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joshfinnieon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)

TrackMaven | Software Developer | Washington, DC | ONSITE, https://trackmaven.com/careers

TrackMaven, the leading marketing analytics platform, is growing rapidly and is seeking a forward-thinking, eager and skilled full-stack developer to join our pack. We are looking for someone interested in both Javascript (Angular 1.5 & React) and Python (Django/Flask).

Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/trackmaven/jobs/701039#.WTBiAhP...

joshfinnieon Getting Started with Django REST Framework and AngularJS, Part 2

Part 3 will be coming out sooner than March I hope. The reason for the gap in releases was the holiday season, we should be able to get them out more reliable going forward.

joshfinnieon Introducing 1Password for Teams

A nice addition, we are currently using LassPass Enterprise, and the UI is absolutely terrible, but being the only game in town kind of forced our hands... now there's options!

joshfinnieon The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces

Just saying that I think that Cities: Skyline is a great next step in city builders, but is not ground-breakingly different from the last Sim City. I am hoping that there's some ground-breaking changes soon enough. This is a great start!

joshfinnieon The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces

Cities: Skyline is a great game. It really fills in the gaps that I had from Sim City 5, but it's iterative; it's definitely "picking up the pieces"...

I am hoping that with some future updates this game gets to the point that it replaces the Sim City franchise completely for me, but it's off to a great start.

joshfinnieon Two Simple Steps Helped Me Learn Vim

I am still on the fence about the usefulness of Janus as someone starting with Vim. Sure it gets you closer to ST, but is that really the end goal? Why not still use ST?

joshfinnieon Two Simple Steps Helped Me Learn Vim

Are you dotfiles openly available? I have the same set of tools, but still find things are slightly off... would love to compare notes.

joshfinnieon The Future of Payments and Open Source Support

I agree except for the fact that his concern with tip4commit is that it wouldn't exist if bitcoin wasn't available. The fact that bitcoin is what is making tip4commit to run without much regulation is Armin's main point.

joshfinnieon Show HN: Supercharge GitHub with ZenHub

We have been using ZenHub for quite a while and have to say that it has been a great change from Trello. As a developer, I was already in Github all the time, so adding the pipeline process within Github is awesome.

It hasn't been without it's issues, but I would highly recommend trying it out.

joshfinnieon Google Inbox

That's a good question... I was under the assumption this was for gmail only. I guess I will have to wait for an invite and test it out myself.

joshfinnieon Google Inbox

I am sad that this seems to be Gmail only. Why have developers lost touch with standard IMAP protocols so we can use these new fancy apps with any email provider...

joshfinnieon Firebase is Joining Google

First off congrats! I have been following Firebase for a long time and think it's a wonderful product. That being said, I really hope they stick to their word and use the resources at Google to expand Firebase keeping it open and not make it a walled garden.

joshfinnieon Crate: Elastic Data Store

They mention that here: https://crate.io/thanks-dstufft/

This confused me greatly as well...

joshfinnieon Docker Acquires Koality in Engineering Talent Grab

This seems like a smart move, but I am still weary as to where Docker is going to land as a company... (the software is great; don't get me wrong)

However, in the grand scheme of things, the more smart people working on Docker, the better!

edit: Yes, I mean "how are they going to make sustainable $"

joshfinnieon Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make

These are great suggestions!

I really enjoy 1, 9 and 10. Learn something new everyday.

joshfinnieon Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo

Thank you for this... what great execution to an issue you wanted to solve!

One question, where do you source your "best bet" suggestions from?

joshfinnieon Ask HN: What is HN reading?

Read: Dune by Frank Herbert

Reading: Foundation by Isaac Asimov

I have been trying to get back to science fiction after leaving it for so long. It's great so far!

joshfinnieon Ansible Quick Start guide

This is a really nice overview of how to get started with ansible. If you haven't tried it out, this should do nicely as a resource.

Just remember this is a quick start guide and the power of ansible is just touched on here.

joshfinnieon Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes

It is definitely something I forget to think about and when seen at the scale of the BBC it's an amazing thing. Might have to start thinking about URL structure a little more now and this is a great resource to get me going!

joshfinnieon Nimrod is being renamed to Nim

I can only see this helping them... even by a little. Never understood the naming strategies of some folks.

joshfinnieon NPM registry in numbers

I agree, I would be interested to see how many packages are written in CoffeeScript but then compiled for NPM or the open source community.

It is interesting to get people who will not support your project if it's CoffeeScript... I would think this is the driving force and not so much that CoffeeScript is not popular.

joshfinnieon Boeing-SpaceX Team Split Space Taxi Award

I am excited to see where this goes. I really like that NASA is getting out of the way of things that drag down its scientific ventures.

joshfinnieon I'm Leaving Mojang

This is super sad. I never want to read the following from a programmer:

    As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.

I feel for anyone who has felt such stress to want to kill anything that they are working on that gains traction...

joshfinnieon Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS

Classifier say 2:

    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7'

joshfinnieon Ghost Blogging Software ported to PHP

Not sure how I feel about this. I think we need to move away from the idea of "let's write this in PHP because it's easy." Best of luck to you though...

joshfinnieon Bootstrap 3 released

I have found that `btn-large` changed to `btn-lg` during the release from RC to today. So definitely take a look at this for larger projects.

joshfinnieon Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5

Pre-orders start this Friday (Sept 14th), and shipping starts Sept 21st.

edit: US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore markets

joshfinnieon [dead]

From their About section:

    We estimate that we are able to track over 80% of all tickets that
    are resold on the internet, and this percentage will continue to
    grow as we develop additional methods of gathering data.

I wonder what is the percentage of tickets sold that are actually resold. If they are getting 80% of some small subsection of tickets sold, the data is must less interesting.

edit: styling

joshfinnieon TileMill 0.9.0 Released with Full Windows Support (and plugins)

I think this will be a huge advantage for Mapbox. Most GIS professionals use Windows (due to ArcGIS's requirement), and now it's easy to install TileMill on their Windows machines.