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mikeycgto··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
Please downvote me more so I can have my account removed from this awful site.
mikeycgto··on IRCv3 Spec round-up
> - allow communities to manage themselves in a decentralized manner, without any San Fransisco-based big-tech company imposing their CoC, ToS or view of "diversity" upon them.

Darn hippies with their inclusivity and community standards!

People like you is why I long left this forum and IRC servers in general. You give the tech industry a bad name.

mikeycgto··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)
Knotch | New York, NY

We’re solving a major problem and it needs your attention. At Knotch, we are creating not only real-time intelligence platforms for digital marketing for brands but helping these brands understand the way people respond emotionally to their content through beautifully designed products and interfaces.

Since our founding in 2013, Knotch has become recognized as the industry leader in data transparency… and we’ve seen this in rising users, partners and followers. We’re growing our internal team, and naturally, we are looking for awesome people. Yes, we’re a fun startup with all the perks, but no, we don’t have a ping-pong table.

We’re based in SoHo, NYC and work with brands including JP Morgan Chase & Co., Sprint, TD Ameritrade, Ford, Salesforce, Walmart, HP, Citi and AT&T. Knotch is proud to have been named to both Inc.'s Best Places to Work 2018 & 2019 and Built In NYC's Best Places to Work 2018 & 2019!

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer: https://grnh.se/ef3a50b41

Senior Front End Software Engineer: https://grnh.se/6b03fd931

Data Platform Engineer: https://grnh.se/44e383621

michael@knotch.com

mikeycgto··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
Knotch | New York, NY

We’re solving a major problem and it needs your attention. At Knotch, we are creating not only real-time intelligence platforms for digital marketing for brands but helping these brands understand the way people respond emotionally to their content through beautifully designed products and interfaces.

Since our founding in 2013, Knotch has become recognized as the industry leader in data transparency… and we’ve seen this in rising users, partners and followers. We’re growing our internal team, and naturally, we are looking for awesome people. Yes, we’re a fun startup with all the perks, but no, we don’t have a ping-pong table.

We’re based in SoHo, NYC and work with brands including JP Morgan Chase & Co., Sprint, TD Ameritrade, Ford, Salesforce, Walmart, HP, Citi and AT&T. Knotch is proud to have been named to both Inc.'s Best Places to Work 2018 & 2019 and Built In NYC's Best Places to Work 2018 & 2019!

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer: https://grnh.se/ef3a50b41

Senior Front End Software Engineer: https://grnh.se/6b03fd931

Data Platform Engineer: https://grnh.se/44e383621

michael@knotch.com

mikeycgto··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
Knotch

Senior Full Stack Engineer | Manhattan, NY

https://grnh.se/ef3a50b41

What You'll Do at Knotch: - Write elegant and expressive Ruby and Javascript for our various backend services and frontend applications - Work with our Front-end Engineers to design APIs and deliver data

What We Want From You: - 4 years+ of Web Application engineering and architecture experience - Strong experience with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, React, Postgres, and Docker

Data Platform Engineer | Manhattan, NY

https://grnh.se/44e383621

What You'll Do at Knotch - Design and implement resilient backend architectures that process gigabytes and beyond - Write software for backend services using Python, JavaScript, and other languages

What We Want From You - 3+ years of data platform engineering experience - Working experience with AWS services including Kinesis, Lambda, S3, and RedShift

Knotch is the independent standard for content marketing ROI. We help CMOs and their teams measure and impact the outcome of their content efforts via real-time, actionable intelligence across all of their content investment. We’re based in SoHo, NYC and have been named to both Inc.'s Best Places to Work 2018 & 2019 and Built In NYC's Best Places to Work 2018 & 2019!

mikeycgto··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
Knotch | https://www.knotch.it | New York, NY

Full Stack Engineer | Front-end Engineer | Integrations Engineer

Knotch is the independent standard for content marketing ROI. We help CMOs and their teams measure and impact the outcome of their content efforts via real-time, actionable intelligence across all of their content investment. Our end-to-end content intelligence platforms helps marketers plan, measure, optimize and benchmark their content efforts across all owned and paid strategies. We work exclusively with brands and we do not monetize from any distribution channels to make sure that our business model isn’t invested in the success of what we are measuring.

We’re based in SoHo, NYC and work with brands including GE, Unilever, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Sprint, TD Ameritrade, Ford, Colgate, and Citi. In 2018 alone, Knotch has been named to Inc. Best Place to work list and Built In NYC Top 50 Start-ups to work at.

Engineering at Knotch: Engineering is the cornerstone of our organization and we work hard everyday to build the most impactful products as possible. We love to experiment, find a deep joy in product iteration, achieve stability with thoughtful architecture and testing all while monitoring our performance and progress at every step.

Knotch’s founding mission has always been to improve the advertising and marketing industries in a lasting and meaningful way. Transparency through data is our ethos and something every member of our company takes seriously. We are looking for highly motivated engineers who passionate about data and who are eager to transform an industry to join us on our journey.

mikeycgto··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
Knotch | Manhattan, New York | Full-Time

Knotch works directly with brands to help them gain key insights into their digital marketing efforts. We are obsessed with delivering success to our clients and do so with innovative products and technologies. Engineering is the cornerstone of our organization and we work hard everyday to build the most impactful products as possible. We love to experiment, find a deep joy in product iteration, achieve stability with thoughtful architecture and testing all while monitoring our performance and progress at every step.

Knotch’s founding mission has always been to improve the advertising and marketing industries in a lasting and meaningful way. Transparency through data is our ethos and something every member of our company takes seriously. We are looking for highly motivated engineers who passionate about data and who are eager to transform an industry to join us on our journey.

We're looking to fill 3 types of positions at this time:

- Frontend Engineer

- Full-stack Engineer

- Senior Data Platform Engineer

We work primarily with Ruby, Rails, Sidekiq, JavaScript, React, Redux, Postgres, Redis, AWS, ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, and other AWS services. Please email me at michael@knotch.com for more details.

mikeycgto··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Knotch | NY or Remote | Full-Time | https://www.knotch.it

Knotch is a feedback and measurement platform used by some of the world’s largest brands and distributed on some of the internet’s most popular publications. Despite our product’s success and growth, our team is still very lean and nimble. We believe building a strong engineering culture is the key to building a kickass company and product. Part of that vision is working with the right tools for the job, many of which are open source. Our stack includes Ruby, NodeJS, Postgres, MongoDB, Rails, Grape, Express, Redis, React, Redux, D3, StatsD, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, a lot of AWS, a Slackbot named Gnomie, and that's just a taste.

We are looking for full stack engineers that are passionate about problem solving, learning, teaching, and programming elegant solutions. We move fast and something you start building today may end up in production, well today, possibly tomorrow. We’re a small team, so you’ll be given a load of responsibility as soon as you join. You’ll have the power to take ownership of entire projects or features. You will influence architecture decisions, bring new methodologies to our development process and have an important and impactful say in how we build our platform.

Open Roles:

- Full Stack Engineer

- Senior Backend Engineer

Visit https://www.knotch.it/jobs for more details and to apply. Feel free to email me at michael@knotch.com if you have any questions!

mikeycgto··on Why I'm not a React Native developer
That's why there's PropTypes so you can define what type a given prop should be. An error is raised if a higher level component passes in a prop of an incorrect type.
mikeycgto··on Man who made passwords hard regrets rules that 'drive people crazy'
U2F and Yubikeys if you're serious about it.
mikeycgto··on #c0ffee is the color
My fav is #baebae
mikeycgto··on David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war
And then I stopped reading.
mikeycgto··on WhatsApp is rolling out its own version of Snapchat (and Instagram) Stories
Will be very interesting if they pair this feature with end-to-end encryption!
mikeycgto··on Meshbird – Distributed private networking
Also known as "The Cryptographic Doom Principle".

https://moxie.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-principle/

mikeycgto··on Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
Such as?
mikeycgto··on We Tried Building a Remote Team and It Sucked
We're completely remote as well and have a very similar approach to hiring and on-boarding. It's definitely tougher to find the right candidates but it's a fun challenge for sure!
mikeycgto··on Show HN: SimplyBuilt – Makes building a website so easy, your mother could do it
Yes, we produced the video ourselves. Hired outside talent for the voice work though :)
mikeycgto··on Google Maps Has Forsaken Us
I enjoy GNOME 3.

Have been using it for a long while now and really don't have any major complaints. Granted, I don't use many desktop programs (browsers, terminal, chat programs and nuvola player).

mikeycgto··on RJS leaking vulnerability in multiple Rails applications
This type of attack is also relevant: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/20/anatomy-of-a-subtle-js...
mikeycgto··on I've got 10 btc for the best CoffeeScript/JavaScript Nodewar bot
Put this together (quickly) so I can dev locally and upload new code with a single command: https://github.com/mikeycgto/nodewar-tools

My "species" code then uses grunt for all sorts of awesomeness (basic tests, concatenation of files and autoupload on save).

mikeycgto··on Web Framework Benchmarks
rails 4 with some concurrency would be interesting to see
mikeycgto··on Learn how to test Rails using Test::Unit instead of Rspec
I <3 Test::Unit
mikeycgto··on Multiple vulnerabilities in parameter parsing in Action Pack
If you've recently started a new Rails project (or are thinking about it), you should use strong_parameters right off the bat!
mikeycgto··on MongoDB 2.2.0 Released
Been very excited about this feature since I first heard about it!
mikeycgto··on New Java 0-day exploit spotted in the wild.
And drop flash too while you're at it!
mikeycgto··on Show HN: Play scrabble, chess, checkers, etc with your friends by copying a url
Thanks for this! Was an interesting bug that would manifest itself when the push-layer reaches the client before the XHR request finishes.

All fixed now and will be deployed soon.

mikeycgto··on NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js
Going to update our batsd-dash web app to use this instead of Flot.