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scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)

Join us in building awesome fin-tech solutions for our customers.

We're using C# and .NET Core on the backend and React and TypeScript on the front end. We’re also using AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, lots to learn and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch.

You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk.

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)

Join us in building awesome fin-tech solutions for our customers.

We're using C# and .NET Core on the backend and React and TypeScript on the front end. We’re also using AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, lots to learn and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch.

You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk.

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)

Join us in building awesome fin-tech solutions for our customers.

We're using C# and .NET Core on the backend and React and TypeScript on the front end. We’re also using AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, lots to learn and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch.

You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk.

scanron Dissatisfied with Docker

Wasmer looks interesting.

I couldn’t read much as I get an “unexpected error” as soon as I start scrolling. It does say that it’s not optimised for mobile.

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)

Join us in building a digital business bank from scratch.

We're using C# and .NET Core on the backend and React, TypeScript and MobX on the front end. We’re also using AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, lots to learn and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch.

You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk.

scanron Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online?

We built a little B2B startup that involved a lot of technical sales. One thing I realised quite quickly is that if I started arguing with a prospect it would only result in them entrenching their position. Not useful if that position means they won’t buy your product.

I think the reason is relatively obvious. When you’re debating, you spend all of your time trying to think of all of the ways your position is the correct one. So it’s not surprising it becomes entrenched.

If the outcome you want to drive is the opposite, it’s basically wasted effort.

scanron GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories

I wonder what they'll offer for Github Enterprise. Especially for organisations that are using it on prem and would prefer not to use Azure for builds.

Anyone know?

scanron Why Continuations Are Coming to Java

They were great. You could serialise them, store them in a database and then deserialise them some time later and keep going. Cheap workflow engine.

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)

Join us in creating fin-tech products to help businesses grow.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.2 on the backend and React, TypeScript and MobX on the frontend.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, lots to learn and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk.

We can’t sponsor visas, unfortunately.

scanron Faux Rogan

This suggests that we are pretty close to not being able to rely on voice biometrics.

Does anyone in the field know more?

scanron Show HN: Hacker News Front Page Trends

And C# interestingly

scanron Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone

Can I use Argo as a localtunnel alternative in development?

scanron Could TypeScript replace JavaScript? Use of programming language spin-off soars

TypeScript is my favourite programming language but I don’t see it replacing JavaScript. I think it’s good to have options.

Deno is looking quite promising as a native TypeScript engine for the backend.

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)

Join us in creating fin-tech products to help businesses grow.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.2 on the backend and React, TypeScript and MobX on the frontend. We deploy into AWS using Docker and Kubernetes.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, lots to learn and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk.

scanron Microsoft Build Accelerator – open-source build engine for large systems

Anyone know a bit more about DScript?

scanron Flow9 programming language is now open source

Why does it annoy you?

scanron Flow9 programming language is now open source

If his username is concolor his comment is marked as [dead] for some reason.

scanron Matrix.org hacked

Is there a secure alternative that achieves the same outcome?

scanron Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go

It’s more that there are other ways to reuse code. Search for “composition over inheritance” in your favourite search engine for more information.

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)

Join us in creating fin-tech products to help businesses grow.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.2 on the backend and React, TypeScript and MobX on the frontend.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, lots to learn and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk.

We can’t sponsor visas, unfortunately.

scanron TypeScript 3.4

Excited about “Higher order type inference from generic functions”. Great for libraries like RxJS, Ramda and axax.

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)

Join us in creating fin-tech products to help businesses grow.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.2 on the backend and React, TypeScript and MobX on the frontend.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, lots to learn and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk.

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)

Join us in creating fin-tech products to help businesses grow.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.2 on the backend and React, TypeScript and MobX on the frontend.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, lots to learn and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk.

We can’t sponsor visas, unfortunately.

scanron When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling

I think that this should be true for any position. I find you can generally get better people working with you if you put effort into making them feel like they will be valued, compensated fairly and that the role will be meaningful. And then delivering on it.

scanron People Renting Out Their Facebook Accounts for Cash and Free Laptops

Security risks I can think of:

- lots of information that could be used for identity theft unless you clear it all

- an attack vector for scamming your friends unless you defriend them all

- leaking information about your friends unless you defriend them all

- access to any apps where you’ve used FB as your identity service unless you make sure you have no connected apps

- reputation risk

- just generally having your identity connected to potentially criminal activity

- installing an extension would give attackers access to all your internet traffic (bank accounts etc)

- remote access to your machine using TeamViewer is just nuts

scanron Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?

Terry Pratchett used to hang around on alt.fan.pratchett. When he came to South Africa, me and a few other folk from the news group had dinner with him.

scanron Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?

You can do the first render statically into s3 and then attach react. So basically your build does the SSR. It works if you have a smallish number of pages.

scanron Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?

Google will load JavaScript but you can also use react-static to do static SSR if you’d like your first render to be fast or you’d like better SEO from crawlers that don’t read JS.

Ping me if you’d like to know more.

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

Join us in creating fin-tech products to help businesses grow.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.2 on the backend and React, TypeScript and MobX on the frontend.

If you love programming and would like an entertaining job with smart and friendly colleagues, lots to learn and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk.

We can’t sponsor visas, unfortunately.

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)

The team you'd be joining is a diverse 20-person team on a mission to create a unique business banking experience for UK's underserved mid-sized companies. Our highly motivated (and empowered!) team is responsible for building a range of innovative products that solve our clients' problems and empowers them to reach their full growth potential. These new products will be integrated with the great relationships and client service for which Investec is known; forging a truly out of the ordinary ‘high-tech, high-touch' banking experience.

As a Fin-tech team, our way of working is hypothesis-driven, client-led and data-informed. Our super-creative engineering team plays an integral part in this process; understanding our clients' problems and building compelling solutions that meet their needs and exceed their expectations.

As an out of the ordinary bank, we have a family-oriented culture and we genuinely care about our people. We are working really hard to create a fun, collaborative and learning environment - so expect lots of team activities, as well as plenty of support for training, mentoring and coaching.

What you'll be doing:

As well as lots of coding and problem-solving, you'll be joining a fast-moving, creative and cross-functional team that includes product, design, engineering, and strategic/commercial.

• Building awesome products that solve our clients' problems.

• Discussing and debating user feedback and data insights.

• Learning and working with new technologies: including, React, Typescript, C# .NET Core 2, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes.

• Learning and experimenting with new domains, new methodologies, the future of banking.

• Collaborating extensively with your colleagues. Mentoring. Being mentored. Pairing.

• As a small team, helping shape our environment. Bringing your own passions, ideas and fun to the team.

• Working closely with product and design to drive product delivery and client outcomes at speed.

Interested? Email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@investec.co.uk for a chat.