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kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: Why is HN not mobile friendly yet?
I asked a long time ago about open-sourcing the front-end, and was brushed off. It'd get done a lot faster if you allowed experienced users to help.
kevinSuttle··on Farewell to Flash
Am I the only one who caught that the author claimed Flash powers gifs?
kevinSuttle··on OnHub
Hm. I guess it's a UI issue. It always appears as if its loading/streaming.
kevinSuttle··on Working Toward Bret Victor's “Learnable Programming”
Chris Granger just released Eve as well. www.chris-granger.com/2015/08/17/version-0/
kevinSuttle··on OnHub
Let me tell you, if my Apple TV had any sort of storage, I'd be a lot happier. Getting a little old streaming everything from "the CLOUD".
kevinSuttle··on Removing the 140-character limit from Direct Messages
I can see this occasionally being useful for not wanting to switch context. I'd rather have the ability to edit tweets, though.
kevinSuttle··on Google Indexes Images from PDF Files
This only supports restaurants keeping their menus in PDFs.
kevinSuttle··on Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
If only this post was written by GitHub.
kevinSuttle··on Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
It's based on CloudFoundry, and supports OpenStack and Docker, so lots of choices.
kevinSuttle··on Things I would build if I worked at GitHub
I started this as well: https://github.com/kevinSuttle/github/issues (not the same Kevin as link author)
kevinSuttle··on A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers
I've never understood this. At some point, you suddenly become great at managing people? No. You worked your way up by being good at what you do, coding. http://lizthedeveloper.com/how-to-reward-skilled-coders-with...
kevinSuttle··on Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
The HIPAA-compliance was a nice mention. "zero-knowledge" privacy resonates with me as well when it comes to privacy, though I realize that's out of your control with AWS.
kevinSuttle··on Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
"The simplicity of Heroku. The power of AWS."

The privacy of "?". Was waiting for this part since it was included in the title.

kevinSuttle··on Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
What about IBM Bluemix?
kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
IBM Internet of Things. I'm hiring the most talented front-end developers I can find. We need developers who understand that well-written code and well-defined APIs are what drive the best UX.

Ping me with original open source work and contributions. https://cloudup.com/cXTFuFL2SSU

kevinSuttle··on KeePass – questionable security
Maybe ping the EFF? https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-keepassx
kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: What is your definition of a good GitHub profile?
Care given to onboarding new teammates is a huge plus for me. I have interviewed and screened a few hundred developers over the last 2 years. I will always dig into their code first.

I look for good naming, organization, and how easy a new developer will be able to ramp up given the environment he or she has established.

kevinSuttle··on Google Ideas
Just going to leave this here. https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
IBM Design is hiring front-end developers like mad.

Here's a link to the job description. https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/faces/job_summary?job_id=WAT-...

kevinSuttle··on 25% of Cars Cause 90% of Automobile Air Pollution
This math is completely illogical.
kevinSuttle··on Do Not Disclose Your Salary to Recruiters
I was just thinking about this the other day. I'm not currently looking for a new job, but have friends who are. One of them asked me if I had ever been asked something like that. Usually, it goes something like this:

Recruiter: "What were you looking for in terms of salary?" Me: "[figure]" R: "Is that in line with what you're currently making?" EVERYONE EVER: "YES".

What a complete and utter waste of time. Who is going to say no?! They have no way of (legally) verifying any of your private salary data.

I once had a recruiter try to scare a friend saying he would access his public tax info. That recruiter should have been arrested.

kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
IBM Design is hiring like crazy. We are looking for the top front-end developers who know their medium inside and out, wielding code as their design tool. If you love building on top of live data through real APIs, you believe content precedes device, performance is a UX concern, and code is a design tool, then we. want. you. Let's talk!

https://www.ibm.com/design/careers.shtml#join

kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: Examples of well-written/accurate front-end dev. job descriptions?
I think this UX Engineer role from Google is actually pretty solid.

https://www.google.com/about/careers/search#!t=jo&jid=45100&

kevinSuttle··on We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation
So many parallels to other industries. The greatest chefs often describe how they'd held every job in a restaurant before becoming chefs.
kevinSuttle··on Mobile Last?
Had a similar sentiment earlier this year.

http://kevinsuttle.com/posts/the-right-questions-to-ask-mobi...

kevinSuttle··on Dash now available on iOS
I love that this was downvoted.
kevinSuttle··on Dash now available on iOS
I designed the docs for my product team, which are extensive, to be mobile-first. There is no such thing as a mobile context or "use case".

http://kevinsuttle.com/posts/the-right-questions-to-ask-mobi...

kevinSuttle··on Ask HN: What makes an API good?
Agreed with all the previous comments.

URL Design is key. I often refer to the naming chapter of Uncle Bob's Clean Code book for this. This also helps with consistency and predictability, which in turn, makes writing docs easier.

I've got an API Design Readlist, which I've added this thread to. http://readlists.com/6c5c6009/

kevinSuttle··on Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
If for some reason, you didn't move everything, you can see exactly what's taking so long. For me it was copying every NPM package on my machine.

https://twitter.com/kevinSuttle/status/513446291968651264 https://twitter.com/kevinSuttle/status/513447060499341313

kevinSuttle··on JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML
How recent is the introduction of this format interchange?
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