Safari Version 7.0 (9537.71).
revisionzero··on A Startup About Nothing
You nailed it!
revisionzero··on Shopify POS
I'm not entirely sure what your alluding to. My guess is that your claiming they took your idea and ran with it, which irks me.

All I will say is that its a bit unreasonable to assume that Shopify didn't have this in the game plan since going public. With Square slowly moving into Shopify's territory this is a fairly expected movement for Shopify.

revisionzero··on Read your Hacker News in Tile Style
Great idea! We are rolling out an update today, but will be sure to wrap in all of these suggestions in a follow-up update soon!
revisionzero··on Read your Hacker News in Tile Style
Good suggestions, will experiment a bit and see what we can do to improve it!
revisionzero··on Read your Hacker News in Tile Style
Well we tested it on Windows ME, so Windows 9 should be a cakewalk.
revisionzero··on Read your Hacker News in Tile Style
Thanks for the feedback LaserChicken!

We have a few of these resolved in an update we are wrapping up today. However, #1 is a good catch, will be sure to fix that.

#2 is resolved in the next update, and #3 we will look into.

While I have not personally experienced #4, I will test this right now following your notes and add it to the list!

Really appreciate the detailed reports of the bugs.

revisionzero··on Read your Hacker News in Tile Style
Currently you cannot comment, post or vote from the app. It's possible, albeit more complicated. The problem is one of security, so we are taking a bit more time to ensure we do the commenting, posting and voting correctly.

This is something we will have in soon though!

revisionzero··on Read your Hacker News in Tile Style
That's not a bad idea, will definitely look into that soon!
revisionzero··on Read your Hacker News in Tile Style
Our company is 'Quixby', so the app website link is to that site as it's our main project currently. We don't have any dedicated app website is all, or we would link to that.
revisionzero··on Read your Hacker News in Tile Style
Definitely, iOS and Android are next on the chopping block. As well as a variation for WP8.
revisionzero··on Read your Hacker News in Tile Style
Dev Here: It should be bug free! Always looking for ways to improve though. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
revisionzero··on Github redesigns Profiles
Im not really sure whats going on here. Github without a doubt is great, however, I'm not really sure how people like these changes. The UI and general flow is going from a concise, fairly simple site (design-wise) to a bloated feeling over-designed (useless icons, far to much white space, and removal of info) website.

This is concerning because its a sign of to much focus, going from x1 amount of resources to x10 means you risk over-developing what was great. You have too much time, to many resources, so you over develop things when they truly don't need any changes (at the time). The only saving grace here is they could be in the middle of a shift to a much larger vision, so these changes all seem poor until it all comes together in the following months. I have to ask though, why the shotgun approach to the updates then, they should take their time, once a week would be enough change for me, allow me to actually feel out the changes before adding more. =/

revisionzero··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)
Cleveland, Ohio: Windows Application Developer's (C#/.NET/WPF) Available Job Types: REMOTE, H1-B, INTERN, LOCAL

Quixby.com was our initial and still on-going endeavor, focusing on making PC Building simpler.

One of our new focus's is with Windows Application development, and in-turn we are looking for passionate developers who would have an interest in making a truly unique application on Windows utilizing C#, .NET, and WPF. An interest in PC Gaming would be a huge bonus =)

Thats the short and sweet approach, anyhow, feel free to shoot me an email at austin [at] quixby dot com -- Would love to chat with anyone interested in learning more.