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drc37··on California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact
This is all 100% political. The only reason they are doing this is to preempt President Trump's announcement tomorrow about the formation of a committee to get this going. Anytime they say it's not political, that is 100% what it is.
drc37··on Facebook urged to pause Libra crypto-currency project
If Maxine Waters is against it then it is probably a good thing. And why is one Facebook even batting an eye at one lawmaker?
drc37··on Ask HN: What's your conference room tech setup?
Our building has 2 T1V Thinkhubs. They are basically large touchscreen panels. We don't do a lot of video conferencing currently, but we use a polycom phone for audio. Remote users can login and view the screen and share their screens with everyone. It's a pretty cool setup. Everyone is wowed by it when they first see it. The setup consists of 6 screens wide and 2 tall. Each panel is 55". But, you can use the same system on a single panel setup.

Also, this is all controlled by a Crestron unit to control lights and shades as well as switch between TV, apple TV, Music and T1V.

drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
Redox | Frontend/Backend Software Engineer | Burley, ID | Full-Time | Onsite only

Redox (redoxchem.com) is an awesome company to work for in the quiet town of Burley, ID (https://vimeo.com/307810015). We are a fertilizer business and just hit our 25th anniversary and growing quickly. Our development team is building some great products for our sales team and looking to expand. The ideal candidate will have a love for making beautifully functional products and services.

* Frontend: React, Webpack, React Native, HTML, CSS, etc.

* Backend: Ruby on Rails, Git (Or a great developer willing to learn Rails)

Benefits include health, dental, vision, orthodontia, 401K matching, annual bonuses, and, most importantly, amazing people to work with.

Full job description: https://redoxchem.com/careers/software-engineer

To Apply, email resume to it@redoxchem.com

drc37··on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich and Americans Agree
But why do you feel it is your right or the right of the government to take it from them? Because they happen to be more successful than you? I have never understood the logic of taking from the rich because they are rich. That always sparks the idea of true laziness in the person saying this.
drc37··on Ask HN: Best email client for a Mac?
I don't believe Airmail requires any 3rd party server. I have been using Airmail for a few years now and really like it.
drc37··on How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes
Funny. I just did the same thing last week.
drc37··on Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?
A great book to read to read is the Innovator's Dilemma. It talks about a different industry (steel), but I think it could be applicable.
drc37··on Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
Is backerpass growing/shrinking/steady?
drc37··on Ask HN: What's happening in agricultural technology?
I am currently working for a fertilizer company. First off, I have never worked in the Ag industry until a few years ago. It's an interesting business plagued by snake oil salesmen who try to push every whacky idea they can dream up.

Our company is very focused on the science of the plants and the soil and have developed products that do some amazing things with plants. We have seen potato fields go without pesticides by using one of our products that uses an extract from another plant. It doesn't kill the bugs, but makes the plants not desirable to the bugs.

Plant physiology is still in its infancy. Plants are very much like the human body and so many respects (immune system, nutrient requirements, cell structures, growth needs, disease prevention) and there are so many things we don't know about the plants. For example, plants need zinc to process calcium, yet we don't know why.

In terms of technology,

1) our Phosphorous product allows a grower to reduce their phosphorous inputs by 20-50X. Another one of our products allow for water reduction by up 25%.

2) Hyper-spectral imaging is in its infancy but possibly being used to diagnose problems in plants before they are visible with the naked eye.

3) Drones is a big one right now being used for imaging, spot treatments of fertilizers. I can definitely envision a day when they will use these for picking crops.

4) For every crop, there is an inventor who has created a gizmo to make their jobs easier. For the most part, these are all designed to reduce labor costs (usually their #1 expense). Almonds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0UAbuUW2Lw Cherries - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX_t1hkqTVQ Blueberries - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt73GOk4JRY

drc37··on Affordable Care
I think the point most of the people that Sam referred to where basically saying that they would like others to subsidize their health insurance. That's what insurance is. We all put money into a bucket and some people will use it and some not so much and others a lot. The people who use it a lot want to pay the same amount as those who are healthy and have the healthy subsidize their health issues. That is what is currently going on and why prices have gone through the roof. All those "unisurables" are on the same insurances as healthy but now the bucket of money needs to be much larger to cover the cost of the "unisurables".

If this is how the government wants to do it, don't call it insurance. Just call it socialized medicine, because I am definitely not getting what I paid for.

drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
It's pretty solid still. Not expensive, at least in this area. For a new home in this area you will pay around $100/sqft. That is with a decent size yard.
drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
Redox Chemicals | www.redoxchem.com | Full Stack Web Developer | up to $120K | Burley, Idaho | Senior Full-stack Engineer | Full Time | Prefer onsite (consider US-based remote for the right developer)

Redox is a fast-growing company in the fertilizer industry with some amazing products that are helping revolutionize the industry. We are looking for some additional developers to help build both amazing sales force tools but also tools for the our customer base. The work environment is great and a brand new, state of the art office building being finished in a about a month.

We use a pretty typical Ruby on Rails stack on Heroku with some external connections to some APIs. We're beginning to use React for some front-end work.

We know it is hard to find developers in South-central Idaho, so if you don't have the exact tool set listed above please contact us and we would be willing to work with senior developers to learn new languages required for this position. We DO NOT want to teach programming and Ruby on rails though, if that makes sense.

Current Technologies:

  - Ruby on Rails
  - Postgres
  - React
  - Html 5/CSS/Javascript
Additional Desired Technologies:

  - iOS/Swift (No app currently, but have plans for in the coming year)
  - Infrastructure setup/support
Benefits:

  - Salary range up to $120K, depending on experience
  - Top of the line hardware
  - 401K Matching
  - Insurance (Health/Dental/Vision)
  - Annual Bonus
  - Relocation Assistance
Contact me at it@redoxchem.com
drc37··on Ask HN: Did knowing or learning a not-so-famous natural language benefit you?
At my university when I was attending, they were using PowerBuilder to teach object oriented programming. It landed me my first job at a big oil and gas company supporting a legacy app.
drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
I don't mean to make it sound like we are trying to short-change anyone. We are simply looking for great candidates wanting to live in beautiful southern Idaho. (And say that cost of living in this area is much lower than many other parts of the country). But, I can see where you can interpret my comments like that.
drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
Redox Chemicals | Full Stack Web Developer | $80-120K | Burley, Idaho | Senior Full-stack Engineer | Full Time | Prefer onsite (consider remote for an amazing developer) | http://www.redoxchem.com

Redox is a fast-growing company in the fertilizer industry with some amazing products that are helping revolutionize the industry. We are looking for some additional developers to help build both amazing sales force tools but also tools for the our customer base. The work environment is great and a brand new, state of the art office building being finished in a about a month.

We use a pretty typical Ruby on Rails stack on Heroku with some external connections to some APIs. We're beginning to use React for some front-end work.

We know it is hard to find developers in South-central Idaho, so if you don't have the exact tool set listed above please contact us and we would be willing to work with senior developers to learn new languages required for this position. We DO NOT want to teach programming and Ruby on rails though, if that makes sense.

Current Technologies:

  - Ruby on Rails
  - Postgres
  - React
  - Html 5/CSS/Javascript
Additional Desired Technologies:

  - iOS/Swift
  - Infrastructure setup/support
Benefits:

  - Salary will range from $80-120K. (That's like $150-$200K in CA with Idaho cost of living adjustment :) )
  - Top of the line hardware
  - 401K Matching
  - Insurance (Health/Dental/Vision)
  - Annual Bonus
  - Relocation Assistance
Contact me at it@redoxchem.com
drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Redox Chemicals | Full Stack Web Developer | $80-120K | Burley, Idaho | Senior Full-stack Engineer | Full Time | Prefer onsite (consider remote for an amazing developer) | http://www.redoxchem.com

Redox is a fast-growing company in the fertilizer industry with some amazing products that are helping revolutionize the industry. We are looking for some additional developers to help build both amazing sales force tools but also tools for the our customer base. The work environment is great and a brand new, state of the art office building being finished in a about a month.

We use a pretty typical Ruby on Rails stack on Heroku with some external connections to some APIs. We're beginning to use React for some front-end work.

We know it is hard to find developers in South-central Idaho, so if you don't have the exact tool set listed above please contact us and we would be willing to work with senior developers to learn new languages required for this position. We DO NOT want to teach programming and Ruby on rails though, if that makes sense.

Current Technologies:

  - Ruby on Rails
  - Postgres
  - React
  - Html/CSS/Javascript
Additional Desired Technologies:

  - iOS/Swift
  - Java (For mobile development)
  - Infrastructure setup/support
Benefits:

  - Salary will range from $80-120K. (That's like $150-$200K in CA with Idaho cost of livving adjustment :) )
  - Top of the line hardware
  - 401K Matching
  - Insurance (Health/Dental/Vision)
  - Annual Bonus
  - Relocation Assistance
We would love to hear from you. Contact me at it@redoxchem.com
drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Redox - http://RedoxChem.com | Burley, ID | $50,000 - 75,000 | Onsite | Full-Time | Full stack Ruby on Rails Developer

We are a growing wholesale fertilizer company trying to build out the future of the company.

Send questions or resumes to:

David - david.cook (at) redoxchem.com

drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
Redox Chemicals - Burley, ID - Full Time or Local-ish* contractor - Full Stack Ruby on Rails developer - $50-75K - http://www.redoxchem.com/ Redox is a very fast growing fertilizer company with some amazing products that help reduce fertilizer needs by over 99% and even get better utilization of the product.

Software Engineer - We are looking for an amazing software engineer to put together some advanced software for a custom inventory management and tracking project we have coming up. We are in the process of completely revamping the entire digital infrastructure here and need your enterprising mind. Our current stack is Heroku, RoR, Postgres, ReactJS, RSpec, etc. iOS development experience is also a big plus.

Benefits include: health, dental, vision and life insurance. There is also 401K matching. MacBook Pro to your specs. Awesome work environment. Relatively inexpensive to live in south-central Burley.

So, if you are interested in working in small town America - Burley, ID, contact us - we would love to chat: it@redoxchem.com. *local-ish = you can get to Burley on a regular basis.

drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
Redox Chemicals | Full time(onsite) or Contract(remote) | Burley, ID | Fullstack Software Engineer Redox Chemicals an established fertilizer company with some industry break through products. We are looking to expand our technology team to build a distributor backend to match our products. Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, Postgres, React.js,Redis, Sidekiq, GitHub, etc. Wanting to add iOS in the near future. Great benefits for full time employees. You can email me at it[AT]redoxchem.com.
drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
Redox Chemicals - Burley, ID - Full Time or Local-ish* contractor - Full Stack Ruby on Rails developer - $50-75K - http://www.redoxchem.com/

Redox is a very fast growing fertilizer company with some amazing products that help reduce fertilizer needs by over 99% and even get better utilization of the product.

Software Engineer - We are looking for an amazing software engineer to put together some advanced software for a custom inventory management and tracking project we have coming up. We are in the process of completely revamping the entire digital infrastructure here and need your enterprising mind. Our current stack is Heroku, RoR, Postgres, ReactJS, RSpec, etc. iOS development experience is also a big plus.

Benefits include: health, dental, vision and life insurance. There is also 401K matching. MacBook Pro to your specs. Awesome work environment. Relatively inexpensive to live in south-central Burley.

So, if you are interested in working in small town America - Burley, ID, contact us - we would love to chat: it@redoxchem.com.

*local-ish = you can get to Burley on a regular basis.

drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
Redox - Burley, ID - http://redoxchem.com (interns welcome) The site is ugly, we know. That is why we are looking a great designer to come help us build a better world.

Redox is company growing tremendously fast in the plant health area (think fertilizer) and needs an amazing designer who would be willing to come help us grow. We would prefer you to be in Burley, depending on experience we could be flexible. This position will be helping us with both print materials as well as all our digital assets - new marketing websites, new intranet, and cool new iPhone/iPad app.

The plant health industry is a $185Bil industry world wide and we making major inroads into much bigger players because of some of the a number of key patents that we hold.

If you need more information or would like to apply, please contact us at it@redoxchem.com. We would love to talk.

drc37··on Under Pressure
A few years ago while on vacation with my extended family, all my brothers and I decided it would be fun to drop dime size chunks of dry ice into a water bottle with a few inches of water in them and then throw them into the pool. We did this and given a few minutes they would explode, harmlessly - not much more than a fire cracker.

Then we had the bright idea of tying a 5lb weight to the water bottle and let it sink. This was a bad idea on our part. When it exploded, it sent a shock wave through the ground. It was pretty intense make us brothers kinda freak out. People rushed from inside the house and asked what explosion was. We were afraid we had cracked the pool, the concussion wave was so strong. Luckily, we hadn't for my brother's sake. It just makes me think twice before containing dry ice.

drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
BTW, this is for a full time position.
drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
Redox - Burley, ID (local only) We are looking for a Web/Graphics/Print Designer (including some UX) with a great eye for design. We are just beginning a full rebrand and need someone to come in and help extend the branding.

Great salary with awesome benefits. Redox is a fast growing company that needs a great designer.

Send us your resume and portfolio to it[@]redoxchem.com.

drc37··on 2014 Was Hottest Year on Record, Surpassing 2010
It was more of poking fun, but I am a skeptic. I believe the government can come up with any data the want to push their agenda. I believe almost any scientist can "prove" almost anything, especially when trying to prove it to people outside their knowledge set(like the general public).

Now don't get me wrong. I believe in making the world a better place for my kids. But to get caught up in all the hype that comes from the media (including the article I linked to) is laughable.

This argument is about politics and $$$ (both sides of the argument).

drc37··on 2014 Was Hottest Year on Record, Surpassing 2010
For the US, it was only the 34st warmest.

To put it in a bit more perspective what the NY Times is saying:

http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/01/16/scientists-balk-at-ho...

drc37··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
Martian Development - Burley, Idaho - david@missionarybag.com

SUMMARY We are a small development firm here in South Central Idaho looking to expand and add developers. We simply have too much work for us to handle at the moment and are looking for help. We do have a few ecommerce business as well that mostly runs it self. We are small but growing.

DETAILS We do mostly web strategy and development but also have completed a number of iOS projects for a number of different clients. I would like to have someone local but would considers remote workers for the right candidates.

TECH STACK - Ruby on Rails - Postgres - HTML/CSS/jQuery front-end design. We like things that look pretty. - iOS is a plus

Contact me with any questions: david@missionarybag.com

drc37··on Deconstructing Finnish
I spent a few years in Estonia and Learned the language while I was there. It's almost like a Spanish to Portuguese difference between Finnish and Estonian. Estonian has like 14 cases. It took me a long time to learn, and that was speaking it every day.
drc37··on Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
Thanks for the heads up.
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