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pandemicsyn

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I write software (mostly in Go), watch soccer, play video games, and read books of questionable quality. German in Texas.

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pandemicsyn··on Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and agent written in Go
And Sub7
pandemicsyn··on Ace – an embeddable code editor
Are there any good opensource WYSIWYG/drag and drop website builders? I've always been curious if folks like leadpages, wix, etc build their own from scratch or start with something off the shelf.
pandemicsyn··on Ask HN: What's your catch-all note taker?
I made the switch to https://bear.app a while ago (over a year). Its simple yet full featured enough that its the one I've stuck with the longest.
pandemicsyn··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
Keen IO | San Antonio, TX | Solutions Architect | Full-time | ONSITE | https://keen.io

We acquired Keen last December and have been carefully growing the team and getting the product in shape since then. We started with ramping up engineering over the spring/summer and we just finished staffing up our CS org. We've got enough organic demand that a Solutions Architect is our next critical hire (our chief platform engineer and I have been splitting that work but its definitely a full time job at this point).

At Keen the Solutions Architect role is a bit different. Its a highly technical role and you work both pre-sales and on post sale implementation. Our analytics platform provides general purpose building blocks to solve a wide variety of challenges, we rely heavily on discovery and a deep level of analytics expertise to help our customers assemble exactly the solution they need.

What we’re looking for: - Experience in either a Sales or Customer facing engineering role. - Solid understanding of SQL or NoSQL concepts and implementations. - Technical background working with modern web technologies, stacks, and API’s.

You should have some familiarity with one or more of the following: Javascript, Ruby, Node, or Python, etc.

Ultimately, what we’re looking for is someone with familiarity implementing business or product performance analytics ( activation, engagement, retention, adoption), and that can help other companies use our platform to implement similar metrics and data models.

https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/scaleworkscom/view/P...

If you've got any questions shoot me an email (florian.hines@keen.io).

pandemicsyn··on Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2018? Azure, AWS, GCE, something else?
If you have loads of credit for a cloud, you can usually get the others to match. Definitely use those credits to try and align with the solution your team has experience with/prefers.
pandemicsyn··on Navy Medics Get Prepared for Combat with Tour of Duty in Chicago
Tornado's are frequently a thing. Emergency services become easily overloaded.
pandemicsyn··on Navy Medics Get Prepared for Combat with Tour of Duty in Chicago
The us govt actually sponsors some good (free) first aid training like https://www.dhs.gov/stopthebleed. That class is worth it, and i carry a basic 1st aid kit from Dark Angel medical in my backpack/car now.

I feel like I'm not very likely to need to perform CPR, but I've seen two people sustain major injuries doing yard work of all things. The 2nd time it took about 20 minutes for EMS to arrive. Had their cut been a bit deeper things could have easily ended up being much worst, and my crappy attempt at stopping their bleeding with a towel would have done nothing.

Stop the bleed is a 1 hour class, everyone should take it.

pandemicsyn··on General Mills to buy pet food maker Blue Buffalo for $8B
I feed my dog(s) a raw/whole prey diet, things like ground lamb/duck/etc I generally freeze first. For things like knuckles or chicken feet or whole rabbit I just feed him outside.
pandemicsyn··on Soylent’s Next Chapter
So is Soylent occasionally - https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls/ucm554489.htm
pandemicsyn··on FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
I know Google/Facebook/etc would never do it, but it would be great if just for a day or two the big 3 would null route any traffic coming from D.C. in protest.
pandemicsyn··on Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
I mean its not unheard of for a company that size to build out a hardware lab on site in what over office space they're leasing. My previous employer did that through 3 office moves (+10 racks of test gear).
pandemicsyn··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
FollowUp Personal CRM | Frontend Engineer | San Antonio, TX | ONSITE | https://boards.greenhouse.io/followup/jobs/736847#.WdJaTxNSx...

We’re building the next generation of our product and we're looking for a new frontend developer to join us. You'll help build out the client-side application, a fancy chrome extension that augments Gmail. You'll, of course, have a say in the all things frontend and help drive backend decisions (we want to make sure we build pleasant api's).

Our frontend stack primarily consists of ES6/7, React, Redux, Redux-Saga, and Indexeddb (we store a lot client side to keep the app super performant).

Other tech we use: Go, Ruby, React, Google Container Engine, MySQL, Mongo, Cloud Datastore

We're a really small team (5 people), and we're backed/owned by an awesome VC firm called Scaleworks. These are our new digs - https://therivardreport.com/with-move-into-savoy-building-sc...

Our only real requirement is that you have a solid React w/ Redux foundation. We don't do B.S. whiteboard interviews and we're open to differing skill levels. If you're interested please reach out (I'm the CTO, my contact info is in my profile).

pandemicsyn··on “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”
I still use http://finviz.com a ton. They have a decent screener, and the best charts around.
pandemicsyn··on TunnelBear Publishes Security Audit
I just used Cloak while in Poland a few weeks ago with HBO Go (don't think i watched in any netflix).
pandemicsyn··on MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO
Will be interesting to see if Datastax follows with an IPO of their own.
pandemicsyn··on Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about bitcoin or if segwit2x is even the same as segwit...But a quick google for "coinbase segwit" shows this tweet from the Coinbase CEO - https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/81725801561932185...
pandemicsyn··on Ask HN: What is a CTO's responsibility when a startup prepares for exit?
Make sure you're technical house is in order. If you're selling/changing ownership make sure access to systems/services are documented. While you're at it, make sure you're not paying for stale services or over paying on existing services and infrastructure.
pandemicsyn··on Porsche Design Book One
Is this their first laptop? I vaguely remember there was a line of Acer Ferrari notebooks - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1683411... and I think Asus did a Lambo one?
pandemicsyn··on Ask HN: What's your top growth strategy that helped grow your startup?
Can confirm, BetaList is entirely worth it. We were just on it not too long ago. Our conversion rate from BetaList traffic was in the mid 30's. My coworker ended up writing about it on /r/Entrepreneur, and then our blog ( http://blog.twist.io/our-launch-on-beta-list-what-we-learned... ).

Keep in mind though that Reddit's hard to predict and quality of feedback varies. If you post something to Reddit, it's worth taking your time to write something useful with hard numbers. Even then, there's a chance the random question about drop shipping submitted just ahead of you will get a ton of responses and you might get nothing but crickets.

pandemicsyn··on Ask HN: Must do's and must know's when switching to Windows?
So, whats the best windows ssh client these days? Still putty ? bitwise? other new hotness?

I've been getting pretty frustrated with my new mac and im supe r tempted to try out a Razer Blade.

pandemicsyn··on San Antonio: Google Fiber on Hold
AT&T moved its HQ to Dallas back in 2008/2009 - https://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsar...
pandemicsyn··on CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 for $34B
Or that another suitor will step in and cause an intense bidding war ala Isilon/Data Domain/etc.
pandemicsyn··on Companies would benefit from helping introverts to thrive
I wrote about the "Care and feeding of your introvert engineering leader" not too long ago [0]

tl;dr Extroverted leadership teams always seem to try and set goal's for introverts that aims to help get them "out of their shell" or fake being an extrovert. But you need to stop trying to get me to fake being an extrovert and leverage my actual skill's instead. "Traditional" Org's like that still have a really hard time leveraging introverted leaders effectively. Its super frustrating.

[0] https://medium.com/@pandemicsyn/on-care-feeding-of-your-intr...

pandemicsyn··on New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car
I haven't kept up with it (I'd assume someone has more recent data/times), but I know older version's of the S had trouble doing full laps of Laguna Seca and the Nürburgring due to heat. Is that still the case?
pandemicsyn··on The Day I Got My Green Card
Its the same as retail/customer service based industries. I've never had a pleasant experience at Walmart, but at the bodega down the street things are different. Flying into a major hub like say Miami the agents just wanna get you through, flying into say...Cincinnati or San Antonio the pace is a bit slower and the customs agents more friendly.
pandemicsyn··on InfluxDB Clustering Beta and Data Explorer
Prof services, training, dev support, production/tech/enterprise support, hosted services, managed on prem, fancy management interface (ala Datastax)...
pandemicsyn··on More awful IoT stuff
You forgot to mention +[Vault|CFSSL|XYZ] for cert management.
pandemicsyn··on New US Army Tech Instantly Destroys Enemy Fire
Yup, and Israel has had Rafael's Trophy system deployed since 09 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtMgnRMIspQ
pandemicsyn··on Software security suffers as startups lose access to Google’s virus data
Yup, that seems likely. Their whole shtick is that signature based checks don't cut it and that their behavior based system is the way to go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SentinelOne#Technology

https://www.sentinelone.com

pandemicsyn··on Ford paid $199,950 to tear down a Tesla Model X
Its pretty common practice[0]. IMHO the take away is that Ford is taking Tesla (and electrics) serious enough to do it.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2014/07/go-inside-the-lab-where-gm-tear...

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