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rochers··on Ask HN: Where should I start as a 34-year-old switching to software as a career?
Go to the Turing School of Software in Denver: Turing.io
rochers··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)
Blue Bottle Coffee | Oakland, CA | FULLTIME | ONSITE Lead & Senior Engineering Positions

As a software engineer at Blue Bottle, you will be essential to building incredible online experiences for coffee lovers near and far. We build easy-to-use tools that allow our guests to shop for coffee and merchandise online, learn about brewing coffee at home, and share their coffee-drinking experiences with friends and followers. We also build powerful automated tools that enable our internal teams to do what they do best: make delicious coffee, create exceptional experiences and deliver freshly-roasted coffee to the right person, at the right time.

You will collaborate with product managers, fellow engineers and leadership to help drive thoughtful solutions to business challenges and opportunities for our website and internal tools, (fueled by delicious drinks of your choice, of course).

Positions available:

Lead Software Engineer, Logistics

Senior Software Engineer, Online Guest Experience

Read more & apply: https://bluebottlecoffee.com/careers

rochers··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
Blue Bottle Coffee | Oakland, CA | Lead & Sr. Software Engineers (Ruby) | https://bluebottlecoffee.com/careers

Our Senior Software Engineer is essential to Blue Bottle building incredible online experiences for coffee lovers near and far. We build easy-to-use tools that allow our guests to shop for coffee and merchandise online, learn about brewing coffee at home, and share their coffee-drinking experiences with friends and followers. We also build powerful automated tools that enable our internal teams to do what they do best: make delicious coffee, create exceptional experiences and deliver freshly-roasted coffee to the right person, at the right time.

Our Senior Software Engineer will collaborate with product managers, fellow engineers and leadership to help drive thoughtful solutions to business challenges and opportunities for our website and internal tools, (fueled by delicious drinks of your choice, of course).

rochers··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
Blue Bottle Coffee | Oakland, CA | Multiple Software Engineering Positions | Full-Time | Onsite

Blue Bottle aspires to write a new chapter to the story and traditions of coffee and hospitality, and our Digital Engineering team helps build the systems and tools that create and support beautiful experiences for coffee lovers near and far. You will create delightful, intuitive ways for our guests to shop for coffee and merchandise online, learn about brewing coffee at home, share their coffee-drinking experiences with friends and followers, and much more. You will also build powerful, automated, data-driven tools that enable our teams to do what they do best with the greatest of ease: make delicious coffee, create exceptional experiences and deliver freshly-roasted coffee to the right person, in the right place, at the right time.

Multiple positions available including:

- Lead Software Engineer, Logistics and Tools

- Senior Software Engineer

- Software Engineer, Data & Analytics

- Software Engineer

https://bluebottlecoffee.com/careers

rochers··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Blue Bottle Coffee | Oakland, California | Software Engineer

Blue Bottle aspires to write a new chapter to the story and traditions of coffee and hospitality, and our Software Engineers build the systems and tools that create and support beautiful experiences for coffee lovers near and far. You will create delightful, intuitive ways for our guests to shop for coffee and merchandise online, learn about brewing coffee at home, share their coffee-drinking experiences with friends and followers, and much more. You will also build powerful, automated, data-driven tools that enable our teams to do what they do best with the greatest of ease: make delicious coffee, create exceptional experiences and deliver freshly-roasted coffee to the right person, in the right place, at the right time.

We're looking for engineers who have:

* 2-4 years experience working as a software engineer on a cross-functional team with other engineers, designers, and product managers to bring new features and products to life

* Working experience with Ruby on Rails and HTML / CSS / Javascript

* Experience writing RSpec tests (and respect for why they are important)

* Last but not least, a deep love for great coffee, food, and exceptional customer experiences​

Apply at https://bluebottlecoffee.com/careers

rochers··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
Blue Bottle Coffee (https://bluebottlecoffee.com) | Oakland / San Francisco, CA | on-site | full-time

You’ll be helping our digital team build amazing experiences for lovers of coffee around the world. We craft easy-to-use tools that allow our guests to shop for coffee and merchandise online, learn about brewing coffee at home, and share their coffee-drinking experiences with friends and followers. We also build powerful automated tools that magically help our production teams deliver fresh-roasted coffee to the right person, at the right time.

You will:

* Work with a small team of world-class designers, engineers, and product managers

* Build and push new features daily with confidence, using automated testing frameworks to verify your changes and release to production

* Enhance our online guest eCommerce experiences

* Help build automated tools for: Manufacturing/production/roasting, Recurring billing systems, email marketing, analytics, tools for our Quality Control team, retail Point of Sale (POS) systems, mobile apps for iOS and Android

Visit our careers page to see positions available in software engineering and design.

rochers··on Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes
Great idea and nice execution. Suggestion: add SSL / HTTPS to your website if you're collecting all this sensitive stuff about me.
rochers··on Rate My App: blueTunes.net -- a cloud music service
Seems like you're taking lala.com head on. I happened to think they are really innovative in the cloud music service space.

What is different about your site?

rochers··on How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job
Clay Shirky did a fantastic talk at Web 2.0 last year on this very topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyoNHIl-QLQ

rochers··on Ask HN: Who wants an intern?
You should apply to intern here: http://ict.usc.edu/internships/

I did it in '99 and '01. Then I was hired fulltime out of school and worked there for three years. Most definately an awesome place for a creative person with Computer Science and Psychology background.

rochers··on YHackers: Click that "New" link
I don't ever promote because in the last month or so, when I am logged in to HN, each page load takes about 20-35 seconds.

That kind of performance keeps me logged out. Can someone shed some light on why it is so slow?

rochers··on Demotivating a (Good) Programmer
This is so true.
rochers··on Any tips for integrating sms into your web app ?
Yeah but won't that only work for pushing out messages to phones? What if you want two-way communication with your app?
rochers··on Ask YC: Shared hosting providers that don't suck?
I also use Dreamhost for my secondary stuff. It's great as a staging server although you don't have full control over the server. If anybody wants $50 off the first year (that makes it reeeeeeallllyyy cheap per month), you can use the promo code LIFEHACKER.

For virtual dedicated, I use Slicehost (http://www.slicehost.com) to host The Photo Stream (http://www.thephotostream.com) and they have been excellent for the past two months.

rochers··on Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
Hey Cousin,

I made it scroll :-)

Scott

rochers··on Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
Yeah one of the things I am working on is ways to do two things:

1) See "more" than the 28 newest on the homepage.

AND

2) See when people click / add stories to the stream.

rochers··on Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
http://www.thephotostream.com could change the way people consume their daily web.
rochers··on GiveYC: One month of free advertising space
http://www.thephotostream.com

The Photo Stream delivers buzz and newsworthy content to the masses through a rich, eye-opening photo interface.

This is a good fit for the free advertising space because although The Photo Stream is in the "photo" space -- we're not a photo host.

rochers··on Ask YC: What are you working on right now?
Working on http://www.thephotostream.com. Suggestions, comments are welcome!
rochers··on Slicehost site redesigned
Has anyone used this for hosting? Can you give some pros/cons?
rochers··on Ask YC: startup or traditional work experience?
Why not do both? I work for a large internet company during the day. When I get home at home, the coding continues on my personal projects.

I think that's what Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft mean when they are looking for people with "self-started" projects.

rochers··on Ask YC: What are the top 3 websites you frequently visit?
Google, Facebook, TechCrunch

Also if bored: http://www.thephotostream.com