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tomjacobs

137 karma · joined March 25, 2011

Startupper: Red Swoosh, Expensify, Kepler, Ghost Robotics.

Software developer, hardware tinkerer.

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tomjacobs··on Filing the Corners Off MacBooks
yay
tomjacobs··on Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project)
wow, just wow

i did something similar when i was 18. got to the point of filesystem and mouse driver.

tomjacobs··on Show HN: Walk and Talk
I saw some people
tomjacobs··on Show HN: Chat to People in a Room
thanks! yeah gotta make it better on mobile, such small screens!
tomjacobs··on Show HN: I made a simple starter web app in Node.js
Not sure how to add links: https://github.com/tjacobs/Basic-Web-App-Template
tomjacobs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
Ghost Robotics | Android developer, and other robotics positions available | Full-time | REMOTE/ONSITE, VISA | Philadelphia, PA

Ghost Robotics builds autonomous legged robots.

You may have seen our videos: https://www.ghostrobotics.io https://twitter.com/Ghost_Robotics

Our customers include more than 25+ US and allied government agencies, defense and industrial enterprises.

Location: Philadelphia, PA (remote considered, must be able to come into office one day per week on average)

Compensation: Competitive base, full benefits, and highly motivating equity incentive package.

Responsibilities:

    - Develop new features, maintain, and upgrade the Ghost Robotics controller Android java app.
    - Work on bug fixing, regression testing, and improving app performance. 
    - Gather customer feedback, document and communicate customer functional requirements. 
    - Work with colleagues to design and implement user interface support for new robot behaviors. 
    - Work with UI/UX designers to iterate on app designs, with user feedback, and implement designs.
Experience:

    - Four years minimum developing Java Android applications.
    - Bachelor’s in software, computer engineering, or similar discipline.
    - Experience developing a mobile app from early concept into production. 
    - Experience working with remote data via UDP, HTTP, REST APIs, and JSON.
Email your resume to: tom.jacobs@ghostrobotics.io
tomjacobs··on Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch
Absolutely amazing. That's a lot of work.
tomjacobs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
cool
tomjacobs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
cool!
tomjacobs··on Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D
Great! Nothing like a pandemic to push tech forward.

This would work well with a physical controllable positionable telepresence device as well:

http://teleportconnect.com

Move around in a shared real space together.

tomjacobs··on Show HN: Drive My Robot
raw h264 over websockets
tomjacobs··on Show HN: Drive My Robot
done, thanks! didn't seem to work though
tomjacobs··on Show HN: Drive My Robot
h264 raw over websockets, js decoder
tomjacobs··on Show HN: Drive My Robot
crash
tomjacobs··on Show HN: Drive My Robot
No prob!
tomjacobs··on Show HN: Drive My Robot
SHIFT for TURBO!
tomjacobs··on Show HN: Drive My Robot
ha, that's me taking over control
tomjacobs··on Show HN: Drive My Robot
any webdevs out there, love to help?
tomjacobs··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
Melbourne Australia. Tech meetups, but expensive. Top city to live in the world, almost every year.
tomjacobs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Sr./Lead Firmware & Embedded Software Engineer | Philadelphia | US or CA Citizen

We're a robotics company building awesome legged robots. We're looking for a lead firmware and embedded software engineering function, including architecture, design and execution. Work with a small, fast-moving and motivated team delivering next-generation legged robotics for industrial and public safety applications. Self-motivated, strong work ethic and ability to execute under quick startup timelines. ARM STM32 microcontroller experience and SPI, I2C, etc required.

https://twitter.com/Ghost_Robotics/status/946530999206404096

To apply, email: tom.jacobs@ghostrobotics.io

https://www.ghostrobotics.io/autonomyaiuscaonly

tomjacobs··on Boring Flamethrower
Ahahahahhahhaaa https://giphy.com/gifs/the-simpsons-hank-scorpio-zqhZB6bo5Fg...
tomjacobs··on An 8th Planet Is Found Orbiting a Distant Star, with A.I.’s Help
Neural networking. Meeting neurons for business drinks.
tomjacobs··on I studied hard for a year and now I have an AI job building robots
And you can too!
tomjacobs··on Why I’m Remaking OpenAI Universe
Missed opportunity for a Rick and Morty Microverse reference here as the name
tomjacobs··on Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly ‘Tsunami of Molasses’ of 1919
Someone watched Drunk History last night.
tomjacobs··on George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
Best way to get some more press and attention? Hype a project and then claim to cancel it.
tomjacobs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
HomeShare http://www.thehomeshare.com | San Francisco | Full Time | Full Stack Developer | Onsite | Visa

We're looking for an ambitious developer to help launch this early-stage venture, and work in the trenches with an experienced founding team. The founders have launched and run several companies before. Though we are bootstrapped, we're processing over $1M / year in annualized transaction volume. For the hungry individual, this is a crash course on how to found and launch a new venture.

HomeShare enables people to live in the heart of the city without breaking the bank. We match you with compatible housemates, work with spacious luxury apartment units and install privacy partitions so you can live with awesome people and enjoy your own private space. We're fixing San Francisco's housing crisis, by better using existing housing. We allow people to live near their work, and not spend their whole paycheck on rent.

We operate tours at apartments, and at the heart of our service is the process of finding the best matches for people to live together.

Skills: Rails, MySQL, Docker, AWS, Datatables, jQuery, Selenium, Email.

To apply, let us know about any cool projects you've hacked together: tom@thehomeshare.com

tomjacobs··on Jeff Bezos 1997 Interview [YouTube]
Dude knew what was up and stuck with it.
tomjacobs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
HomeShare | San Francisco | Full-time | On-site

We're making San Francisco a great place to live again.

YC says make something people want. People really want to be able to afford to live in the city. We can't build housing fast enough, so we're hacking it.

We're converting the city; we take apartments where the rent is well above what people can afford, and convert them so that the space is better used, and this brings down the rent to $1,200/month in SoMa. By offering this unique price point for city living, customers love it, and we share in their savings.

Long term, we aim to be the interface for your living situation, bringing down the underlying cost of housing, while holding no inventory. We're starting out as a "full stack living situation" company, and moving towards being your trusted interface layer for where you live. https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/03/in-the-age-of-disintermedi...

We're looking for an ambitious developer to help launch this early-stage venture, and work in the trenches with an experienced founding team. The founders have launched and run several companies before. Though we are bootstrapped, we're processing over $1M / year in annualized transaction volume, and we're up to nearly 100 customers living in our apartments. For the hungry individual, this is a crash course on how to found and launch a new venture. At the heart of our service is the ability to introduce compatible housemates to one another. That's where you come in; building our automated matching system.

This is part front-end web dev, back-end web dev, growth engineer, and part data scientist.

Our current stack: Rails, Docker, AWS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Email.

Apply: tom@thehomeshare.com

https://www.thehomeshare.com

More about us: https://blog.thehomeshare.com/san-francisco-is-an-expensive-... https://medium.com/@TomPJacobs/50a2fc65bdd8

tomjacobs··on New Cities
That's what we're doing at HomeShare!

https://blog.thehomeshare.com/were-on-a-mission-to-make-citi...

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