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Blackbird Studios | Sr Fullstack Developer | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | US Citizens Only | Contract to hire

Blackbird Studios is a full service digital product studio. We specialize in a holistic approach to launching new software products inspired by Human Centered Design and Lean UX. We partner with top innovation and design firms (like IDEO) to bring startup best practices in launching ambitious new products into market. Our teams include CTO consulting, Software Development, UX/UI, team building, and Product Management. We work with large and small companies/startups on projects ranging from 1-6 months with 2-7 people on each project.

We build full stack web, mobile, IoT, physical installations, etc. Our favorite stack is React, React Native, GraphQL, and Rails. We also use a wide range of other tech as needed since we face a pretty diverse set of challenges. Recent and upcoming examples: Elixir/Phoenix, .Net, Native iOS/Swift, Native Android/Kotlin.

Working at Blackbird is very different from larger product companies. We operate in very strategic relationships with our clients and partners which gives us all a unique opportunity every few months to deep dive into a new interesting understanding of our client's business and build ground up new apps where everyone is making major and early contributions. It is very satisfying and fun work!

We are looking for Senior and Lead Fullstack Developers excited about building great software products, who are great teammates, and who are passionate about continuously refining best practices for creating successful digital products. Experience in dev team leadership, new product development, collaboration with business and design stakeholders, and consulting experience are all a huge plus. Specific skills ideally include our favorite stack (at least very interested in learning) plus (nice to have) expertise in one of .NET/C#, iOS/Swift, or Android/Kotlin. We work remotely but occasional travel to San Francisco and other locations is part of the job for project kickoffs and other critical collaboration phases or meetings.

Interested? We want to hear from you! Please send resume/CV or LinkedIn to jobs@blackbird.us. I am a founder so ask me anything! If there are other aspects of what we do that interest you definitely still hit me up!
If only Rudy Giuliani had known about this he might not have had someone "invade" his text on Twitter.
Sorry, but what? Sailors shunning the bowline? RYA Level 4 Dinghy Sailing is even teaching you how to tie a bowline around yourself with one hand.

I never used a stopper on a bowline, if done correctly you don't need a stopper, is not going to slip.
DataGrail | Senior / Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | $130k - $180k + 0.1% - %0.5 | ONSITE

Help us build a data privacy platform.

Data privacy and data protection should be a no-brainer, but the reality is that many organizations are ill-prepared to comply with privacy laws, so we're helping to streamline the entire process. In doing so, we believe this will help give users more control over their personal data.

We integrate with many saas solutions, data lakes (s3 + json/parquet/orc/etc) and data warehouses (redshift, snowflake, etc) to easily access, delete and/or anonymize data.

We have paying customers and have raised over $4m (with plenty of runway).

Our stack (and growing):

* aws (codedeploy, rds, athena, etc)

* ruby/rails, react, go

* postgres, redis, s3

Experience with data engineering or data science a plus.

If interested, email me (co-founder & cto): iz|at|datagrail.io
Our water infrastructure isn’t in a shambles just in shrinking cities. It’s a disaster everywhere: https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org. It’s an archetypal example of how the government is bad at setting prices. Water boards respond to public pressure, and as a result set rates too low to be sustainable in the long run: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/stretching-water-dollars-f....

> Despite the challenges posed by shrinking federal investment and rising costs, America’s water systems strive to maintain affordability. As such, many water systems have historically underpriced the services they provide to keep water rates low.

The result is a backlog in investment approaching a trillion dollars.
58008 (this was funny in middle of nowhere 3rd grade, maybe not today)
One of the reasons I left my first job out of college is that management wanted the cancel subscription button on our website replaced with a phone number.
SRAM | Backend Software Engineer | ONSITE | Full-Time | Spearfish, SD

SRAM is a leading manufacturer of bicycle components and a leader in developing connected components, including wireless electronic drivetrains. We love writing fast software, and riding fast bikes!

Come join our team in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota[0] and work with an energetic team taking bicycle data systems to the next level. You can expect a great work/life balance, flexible schedule, and an awesome mountain bike trail system next to the office.

In this role you'll be able to work on a wide range of projects, including improving deployment and observability, ingesting live data from a variety of sources, building internal tools to support our design engineers in product development, data analysis, and lots of infrastructure-related improvements.

Current stack: Python, Django, C, C++, React, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Ansible, FreeBSD, Linux, Docker

Apply online [1].

[0]: https://livability.com/topics/things-to-do/the-best-home-bas...

[1]: https://www.sram.com/company/jobs/backend-software-engineer-...
Startups Born of Flint’s Water Crisis
A huge drawback to Google Fi I rarely hear about is that Google is just terrible at customer support. At least with T-Mobile I can call someone, chat with someone, go to a store, get Twitter support, and it's usually pretty quick.

The biggest plus is protection against SIM hijacking, which I agree is a big plus, but no one should be using SMS for 2FA anyway.
My Dad did the coolest one for my fifth grade class that everyone still remembers. He showed us how binary addition in a calculator/computer works by giving us all 0 or 1 notecards. Then since the class is already arranged in a grid, each row is a single digit (8 bits). Then He gave input numbers and we raised our cards according to which bit we were an the person to the left of us.

Honnestly I don't remember the specifics but it was so awesome to see something as abstract as a computer/processor shown to us in a way we could understand and participate in. And the layout of the classroom just happens to be perfect for it.
That everyone there above the bottom-tier staff were jerks. (Not referring to my current or any recent job.)

I've turned this over in my head for more than a decade now and have concluded there was no question I could have asked, or other way I could have known before accepting the position. Likewise, I've concluded that there's no reliable way to what a new hire will be like to work with until you've worked with them for several months.

Sometimes you just gotta change jobs. Small companies can be great places because sometimes the leadership directly sees the problems of turnover and wants individuals to succeed.

In large companies if you don't like where you are there are generally more options to move around.

Medium-sized companies can be the worst of both worlds. (I'm sure some are the best though.)
> TI-84 calculators

I wonder if it would be possible to port CP/M to TI Calculators.
Brilliant. But doesn't quite work with older generation artists! A snippet from Elvis:

"Just you in the time for it's just a rabbit

Let's rock

Happiness will"
Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes
Out of curiosity. Did it stay that way or did you manage to migrate to another solution? If so, what did that look like? Interested because I’m in a similar situation.
I have mixed feelings about Ashley - there's no doubt it's a very cool book for its sweeping scope, but I would never recommend it as a guide for learning tie knots. There are many good choices from Budworth[1], Pawson[2], Toss[3] and more.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1069046.The_Complete_Boo...

2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220058.Handbook_of_Knots

3: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1476184.Knots
Much useful stuff, but why oh why can't I tag photos? Or have a sane folder management in Photos?[0] Or edit MP3 metadata in Music?

There's lots of low-hanging fruit on iOS. But they've been left hanging for years now.

[0] Despite that I've taken the plunge into managing all my photos on iPad's Photo app. But it's painful.
The o-ring is pretty flimsy (you can see it in a few pictures), but some have done this mod and have worn their F-91Ws without any leakage for 5+ years, so I expect it to be "good enough."
That still doesn't mean forcing frequent password changes becomes better... Usually it means COMPLEXPPASS!### where ### is incremented through each refresh, until you can reuse 1 again.

What would be better is forcing a passphrase change when a user on an account leaves.

This does not negate other security practices... however, frequent changes leads to less security, not more, generally speaking.
>Cars use them for temporary parking

How? If cars can get into the bike lane, then it's not protected.
Large ships do very poorly in waves.

The last thing you want happening in a storm is to lose power. Without power you can't angle yourself perpendicular to the waves. When that happens, broadside waves make the ship bob like a corkscrew. If you don't capsize, this makes the situation beyond recovery.

Waves tend to make large ships lose power easily because the engine oil sloshes in the pan, or the sump pit. The oil pump or inlet is located in a fixed place and can't be moved around. We're talking large engines here. Anyhow, the pump can't keep up with the flow due to this sloshing effectively cycling its flow rate and the engine starts overheating and it has to be throttled down then later shut off so it doesn't seize up. Once the engine is shut off and the vessel is no longer under command, the sloshing gets worse. Emergency battery power drains quickly. Meanwhile the fuel - bunker oil - cools off and turns into asphalt - it needs to be heated up to 120+ degrees F to be usable.

Even if you don't shut the engine off, in stormy weather the fuel filters get clogged up faster and have to be constantly cleaned. The fuel itself, bunker oil, is chunky to begin with and the additional sloshing somehow gunks up the filters faster. In one famous case, the engineers had to do it every few minutes in a storm and that required complete enclosure disassembly and reassembly. That particular ship survived that storm, but not another.
Cragside: Victorian Home Automation
Care to substantiate that?
Flare | Really full stack engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | https://flare-jewelry.breezy.hr/

We put hidden buttons into your jewelry so you don't have to make compromises for your safety.

Started by two female founders, Flare is reinventing personal security with data-driven technology solutions that give people the freedom and power to boldly live the lives they choose. Sitting at the intersection of hardware and software development, our technology turns wearable accessories into escape buttons.

The full stack role at Flare involves getting your hands on every part of our product. Expect a lot of excitement and a lot of learning.

* Full Stack:
https://flare-jewelry.breezy.hr/p/9f6c75f5abb1-full-stack-so...

Also looking for mechanical and back end engineers! Write to mike at flarejewelry dot co with any questions.
The chargeback originates with your bank, not with Paypal.
More ads. Just what we fucking need.
There are some natural fracture planes in the big tech companies where it's clear consumers would be better served by antitrust action:

1) Cleave Instagram and WhatsApp off of Facebook, to reduce the consolidation in Facebook's ad business model, and re-introduce competition both in the messaging and influencer-pouting-at-camera space.

2) Break off Android and Chrome from Google (and each other). Both are products that would do fine on their own, but where right now consumer interests are diametrically opposed to Google's advertising business model.

It's pretty clear that AVC wants to keep the entrenched surveillance business model, but create APIs on top of it for more startups they can fund. But there are ways to apply antitrust that won't make the surveillance problem worse, while reintroducing some competition, and better aligning company incentives with what their consumers want (e.g., allowing Chrome to go all-in on ad blocking).
Yep. It was one of the first apps I tried in this category. I know a lot of people prefer having pre-defined layouts but I'm not a fan of that. I'm often always moving windows around slightly in size and really lean on the wm or tool auto-adjusting things on the fly.
CF: A Legacy of Legacy
> Privacy-centric email providers don't retain any data from your emails after scanning for spam.

Privacy-centric email providers send your emails to /dev/null after they have been scanned for spam? Your definition is absurd.
>I'm a bystander here

Are you? You might not be interested in the culture war, but the culture war is interested in you.

>adherents have failed so badly at keeping their own tribe in check

Keeping their "tribe in check" is a misnomer. They were annexed as the latest proxy battle in the larger cultural war. Why should the people deeper in the subculture have to take more ownership of that outcome than you do?

It's not about the thing anymore, it's about branding the thing Team Edward or Team Jacob, and anyone who wants to go back to Team Not Getting Involved is run out on suspicion of vampirism/werewolfism.
It's moreso that the half-life of both natural uranium isotopes is very long; billions of years. When something has a very long half-life, it emits fewer energetic particles per second, and inflicts lower dose (energy deposited), and therefore lower health risk.

All the daughter products are in secular equilibrium and so are also "rate limited".

When you split uranium nuclei in nuclear chain reactors, many of the resulting "half-uranium" fission products are neutron rich, and have very short half-lives. They quickly decay towards stability and along the way shoot out lots of radiation very quickly. This is high-level nuclear material and is dangerous.
No one is talking about 6 year olds smoking cigarttes. Only you.

We are talking about adults being treated like adults when it's in societies interest (pay taxes, go to war, go to jail), but not being treated like adults when it isn't (get elected) - This is an issue.

The issues you bring up don't cover this issue. These questions are a whatabboutism, bordering on trolling given the extremity.

Specifically, you are responding to the following comment, so any comment that is a sub of this comment is expected to be on topic, which you will see your smoking 6 years olds are most definitively not part of:

"Yeap, and legally enforced age discrimination means we can't actually take many offices.
We can vote for old farts. We just can't be elected.

Double think starts: But that isn't discrimination. Because it is legal. Instead it is called 'age of candidacy'."

-----

Whatabboutims works like this: Person 1 says "adults are being discriminated upon so they can't be part of the political process"

Person 2 doesn't agree, but has no argument. So person 2 states "But what about children smoking? what about pensions? what about..."

Person 2 isn't (an many times can't) answer the point, so they try to highlight that some similar issue is happening in some other place in a way to undermine Person 1's position. But in the end... Person 2 isn't addressing the issue being brought up.
Startups: Save tens of thousands of dollars per year by contracting out to an experienced team.

I have 15 experienced full time developers ready for action. Your wish is their code. :) We have been in business since 1997.

Location: Ukraine / USA
Remote: 100%
Willing to relocate: NO
Technologies: Swift, PHP, Java, MySQL, Wordpress, Magento
Résumé/CV: abovebits.com
Email: abovebits.com contact form
I think its a big deal that they're able to capitalize on the user data abuses of Google and Facebook by making a single sign in service simply because "we wont give everyone your entire contact list when you click this button."
One thing I'm missing is a decent way to monitor your data plan[0]. Even my previous Windows Mobile 10 (formerly Windows Phone) had this.

[0] Yes, there is something, but it doesn't reset automatically. It doesn't limit. It doesn't notify. It is not more useful than the packet count of the TCP/IP properties in Windows.
Yeah, which is why NYC needs more protected bike lanes, and we should call out DeBlasio when he uses garbage definitions for "protected" like "two lines of paint instead of one" like he did last year. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/12/20/fact-check-city-did-n...
I thought about that. What I decided was to distinguish between social media driven by deliberately addictive engagement in order to sell ads (Facebook, Twitter), and social media that doesn't depend on ad revenue and invites active engagement rather than passive scrolling (Hacker News, and a guitar forum I read regularly). I don't need to give up all online interaction, just the ones that are actively and deliberately unhealthy.
>The price of using Facebook has stayed the same over the years (it’s free to join and use), but the cost of using it, calculated in terms of the amount of data that users now must provide, is an order of magnitude above what it was when Facebook faced real competition."

That’s actually a very interesting potential legal issue.

User/FB enter into agreement (user gets access to platform/FB gets access to data), FB unilaterally changes terms of agreement (FB gets greater access to user data, but User doesn’t get anything they didn’t already have)...seemingly these modifications of the agreement should be void/unenforceable for lack of consideration. Yes, the user may have agreed/consented to the changes of the terms (by clicking accept, continuing to use the FB platform) but that doesn’t mean the new agreement is enforceable without additional consideration from FB.
Are Google Sheets "easily machine-readable"? I've tried to add support for it to my application, and I could not get it to work at all. Maybe it's technically possible but it's sure not easy. You need to use Google's proprietary APIs, and the documentation and support are terrible.
Location: Santa Clara, CA

Remote: OK, prefer at least twice weekly onsite

Willing to relocate: Only to Oakland, CA or nearby

Technologies: Python for scientific computing, complex systems analysis and simulations, and ML/AI. I have experience in scientific research, manufacturing, supply chain, and linked data, as well as a strong mathematical background owing to my Physics and Complex Systems degrees.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukasmericle/

Email: Please reach me through LinkedIn
Who would run them? Amtrak? The post office?
Nothing special. Just good ol' Markov chains.
This was mentioned in a comment, but may be worth submitting separately; see the Technology section, in particular.
Kyokan | Software Engineer | REMOTE (Canada) | Full-time

Kyokan-MetaMask is looking for our next teammate: a software engineer who will help make blockchains and the decentralized web accessible and empowering to millions of users.

We lead front-end engineering for https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/ . We also take major responsibility in areas such as devops, release management, automated testing and full-stack code review and maintenance. Our codebase is full stack javascript, with react/redux on the frontend.

We pay competitively, make decisions collectively, support each other to do work we are proud of and strive to make our work conducive to both constant learning and personal well-being. We all aim to bring leadership to our team, projects and the open source community surrounding MetaMask. Ultimately, we are here to help make the internet a better place for the people and communities who depend on it.

Our team is remote and based in eastern Canada. We are aiming to hire someone based in Canada in either Eastern, Atlantic or Newfoundland/Labrador time zones.

Details on how to apply: https://github.com/kyokan/join-our-metamask-team/blob/master...

To learn more about us, and the project, position, perks and policies, check out: https://github.com/kyokan/join-our-metamask-team

P.S. Even if this role is not for you, we'd love your help in finding the best possible person for this team. We will reward $3000 CAD if you help us find someone we end up hiring and loving. Details here: https://github.com/kyokan/join-our-metamask-team/blob/master...
That's a perfectly reasonable opinion to have! But it is not the opinion or mainstream theology of the religions themselves, which is my point.
PlantNet is the world’s best social network
Sorry...where did I imply that anyone could get one? Most anyone who graduates and finds a job sure can; and from what I gather it's a far easier and less Kafkaesque process than in the US, too.

I was primarily responding to the point that 5 year visas are unheard of in Europe (which is plainly false).

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say.
>> Was that censorship in order to conform to US law?

>Yes. Abridgement of speech in any form is censorship.

That wasn't the question asked.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

The question was whether the other examples were compelled by government law. That puts them in a different category. Unless you would like to argue that the other censorship was performed to keep the organizers out of prison, your argument falls flat.
Sign in the Apple is a great idea for users. I can see developers not wanting to adopt it due to loss of customer data. I'm curious to see how adoption plays out.
PAX | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://www.paxvapor.com

PAX is a leading consumer technology company that designs and manufactures premium vaporizers for safe and responsible consumption of legal cannabis. PAX devices are compatible with the PAX Mobile App that allows consumers to bring control, predictability, and simplicity to their cannabis rituals.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/pax-labs

Recruiting Contact: molly@pax.com

Our open positions:

* All Roles: https://grnh.se/8d25e6c71

* Senior Android Engineer : https://boards.greenhouse.io/paxlabs/jobs/1490605?t=8d25e6c7...

* Senior iOS Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/paxlabs/jobs/1563916?t=8d25e6c7...

* Senior Software Engineer, Backend: https://boards.greenhouse.io/paxlabs/jobs/1490621?t=8d25e6c7...

* Infrastructure Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/paxlabs/jobs/1671812?t=8d25e6c7...

* Security Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/paxlabs/jobs/1664893?t=8d25e6c7...

* Firmware Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/paxlabs/jobs/1488698?t=8d25e6c7...

Tech Stack: Cloud Foundry on AWS for hosting all servers, Akamai CDN, Java 8/Kotlin used on all backend services and APIs, RDS (AWS MySQL) used for account data storage, AWS S3 used for raw storage, RedShift used for analytics, React.js used for web based front end clients (including dashboards), Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android, Python for Data Science