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bndwon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

BackOffice Associates | Infrastructure Engineer | Remote (Seattle, Austin, USA) | Full-time

http://www.boaweb.com/company/careers/infrastructure-enginee...

BackOffice Associates, LLC is the leading provider of information governance. Last year we started a new infrastructure team and we're looking for an experienced software engineer with devops skills to help build out the new platform.

We primarily work in Go and Python, build on CircleCI, run containers on AWS, and use Envoy for our service mesh and front proxy.

We're a small remote team with a huge impact in the organization. If this sounds like you please shoot me an email, I'd love to chat [benwoodward at the domain above].

bndwon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

BackOffice Associates | Infrastructure Engineer | Seattle, Austin, or anywhere mostly in the US (Remote) | Full-time, Remote (US)

http://www.boaweb.com/company/careers/infrastructure-enginee...

We write services in Go and Python, build on CircleCI, run containers on AWS, and use Envoy for our service mesh and front proxy.

We're a small remote team with a huge impact in the organization. If this sounds like you please shoot me an email, I'd love to chat [benwoodward at the domain above].

bndwon On Password Managers

Pick[1] is a CLI password manager that I've been working on for a couple years. There is no browser or mobile support, however.

[1] https://github.com/bndw/pick

bndwon Scrypt is Maximally Memory-Hard

You store Hash2 in your database.

bndwon Ask HN: What Cloud storage provider(s) do you use?

Google Drive for random things

S3 for photos

bndwon Ask HN: Describing skills and competencies in a resume?

Hey, you live across the street!

bndwon Creating a Redis Module in 15 Lines of Code

There are also lots of examples from Antirez himself in the source: https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/modules/h...

bndwon Building Large Flask Apps in the Real World

You can serve any sort of frontend from Flask. Personally, I prefer Emberjs and have been serving Ember apps from Flask for sometime now. It's as easy as pointing your Flask app's `template_folder` at the compiled frontend folder. If you're using Emberjs, this is the `dist` folder.

bndwon The Secrets of a High-Quality Vinyl Record (2012)

What's the downside of apply a HPF at 10Hz, as it's outside of our hearing range?

bndwon Avoiding Reflection (And Such) in Go

Excellent explanation of composition over inheritance in Go. As someone new to Go, this was invaluable.

bndwon Show HN: Landing page MVP generator, the minimum viable MVP

Doesn't the "MV" in MVP stand for "minimum viable"?

"the minimum viable minimum viable product"

bndwon Show HN: Hascii.xyz – pun intended

related: http://asciiturd.com

bndwon Google Launches Android Studio 2.0

Is there any reason to hold out for a non Java/JVM Android development experience? I remember rumors of Dart or Python, but those seem to have died.

bndwon Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

http://trymarkdown.com

* Live preview

* Saves content in LocalStorage so it can persist closing the browser

bndwon Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service

Sad to hear this- I've been a paying Rdio customer for a few years now and have been thrilled with the service overall.

Given the alternatives, I'll likely attempt purchasing albums from Amazon, or another DRM-free alternative.

bndwon Show HN: A coding style proposal for JavaScript ES6

The proposed format kills the readability of nested objects IMO.

bndwon Rebuilding Our Infrastructure with Docker, ECS, and Terraform

Is it possible to use ECS with something like Dogestry, rather than ECR or Docker Hub?

bndwon Rebuilding Our Infrastructure with Docker, ECS, and Terraform

Great article. It focuses on the details of ECS, as well as the high level concepts of orchestration.

As someone relatively new to Docker, the latter was extremely helpful.

bndwon Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on AOL's ad network

Looks like that's the one: http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/unique-identifier-hea...

bndwon Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on AOL's ad network

You can visit http://checkyourinfo.com to see all of the HTTP headers your device is sending in requests, including any your ISP may tack on.

Disclosure: I maintain the site

bndwon Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul

Cap Hill used to be a gay / artist / low income district of Seattle but is increasingly wealthy tech workers. I don't see this as a bad thing but obviously some people do.

I think this comparison misses the point. The think the main complain with the change is just that, change. Capitol Hill used to feel much more eclectic and diverse. Today, personally, I don't feel that sentiment.

FWIW, I've lived in the neighborhood for ~7 years.

bndwon Developing with Docker at IFTTT

Nice to see a post that covers the various aspects of using Docker in place of some like Vagrant for local development.

The biggest pain I've run into when using Docker for local dev is waiting for pip to install dependencies on rebuilds. This offers an interesting strategy for mitigating that and I look forward to digging into this more.

bndwon New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

Looks terrible on Chrome https://imgur.com/H75ejZN

bndwon Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers

I've been running this extension for a couple months and just noticed this warning.

bndwon Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

Digging into `Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/main.js` reveals the crash reporter.

``` // Handle crashes reporter.start({ productName: 'Ticino', companyName: 'Microsoft', submitUrl: 'https://ticinocrashreporter.azurewebsites.net/crash', autoSubmit: true }); ```

bndwon Show HN: I decided to change careers, Random Chat is my first app

Yes, if you’re motivated. Everyone has to start somewhere and there are plenty of full-time software developers who did not study CS in college.

bndwon Why developers hate being interrupted

tl;dr

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25009451/ProgrammerInter...

bndwon Android: I don't need your permission

I made app ethics[1] a while back in hopes to surface what some of the android permissions mean.

[1] http://appethics.org

bndwon Ford Ditches Microsoft for QNX in Latest In-Vehicle Tech Platform

Can't wait to type in $0meSupersTRONGpasSw0rdOnMYco0lca.rt?0UCHSCREENz

bndwon Ford Ditches Microsoft for QNX in Latest In-Vehicle Tech Platform

I guess I just expected "over the air" updates, similar to Tesla, given this is a brand new product.

Even though it's likely trivial for most to connect their car to a network, I'm sure there will be a subset of that 19-91 audience left out.