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justinpaulson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
Aha! (https://www.aha.io) | Rails / React / Devops | REMOTE

Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. We serve more than 700,000 users worldwide. We are looking for: * Experienced full-stack Rails and security engineers to work on the Aha! product. Our application is built in Ruby on Rails, with React on the frontend for rich client-side experiences.

* Devops engineers with Ruby experience. We focus on the "dev" and all of our operations driven by code.

Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North or South America, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously.

Our entire team has always been 100% remote - in North American timezones so we can collaborate during the work day.

justinpaulson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
Aha! (https://www.aha.io) | Rails / React / Devops | REMOTE Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. We serve more than 700,000 users worldwide. We are looking for:

* Experienced full-stack Rails and security engineers to work on the Aha! product. Our application is built in Ruby on Rails, with React on the frontend for rich client-side experiences.

* Devops engineers with Ruby experience. We focus on the "dev" and all of our operations driven by code.

Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North or South America, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously.

Our entire team has always been 100% remote - in North American timezones so we can collaborate during the work day.

justinpaulson··on Is AI the end of coding as we know it, or just another tool?
I think "glorified prompt jockeys" is an interesting description, and reminds me of the term "code monkey." I feel that the real job is to be a "product developer", and it always has been.

Whether I'm a "glorified code monkey" or a "glorified prompt jockey", I'm still just trying to create a product as quickly as I can and add value to the process along the way (maybe that's the glorified part?).

Now, we can spend even more time focusing on making a good product for users and less time on coding abstractions.

justinpaulson··on Show HN: Git Game Show – Multiplayer Game in Your Repo
Thank you! I hope you had fun!
justinpaulson··on Show HN: Git Game Show – Multiplayer Game in Your Repo
Transform your Git repository into an interactive multiplayer trivia game for team building and fun!
justinpaulson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
Aha! (https://www.aha.io) | Rails / React / Devops | REMOTE

Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. We serve more than 700,000 users worldwide. We are looking for:

* Javascript and geometry expert? Help us build our HTML canvas based whiteboard & mockup tool. * Experienced full-stack, front end and platform engineers to work on the Aha! product. Our application is built in Ruby on Rails, with React on the frontend for rich client-side experiences. * Devops engineers with Ruby experience.

We focus on the "dev" and all of our operations driven by code. Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North or South America, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously. Our entire team has always been 100% remote - in North American timezones so we can collaborate during the work day.

justinpaulson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
Aha! (https://www.aha.io) | Rails / React / Devops | REMOTE Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. We serve more than 700,000 users worldwide. We are looking for:

* Javascript and geometry expert? Help us build our HTML canvas based whiteboard & mockup tool.

* Experienced full-stack, front end and platform engineers to work on the Aha! product. Our application is built in Ruby on Rails, with React on the frontend for rich client-side experiences.

* Devops engineers with Ruby experience. We focus on the "dev" and all of our operations driven by code.

Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North or South America, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously.

Our entire team has always been 100% remote - in North American timezones so we can collaborate during the work day.

justinpaulson··on Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
> that still works.

I think that is the point being made. This exe is cherry picked as the oldest working exe, it isn't like every 30 year old exe in that folder still works.

justinpaulson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
Aha! (https://www.aha.io) | Rails / React / Devops | REMOTE

Aha! is the #1 tool for software development teams to plan strategy and roadmaps. We serve more than 600,000 users worldwide. We are looking for:

* Devops engineers with Ruby experience. We focus on the “dev” and all of our operations driven by code.

* Experienced full-stack, front end and platform engineers to work on the Aha! product. Our application is built in Ruby on Rails, with React on the frontend for rich client-side experiences.

* Developer advocate. Do you love to code & love to tweet?

https://www.aha.io/company/careers

Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North America, South America, or New Zealand, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously. Our entire team has always been 100% remote.

justinpaulson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
Aha! | Rails / React / Data / Devops | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.aha.io

Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. We serve more than 500,000 users worldwide. We are looking for:

* Experienced full-stack, front end, data and platform engineers to work on the Aha! product. Our application is built in Ruby on Rails, with React on the frontend for rich client-side experiences.

Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North or South America, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously.

Our entire team has always been 100% remote - in North American timezones so we can collaborate during the work day.

Current Openings: https://www.aha.io/company/careers/current-openings

justinpaulson··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
Aha! (https://www.aha.io) | Rails / React / Security | REMOTE

Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. We serve more than 500,000 users worldwide. We are looking for:

* Experienced full-stack engineers to work on the Aha! product. Our application is built in Ruby on Rails, with some React on the frontend for rich client-side experiences.

* Security engineers, with hands-on Rails development experience plus experience with compliance projects, security policy development, or other security initiatives.

Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North or South America, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously.

Our entire team has always been 100% remote - in North American timezones so we can collaborate during the work day.

You can view open engineering positions at https://www.aha.io/company/careers/current-openings, and click through to a specific job for our simple application form. Our job postings also have a lot more detail about the team, our values, and what you'd be doing day-to-day.

justinpaulson··on Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
There are lots of places that are full remote that will pay you less. Why not do it? I have been working from home for almost 2 years now and I will never go back (Didn't have to take a pay cut either, actually a raise).
justinpaulson··on Show HN: Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search
This was a skill based game though, not gambling.
justinpaulson··on Show HN: Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search
I realized this method when I watched this guy on superhuman. I figured this is what he was doing...

https://youtu.be/1YWC-K8LvxM

justinpaulson··on Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
> In their current state self driving cars would kill far more people than humans if all cars used self driving 100% of the time, and no one knows if we will ever move past that.

Really? No one knows if we will ever improve on self-driving cars than the current technology today? I'm going to stick my neck out and say "Yes, I know that will move past that."

justinpaulson··on Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
Everyone thinks they are good drivers, yet hundreds of thousands of people are dying every year because of these "good drivers." Not sure what makes you think that teaching your kid what you know will make them a better driver than software that will continue to be iterated on and improved based on millions and millions of miles of data (more data than you and your wife could ever pass along to your child). Also not sure why you think your own driving will be better than self-driving cars.
justinpaulson··on Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
I guess you don't know many people that have died at the hands of human drivers if you think it is "stupid"
justinpaulson··on American Equity
I think becoming wealthy is incentive enough to become wealthy. No one is going to stop trying to be wealthy just because they might get taxed for that wealth. If anything, they will just try to hide it in another state. But the argument that a wealth tax would remove any incentive to become wealthy is not very strong.
justinpaulson··on Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend
I do not think anonymity == privacy. They are two different things. It is one thing to maintain privacy and want to keep your actions and preferences private from the outside, but anonymity is more about making public statements and maintaining an anonymous persona. I would say anonymity in making public statements has greatly increased with the rise of the internet, while privacy has diminished. In fact, a lot of the data which these companies collect is anonymized.
justinpaulson··on Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend
"regulated to death"? Hyperbole much? You make it sound as if regulations have no goal other than to limit the growth of industries. As if the wellbeing of the people and the planet have nothing to do with it. The main reason other industries are regulated more than tech is because other industries usually have a lot more physical repercussions to their actions (affecting health, finances, etc. in a very tangible way). Most tech companies offer free products in exchange for data or advertising space, and the dissemination of personal data is not viewed at the same level as destroying someone's finances or health.
justinpaulson··on Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
Because they brought the case to the supreme court. If 12 year olds and incestual couples want the right to marriage then they need to also bring that case to the supreme court. They didn't just decide to make this decision, they are judging a case that was brought to the court.
justinpaulson··on Why Minds Are Not Like Computers (2009)
No, my argument is that we don't understand it, therefore we can't assume that our simulation is anything close to the same process.
justinpaulson··on Why Minds Are Not Like Computers (2009)
Firstly, I never said my opinion was humble.

Secondly, a good argument is not a proof. We have such a limited understanding of our own emotion and cognition that it is impossible to say that we have proven anything about how compatible emotion is with computation. Hands are continually waved over the existence of qualia and the argument, like you presented yourself, is that we have no way of proving that qualia won't exist for an artificial intelligence that has been programmed for emotional compatibility. I believe that is a fallacy, and it is side-stepping the root of the argument about qualia, and the real root of what self-realization and consciousness is. By saying, look I can make this machine do everything you do and act as if it feels like you do, you are not proving that you have encapsulated all that is cognition. You are only proving that you can mimic cognition. It could be retorted "Well how do you know this machine doesn't really feel like you feel?" I don't know that. But we really aren't learning anything about consciousness by ignoring the question with such a fallacy.

I believe AI has a very important role in rapidly evolving our way of life as we continue in this technological evolutionary cycle. However, I think it does nothing to teach us about ourselves and how our minds actually work. It is nothing more than mimicry. And nothing can be proven based on how an AI bot operates for the materialist or the idealist, so it is aimless to think that AI is how we will understand our own cognition.

justinpaulson··on Why Minds Are Not Like Computers (2009)
I think there are far too many assumptions about how the body works and the laws of physics (both of which we are far away from completely understanding) to say that the mind is equivalent to a Turing machine.
justinpaulson··on Why Minds Are Not Like Computers (2009)
But that simulation still ignores a certain qualia that has grown from our existence. There is something else happening that we don't understand and I think it is a bit short-sighted to assume that we can simulate it, definitely not now, and possibly never.
justinpaulson··on Why Minds Are Not Like Computers (2009)
I was mainly commenting on the OP's position that the author was 'not trained in CS'.

Here is a list of things I believe that the human brain performs outside of computation:

The irrational motivations that take us over when we feel love. The way that our mood can affect a decision. Taking a walk to enjoy the beauty of the sunset. Writing a satirical short story to express a political fallacy. Painting an image that we saw in a dream. Using metaphors to explain an idea or to validate an argument. Telling a joke and understanding why it is funny. Buying a shirt because it looks cool.

There are many more. But to me, there is definitely more to the mind than simple computation. There is a quality to our experience that is completely lost when our inputs and outputs are equated to the workings of a digital computer.

justinpaulson··on Why Minds Are Not Like Computers (2009)
Except the author does in fact have a BS in CS. IMO, the brain does far more than performing computation. Sure humans were once "computers," but our ability to perform computation is not a valid argument to that computation, or the inner workings of our mind, being the same as digital computers performing computation. You failed to look up the author's credentials and I feel like you may have also failed to read the entire piece.
justinpaulson··on Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging
Not OP, but in 25 days of water fasting I lost 30 pounds. 196 -> 166. I gained about 15 lbs back within a week after I stopped fasting, then settled in the mid 180s. I did not measure body fat percentages, but I could tell I was losing just as much muscle mass as fat by the second week.
justinpaulson··on Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging
Only water. Tap water or bottled water, not distilled for me. Other than that I ate nothing, no vitamins or electrolytes or anything, just water.
justinpaulson··on Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging
Did you find that you got light-headed when you stood up too fast after 14 or so days? I fasted for 25 days (water) and found that I would get a little bit light-headed if I stood up from a seated position too fast. I also found that I would have these weird nightmares where i was eating a ton of food and would wake up thinking I had ruined my fast...very bizarre. I have never talked personally to anyone that had also fasted longer than a week, so I was interested if your experiences mirrored mine and if you found any way to reduce that light-headed seeing stars kind of feeling when you stood up. Other than that, I'd say I didn't notice many other issues except for maybe a quicker onset of fatigue if I was climbing a flight of stairs or something.
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