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scanron Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2018)

SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote

ActiveTrial https://www.activetrial.com/ helps biotech companies manage their clinical trial budgets.

We're looking for someone that can commit to a six month contract at approx 20 hours a week and that has the following skills:

- React (vanilla JS)

- NodeJS

- Postgres

- Docker

Ideally in a timezone near the UK (plus or minus 4 hours)

Contact: jobs@activetrial.com

scanron Top Open-Source Static Site Generators

I think react-static is pretty good if you want something relatively close to the metal

scanron The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

Do you know what the downsides would be of using a t2.micro in production (for a low volume of requests)?

scanron Show HN: Axax – Async iterator extensions for JavaScript

Thanks for your suggestions. Chaining would be neat. For each should be pretty simple to do.

scanron Show HN: Axax – Async iterator extensions for JavaScript

Thanks, John! And thanks for contributing.

I find that their are async problems where it’s easier to reason about control flow using async iterators vs observables.

This slideshow (link provided by @smg) does a great job of explaining when async iterators can be useful vs rx: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r2V1sLG8JSSk8txiLh4w...

scanron Show HN: Axax – Async iterator extensions for JavaScript

Would love to. Do you know where I could find some in the wild? They often help inform what functions to add to axax.

scanron Show HN: Axax – Async iterator extensions for JavaScript

Thanks! Someone else showed me callbags just today. Looks great.

scanron Show HN: Axax – Async iterator extensions for JavaScript

This is just a number of utility functions I found useful to use on top of async iterators. The great thing about async iterators is that the implementation for a lot of these is relatively simple.

scanron Show HN: Axax – Async iterator extensions for JavaScript

Author here. Happy to answer any questions.

scanron Show HN: Manage remote working IP whitelist in AWS

haha, you're the first person to ask! I once wrote a BPM / Workflow engine using serializable continuations and it worked quite well. I've since been surprised that they don't seemed to be taken off.

scanron Show HN: Manage remote working IP whitelist in AWS

Author here. This is a pretty simple script and I suspect there may be smarter ways to do this but it's been useful for me and others, so thought I'd share it.

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These guys are great. I don’t think I would have negotiated to go permanent without Michael and his team.

I really like where I work but because I infrequently change jobs I don’t have much experience negotiating my compensation. This makes the negotiations between me and my employer feel quite asymmetric.

Having Michael provide advice helped me consider and ask for all of the things that will make my relationship with my employer as mutually beneficial as possible.

scanron Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is picking up 'The Expanse'

This is great news. I thoroughly enjoy The Expanse.

That the internet has given fans the power to affect studio decisions is quite a useful feature.

scanron 'The Expanse' Canceled at Syfy

I hope Netflix picks this up. I really enjoy the Expanse.

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

Join us in creating fintech products to help businesses grow.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.0 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? (April 2018)

Join us in creating fintech products to help businesses grow.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.0 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 Is vitamin D really a cure-all, and how should we get our fix?

It's not clear that all UV is a complete carcinogen. Narrowband UVB is used for the treatment of psoriasis. It certainly causes a change in your natural skin colour but studies have not found that it elevates the risk of skin cancer e.g.:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18834483

scanron Moral outrage in the digital age

Agreed. It’s a tough problem. Do you think we could reliably measure outrage?

scanron Moral outrage in the digital age

I think outrage amplification may be a side effect of optimising for engagement.

Do you think that changing that would be tantamount to having a social credit system?

Or that a social credit system is the only way to price in outrage amplification?

scanron Moral outrage in the digital age

I think it might be good to consider outrage an externality that we should price in somehow.

Not sure how we would do it.

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

Join us in creating fintech products to help businesses grow.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.0 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? (February 2018)

Join us in creating fintech solutions that amaze our customers.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.0 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? (January 2018)

Join us in creating fintech solutions that amaze our customers.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.0 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 Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care?

It already does

scanron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)

Join us in creating fintech solutions that amaze our customers.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.0 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? (November 2017)

Investec is a specialist bank and asset manager. Join us in creating amazing tools that help our corporate customers manage their money.

We're using C# and .NET Core 2.0 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? (July 2017)

Imperatives | Development Lead | Staines, UK | ON-SITE, FULL-TIME

Help us scale telecommunication billing. We're building as SASS billing system on AWS using Java, Docker and as much of AWS as we can.

If leading a team that's building highly scalable cloud solutions sounds interesting to you please get in touch. You can email me personally at jamie.mccrindle@imperatives.co.uk

scanron Pony: Combining safe memory sharing with Erlang-like actors

I like that env is passed in so that stdout isn't a global.

scanron Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all platforms

I still like it quite a lot but I find sharing content and collaborating is easier in some of the other apps.

Note: I haven't tried the new version yet, so they may be working on this.

scanron Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all platforms

Pencil was my go to free wireframing app for some time. Great to see that they are updating it.