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theseanzon Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

Hey! As a 46 year old I am offended by this - I am definitely not Gen X. We’re a weird X/Millenial hybrid I’ve seen referred to as Xennials.

Also F ZScaler - we use this officially sanctioned MTM attack at work and all it does is make my job harder.

theseanzon AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It

“But IMHO we shouldn't go around simplistically implying that all social ills will be solved by neutering the billionaire class.”

You’re right. Instead of implying, we should be taking active steps to do it.

theseanzon The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

I have no eyes and I must take a vision test to prove I'm blind.

theseanzon Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

> It was never used in real work

Does this mean I need to return all my paychecks from 2004 to 2007?

theseanzon Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr

Are you talking about UberMedia? I used to work there!

theseanzon Wet/Dry Vacuum Buying Guide (2019)

This site might be able to help also: https://www.vacuumland.org

theseanzon Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times

Very much so. I can't believe it happened over 15 years ago!

theseanzon Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times

This reminds of the internet classic VerizonMath: http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-...

theseanzon Emoji Under the Hood

There's Emoji Mashup Bot+ - "Tries to create new emojis out of three random emoji parts"

https://twitter.com/emojimashupplus

theseanzon Whole Earth Software Catalog (1984)

Page 16, from a review of the "Disposable" Commodore 64: "It works great, but it's not destined to become a family heirloom"

theseanzon Airport Made Fence Holes for Planespotting Photographers

RDU (between Raleigh and Durham, NC) has one: https://www.rdu.com/observation-park/

theseanzon What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death

While I was reading the article, this appeared in my inbox: https://i.imgur.com/FbaML9A.jpg

Retargeting? I did sell them an iPad mini a few months ago.

theseanzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

This posting and the description both say remote, but the job description also says "Because we are a Minnesota-based company, we are currently limiting our search to Minnesota residents (or people willing to relocate there)."

You only hire remotely in Minnesota?

theseanzon Show HN: ClearPrice.co – Glassdoor for SaaS Pricing

I spent a few years running my own startup and helping get another startup going as one of the first employees (we went from 3 employees to almost 40). A lot of my time went into finding pricing for various services, which is a huge waste when there's so much to do at an early stage or growing startup. I didn't want to spend time on demos and phone calls just to find out it was out of my budget.

ClearPrice will let you know right way whether or not it's worth using that time talking to a salesperson or going through a demo. You'll also know if you're paying a fair price for the service you're getting by letting you see what other companies your size are paying.

theseanzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)

You mentioned front-end in this post, but I don't see a front-end job listing on https://www.noredink.com/jobs. Is that position not currently open?

theseanzon How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

I did not have a simple experience with React. I did front end development for years, ending with jQuery-driven AJAX sites pulling from REST APIs (2013), and when I tried to learn React this year it was all voodoo.

Is there a good tutorial out there for lapsed front-end devs?

theseanzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)

New Matter - newmatter.com

Pasadena (Los Angeles), CA

New Matter was founded in 2014 with a mission to bring 3D printing to every home, school, and office. An Idealab company backed by strong venture capital firms, New Matter is poised to revolutionize the consumer 3D printing market with its flagship product, the MOD-t. Slated for release in the second half of 2015, the MOD-t will be the most affordable 3D printer on the market and will be integrated with New Matter’s online store of 3D printable designs, allowing users of all skill levels to find, customize, and print great objects.

We currently have 2 developer openings:

Software Engineer, Back End and Infrastructure: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qU59VfwN&...

Junior Full Stack Dev: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qU59VfwN&...

theseanzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

New Matter - Pasadena (Los Angeles), CA - http://newmatter.com

Our Indiegogo campaign from 2014 (raised just over $680k): http://indiegogo.com/projects/new-matter-149-mod-t-wifi-3d-p...

Software Engineer, Back End and Infrastructure Web Software / Mid-Senior

New Matter was founded in 2014 with a mission to bring 3D printing to every home, school, and office. An Idealab company backed by strong venture capital firms, New Matter is poised to revolutionize the consumer 3D printing market with its flagship product, the MOD-t. Slated for release in the first half of 2015, the MOD-t will be the most affordable 3D printer on the market and will be integrated with New Matter’s online store of 3D printable designs, allowing users of all skill levels to find, customize, and print great objects.

Job Description New Matter is looking for an engineer to lead the development of the back end of an exciting new 3D printing marketplace that’s tightly integrated with our 3D printer. We’re very early so you really get to own this piece of the product.

You’ll lead the development and maintenance of our system architecture. You’ll also work closely with the lead back end engineer to develop an API that talks to both our marketplace as well as our printers. Being self-driven is important since the team is small and we want to build an ambitious product quickly.

Skills & Requirements

• Strong experience developing large-scale web applications and Linux infrastructure, as well as understanding and familiarity of Linux fundamentals.

• Strong experience in developing and maintaining system reporting and infrastructure health monitoring.

• Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals.

• Experience with system architecture for web applications, and AWS in particular (EC2, EBS, CloudFront).

• Experience with developing RESTful APIs.

• Experience with and passionate about Ruby/Rails, Python, Django, Sinatra, Flask, Go, Node, Angular, and other various web technologies.

• Experience with various relational/non-relational database technologies (Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL/NoSQLs).

theseanzon Show HN: Play 20 Back, the Music Videos being aired exactly 20 years ago

Dec 94 == freshman year of high school for me. This is definitely going to be a nostalgiafest.

theseanzon Tech Superstars Build 'Startup Factories'

Idealab has been doing this for 18 years now: http://www.idealab.com/our_companies/

theseanzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

New Matter - http://newmatter.com - Los Angeles (Pasadena), CA

3D printing should be as easy as how we create and communicate. That’s why New Matter is more than just a printer. It’s an end-to-end 3D printing system, including our breakthrough MOD-t 3D printer, complimentary software, and a store full of cool 3D-printable designs.

Check out the last few days of our crowdfunding campaign here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-matter-mod-t-a-3d-pri...

* Senior Software Engineer - Back End *

We're looking for an engineer to lead the development of the back end of the 3D printing marketplace that’s tightly integrated with our 3D printer. We’re very early so you really get to own this piece of the product. You’ll work closely with product, front end engineers, mobile engineers, and firmware engineers to develop an API that talks to both our marketplace as well as our printers. Being self-driven is important since the team is small and we want to build an ambitious product quickly.

Preferably Ruby/Rails, but we are early enough that you can pretty much build it out the way you want. You should have strong experience developing large-scale web applications and experience designing and building REST APIs.

* Senior Software Engineer - Front End *

We are also looking for engineer to lead the development of the front end of the marketplace. We’re very early so you really get to own this piece of the product. You’ll work closely with product and design to implement the best possible user experience across both desktop and mobile.

An ideal candidate would be up to date on current best practices for developing complex user interfaces, including front end frameworks and communicating with REST APIs. Being self-driven is important since the team is small and we want to build an ambitious product quickly. You should have strong experience developing large-scale web applications (desktop and mobile web), experience with modern web frameworks (such as Backbone, Angular, Ember, etc), experience working with REST APIs, and, obviously, experience with and extensive knowledge of web technologies (HTML5/CSS3/Javascript). Major plus if you consider yourself a full-stack developer (ie, you know how to integrate the front end with the back end)

* Other positions *

We don't have formal job descriptions written yet, but if you are a desktop software or firmware engineer, please get in touch with us.

Email me (Sean Stevens) at sean@newmatter.com

theseanzon Santa Maps Dive

I didn't get sound and it ran really slowly in FF 25.

theseanzon Santa Maps Dive

Sucks you have to use Chrome for it to work right. Reminds me of the bad old days of "Best viewed in Internet Explorer."