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hilemon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

IntroNet | Sr s/(BackEnd|FrontEnd)/ Software Engineer | Philadelphia, PA | Full-time

Remote friendly, but preference to local candidates.

We have new funding, and a completely new greenfield vision that you can still have a say in. Looking to double our size from 3 to 6! Open positions include front-end, back-end, && design.

If interested, please apply through our jobs page [ http://intro.net/jobs ] and don't forget to mention that you read this on HN.

hilemon You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

Considering that OP doesn't have the strongest grasp on the english language.

"We are moving forward with 2 other candidates who have 10+ years of Rails experience."

Could be interpreted to mean that those 2 individuals have over 10 years experience collectively between them and not each. There are a lot of people who have 5+ years of Rails experience.

hilemon Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

Sharing songs isn't working and I would seriously reconsider limiting it to iPad only. Offering an interface for iPhone would greatly increase downloads.

hilemon Show HN: RemoteCoder.io – A jobsite for remote programmers

I'd highly suggest making the posting companies list salary and/or equity ranges ala angelist. It sets expectations a lot sooner and cuts through a lot of bs for potential users.

I'd also recommend, having some indication of the listing companies commitment to remote work. Joining a team who is new to remote as one of the only remote workers is not fun. Supplying a short poll to each job creation, that generates a remote score, similar to the Joel Test people used to use, would help build confidence in potential users.

hilemon Open-source Real User Monitoring

Np, great stuff.

hilemon Open-source Real User Monitoring

The Github repot, last commit, was bumping to version 0.3.0 over 4 months ago, but the 'learn more' pages all point to downloading version 0.2.0, from over 5 months ago. The few commits in that period seem fairly innocuous, is this a mistake or is there a good reason not to use the latest version?

hilemon Here is a puzzle entitled "lowercase"

SPOILER ALERT

four is adam

hilemon Web Framework Benchmarks Round 4

though they're also using Rails 3.2.11, which not only isn't the latest 3.2.* release but doesn't take advantage of Ruby 2.0... it would be more interesting to see the latest Rails 3.2.* on Ruby 1.9.* along with the latest Rails 4 release candidate on Ruby 2.0.0-p0