The author is a long time climate change denier. He's apparently just moved onto a different phase of the denial strategy now that AGW is largely undeniable.
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Sense is trying to make a difference in climate change by making an engaging product which changes your relationship to your home. Get insights into how your appliances use energy, know what's on without smart appliances or IoT hubs, get alerts or automate your home if you like, or just sit back and save some money and energy.
We have an incredibly productive cross-functional technology team, doing nearly everything in-house: electrical & mechanical engineering, embedded linux, DSP, cloud backend, data science and machine learning, mobile and full-stack web. This means there's incredible opportunities for personal growth. Basically anything you're interested in learning about, there are experts in-house.
Sound interesting? Join our team:
* Embedded Software Engineer (Rust/C/Python)
* Product Manager
* Engineering Manager
* Community and Social Media Manager
Touch base with me (jonah at sense․com) if you want to chat about any of these positions. I'm currently spending my time working on our embedded platform, from linux drivers through DSP, data science through cloud connectivity, but I can put you in touch with folks from other areas of the stack if you want to learn more.
No recruiters.
But then again I don't use anything fancy beyond one- or two-finger gestures. If you want all the fancy gestures, I can't really say much about that.
I find the contacts/calendars/mail programs to be overall less functional than Mac OS. Not terrible, but it is taking some time to learn the sharp edges to avoid. Geary is their default mail client, but it doesn't support a unified inbox, and I have a lot of email accounts, so I bounced between a bunch of other clients before finally settling on Evolution. Evolution feels like a bad Windows business suite from the late 90s, but the fact is that it has the functionality I need, and I think I can learn to avoid its oddities.
Besides that, everything about it is very familiar to a mac convert. You can see clear areas where strong inspiration was taken from the Mac. It's honestly breathtakingly good, and it's free. I haven't looked back.
Overall, I'd say you should pick up a System 76 Laptop and give it a go. If the Darter Pro had been around when I was switching, I'd certainly have bought that.
Sense is trying to make a difference in climate change by making an engaging product which changes your relationship to your home. Get insights into how your appliances use energy, know what's on without smart appliances or IoT hubs, get alerts or automate your home if you like, or just sit back and save some money and energy.
We have an incredibly productive cross-functional technology team, doing nearly everything in-house: electrical & mechanical engineering, embedded linux, DSP, cloud backend, data science and machine learning, mobile and full-stack web. This means there's incredible opportunities for personal growth. Basically anything you're interested in learning about, there are experts in-house.
Sound interesting? Join our team:
* Product Manager
* Engineering Manager
* Data Annotator
* Senior Manufacturing Engineer
* Digital Marketing Operations Analyst
Touch base with me (jonah at sense․com) if you want to chat about any of these positions. I'm currently spending my time working on our embedded platform, from linux drivers through DSP, data science through cloud connectivity, but I can put you in touch with folks from other areas of the stack if you want to learn more.
No recruiters.
Sense is trying to make a difference in climate change by making an engaging product which changes your relationship to your home. Get insights into how your appliances use energy, know what's on without smart appliances or IoT hubs, get alerts or automate your home if you like, or just sit back and save some money and energy.
We have an incredibly productive cross-functional technology team, doing nearly everything in-house: electrical & mechanical engineering, embedded linux, DSP, cloud backend, data science and machine learning, mobile and full-stack web. This means there's incredible opportunities for personal growth. Basically anything you're interested in learning about, there are experts in-house.
Sound interesting? Join our team:
* Product Manager
* Engineering Manager
* Data Annotator
* Senior Manufacturing Engineer
* Digital Marketing Operations Analyst
Touch base with me if you want to chat about any of these positions. I'm currently spending my time working on our embedded platform, from linux drivers through DSP, data science through cloud connectivity, but I can put you in touch with folks from other areas of the stack if you want to learn more.
No recruiters.
Sense is trying to make a difference in climate change by making an engaging product which changes your relationship to your home. Get insights into how your appliances use energy, know what's on without smart appliances or IoT hubs, get alerts or automate your home if you like, or just sit back and save some money and energy.
We have an incredibly productive cross-functional technology team, doing nearly everything in-house: electrical & mechanical engineering, embedded linux, DSP, cloud backend, data science and machine learning, mobile and full-stack web. This means there's incredible opportunities for personal growth. Basically anything you're interested in learning about, there are experts in-house.
Sound interesting? Join our team:
* Product Manager
* Engineering Manager
* Data Annotator
* Senior Manufacturing Engineer
* Digital Marketing Operations Analyst
Touch base with me if you want to chat about any of these positions. I'm currently spending my time working on our embedded platform, from linux drivers through DSP, data science through cloud connectivity, but I can put you in touch with folks from other areas of the stack if you want to learn more.
No recruiters.
https://sense.workable.com/j/7D7B6612AC
Sense is building consumer hardware and mobile/web applications to help people understand their home energy consumption, see what's going on in their homes, and ultimately reduce their energy footprint. We're serious about having a real impact on climate change.
Our product is built on cutting-edge machine learning technology that analyzes detailed electrical data in real time to figure out what devices are on and how much power they're using. The data science team at Sense is responsible for developing these algorithms, and we're looking for a data engineer to join us. Our growing fleet of energy monitors is continuously streaming high volume energy data to the cloud data pipeline that powers our production and research systems. You will be responsible for the design, development, and operation of this critical infrastructure.
We're looking for someone who is:
* Excited about high-volume, realtime data and solving the challenges it poses.
* Passionate about building high-availability, performant, cost-effective, and scalable systems.
* Tenacious when tracking down production issues, digging into metrics and logs as needed to run a problem to the ground.
Sense is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Sense’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are a pleasant and supportive place to work.
But climate change has shifted from a technological problem to a policy problem. We can solve climate change with a cocktail of existing tech, but we need public policy to make it happen. The biggest thing you (Mr Gates) can do is get directly involved in policy-making. US politics only empowers the ultra-rich, and you are sitting on the sidelines.
Get your face on TV, in front of Congress, and in the Oval Office. The rest of us can't, so you have to.
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You have a really pessimistic view of neighbors, I must say. If my neighbor walked up to me and asked for my wifi password, I'd probably give it to them.
IMO the threat 99.99% of people should worry about are botnets, whether created by state-level actors, criminal gangs, or script kiddies. These vulnerabilities are not interesting for those purposes.
We have lots of choices of voting systems. If we only had a way to decide! I hope the irony is not lost on all you bikeshedders out there.
Quit bikeshedding. Start advocating for change. Start at the local level. Get your city or town to switch to the system of your choice. Don't just post on the internet about it.
Not sure what the lesson there is. But maybe a community college grad should consider finding ways to get through the school-based recruiting filter which is all too common in tech.
Here's some bounties available in C#
https://www.bountysource.com/bounties/search?direction=desc&...
* Are you a front end web developer and designer who wants to help fix climate change?
* Do you want to work on a consumer product which customers love?
Residential energy use is roughly a third of the global warming problem, and is a multi-trillion dollar market. Yet it's nearly impossible for most homeowners to measure, and you can't change what you can't measure. That's why we exist! With the Sense monitor, users get a live, device-by-device breakdown of your home's activity and energy usage. Want to know why your energy bill is so high? We can tell you. Want to know whether you left the garage door open? Our product can tell you.
Users love our product, we're growing quickly. We are looking for a creative and talented web designer-developer to help bring life and functionality to our website and other digital marketing efforts.
Web Designer / Developer: https://www.workable.com/j/63B9855CE2
Apply directly via the link above. I'm not the person hiring for this position, but feel free to get in touch with me directly via jonah@sense.com if you want to chat about the company!
Let's just repeat that.
More than 99 percent of the total lifecycle energy of a typical incandescent bulb is in its use. That includes raw materials, manufacturing, and transport.
Source: https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/10/f27/lca_factshee...
Whether you're interested in saving energy or saving money, you should remove and smash your incandescents.
Here's a blog entry I wrote with some of the simple math: https://blog.sense.com/articles/smash-incandescent-bulb-swit...
The conclusion that book drew was different than this article, and makes more sense to me — that it's not "mean people 'go nazi'", but ordinary people who 'go nazi', given a system which relieves them of responsibility for their actions. "Just following orders" was the typical & honest answer, if I recall. The men didn't feel they bore a moral duty to disobey, because these things just had to be done, or so they were told.
So, if I can riff a bit on the article's themes... maybe mean people will hand you the gun, but anyone will pull the trigger, if they're told to do so.
Filter your backcountry water, people.
* Are you a computer nerd who wants to help fix climate change?
* Want to work on a consumer product which customers love?
Residential energy use is roughly a third of the global warming problem, and is a multi-trillion dollar market. Yet it's nearly impossible for most homeowners to measure. And you can't change what you can't measure. That's why Sense exists. With our product, users get a live, device-by-device breakdown of your home's activity and energy usage. Want to know why your energy bill is so high? We can tell you. Want to know whether you left the garage door open? Our product can tell you.
Users love our product, we're growing quickly, and we're and have openings all over the stack.
Open positions:
Web Designer / Developer: https://www.workable.com/j/63B9855CE2
Community Manager: https://www.workable.com/j/9310ED7412
Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/E3548DBBE1
Data Scientist / Marketing Analytics: https://www.workable.com/j/51847B6999
Technical Program Manager: https://www.workable.com/j/6FDDE14512
Apply directly via the links above. I'm not the person hiring for these positions, but feel free to get in touch with me directly via jonah@sense.com if you want to chat about the company or the open positions.
Hi! I'm one of the engineers at Sense. Climate change is _the_ issue of our generation, and I have always wanted to be a part of the solution. That's why I'm here at Sense. We're shipping a product which lets homeowners take control of their energy usage. For the first time, homeowners can get a device-by-device breakdown of their entire house's energy footprint, and live feedback of what's going on.
Residential energy use is roughly a third of the global warming problem. Yet it's nearly impossible for most people to measure! And you can't change what you can't measure. So, that's why we exist. We've been shipping for more than a year, and have huge aspirations for 2018!
The #problems >> #people, so you will get lots of exciting, meaningful work.
Open positions:
Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/E3548DBBE1
Web Designer / Developer: https://www.workable.com/j/63B9855CE2
Please get in touch with me directly if you like! jonah@sense.com