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dennyabraham

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Software fella in Chicago

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dennyabraham··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
Kin.com | Ruby Developer | Chicago, IL | ONSITE

We're an insurance startup fixing the $100B home insurance industry with modern technology and big data techniques. We are looking for experienced Ruby developers to join our team who are:

* Fast learners.

* Comfortable in a Startup environment. Either have worked for a startup or have other comparable experience.

* Professional developers with a minimum of 5 years of experience.

* Experienced with Rails.

* Have FinTech experience (a plus but not required)

We offer competitive salaries including health insurance and stock options and believe in a productive work-life balance. If you're interested, contact us at dev-jobs@kin.com

dennyabraham··on African elephants are migrating to safety, telling each other how to get there
It's crazy that we're talking about genetically re-engineering mammoths to help revitalize cold climates when we have such trouble preserving these elephant populations.
dennyabraham··on Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines
I've seen a few cheaper brands add a great deal of flex to their jeans and it's done wonders for my locomotion. I can 100% agree they're great for rock climbing too, while not looking terrible day to day.
dennyabraham··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
Kin.com | Ruby Developer | Chicago, IL | ONSITE

We're an insurance startup fixing the $100B home insurance industry with modern technology and big data techniques. We are looking for experienced Ruby developers to join our team who are:

* Fast learners.

* Comfortable in a Startup environment. Either have worked for a startup or have other comparable experience.

* Professional developers with a minimum of 5 years of experience.

* Experienced with Rails.

* Have FinTech experience (a plus but not required)

We offer competitive salaries including health insurance and stock options and believe in a productive work-life balance. If you're interested, contact us at dev-jobs@kin.com

dennyabraham··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
Kin.com | Ruby Developer | Chicago, IL | ONSITE

We're an insurance startup fixing the $100B home insurance industry with modern technology and big data techniques. We are looking for experienced Ruby developers to join our team who are:

* Fast learners.

* Comfortable in a Startup environment. Either have worked for a startup or have other comparable experience.

* Professional developers with a minimum of 5 years of experience.

* Experienced with Rails.

* Have FinTech experience (a plus but not required)

We offers competitive salaries including health insurance and stock options and believe in a productive work-life balance. If you're interested, contact us at dev-jobs@kin.com

dennyabraham··on [dead]
Kin.com | Ruby Developer | Chicago, IL | ONSITE

We're an insurance startup fixing the $100B home insurance industry with modern technology and big data techniques. We are looking for experienced Ruby developers to join our team who are:

* Fast learners.

* Comfortable in a Startup environment. Either having worked for a startup directly, or other comparable experience.

* Professional developers with a minimum of 5 years of experience.

* Experienced with Rails.

* Have FinTech experience (a plus but not required)

We offers competitive salaries including health insurance and stock options. If you're interested contact us at dev-jobs@kin.com

dennyabraham··on Officials Don't Get to Choose Who Gets to Receive, Comment, and Reply to Tweets
In the full title, the antecedent for "them" is "Tweets"
dennyabraham··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
Kin.com | Ruby Developer | Chicago, IL | ONSITE

We're a technology / big data insurance startup fixing the $100B home insurance industry. We are looking for experienced Ruby Developers to join our team. We are looking for a ruby developer who is:

* A Fast learner.

* Comfortable in a Startup environment. Either having worked for a startup directly, or other comparable experience.

* Minimum of 5 years of experience as a professional developer.

* Experience with Rails.

* FinTech experience a plus but not required.

We offers competitive salaries including health insurance and stock options. If you're interested contact us at dev-jobs@kin.com

dennyabraham··on Ask HN: Why are larger e-readers much more expensive than tablets?
Small ereaders are much more affordable than the larger size the parent is looking for. A few examples at this size class are remarkable[1], sony dpt-rp1[2] and good ereader[3] and all cost at least 700 USD

[1] https://remarkable.com/store/reMarkable-and-marker

[2] https://www.sony.com/electronics/digital-paper-notepads/dpt-...

[3] https://goodereader.com/blog/product/good-e-reader-13-3-e-re...

dennyabraham··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Kin.com | Ruby Developer | Chicago, IL | ONSITE

We're a technology / big data insurance startup fixing the $100B home insurance industry. We are looking for experienced Ruby Developers to join our team.

We are looking for a ruby developer who is:

* A Fast learner.

* Comfortable in a Startup environment. Either having worked for a startup directly, or other comparable experience.

* Minimum of 5 years of experience as a professional developer.

* Experience with Rails.

* FinTech experience a plus but not required.

We offers competitive salaries including health insurance and stock options. If you're interested contact us at dev-jobs@kin.com

dennyabraham··on The Suburb of the Future, Almost Here
The idealized suburb of this article sounds a lot more like extramunicipally extending the service range of a major city than it describes any real place. look to new york and chicago and where their home prices are raising fastest to know where folks are trying to move and what for.
dennyabraham··on Pixelmator Pro
I didn't know about paid upgrades being unsupported on the app store. That explains it. Thanks!
dennyabraham··on Pixelmator Pro
It's not clear from the FAQ[1] how this is different from a major revision to Pixelmator. Does anyone have any insight into what is the difference, if any?

[1] http://www.pixelmator.com/pro/faq/

dennyabraham··on The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro
Adding haptics and the ability to make it static (even outside of login sessions) would make it much more friendly to touch-typists. It could also stand to adhere keyboard brightness configuration
dennyabraham··on Let Forest Fires Burn
This does not take into account the vastly greater proportion of habitable or treed land in the US than in Australia
dennyabraham··on Race to discover Planet Nine using astronomy and new computational techniques
p9 is not believed to be aligned with the ecliptic. The most recent article I've seen estimates it to be inclined around 30° relative

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/19/planet-nine-...

dennyabraham··on With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs
I didn't know this wasn't already in prod. On numerous occasions, I've seen less-relevant gifs show up with an album link to a brand or product. It was what I expected the justification to be for the poor accuracy of gif search.
dennyabraham··on I hacked my body for a future that never came
For me it's a lovely piece of mechanical sympathy I can have with my own body: it lets me tell if I'm agitated or soothed in ways I'm not immediately aware of.
dennyabraham··on I hacked my body for a future that never came
If you're interested in doing this, with a little mindfulness training you can learn to passively notice the pace of your own heartbeat all the time, without modification.
dennyabraham··on Massive balloons help polar scientists build underground tunnels
I wonder if this is a potential application for pykrete[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

dennyabraham··on Jimmy Carter Builds 1.3MW Solar Farm For His Hometown Of Plains, Georgia
This makes so much more sense now, thanks!
dennyabraham··on Jimmy Carter Builds 1.3MW Solar Farm For His Hometown Of Plains, Georgia
What does the wattage of a solar farm represent? The article says it's expected to produce 55 million kwh per year, but doesn't that imply 6.3MW ((55 000 000 / (365 * 24)) / 1000) of constant production?
dennyabraham··on Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?
The dbcli suite (pgcli, mycli) provide a great user experience on the command line that even some gui database tools don't match up to.

https://github.com/dbcli

dennyabraham··on Apple has started production of iPhone SE in India
I keep hearing that protectionism doesn't benefit the people of a country, but China and now this feel like counterexamples. Am I misreading?
dennyabraham··on The Boring Company FAQ
I have! These would be good for expanding existing cave systems as well as building planned structures where lava tubes aren't naturally occurring or are exposed to the atmosphere
dennyabraham··on The Boring Company FAQ
An automated electric tunneling system that can recycle material into building components sounds incredibly useful to prep mars for colonies.
dennyabraham··on Where have all the insects gone?
I remember reading about this some years ago and noticing the same windshield phenomenon. However, on a midwestern road trip a few weeks ago I noticed more and larger insect populations than I had in years. I wonder if increased organic farming and native flora projects have helped the biomass, if not the composition, of insects recover.
dennyabraham··on Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
Not a contributor, but it look like they're using react-native https://github.com/keybase/client/tree/master/shared/react-n...
dennyabraham··on Apple Watch can detect arrhythmia with 97% accuracy, study says
Despite all the caveats around this work, early detection is one of the reasons HR trackers are a great investment. You can't manage what you can't monitor
dennyabraham··on Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit
I used to wear a jawbone up3 for this very reason, but it seems like they are discontinued. Someone mentioned the fitbit below but it might be too much to sit next to a normal watch.
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