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john.lancaster@sadasystems.com
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jlank··on Google App Maker
Good call, thank you!
jlank··on Google App Maker
If anyone here has requested access to App Maker and not received it yet please PM me. SADA Systems (my company) is partnered with google and have been in the early access program for App Maker kicking the tires. We offer app maker development and consulting services for companies looking to deepen their investment in g suite and build cool apps on top of it!
jlank··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)
SADA Systems | Washington D.C. | Full time | On site (very casual attire & unlimited PTO)

Full Stak Web Application Engineer.

If you want to hack on React, Material Design, and Node to build products on top of Google's Infrastructure, please get in touch with me.

john.lancaster@sadasystems.com

http://app.jobvite.com/m?3YIWBhwZ

jlank··on Show HN: Encrypted Communication via GitHub Using Node.js and SSH Keys
Absolutely a learning experience, this is why I posted it to HN. Really appreciate your feedback and everyone else's - it has been tremendous. Also thanks for the note on Nacl and libsodium, I will look into those.
jlank··on Show HN: Encrypted Communication via GitHub Using Node.js and SSH Keys
This is great. Thanks for sharing! I could definitely see building out something similar on top of private-message once I firm up the scripts with a more secure block mode.
jlank··on Show HN: Encrypted Communication via GitHub Using Node.js and SSH Keys
after reading more comments, I now have a better idea of how to achieve this. thanks again!
jlank··on Show HN: Encrypted Communication via GitHub Using Node.js and SSH Keys
I love this comment. Thank you for putting the time in to proposing a more thorough solution. I will take this (and other) comments into consideration, and make some much needed improvements :)
jlank··on Show HN: Encrypted Communication via GitHub Using Node.js and SSH Keys
Sorry I made you barf ryan-c. If you have any interest in making this better I'd be willing to convert your constructive criticism into code. Issues are open on GH :)
jlank··on Show HN: Encrypted Communication via GitHub Using Node.js and SSH Keys
I ran into this issue, I couldn't encrypt really large strings so I chunked the plain text. Not sure why that is the case. I would consider doing something like what you suggest, though I'm not sure exactly how I'd implement it. If you're interested in showing me how, I'd love to collaborate on some code with you (start an issue! https://github.com/sadasystems/private-message/issues)
jlank··on Show HN: Encrypted Communication via GitHub Using Node.js and SSH Keys
That is awesome, I love substack, did not realize he had written that. Thanks for sharing!
jlank··on Show HN: Encrypted Communication via GitHub Using Node.js and SSH Keys
I like that, send a PR and I'll change it :)
jlank··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
SADA Systems | Washington D.C. | Full time | On site (though you can wear shorts and have unlimited PTO)

Calling all coders interested in pursuing a ground level opportunity to start the Product Division of SADA Systems, Google’s top partner in the holistic world of ‘Google for Work.’

The ideal candidate will have technical skills commensurate with a professional software developer who has honed their craft over the last 5 to 7 years.

The ideal candidate will have a penchant to lead and mentor members of the product development team.

Your modus operandi will result in the happy byproduct of elegantly simple web applications in alignment with our core vision.

You will be challenged in a cutting-edge environment, and encouraged to refine your skills, share your ideas, and test your creative boundaries.

If you value great design not only in products and their visual presentation, but in your code and technical architecture as well, we want to talk to you.

(https://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?b=nxqelswt&j=oulE1...)

jlank··on Ask HN: Can A give permission to C to access B, without B talking to A?
This sounds a lot like SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) Alpha = IdP, Beta = Service Provider, Gamme = a user or some server requesting access to Beta's data or services. Alpha would contain a set of ACL's (Access Control Lists) that prescribe what groups / users have access to what content or services on B.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Langu...

jlank··on Bill Gates: Capitalism means male baldness gets more funding than malaria
It also means that some people (like Gates), that greatly succeed in a capitalist society, who has never been personally affected by Malaria (that I know of), can allocate money, awareness, and research towards a solution.
jlank··on Show HN: A free HN iPhone/iPad app I launched a few months ago
marketer, great app I use it daily.. my only wish is that it included more sharing options instead of just email.. twitter would be nice, or at bare minimum the ability to copy the url of the post so I could send it around. Keep up the great work!
jlank··on The Art of Unix Programming
It's a long read ~520 pages, but worth it. I just finished it myself, I really like the final chapter where he ties the philosophy to real world political and social challenges that I think we are all trying to solve in one way or another with technology.
jlank··on I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do?
Another analogy: "If someone gets pulled over for speeding in their Ford Mustang, Ford is liable for their illegal behavior"
jlank··on Next Hacker News DC Meetup on Tuesday, September 13th
Always have a great time and meet interesting folks at the DC Hacker meetups
jlank··on 5 days before our YC interview we've changed our idea. Help us prove the market.
ditto - sent to my girlfriend.
jlank··on How To: WordPress to Jekyll
I've been using something very similar for my blog for the past month or so, it's called Toto. Flat file, git, Ruby, Markdown, Disqus, etc. Check it out: http://cloudhead.io/toto and a good post on how to get up and running http://fadeyev.net/2010/05/10/getting-started-with-toto/ . It was really fast and simple to go from 0 to blogging. The default template is nice too (jlank.com)
jlank··on Review my new app: DoneCal (built with Tornado and MongoDB)
true, however maybe this is a feature that sets you apart. tracking projects with the people working on them are very important for organizations who care about data discovery (law firms, government agencies)
jlank··on [dead]
Thanks for posting this, I should have done the same, it is a classic poem I wanted to share. That being said, I don't care about karma, this is my first post... if only there were a way to give my karma away I surely would :P
jlank··on [dead]
this will have to do: http://jlank.posterous.com/32876942
jlank··on [dead]
I think we crashed notepad.cc :/ sorry.. any suggestions on a more stable site to post simple text to with reasonably simple presentation?
jlank··on [dead]
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Rudyard Kipling