tehansen

Pear Deck | REMOTE | Full Stack and SRE

We are a small team on a mission to help teachers engage every student, every day.

We are hiring Full Stack Software Engineers to work on product development and a Site Reliability Engineer to help us scale and maintain infrastructure and uptime.

Stack includes: JS, angular, react, node, express, firebase, mongo, docker, k8s, GCP

Find out more at https://www.peardeck.com/careers or email me at thomas@peardeck.com

Could you try to sell it to insurance companies? They might find value in providing it for free to clinicians because they might save money with better outcomes / preventing follow up visits.

Pear Deck | Full Time | REMOTE | Iowa City, IA | https://www.peardeck.com

Hiring for:

- Senior Software Engineer

We help teachers engage every student every day. We are growing fast and are looking for experienced people to help us scale and build our product. The stack is primarily JS based and most of our systems run on GCP (k8s).

Please reach out to me directly at thomas@peardeck.com or via our open position posts at https://peardeck.com/careers

Pear Deck | Full-time | REMOTE | Iowa City, IA

* Senior Software Engineer * Dev Ops Engineer

We are growing fast and are looking for experienced people to help us scale and build our product. We currently have open positions posted for a Senior Software Engineer and a DevOps Engineer. The stack is primarily JS based and most of our systems run on GCP (k8s).

Please reach out to me directly at thomas@peardeck.com or via our open position posts at https://peardeck.com/careers

Pear Deck | Iowa City, IA | Full-time | Onsite or Remote | https://www.peardeck.com

We build software to help teachers engage every student, every day. We have > 1M MAU and are growing fast.

We need people who can write code and help us scale. We are looking to hire software developers (full stack and comfortable with javascript) and dev/ops (GCP, k8s, docker, some app engine apps).

Email me at thomas@peardeck.com

"How do we find out how good an individual is capable of being?"

Maybe each Individual is capable of being just as good as they are capable to be bad. Would that even the score and make the problem disappear?

Google "loop blinn". There are a few papers by those guys on the topic of rendering smooth anti aliased cubic bezier paths, which is really what you want.

You can read font data directly from ttf e.g. And render text nicely with few polygons and shaders taking care of very nice accurate edge rendering.

I wrote a half finished c implementation a couple of years ago that might be useful as a reference if you want to look into this more : https://github.com/hansent/lbfont

It's mainly based on the paper/article inter book GPU gems 3.

Accelerated 2D Vector graphics are hard, when I was working on this nvidia was announcing the nv_path_rendering extension; don't know how widely this is supported these days. But I doubt it's available in webgl.

Edit: few typos...writing on mobile

Location: Iowa City, IA

Remote: sure

Willing to relocate: given the right offer

Technologies: JS, Python, C/C++, OpenGL, node, react, kivy

Resume/CV: http://bit.ly/1HHLIH3

Email: thomas.hansen@gmail.com

woot! congrats to everyone who contributed for a really big and important release!

wow, very awesome link. As someone who grew up in Germany, speaking Danish at home, then moved to the US when I turned 19 to go to college, and is now getting to watch my 2 pre-schoolers learn absolute insane amounts of things in such short timespans this definitely resonated!

In a lot of ways, startups are like parenting I guess. Certainly parenting is another example of an activity that depends absolutely on physical presence :P

Thank you for taking the time to answer :)

I have no doubt its biological, but biological processes are inherent to any human activity and are ultimately based on physics as well. Consider even just the absurd number of extremely complex biological processes involved in typing a reply as we essentially communicate telepathically thousands of miles apart right now.

I'm daydreaming about having a captivating discussion with you and Alan Kay in which I manage to convince both of you to help me replace current technology with something that would change this and the world with it.

Any advice on how to make that happen?

I'm leaning towards "stop daydreaming and get to work building it" being the best advice toward that end myself...but then there is all the other things I need to get done as well.

:P

Do you think that YC could ever invest or advise startups / founders that can't move to silicon valley for 3 months for one reason or another?

Is there something inherent in the in-person experience that cannot be overcome by technology (in general too i suppose, rather than just the type of work ycombinator does)?

Personally i believe we're not quite there yet. I have some hope, that within our life time communication and collaboration tools can become both sophisticated and intuitive enough to make physical presence for most type of work completely irrelevant)

while javascript is not my most favorite language, I think the opportunity to keep pretty much your whole stack in one language is worth alot. node / io.js let you do this; at the end of the day you can't "really" get around JS on the browser anyway.

im still hoping its a very genius marketing campaign...but either way, setting the movie free (not as in beer) would send a powerfull message. cant think of a better xmas gift to humanity right now...

its time we all realize that we are all responsible for where exactly "reality" is at. I'll pay them 1BTC if they let this happen... https://twitter.com/hansent/status/546273749163466753

how much money have they spent on this movie? If people pitch in world wide...how much money does HN think it would take for Sony to "sell" this movie to the public.

I pledge to pay Sony 1 BTC if they let this happen. https://twitter.com/hansent/status/546273749163466753

I find the argument about fostering more investment in smaller companies compelling. There is a distributed systems aspect to it, which might enable higher overall returns because of increased network effect (e.g. a business not only benefits from a direct investment, but also from investment in other business in the same ecosystem)? Is there something here that bigger funds are missing, or is there data/evidence against it? Maybe it just becomes to complicated expensive to manage a ton of small investments vs a few large ones in a centralized manner? Maybe I'm missing something?

am I the only one that noticed the lambda at the bottom right of the webpage? :)

about python on mobile, and making it run on the NDK. Checkout kivy.org, it's a nextgen UI framework with pure opengl ES and multi-touch support from the ground up. It's pretty fast, especially since the core parts are written in C and it uses a sort of JIT graphics compiler.

It runs on win/osx/linux as well as iOS and android. In fact through the android-for-python project (github.com/kivy), it does pretty much exactly what the author talks about in terms of making it run on the NDK. There is also the pyJNIus project to go along with it in order to call java code and sdk directly.

python on mobile really is an option, and it lets you write cross platform apps in a very nice manner.

Deocumentation: http://pyjnius.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

http://kivy.org does Ali of what you talk about using python

Edit:fix link

link to project website: http://kivy.org

if you want to write apps in python, run them on iOS, android or desktop and be able to submit them to the apple store or google play, check out kivy: http://kivy.org

Very cool indeed! Can't wait for my kids to get a little older to enjoy this kind of learning experience. How old is your kid?

Money is not an end, it is the means

blog post by Mathieu: http://txzone.net/2012/03/ios-support-for-kivy/

Any feedback on the tutorial or rest of the docs greatly appretiated. We're trying to improve the docs as much as possible.

Also, our game programming contest (http://kivy.org/#contest) is still open until Jan 31. and if you enter a game, you can win android tablets, github subscriptions , t-shirts etc..

clickable: http://www.nannagram.com