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SEEKING WORK | Full stack web & mobile developer

Location: Edinburgh, UK or remote

Résumé/CV/homepage: https://www.seanw.org

Email: sw@seanw.org

Software consultant with 10+ years of experience who has been working freelance full-time for several years. I've worked with well known names like Just Eat and Triumph Motorcycles, created my own successful paid apps and have a PhD from Edinburgh University. Skills offered:

- Web app development: JavaScript (Node, Express, TypeScript, AngularJS, Vue, jQuery), Python (Flask, Django), Java, PHP (WordPress).

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- Cloud hosting: Creating scalable apps that run on Heroku, AWS & Firebase.

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Successful examples projects:

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Rated 4.9/5 with 20K+ active users and has paying customers.

- Fresco for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.seanw.fres...), easy to use yet feature packed digital painting app for phones and tablets. Implemented with Java and C. The app features layers, customisable brushes and image filters while being highly optimised for devices with low resources.

Rated 4/5, over 500K free downloads, over 10K copies sold.

See https://www.seanw.org for previous projects, client endorsements and more details.
That is a sane approach, we need to find a balance and currently there is no balance.

For instance, you're not allowed to use your preset home address on google maps by google, if tracking is turned off.
re-lounge | Freiburg, Germany | ONSITE | UX Designers & Developers

re-lounge creates websites and web applications for clients. With us, you can experience a wide range of exciting projects: Websites, intranets, business tools, e-learning platforms, interfaces for exhibits and more. Our clients range from multinational enterprises to local SMEs, so there is always a fresh influx of challenging projects.

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... and combinations thereof.

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What specific tactics did you use for Project Managing yourself? How did that differ from PMing in a work environment?
Relayr | Berlin/Munich/Chicago| ONSITE | Full time |https://relayr.io/

We enable The Internet of Things. Relayr is a well-funded and rapidly expanding start-up. We have an extremely international and very friendly team of 200 IoT experts in 8 cities across 4 countries on 2 continents! Our IoT platform development is driven by our engineers and built using recent technologies. We value good working relationships and engineers who stand up for their ideas. Using our tools both internal and external integrators are able to create valuable customer solutions.

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I still had trouble visualizing what you're describing.

This is a typical cross-section[1]. To make it match what you're describing, I'd draw a slope from the grounding line and downward to the left, right? (Image depicts a flat bed underneath the ice, instead of a slope downward as you go inward)

[1] http://cdn.antarcticglaciers.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/...

EDIT: I think this image is a better representation:

http://cdn.antarcticglaciers.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/...
They are getting more and more aggressive about it too. Recently they add a full modal covering content and forcing you to “choose to view in app or browser”.
Lendable | Senior Front End Engineer, Senior Back End Engineer, Python Engineer, Data Scientist | London | Full Time | Onsite | Salary: £60k-£80k | https://www.lendable.co.uk/

Join Lendable - the UK's fastest growing lending platform. We're a small team of high performers who have built outstanding tech to deliver real innovation in Fintech in the form of automated lending. Well-funded (£400M+) and profitable after only three years. We are on the lookout for talented software engineers and data scientists to help us get further, faster. Software development and data science are at the heart of what we do and lead all our business decisions. You'll be working directly with our CTO co-founder building our platform and internal tools.
Challenging project, no boring CMS work, real application development.

Back end: Experience with Symfony 3 and PHP 7 is required.

Front end: Experience with React.js required
Perks include: Annual company sponsored working vacation abroad (last year we went to Tuscany), hardware of your choice, regular team events, weekly company lunch, weekly yoga classes, loft office in Shoreditch

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Inscribe (YC S18) | Software Engineer | Dublin, Ireland | ONSITE | FULL-TIME | https://inscribe.ai/

Inscribe is changing the way businesses trust their customers. Starting out, we are providing companies with an API to detect fraudulent documents and verify information about their customers.

As a software engineer, you will work among a small team of engineers (currently 4) on our core fraud detection logic and build new features for our customer facing web application and API.

Our tech stack: Python/Django, VueJS, Docker, AWS

We are based in San Francisco, CA with an engineering office in Dublin, Ireland. We are backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Y Combinator, Crosslink Capital, Uncork Capital, and SV Angel.

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SAY - New York - Full Time - ONSITE - www.say.com

SAY’s mission is simple: To fix a broken system. We make the complex process of shareholder voting more accessible for all investors -- not just the biggest and most powerful. SAY enables investors to use their voices and vote, connecting them to the corporations they have shares in. We’re giving a voice to the growing world of everyday investors. Come add yours.

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SAY is looking for driven and talented individuals to join our team. Some highlighted roles are:

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> Meteorologists are increasingly uniting weather models and climate models, allowing them to project the general contours of a season as it begins.

Weather and climate models are gradually converging and both are getting incredibly good.

They work even in astronomy. You take a climate model, set the parameters for Mars or some exoplanets and what you get is relatively good Mars climate model or good principled guess of of what the climate in tidal locked planet around ultra-cool red dwarf star is (TRAPPIST-1).
Coal, petroleum, machinery, wine, cheese, bottled water.
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Thorn is a non-profit that builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Thorn gives you the opportunity to apply your expertise and passion to directly impact the lives of vulnerable and abused children. Our engineers and data scientists solve dynamic, quickly evolving problems with our network of partners from tech companies, NGOs, and law enforcement agencies. If you are able to bring clarity to complexity and lightness to heavy problems, you could be a great fit for our team.

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Fully funded healthcare + unlimited vacation + remote first culture + flexible working + 401(k) + wellness.
The same question applies either way:

Which specific obligation(s) under the GFA do you think would or would not be satisfied by which specific proposal(s) that have been made in relation to the NI/Ireland border?

A lot of rather non-specific claims seem to get made in debates around Brexit, of the form "someone must do something to avoid violating the GFA", but without any supporting argument about why. The Agreement is publicly available and not a long document, so anyone can read it. I think it would further useful and interesting debate if more people did, because it doesn't actually say what quite a lot of people seem to think it does.
I mean, it's not just my opinion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/04/...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/07/132738250...

Dogs are not complex animals, and they are rewarded for positive indications regardless of whether the person who is searched actually HAS drugs or not. Since you have a constitutional right not to have someone just point at you and say "Hey, lemme search your bag because I don't like your face", they are basically an excuse to search whoever the cops want.
JustWatch | Berlin, Germany | FULLTIME, ONSITE | https://www.justwatch.com/us/talent

JustWatch is the world’s leading movie and TV show streaming guide. We are looking for especially Backend (Golang, gRPC, Postgres, ScyllaDB), Data (Redshift, BigQuery, Airflow) and Machine Learning Engineers (Python, Pytorch, Fast.AI) who will help us building a world-class recommendation tool that will help people find content they love.

JustWatch promotes a culture of learning with a high degree of autonomy and room for personal growth. We work on hard problems, with low politics, clear focus and great context. We don't have any non-technical product management and like it that way. Our development philosophy balances fast hacking with a solid architectural foundation. We are a self-funded and profitable start-up, founded in 2014 in Berlin and currently employing around 40 great people.

Are you interested? Great, we’d love to hear from you. Just send us a mail at talent@justwatch.com . We’re not interested in perfect CVs, we just want to know who you are and who you want to become.
> To clarify, under the scheme being proposed, they actually do have to sell.

That just sounds broken to me. If I buy a domain, I should own it. Someone who wants it should offer what they are willing to pay for it, if I don't like their offer, they can find another domain.
it's not "cannot be trusted", it's about creating an environment that incentivises both parties to work towards a mutually acceptable solution

it's obviously counter-productive to your interests in a negotiation to put your competitor into a position that gives them complete power over you that you can never exit without their permission
That snowfall last year was bizarre. We all knew it was going to happen - I remember thinking days in advance that I would probably leave work early. So I'm not sure why there was no salt on the roads in the NY area.
Ask HN: Tool to visualize online logins/connections
HN:

With respect to all the talk about tracking, is there a tool - easy way - to visualize all your current sessions-logins-connections from your machine?

Basically, I would like to find a tool that can give me this sort of graph

https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=hackernews

showing all open sessions to sites from my machine, then from there - who those logins from those sites are talking to:

For example:

[machine]-->[HN @ samstave]-->[some affiliate-via-cookie]

The idea would be to be able to see exactly with whom youre effectively actively sharing data anytime youre online and have logged into one site or another...

Does anything like this exist yet? (for the end user, assume already does for BigCo)
So Arch?
Am I not supposed to be driven by ideology?
I didn't do anything in particular to get the beta; the offer got pushed to me.

As for SV, the inability to draw a rigid, precise line around a phenomenon doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Life's fuzzy.
I find Dark Sky to be the best forecasting tool for weather within the hour. It's almost always ahead of all the other apps in terms of the latest forecast.
It's a pain if you follow links to reddit that don't explicitly link the old subdomain. I think maybe if you have an account you can force it (?) but for us lurkers it's annoying. Of course I could create an account to browse reddit but then... well they've already won, haven't they?
And more people in the US voted for Clinton than Trump, yet here we are.
AWS SLA: Are you able to keep your availability promise?
I'd like to do this (or at least take a sabbatical) like this in a decade - unfortunately saving as much as you seems difficult to impossible at my current trajectory.

Did you ever write up how you managed your prior savings?
Like the API most software isn't "well designed", Just good enough.
> Most recent example: I participated in Advent of Code this year, and there was almost never a Racket solution posted that wasn't ten times slower (and in my opinion harder to read) than the simple & idiomatic Python solution.

Can you point me to some examples of this? I haven't done AoC and so don't know where to find solutions posted to compare. It should be very rare for idiomatic python or php to be faster than idiomatic racket.
Damn their short sightedness!
"The netbook trend was short lived"

It's still ongoing. We just call them Chromebooks nowadays.
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Lateral builds tools to help large companies find the information they need. We provide a modular machine learning platform that can be adapted to a variety of workflows, ranging from finding matching documents in the construction sector to drafting business proposals based on prior work. We have a real focus on UX and design and strive to create the best experience for the users of our tools.

DevOps Engineer | You would be working to package and ship our code in a repeatable maintainable way. You would also maintain and optimise our infrastructure (running on Google Cloud) and our CI/build server workflows. You would have a key role in decisions made and an influence over our strategy.
More: http://de.indeed.com/job/devops-engineer-fc6d9138f520f3c9

Senior Software Engineer | You would be able to start with a project specification, plan out a solution and co-ordinate a small team to build it out to production. You would have influence to decide the outlook of our development process. You would be managing other developers and using your expertise to design sensible and efficient applications that are delivered on time.
More: http://de.indeed.com/job/senior-software-engineer-44e62709bc...

Front-end Engineer | Work with back-end developers and the UX/Design department in order to take a design and turn it into a functioning web-application. Ideally you can work with or without frameworks and can keep up to speed with the rapidly evolving world of front-end dev and tooling. 4+ years experience.
More: https://de.indeed.com/Job/front-end-engineer-d664586c15f6788...

We offer competitive pay, a great atmosphere, autonomy and responsibility, work in the heart of Berlin, help with relocation.

Lateral is committed to creating a diverse environment and would encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for this role.

We look forward to hearing from you :) Just send me an email: max[at]lateral.io
It's either "not my project" or "not my fault" (pointing at PM/Management/Marketing), or "it's actually a good thing".

So, pretty much like everyone else associated with companies that do moderately shady things.
Maven Securities (https://www.mavensecurities.com) | London, UK | Hong Kong | ONSITE

Maven is a proprietary high-frequency trading (HFT) organisation formed in 2011. We employ the most talented traders, developers and engineers in the market, executing a diverse range of strategies across global equities and derivatives. We are the most active participant in many of the products we trade, contributing significant liquidity to markets around the world. Core to our success is a tight integration between trading, research, and technology, and everyone involved in making these pieces come together.

Maven has a culture that is relaxed and informal but highly rewarding of strong performance; there's no dress code, plenty of free food and regular social events. We have offices in London, Hong Kong and New York and will be opening a new Chicago office in early 2020 as part of our plans to expand our coverage of derivatives markets.

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You are confusing the trains and the way the trains are managed. It's like saying seats are too small on a340 planes: there are not sold with it on the first place.
Yes, some "sides" of some issues are objectively false. But the problem is that even where facts are not in dispute, the mainstream press's strong left-bias influences the facts it chooses to emphasize and the narratives it promotes.

Take the coverage of the Covington High School protest, for example. When the available facts seemed to support the narrative that white, male, MAGA-hat-wearing, anti-abortion Catholic students were racially harassing a defenseless Native American elder, the media was shouting "fascism!" from the rooftops.

But when more facts emerged in the form of a longer video showing the high school students being abused, and with no mere smirk, by a group of overtly racist Black Hebrew Israelites no less--and the Native American elder accosting the students rather than the other way around--suddenly that no longer serves a narrative the left wants to tell, and there's been comparatively little coverage of the aftermath of the mob unleashed by the initial reporting, of the death threats to students and the high school's temporary closure.

This is why it is crucial for the media to present the facts from more than one, very specific angle, even when the facts are largely not in dispute.
One of the things I loved best about Wunderground was their prominent display of the textual SFD. Now it's gotten a lot more mainstream, and still have increasingly accurate forecasts, but the SFD link has been dropped from the forecast page for any particular area.

Now my source is directly from NWS page, which is really nice since forecaster terms can be clicked to bring up a definition. https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=LSX&issuedby=L...
What conferences did you have in mind to speak at? Are there any videos out there of you speaking to groups?
> Even if this was true, and there is a mountain of empirical data suggesting it isn't, [...]

On the contrary, it's pretty clear that living conditions have been historically getting better worldwide. See, for example, Hans Rosling.

> Whatever the law of each country they are operating on says [...]

Why are there any Uber drivers then? Why don't they choose to work instead of traditional jobs instead of being, according to you, a micromanaged cog with no human rights?

> Some people's lives become less comfortable so that other's can become more comfortable.

Are they less comfortable driving an Uber than they would be in the job they would get in case there was no Uber?

> in part being caused by the current infinite growth economical paradigm

If you want the quality of life of people living in undeveloped countries to increase, there's no alternative to economical growth. You probably live in a country which has already been through this process, but preventing others from growing in the name of supposed existential threats is condemning their population to poverty.
That attitude sounds like a myopic focus on the software at the expense of everything else.

Say that in the year 2160 you have perfect, unbreakable encryption on your pocket computer. How will you use it?
With a touchscreen or keyboard, allowing microscopic cameras to see you input it or read the thermal signatures off your input device afterwards? With your face or voice that are continuously being recorded from hundreds if not thousands of angles? Plugging in the future equivalent of a yubikey that someone can just steal from you? You're lucky if fMRIs don't become good enough to just pluck the information out of your brain as you think it. Of course, the master key is most important but all of these concerns apply to the data being protected as well.

The real thing that can never be effectively enforced is privacy. People who need encryption can have access to it or not. It matters not one whit. Our duty (as people) is to push society in a direction where this change feels less catastrophic, not to fight a Caligulan war against the sea.
>Nobody, or very nearly nobody, lives up to their "true potential".

I agree.

But how do we discuss reasons that are or aren't justified to be taken into account. For example you can break down potential blockers into temporary and permanent. Being sick or the death of a loved one can temporarily hurt your potential. Poor nutrition or a brain injury can permanently hurt your potential.

Do we judge people based on if they can overcome anything holding them back? Or do we wait for them to overcome it before we judge them? What if we are the gatekeepers of a method to overcome our limitations (such as the person deciding who gets to attend university)?
I’m a bit confused about the graph? Your monthly loss seems to have been reduced to almost nothing, but then in the projects section most projects appear to be operating at a loss, and after that it still leaves 2k living expenses unaccounted for.

Am I missing something?