DustinCalim

Palo Alto, CA.

1. Growth Hacker/Metrics

Seeking a creative, hands-on Growth Hacker with scaling experience in a start-up environment. Aarrr!

2. Senior Rails Engineer

You are a performance-oriented senior back-end Rails engineer with experience scaling modern web apps and DBs. AWS/sysadmin experience a big plus.

3. Senior Front-end UX/UI

You enjoy building beautiful, fast, lightweight pages and have experience scaling websites with millions of views. A/B experience required.

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Tell us a bit about yourself, your experience and why you're interested

Imagine if political disputes were settled this way instead of real war

How about dark everything? I give you Hacker Vision: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-vision/fomm...

This.

Be here now.

This. I can see many governments banning Bitcoin before it rises to it's full potential and then the governments accepting it.

Yes, Bitcoin dropped 40% today- but keep in mind that on any average day it swings 20%.

If you invest because you believe in the underlying technology, you'll have to ride out the volatility waves until it matures(or dies).

But, it's going to take more than people holding onto their bitcoins and waiting for the value to go up- people need to spend them on things for it to work.

I understand it as buying on Mt Gox is a premium over the other exchanges because of safety. BTC-e is based in Bulgaria, won't release their company information, and could close doors at any time and disappear with everyones BTC- so it trades at a lower price there because of the extra risk.

Mt Gox is based in Japan, and very public about operations.

I'm going a bit off topic here, but one of the major weaknesses I see of Bitcoin are the exchanges. For the currency to survive, in the way it was intended, I think there needs to exist a decentralized exchange as secure as Bitcoin itself. If someone wants to work on this, shoot me an email.

I like your phone analogy, it rings true

I'd say that's on par or better than most corporations...

You can mine litecoins and sell them for bitcoins... I hear there's a ASIC LTC miner around the corner...

If it weren't for the early miners, who believed in the currency enough to invest time and money in machines to mine them, I don't think there would be Bitcoin wealth to distribute...

If this is your belief, there are plenty of Altcoins trading for < $0.25 that you can buy up now and have this theory work to your advantage.

The problem is nobody wants to be the first to leap(it's very human to avoid risk); they wait first for social confirmation but in doing so, lose their advantage.

I suggest you read about coin coloring and take a closer look at the altcoins.

Maybe they're the same particle... sort of like the single electron theory(since all electrons have the same mass/charge): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

Are you going to open source it?

> All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

Yeah, I recommend all my friends to get Exxon gas and buy GE lightbulbs...

There are some things essential to us(inelastic), and those are the things where we'll see really big changes-- Invent things that everyone uses all of the time, not something that some people use some of the time.

I have an early-stage startup and I have a huge workload right now and I could use some help with the Rails/database side of things so I can focus on everything else. This is not a useless instagram-like app that adds no value- this is a great chance for you to get in very early one something that is going to change the way things are done...

You: preferably a senior Rails developer with web/scaling experience. +for mysql, meteor, and payments experience.

Please provide github/examples and a resume.

The comments here are very typical HN... Too much semantics and nit-picking - and I think a lot of people missed the point the site was trying to make.

Maybe that means the site failed by being too distracting...\

I'd like to see HN stats on this vs your average 12-35yr old American.

So this is supposed to be a laptop accessory for your smartphone?

There is a book called "Finite and Infinite Games" that you should read. http://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/1...

It's really metaphor for life.

What kind of price can you put on vision?

-What you're likely to hear from the salesman

I'm sorry but roughly 200 years of data is not nearly enough to begin to predict any sort of cycles the 4.5 billion year old Sun has.

The article mentions 11 year cycles between polar changes... since it hasn't happened this year, this article is based around 19 data points... That's the last 19 data points of the available 409,090,909 11-year increments...

Rise of the Chromebook indeed. I think we will be seeing A LOT of these being used by software engineers. For $250, you get a very capable Haswell-equipped notebook with 8 hours of battery life and can easily accept a Ubuntu installation (ChromeOS is built on the Ubuntu core, so technically you can dual-boot and never even uninstall ChromeOS.)

In fact, I've done just this with the new Acer C720 machine. While I use a Macbook Air as my main machine, the Acer with Ubuntu fills the "beater" role very nicely and is really more than is needed.

This is a godsend for developing nations.

Also makes you wonder when you hear people talking about "bootstrapping" and you see them using new Macbook Airs...

Looking for a senior rails developer with high traffic/scaling experience to work on a new project.

Drop me a line if you actually want to work on something big and make a difference. This is the one that will change your life.

> Question is though, what about support.

They sell you that too.

Unfortunately, there are more desperate people than cell phones. You should visit India sometime.

I fail to see how this is a "dark pattern". Apple is a company that stays in business by selling you things; they are not your friend that builds great products and services and gives them to you for free. Of course they will create things aligned with their interests. Is this manipulative? Sure, it can be after a point, but not this example. Are there examples of manipulative UI patterns? Yes. Microsoft forcing you to use IE comes to mind or pre-checked newsletter signup checkboxes.

That site is so performance-oriented it took me 2 minutes to find the link to the book.

Palo Alto, CA.

You- Senior rails dev w/ database experience. Must have gone to University. Preference if you have worked at a startup before.

You enjoy small teams and working on something really exciting. (our team will always remain small).

No perks right now, no big paycheck. Generous options and an ability to help shape the company as it grows.

email your resume and samples of your work/projects to: schoolishteam@gmail.com

If anyone reading this is an experienced freelancer in the bay area who does web/rails and has some db experience, send me an email