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twogon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

Banyan is seeking a full stack programmer to join our team. Were building the future of writing + git, and were doing it with ember.js, rails, and whatever else we need to get the job done. We're looking for a versatile engineer who wants to join the team to take on a wide range of technical challenges. We are based in Chattanooga, TN, but you can be anywhere.

You:

* Your excited about the future of Javascript, and you want to write lots of it (we use ember)

* You thrive in a fast paced startup environment, and hate micromanagement.

* You can quickly pick up new technology and effectively apply it.

* You love dealing with multiple programming languages, web services, analytics, databases etc and connecting them all together.

* You feel right at home in a full stack environment.

* You enjoy doing something that nobody else has done before.

Nice to haves:

* You are comfortable with a variety of languages and consider yourself a generalist.

* You value user-experience & user-interface design, even if you cant design yourself.

* You have a deep understanding of Git & other Version control systems.

Why you should work with us:

* A chance to revolutionize writing.

* Competitive salary & benefits in a well-funded, early stage startup.

* Close-knit engineering team who loves pair-programming, agile development, and code review.

* We re-invest in our employees and focus on personal and team development.

* Transparency and honesty. Within the company, everything is open to discussion.

twogon Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth

The lesson learned is to build things you love but others don't yet understand. Thats the key to emerging markets

twogon JavaScript right on the hardware

So much negativity in this thread & on HN in general. Not everyone has hardware experience, and this looks great for newcomers.

twogon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)

Banyan (http://banyan.co) is seeking a Full Stack Rubyist to join our team. We're looking for a versatile engineer who wants to join the team to take on a wide range of technical challenges. We are based in Chattanooga, TN, but you can be anywhere.

You:

* You thrive in a fast paced startup environment, and hate micromanagement.

* You can quickly pick up new technology and effectively apply it.

* You love dealing with multiple programming languages, web services, analytics, databases etc and connecting them all together.

* You feel right at home in a full stack environment.

* You enjoy doing something that nobody else has done before.

Nice to haves:

* You have a MS/PhD & have published research during your time in academia.

* You are comfortable with a variety of languages and consider yourself a generalist.

* You value user-experience & user-interface design, even if you cant design yourself.

* You are comfortable with HTML5 (Haml), CSS (Sass), and JS (Backbone).

* You have a deep understanding of Git & other Version control systems.

Why you should work with us:

* A chance to revolutionize science.

* Competitive salary & benefits in a well-funded, early stage startup.

* Close-knit engineering team who loves pair-programming, agile development, and code review.

* We re-invest in our employees and focus on personal and team development.

* Transparency and honesty. Within the company, everything is open to discussion.

Salary is dependent on experience & ability. We will pay for relocation if you're interested. Compensation package included. To apply contact toni (at) banyan.co, or tweet me @twogiraffes

twogon Lob (YC S13) Debuts a Cloud Printing and Shipping Service for Developers

Cant edit my original comment, but this is a fairly comprehensive list: https://angel.co/developer-apis

twogon Lob (YC S13) Debuts a Cloud Printing and Shipping Service for Developers

Does anyone know where I could find a list of API's as a product?

examples that I can think of:

Stripe

Lob

EligibleAPI

Factual

twogon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)

You:

* You thrive in a fast paced startup environment, and hate micromanagement.

* You can quickly pick up new technology and effectively apply it.

* You love dealing with multiple programming languages, web services, analytics, databases etc and connecting them all together.

* You feel right at home in a full stack environment.

* You enjoy doing something that nobody else has done before.

Nice to haves:

* You have a MS/PhD & have published research during your time in academia.

* You are comfortable with a variety of languages and consider yourself a generalist.

* You value user-experience & user-interface design, even if you cant design yourself.

* You are comfortable with HTML5 (Haml), CSS (Sass), and JS (Backbone).

* You have a deep understanding of Git & other Version control systems.

Why you should work with us:

* A chance to revolutionize science.

* Competitive salary & benefits in a well-funded, early stage startup.

* Close-knit engineering team who loves pair-programming, agile development, and code review.

* We re-invest in our employees and focus on personal and team development.

* Transparency and honesty. Within the company, everything is open to discussion.

Salary is dependent on experience & ability. We will pay for relocation if you're interested. Compensation package included. To apply contact toni (at) banyan.co, or tweet me @twogiraffes

twogon Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms

Agreed. If you dont mind me asking mitchellh, who did the design?

twogon Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 months on GitHub

We are also tackling this at http://banyan.co . Our major focus right now is publishing tools, but science/academics need improvements pretty much everywhere

twogon Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 months on GitHub

We are rolling out support for Latex & Git with our new latex editor in the next two weeks. Sneak peek here: http://cl.ly/image/3u3Z3f40382K

Drop me a line toni@banyan.co if you want early access.

twogon Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 months on GitHub

This is awesome! Great use of git & latex! This is the exact problem we are tackling at my startup, Banyan, with our new latex platform http://cl.ly/image/3u3Z3f40382K

twogon My Poem to Twitter

This gave me a good chuckle. Im definitely not an expert poet, I just attempted to rhythm the last words of every sentence.

twogon My Poem to Twitter

For the last few months I have been trying to get an inactive username from Twitter with no luck.

Today I decided to try something a little bit more creative, so I wrote twitter a poem hoping to get their attention

twogon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)

Banyan is seeking a Full Stack Rubyist to join our team. We're looking for a versatile engineer who wants to join the team to take on a wide range of technical challenges. We are based in Chattanooga, TN, but you can be anywhere.

You:

* You thrive in a fast paced startup environment, and hate micromanagement.

* You can quickly pick up new technology and effectively apply it.

* You love dealing with multiple programming languages, web services, analytics, databases etc and connecting them all together.

* You feel right at home in a full stack environment.

* You enjoy doing something that nobody else has done before.

Nice to haves:

* You have a MS/PhD & have published research during your time in academia.

* You are comfortable with a variety of languages and consider yourself a generalist.

* You value user-experience & user-interface design, even if you cant design yourself.

* You are comfortable with HTML5 (Haml), CSS (Sass), and JS (Backbone).

* You have a deep understanding of Git & other Version control systems.

Why you should work with us:

* A chance to revolutionize science.

* Competitive salary & benefits in a well-funded, early stage startup.

* Close-knit engineering team who loves pair-programming, agile development, and code review.

* We re-invest in our employees and focus on personal and team development.

* Transparency and honesty. Within the company, everything is open to discussion.

Salary is dependent on experience & ability. We will pay for relocation if you're interested. Compensation package included. To apply contact toni (at) banyan.co, or tweet me @twogiraffes

twogon Best Place To Start A Company If You Have Kids

There is no best place to start a company. Only a best place for you.

twogon Ditch Your $2500 Rent And Come Climb The Best Rocks In The World

I just recently moved my company to Chattanooga as well. It has an incredible emerging startup scene. Check it out here http://noogastartups.com

twogon Ask HN: Best way to pay international developers?

Thanks for the quick reply. We considered bitcoins. What is LR?

twogon Announcing Evan's Awesome A/B Tools

Hey Evan,

We met a few times during last years Gig Tank (I am one of the cofounders of http://banyan.co). Awesome to see you killing it. Are you planning on coming back to Chattanooga anytime soon? Would love to grab beers. My email is in my profile, and I would love to reconnect.

twogon Show HN: My first side project. A Note Management Alternative

Congrats on shipping!

The app looks neat, but UI/UX needs work to take this from a concept to something awesome. Maybe try connecting with some designers on http://www.builditwith.me/ ?

twogon Introducing Photos of You

Instagram is now Facebook Lite.

twogon Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

Thanks Will!

twogon Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

I agree we need to clean that up. We use a rake command to seed our test server with test data. We will swap those out for some real screenshots today

twogon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

   Campus Bellhops is seeking a dominant force as our CTO & leader of our technology program to join the team as partner in Chattanooga, TN. Meaningful equity & salary with full benefits means we want you to be around for a while to help us build something great.

You:

* You are a generalist able to tackle a wide variety of problems and opportunities that come our way

* You thrive in a startup environment (lots of uncertainty, few processes or infrastructure)

* You love dealing with multiple programming languages, web services, analytics, databases etc and plumbing them all together

* You like rapid development, quick turnarounds and responding to changing requirements

* You feel right at home in a full stack environment

* You enjoy doing something that nobody else has done before

Us:

* We are hustlers, hard-workers, doers, and problem solvers

* We value the user experience

* Python is our main development language, and Django is our framework of choice

* We like open source, and open source our work where possible

* We like HTML5/CSS/JS and other emerging web technologies

* Some technologies we currently use are MongoDB and Google AppEngine

* Some tools we currently use are git + Github, New Relic, and Mandrill

What is Campus Bellhops?

College students need more than just a resume... they need a proven track record. Campus Bellhops selectively recruits, trains and brands a large student workforce at Universities across the country. We bring our Bellhops to the marketplace through Campusbellhops.com, where our customers go to reserve our student ‘Bellhops’ for moving help and other specialized services. Bellhops are given access to our online system allowing them to claim and execute jobs that fit their own schedule. Our customer’s complete individual reviews that link to the Bellhops’ online profile, empowering Bellhops to prove their fundamental business principles through a real life track record. We will market these merit based online profiles to potential employers looking for future professionals.

Check out our video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpH1Li3huho

Get in touch at matt (at) campusbellhops.com

twogon Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

Hi Simonster, Thats a great question & a valid concern considering the acquisitions of tools like Mendeley [1]. We are equally focused on tools for collaboration & reproducibility, but our efforts the past few months have been focused on building an MVP.

With Banyan, your data will always be open & you're free to take it with you anywhere. If you want to move your repos to github/bitbucket/another service, you're easily able to do so

[1] - http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/confirmed-elsevier-has-boug...

twogon Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

Hi Osmium, thats a good point. We will revisit the pricing model tonight.

The forms are broken unfortunately. I have submitted a fix, but we wont be deploying until later tonight when the HN craziness slows down. In the interim, you can drop me your email at toni (at) banyan.co and I will manually add it to the list

twogon Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

Thanks csmatt, I completely agree!

twogon Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

Hi Mason!

Thanks, there are more of us every day! Check out http://noogastartups.com I think Tennessee is the next great startup state.

twogon Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

TeX is what we are supporting currently, and should be launching shortly. If you drop me an email at toni (at) banyan.co, I will get you beta access in the next few days to our git powered, collaborative latex editor.

twogon Science Exchange (YC S11) Raises $3M in Series A Financing

My startup, banyan, just launched on HN early today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5632760

I would love to talk to you guys. Is there an email I can reach you at?

twogon Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

Yes it should! Sorry about that. Just fixed it for you if check it now!