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whichdanon In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)

I wouldn't go that far - companies partner with The Red Cross left and right after every major disaster, and the mainstream media downplays the problems with the organization. For the average person, there's no reason to suspect that they'd be misusing/misappropriating funds.

whichdanon How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry

They are! They're just only that good one fifth of the time.

whichdanon [dead]

https://modelviewculture.com/

Model View Culture has some great articles if you'd like to start educating yourself on why this is a particularly challenging problem.

whichdanon I Almost Left Tech Today

"I have never had a sour personal experience involving any coworkers in tech."

Isn't that the same as saying "not all men" etc?

whichdanon Launch HN: Templarbit (YC S17) – Protect Your Web Apps from XSS Attacks

Small suggestion: your docs could use a little work. The language switching is broken, and the history state is broken, so when you click around the docs, you quickly end up with 20+ entries in your history.

Also, the site could definitely use more copy: how do CSPs work? How does the app work in general? Right now the only real details are in the documentation.

Also also, what information ends up back on your servers? Is any user data relayed through an API?

It's a very cool idea, just non-obvious at first glance what exactly it does :)

whichdanon Ask HN: Would you like to be interviewed about your life as a coder?

I'd recommend changing your tagline from "Meet the men and women..." to "Meet the people..." so that you don't exclude folks who are non-binary or gender-nonconforming.

whichdanon The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast

https://github.com/glimmerjs/glimmer-vm/tree/master/packages...

whichdanon Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

http://easyendorse.com/ - Allows websites to collect & display testimonials; great for companies who have had challenges with Yelp/etc.

No traffic/users; I basically built it and learned that I had no interest in sales/marketing.

Email in profile.

whichdanon Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?

People of Color in Tech[0] is really great; lots of very insightful interviews.

[0] http://peopleofcolorintech.com/

whichdanon Welcome, ACLU

If you check out the donation form, people are opted-out of that by default now. (Not sure how it was previously.)

whichdanon Joxa – A concurrent, distributed Lisp

Check out the joxa-otp* source[0]. If you aren't familiar with Erlang, they map up to its OTP concepts[1].

[0] https://github.com/joxa/joxa/tree/master/src

[1] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/what-is-otp

whichdanon Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot

Same! Homestead and Geocities were just enough to introduce me to Frontpage and Dreamweaver, and a year or two later I ended up becoming a web standards nerd. Fast forward fifteen years and I'm managing other engineers now.

whichdanon Ask HN: Who is hiring high schoolers?

As an extension of that, make sure you figure out your pitch!

- What have you learned on your own?

- What excites / interests you?

- What do you hope to learn?

- Why is [company] the right fit for you?

- What does success look like at the end of your internship?

- How much time can you commit to an internship?

- What sort of compensation, if any, do you need?

whichdanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

Rue La La | Boston, MA | Full-Time | Onsite | https://www.ruelala.com/

Rue burst onto the scene in 2008, disrupting retail with our high-end, flash-sale model. Today, we’re an established company, but we still have that start-up spark. And we use it to find new ways to engage, inspire, and surprise our more than 15 million loyal Members with an unmatched consumer experience.

Keywords: high traffic, aws, redis, python, django, es6, backbone

We're looking for a(n):

iOS Engineer: http://grnh.se/0e43sn1

Senior iOS Engineer: http://grnh.se/8gskwj1

IT Support Analyst: http://grnh.se/tup4s11

whichdanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

We have a bevi at my current company (Rue La La) and had one at my last company, too. They're pretty cool machines and a great offset for going through hundreds of cans of seltzer each week. It's worth checking them out - just wanted to add my 2c in case anyone scrolling through doesn't recognize the name or realize how quickly they're growing.

whichdanon Angry Programmers (2013)

It's a very dehumanizing concept, and drives us back to the same ideas of meritocracy where everyone is gauged based on their work output compared to the "smartest" person in the room. There's a lot more to building successful teams than maximizing the work output of every single person on them, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

whichdanon Ask HN: How do I break through the plateau in touch typing speed?

Have you tried using a completely different keyboard layout like Dvorak? The change might force your muscle memory to reset.

That, and like jsz0 recommended, a different keyboard might help.

whichdanon Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016

Speaking of salary negotiation, Patrick's article[0] on it is one of the single most valuable things I've read in my career. I can probably attribute about 25% of my salary to it.

[0] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

whichdanon Ask HN: Do you think PHP has improved with PHP 7?

For any curious former-PHP developers like myself: http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.new-features.php

whichdanon Harassment at Apple: A personal perspective

For someone trying to define how harassment should be dealt with, you're certainly keen on dismissively calling women "girls".

whichdanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)

Rue La La | Boston, MA | Full-Time | Onsite | https://www.ruelala.com/

Rue burst onto the scene in 2008, disrupting retail with our high-end, flash-sale model. Today, we’re an established company, but we still have that start-up spark. And we use it to find new ways to engage, inspire, and surprise our more than 15 million loyal Members with an unmatched consumer experience.

Keywords: high traffic, aws, redis, python, django, es6, backbone

We're looking for a:

Senior Software Engineer: http://grnh.se/rvclp41

Principal Software Engineer: http://grnh.se/n65vib1

Software Architect: http://grnh.se/k35yhe1

whichdanon Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? (2016)

http://easyendorse.com - A SaaS app that lets you collect & display testimonials on any website. Originally built with the intention of helping out small businesses that don't want to solely rely on Yelp for their reviews.

No traffic/users, but the app works well. Not strongly looking to sell, but I'm open to talking.

whichdanon iPhone Future

I'm not even bored, but disappointed. The iOS 9 upgrade made me unable to access music on my device, photo backups are sorted into hundreds of subdirectories, re-authenticating iCloud automatically re-enables iCloud Backup and iMessage, and I need a third-party calendar app because they removed the month view that gives me a truncated title for each event. There are some other small annoyances, like being unable to permanently leave the phone in Low Power Mode, while only two phone models support Apple's battery case.

I'm just not convinced that Android won't have an equal number of strange problems.

whichdanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

Society of Grownups | Boston, MA | ONSITE (WFH options)

https://www.societyofgrownups.com/careers#posting_4

Sr. SWE, Web Developer, and SQA Analyst

We're trying to democratize financial literacy and change the way people talk about money. We need passionate Javascript engineers to help us build an accessible, robust financial education platform. We care about diversity and inclusion, work cross-functionally, and trust each other without resorting to micromanagement. Apply on our careers page if you'd like to talk!

Tech: ES6, Lodash, Ember CLI, Elixir + Phoenix

whichdanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

Society of Grownups | Boston, MA | ONSITE (WFH options)

https://www.societyofgrownups.com/careers#posting_4

Sr. SWE, Web Developer, and SQA Analyst

We're trying to democratize financial literacy and change the way people talk about money. We need passionate Javascript engineers to help us build an accessible, robust financial education platform. We care about diversity and inclusion, work cross-functionally, and trust each other without resorting to micromanagement. Apply on our careers page if you'd like to talk!

Tech: ES6, Lodash, Ember CLI, Elixir + Phoenix

whichdanon When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of Failed Software

Part of me was really hoping that some startup had written an MVP in Scratch and was seeing how far it could scale.

whichdanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)

Society of Grownups | Boston, MA | ONSITE (WFH options)

https://www.societyofgrownups.com/careers#senior-software-en...

We're trying to democratize financial literacy and change the way people talk about money. We need passionate Javascript engineers to help us build an accessible, robust financial education platform. We care about diversity and inclusion, work cross-functionally, and trust each other without resorting to micromanagement. Apply on our careers page if you'd like to talk!

Tech: ES6, Lodash, Ember CLI, Elixir + Phoenix

whichdanon GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors

Okay, that's a fair point. I do think you bring up something important: we're all aware that a perfectly green graph means that it's either been gamed, or that the person spends an inordinate amount of time coding, but someone new to the field would have no idea.

whichdanon GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors

I'm surprised at how dismissive all of the comments have been so far. There are a lot of cultural habits around programming that are exclusionary, and if we're trying to pull more people into the field, discouraging people who can't code every single day could have a negative impact. It's at least worth exploring.

whichdanon Polygon Shredder

This is neat! And a caveat: the "INSANE" mode caused my 2010 MBP to lock up.