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pyronite··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
GigSalad | Remote | Full Stack Engineer | Full time

GigSalad is a marketplace for hiring entertainment and event services. To date, we've serviced over 1 million users.

Want to learn more about the engineering role we have available? Read more at https://gigsalad.recruitee.com/o/web-engineer-wilmington or email careers@gigsalad.com with questions.

pyronite··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)
GigSalad - Springfield, MO - https://www.gigsalad.com - REMOTE

GigSalad is hiring a Senior Designer to design our entertainment marketplace.

Here at GigSalad, we’re building an easier way for people to hire talent and services for events. From musicians to magicians, we match customers with entertainment professionals for all of life’s events.

As Senior Designer at GigSalad, you’ll be responsible for designing a two-sided marketplace that has serviced nearly a million users. We’re looking for a seasoned pro – a designer who is comfortable creating beautiful, functional experiences and excited to instill their design philosophy in the company as a whole. As an instrumental part of the company, you’ll work closely with engineering and product management to take your vision from idea to execution. Your insights will not only influence the look of the site, but will also extend to branding and marketing initiatives across the company.

Join GigSalad if you like tackling rewarding problems, taking time to solve things the right way, focusing on a single product and making it gorgeous throughout.

Read more and apply at the following link: https://gigsalad.workable.com/jobs/175781

pyronite··on Show HN: Adopted a dog, had no clue what meds she needed, did some research
I've had 5 dogs in my lifetime that have lived to age 15+. All I do is take them to the vet yearly and feed them good quality dry dog food.

Anecdotal evidence should not determine whether to treat your dog (or any species) with medicine – particularly with a sample size of 5.

pyronite··on The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
The Reagan White House was advised by an astrologer. Pseudoscience is something many people are susceptible to regardless of their position.
pyronite··on The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
To anyone interested in reading more about skepticism, Carl Sagan's Demon-Haunted World is one of the most impactful books I've read on the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

pyronite··on It Is Not About the Money, Silly, It Is All About the Time
$48,000 a year in investment is $18,000 more than the median total income for an individual in the United States.

What you are able to do is exactly what the vast majority of Americans are unable to do.

pyronite··on Uber Trials Fast Food Delivery Service UberFresh
1.) The ability to deliver from any restaurant, not just those participating or offering their own delivery service. 2.) Drivers in a large number of locations, likely closer to the intended restaurant than any "pick it up for you and deliver" service could ever be.
pyronite··on Ask HN: Experienced dev having career lull
It sounds, from his comment history, as if he moved to Valve Software. Gabe Newell (founder of Valve Software) is a former Microsoft producer.
pyronite··on Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
This is an interesting and plausible reason for why they let him go, but if it was the case, they should have came out and said exactly this. What's to lose by being honest about a visa situation?
pyronite··on Five labs – See the personality behind your posts
This is the sort of thing that makes me glad I use Facebook. I find it interesting and don't know how else something similar could be achieved.
pyronite··on Scribd and Quora considered harmful
I never get daily emails, but regardless, they provide fine-grained control over unsubscribing to these emails. If you receive them daily, you might want to take 5 minutes and opt out.
pyronite··on New DuckDuckGo design
> I think it is a mistake to concentrate on clean design on a search engine until the searching algorithm is not that good.

The team focusing on the design is, I'm sure, not the same team focusing on the search algorithm. I don't see any reason why the design team should stop improvements because of the search algorithm.

pyronite··on Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login
The horror!
pyronite··on Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub
Your hypothesis is that two "reasonable women" will enter IT as a result of Julie Ann Horvath and another former employee feeling ostracized at GitHub?
pyronite··on Show HN: A Customizable SoundCloud Player Built on the Web Audio API and d3
This player looks fantastic. I really wish I could use it on our site (www.gigsalad.com) for custom MP3s that the our users have uploaded. Is there any chance this might ever happen?
pyronite··on Tesla Model S – Cost of Ownership vs. Honda Odyssey
Are you running it in Chrome/Windows?

If so: Chrome's font rendering uses GDI rather than DirectWrite and it leads to some very ugly rendering with certain web fonts. This is a known issue and they are working on changing this: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692#c...

pyronite··on Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say
> upon whom they shamefully, but predictably, bestowed anonymity

I'm with you on the rest of your points but not on this one. Balance would be nice but anonymity is often key to good reporting. There's nothing shameful about soliciting a quote and then keeping that person anonymous.

pyronite··on NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years
> And its discovery and resolution highlights one of the advantages of open-source software development.

I wouldn't say that its discovery (two years later) says anything good about open source development.

pyronite··on Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?
> Snowden's files predate the existence of this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is over two years old. I second scott_karana in thinking that you're wrong.

pyronite··on Drop Dropbox
Believing in legal tolerance (most people who are described as "tolerant"/socially liberal) is not the same as believing you cannot say anything negative about someone or make judgments based on their actions and beliefs.
pyronite··on Ants Build Complex Structures With a Few Simple Rules
SimAnt has a good reputation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt

Old, but still a novel concept.

pyronite··on Miracle health device crowdfunds $730k, but might be bullshit
> As the saying goes, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."

It's "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", but it's not quoted enough regardless. So much pseudoscience could be avoided with reasonable expectations of proof.

pyronite··on Man's high-tech paradise lost: bionic eye removed
What reason do you have to suspect this extraordinary measure?
pyronite··on Flickr: Invitations disclosure (resend feature)
Agreed. kintamanimatt jumped to that conclusion.
pyronite··on Mozilla's Gay-Marriage Litmus Test Violates Liberal Values
Brendan Eich has the freedom to support what he wants to support. The public (and Mozilla employees) have the freedom to respond how they wish to respond. It is up to Mozilla to choose what to do with that public response and now they've chosen.

Too often this "what about freedom of speech?" argument fails to apply the same logic to both parties. People were unhappy that someone with this controversial belief was elevated to a leadership role – why should Mozilla employees have stayed quiet?

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