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count_zero··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)
Location: Portland OR, USA

Remote: Preferred, but flexible

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and many more

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: sean@seanparent.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-parent

I've been building web applications for ~15 years, with experience as a startup founder, full-stack engineer, and most recently as a technical product manager. I'm comfortable wearing many hats and am looking for a full-time salaried position to wear them in :)

count_zero··on A Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming
The US is about 11 days behind Italy, with approximately the same growth rate (keeping in mind this is only counting confirmed cases).

Compare the "Total Coronavirus Cases" charts: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

count_zero··on What does $100 Ether mean?
Maybe this analogy would work:

Imaging a million haystacks with a million different keys scattered within them. There is a lock which only one of those keys can open; it is difficult to find the key, but when you do, anyone can easily verify it is correct by turning it in the lock. Once a key has been found, a new lock is created and the process starts again.

The more robots (mining power) you have to search for the key, the more likely it is that you will find it before competing machines do.

count_zero··on JavaScript frameworks and topics to learn in 2017
I'm experimenting with a hybrid approach, where the server injects a JSON string into a hidden div's data attribute, containing all the data the front end would have traditionally received through an ajax call on initialization.

It's no ideal, as the initial DOM render isn't fully populated, but it's much faster than waiting for another round trip to the server to populate the view.

Here's an example sketch using vue.js (data is in #game-data div): https://game-collector-staging.herokuapp.com/

count_zero··on Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator
Have you seen https://www.makethunder.com/, thefalcon?

I've not used it, but it looks like it might help. Here's a demo video: https://vimeo.com/163751319 (warning: loud surf-rock soundtrack).

count_zero··on WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer Documents
Thanks for the link. From the summary of findings on page 78: "Glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A)."

From page 22 of the preamble: the category Group 2A "is used when there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals".

http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-F06....

count_zero··on An insomniac's guide to the group theory of mattress flipping (2005)
If your mattress has a tag in one corner, it becomes pretty simple to know which operation to perform next.

If, when facing the headboard, the tag is to your right, rotate; else, flip (on the roll axis).

count_zero··on Show HN: Historical stock price viewer
This is fun to play around with.

Can you explain how stock splits are accounted for in the "Percent gain" calculation for this case?: http://newinvestordaily.com/what-would-it-be-worth/r/30991

Intuitively that value would be much larger (300% or so instead of 40%).

count_zero··on NASA's 1975 Graphics Standards Manual
Online browsable manual: https://archive.org/details/NASAgraphics

Direct PDF download: https://ia801501.us.archive.org/16/items/NASAgraphics/tmp_26...

count_zero··on Hello, Stranger
Performance reviews at Trader Joe's heavily weight customer interaction. Employees who don't engage customers very well will receive smaller raises, and eventually leave.

Source: I used to work at TJ's.

count_zero··on Why you should use WebGL
Exactly, it goes beyond games.

As a web developer at a creative agency, it's impossible to pitch an interactive 3D simulation or data visualization project to a client if it won't work in IE. I'd be happy if even CSS 3D transforms were widely supported.

count_zero··on Why you should use WebGL
Total lack of IE support is a bit...problematic.
count_zero··on LulzSec takes Eve Online and Minecraft offline
LulzSec is starting to sound like a false-flag operation to me...
count_zero··on Why T-shirts matter at tech companies
This article reminded me of the employee-only Facebook hoodie, which (according to some commentors) sold on eBay for over $4k http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/05/join-the-cult-facebook-hood...