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SEEKING CONTRACT WORK | UX/UI & web design

Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/

Location: Edinburgh, UK and remote (time zone differences aren't a problem)

Email: sw@seanw.org

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I help startups with UX/UI and web design for their products, including design work for new and existing web apps, websites and landing pages. My background as a full stack developer and startup founder helps me come up with practical design solutions that balance usability, aesthetics, development effort and performance.

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The best live example of my work is Checkbot (https://www.checkbot.io/), a browser extension that tests websites for SEO, speed and performance problems. The entire project is my own work including coding the extension itself, UX/UI design, website design (the desktop homepage is optimised to load in 0.7 seconds with only 0.3MB transferred), website copy, and website articles on web best practices.

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I have 10+ years of experience, including a PhD in software verification and 5+ years working for myself for over 20 companies including Just Eat and Triumph Motorcycles. See my website for testimonials, portfolio and more:

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Skills: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, WordPress, HTML/CSS, Tailwind, OCaml, Java, Python, C, website SEO and speed optimisation.

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Email sw@seanw.org with a short description of your project and how you think I can help. I can get back to you within one working day to arrange a call to discuss a quote. I work to fixed price quotes when projects are self-contained.
Shortwave | Software Engineers, PMs & Designers | Remote (US) or SF $125k-$225k+ base & equity

Shortwave is rebuilding email from the ground up to have the features and UX of modern messaging apps. Our mission is to ensure the future of online communications is decentralized -- and email is the largest truly decentralized communications network in the world.

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase. We're well-funded and looking for smart, ambitious engineers, designers, and PMs who want to make an impact on how the world communicates. We're looking for the best and are generous with equity.

Multiple roles open: https://www.shortwave.com/about/#careers
This is a terrible line of thinking, SARS-CoV-2 has some interesting properties, but none that would indicate deliberate weaponization. Useful bioweapons also usually are a little bit more surgical, China got hit pretty bad at the start of the pandemic.
Yeah - I considered this. There were probably 10% of people I could tell that wouldn't lead anywhere.

Some of it was trying to not allow my own biases to cloud things. Some of it was hoping to offer a hand up to others who may not get as much attention. Some of it was wanting to just run an experiment and see what happened.

I think the best method is finding a good community to start from. As I alluded to, YC matching has not done this for me.

The other thing is to pay attention to why you didn't like a given cofounder/idea. I identified a handful of industries that just were not for me (hadn't realized this consciously previously)
QuestDB | Developer Relation Engineers, Python Backend Engineers | Remote

QuestDB (YC S20) is an open source time series database. Find more about us here: https://questdb.io/about-us/

We're hiring Developer Relation Engineers, Python Backend Developers, Core Database Engineers (zero-GC Java, C++) and Customer Success Engineers. https://questdb.io/careers/
By trails I mostly mean maintained dirt trails found in state/national parks, but I have hit some good bumps/holes in this thing. I got a suspension seatpost and I hardly feel bumps at all anymore.

Can you show me an example of technical terrain where this line would be drawn?
Seems a bit light on UNIX. Minix and Coherent are both missing.
Recommend reading the text on Ep 62 before DLing. It's ...
Do you consider an automatic emergency break as less reliable than it helps?

Because we do have a lot of numbers on cars were there is a computer in-between. Which should indicate to me that it is safer to drive with one instead of without one.

Like just yesterday (I'm driving a new car) I thought about emergency breaking automatic vs. manual and I actually feel safer knowing that the car can potentially break faster.

In the brochure of my mother's potentially future car, it actually advertise emergency breaking with emergency steering to drive left or right. I also found that quite good to have as it should be able to determine much faster if it can evade and where to evade.

Or do you mean this different?
> XOR with very large keys is how critical military encryption systems such as radios work.

Is it that large keys are factors of very large prime numbers so that to know the keys you will need a very powerful computer?
$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash
raw performance. DosEmu always faster that DosBox or a VM
> I cannot enter or place an order at most coffee shops today without a smartphone

Really? I wonder where you are.

I own a smartphone, but I don't carry it with me; I've never been to any kind of shop that doesn't accept my debit card, other than for small-value purchases like a bag of onions from a greengrocer, for which cash is sometimes required.
the area I'm from also uses the word underpants to mean knickers/ underwear

and pants to mean trousers / slacks

seems to confuse a lot of south east people
Sell it back to Apple, or recycle it through them. They're best placed to recycle it as they know all the components and materials. Anyone else recycling it will probably just ship it to another country to go into landfill.
This is an excellent list, thanks! I'll be spending a while going through it.
MBA Industrial Design here. I think that all art should start with the ability to draw. A foundational book like Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is a good jump start if it is important for your ego to see quick feedback. Like mastering anything, drawing is about repetition. Exercises are key for building muscle memory. I personally like to start with pencil/prisma. Don't get in the habit of erasing. From there you can work up to other medium like pen, chalk, etc. Even if you eventually end up being a sculptor, mixed media artist, 3d animator, painter, being able to draw (sketch) well is the foundation you will always use! After learning to draw well, I would suggest learning design. Things like order, rhythm, emphasis, etc. is the underpinning of all art.
Gimp 2021 Annual Report
I duck-taped an old iPhone on the wall, to always show the weather app. Always-on, no sleep mode.

It's right next to the wardrobe. Which is pretty useful during the winter in Montreal.
> What does it mean that you’re in “private beta”?
While we're in private beta, we don't feel like our vision is fully realized and ready for prime time

> How much will Kagi cost?
Kagi will be completely free during the beta-test period for all users. Once we officially launch, we plan to offer entry level plans for as low as $10/month, ...

https://kagi.com/faq
While I find this quite interesting, a street is not a lab.

He should not do this on any public road and potentially he broke already some law.
I know many many seasoned programmers, both in and out of the Bay Area, and I haven’t met any seasoned programmers who deserve to get a job but can’t. Even if companies are asking for leetcode grinding, what I’m asking about is the outcome - what hiring or unemployment numbers actually demonstrate that hiring is ineffective somehow?

It is true that some companies do coding challenges as part of the interview process, one part of many. I’ve never heard of an interview process where leetcode style puzzles are the whole interview, or even a majority. I had one job in the recent past that had an interview coding challenge (actually it’s the only job I’ve ever had that asked for coding during the interview), and I totally enjoyed the coding challenge. It wasn’t leetcode, and I was allowed my choice of language, but it was on the spot puzzle solving unrelated to the eventual work, but definitely related to my general aptitude.

It certainly might be unrelated to the work, but it’s a bad assumption, I think to claim that doing a little programming has nothing to do with a candidate’s general aptitude.

I have seen & heard of a few seasoned programmers getting upset when they are asked to write code on the spot, and believing that their years of experience and heavy resumes should exempt them from demonstrating their ability to write code during the interview. I personally interviewed one guy who did that, and he was rejected specifically because of his attitude; companies don’t want bitter old-timers who refuse to do some dirty work, nobody is above being part of the team, sometimes doing boring tasks, and always learning new things. I don’t really identify with seasoned programmers who feel like they shouldn’t have to demonstrate their abilities, who don’t understand that people pad resumes all the time and that interviewers might not take your promises at face value. There are people interviewing who have experience and can’t code their way out of a paper bag, so these coding challenges are filtering for that. But people who want to write code full time should have no trouble attempting and even enjoying some code writing during the interview, no?
> Never heard of such features on Android or Samsung

S beam used to exist in Galaxy S4, which launched in 2013. It used NFC and peer to peer wifi to transfer files at high speeds.
Similar background generator found here https://www.finisher.co/lab/header/
While sidelined quite heavily on the text, I think that the reversibility of CA is quite interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_cellular_automaton
Layer | REMOTE (ideally GMT-1 to GMT+5) | Infrastructure Engineer (SRE / DevOps)/Senior Backend Engineer/VP of Design/Lead Product Designer/Community Manager/Developer Advocate - Only Experienced/Senior Candidates for all roles | https://layer.co Layer is building the central hub for machine learning development. ML itself is complex. On top of that, GitHub is not built for collaboration of ML practitioners. We designed a delightfully simple integration, architected a massively scalable, declarative platform.

One of our founders sold his previous company for 500M USD, the other is one of the top VC partners in Europe. Our engineering team is a mix of top engineers from Palantir, Revolut, Google, eBay, Wise, Improbable, Coinbase, Amazon, DataRobot, among others.

We have an all-remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We are looking to make a few more hires until we close down hiring until Series A. We pay competitive salaries and give stock, among other perks. Initially, we are looking to hire within the GMT-1 to GMT+5 time zones but we are happy to make exceptions for truly exceptional candidates.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript/GraphQL on the frontend, Java at the backend (with some Scala and Python), Kubernetes/AWS/Terraform/Gradle on the infra side. We are currently only looking for experienced candidates. Prior startup experience or being a prolific open source contributor is a plus.

NO RECRUITERS/OUTSTAFFING/OURSOURCING COMPANIES PLEASE.

Feel free to apply at https://jobs.lever.co/layer

(For the community manager/developer advocate role, please feel free to directly reach out to me at cihat at layer.co)
One question: in part 2 it shows that Ghidra is able to produce disassembly from machine code, does that mean Ghidra knows the instruction set V850 uses?
> as long as we're as a species capable of reining in the market forces at play.

A better phrase would be “reining in the perverse incentives at play” as government is just as prone to give in to perverse incentives or regulatory capture that promote waste.
I think one possibility is that the boss is trying to bypass hiring procedures to hire "his" candidate.
I think it's a mis-label. OG Gameboys had the product code DMG-01 (acronym for Dot Matrix Game) and when talking about different models people often use DMG to specify them or DMG Gameboy when the GB context isn't implicit.
Traction can be difficult if you mean social media, depends on how much you want to pander honestly. Social media fame can be attained by drawing the latest flavor-of-the-month meme, and good old fashioned ass kissing. Drawing fanart of popular characters, drawing fanart of other (more popular) artists characters, etc

It's frankly a depressing grind more often than not. I've been a hobby artist for about 5 years now, and I have ~6k followers on two platforms. About 60% of that came in the last 2 years. It kind of snowballs the longer you keep at it. Consistency is incredibly important!
> Why is a person on the marketing team interviewing me, a full-stack engineer?

To make sure that you're not a jerk and can work with people other than engineers?
Download a bunch of MP3s that you don't like, get cheap long USB cords, and set them up as programmable musical alarm clocks.

(Why music that you don't like? Because any music that forces you to wake up will eventually become music you don't like.)
I asked an honest question about how the system isn’t working, and admitted right up front that I might be ignorant of real systemic problems. Maybe you could elaborate and/or provide evidence that the system isn’t working? Who is it not working for, and how is it not working?
I notice I did write my opinion in a very echo-chambery way.

Sure, emotional intelligence and charisma and communication skills are important in this proposed technocracy, I’m just saying that the non-technical people with no capital should no longer be able to grift their way into double digit share ownership. We can go vertically integrated and switch the distribution of ownership, much more heavily than it already is.
Is an obsession with "originals" as quaint as our desire to walk on Mars, rather than sending robots?

My first reaction (after amazement) was to imagine a machine coloring in the cracks. The future will always see any effort in this direction as primitive. Why didn't we wait for their tools?

A full-scale reproduction, recreating the feeling of the painting when it was new, doesn't have that problem. I want a robotic setup that scans, and 3D prints elsewhere with paint.

Meanwhile, does the art restoration world place a premium on using dissimilar materials, that prevent further disintegration while fooling the eye, but are easily distinguished by future scanning techniques? I can imagine purists insisting on "authentic" materials that will be confused with the original painting in the future.
Let's not tie everything too much together. Tying everything together is how people become unhinged conspiracy theorists. Let's take one subject at a time.
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>>the key to feeding the world in the short term is petro-chemical based agriculture, leading to massive overpopulation and total collapse.

Let's assume this is because the profit is there to make more grain, not because anyone wants overpopulation or collapse. What you're saying is that it works, it does create more food. More food for more people. People are less likely to starve. Okay, good. Until the overpopulation and collapse part.

What evidence do you have that that will happen?

You're suggesting limiting food to decrease population. I just want to be clear about that. You're saying that people should starve. Even though we could farm enough food to feed them. Because you disagree with the farming methods. Right?
Super helpful. I didn’t know about individual 401k’s.

Thank you!
Vaayu | Senior Engineers | Full Remote (European Timezones) | Full-Time

E-commerce has a massive climate impact, that's why at Vaayu we're focused on helping retailers lower their carbon emissions. We look at all aspects of our clients' businesses and build automated, high fidelity models to estimate their environmental impact in real-time. With these models, we show our customers a clear pathway to reducing their emissions.

After having raised $1.6M pre-seed funding round in July this year, we recently celebrated our first anniversary. Our international team of 17 people is distributed across Europe, we all work remotely with a flexible schedule. Our clients include billion-dollar companies from the e-commerce/retail industry.

We are looking for a senior backend engineer to build services from scratch and take full ownership of their work. We value environmentally conscious and entrepreneurial minded people, who always put the customer first.

Our current stack includes: Go, JavaScript, Python, Vue.js, D3.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Neo4j, Linux, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform, but we are also open to other technologies.

If you're interested send me an email through luca at company name dot tech.
Qt Creator I believe? Not 100% sure.
Completely agree. Building tech is only half (maybe less than half?) of the equation.

Bringing on the right business partner is crucial.
Not trusting the software at all is the only real solution. The only operating system that makes that practical is Qubes OS.

One can always manage a lot of VM's manually, but that's complicated enough that one usually only bothers for very specific software, and not everything like what is done in Qubes OS.
In my experience with CORS, my problem is it takes 30 minutes nearly every time you need to bugfix it.

It’s not that complicated but when something breaks CORS adjacent, you’re stuck reviewing the gotchas.
Amy.app | Full-stack JavaScript Engineer | REMOTE | Full time | Submission end: 16.01.2022

Amy.app is an digital private tutor for math that makes learning math easy for everyone. She does this by giving students feedback and automatically filling their knowledge gaps as they solve problems.

We are a well funded New Zealand startups with about 20 employees (3 people code at the moment). We target enterprise companies to use Amy.app as their "brain" behind the teaching. To facilitate that, we try to build everything around reusable APIs so partners can built their own experience on top of Amy.app.

Since we are an education company, we are happy to educate Juniors to become Seniors.

Stack: Typescript React, Nodejs, Express, Firebase-Firestore (NoSql), PostgreSQL

Requirements:

- Experience with modern JavaScript (uni/private projects are fine)

- Experience with some backend language/framework: Nodejs/express, python/flash, etc.

- Understanding of basic web technologies and web behaviours (eg.: HTML, REST-API, etc.)

- Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals. In particular graphs and trees algorithms.

Nice to have

- Experience with any modern JavaScript Framework (React, Vue, Angular, ...)

- Experience with testing frameworks (Frontend/Backend, unit/integration)

- Experience working on a remote-first/ distributed teams

- Enjoys Mathematics or a similar problem space

If you are interested, send us an e-mail to: jobs@amy.app

Please, include your CV or links to your projects. As well as a salary expectation (each country/person has a different expectation).
XOR with a one-time pad doesn't work off factors of large numbers - you're thinking of asymmetric encryption there. You literally just XOR each plain text byte with a key byte.
Location: Highlands, New Jersey

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React/Redux, Python, NodeJS, Postgres

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ntI1UPZgFnQblU_nEe0icvoXRAn...

Email: Kirk.Robert.Snyder@gmail.com

About Me: Recent Lambda School bootcamp grad, looking for
Junior role.

Prefer: Full stack or backend position. I'd love more experience working with databases or building scalable microservice architecture
> (A variant: content tech enthusiasts create without profit motive (and therefore without market correction)

I would not agree that the consequence of lacking a profit motive is an absence of corrective market forces. There are many kinds of markets out there, and many kinds of market forces that aren't related to monetary profit. For example, the marketplace of ideas is very powerful for people without a profit motive -- they toil in order to earn currency in their communities, which can be something as trivial as Github stars.
Consumer Edge | Mid to Lead Software Engineers | Full-Time | Remote (US) | https://consumer-edge.com

Consumer Edge (CE) is a preeminent data insight company targeting the global consumer. We have some of the worlds best financial data, and have been serving that up to our clients (hedge funds, big brands, etc) since 2009. We are at the beginning of a massive initiative to rebuild some legacy platforms from the ground up. Our new platform will do highly dynamic and configurable analytics dashboards, charts, custom alerts, all kinds of exports (CSV, excel, API, custom, etc).

We are hiring web engineers to build this, as well as maintaining and building new data collection engines. Tech stack sits on Google Cloud and is primarily ClickHouse, modern PHP (Laravel, Swoole), Python/Flask (legacy platform), React. We need both backend and frontend engineers, so wherever you fall on that spectrum, we have a place for you. I am the hiring manager on these, and will make sure the interview process is a quick one.

More here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/consumeredge
> And as a bonus, your site works perfectly in degraded environments (poor network conditions, no JS runtime).

What? No. Not at all. If you're behind a subpar network, your dynamic HTML web app does not load/refresh/update at all, and your users start to get frustrated because your crappy webpage is broken and fails to even do the most basic things.

This is not the case with SPAs, and some of the most pressing problems they solve: perceived performance, resilience to faulty network connections, and overall improved UX.

Let's put it this way: with SPAs you can design your app to work even without a working network connection. That's how resilient SPAs are to networking issues. How do you pull that off with dynamic HTML?

> but for 99% of websites server-side rendering only has advantages.

No, not really. Unless you cherry-pick what goes into the 99%, even basic CRUD, form-driven pages the dynamic HTML way suffers from a multitude of drawbacks that are no longer issues in SPAs, both technical and organizational.
Man that's some bad writing. Just get to the point and stop trying to be funny.
With all due respect, without evidence your argument is baseless. I think your appealing to your ethos to persuade others (and on the internet what authority do you have?). I agree the world population should stop eating animals, but why?

My reasons are:

(1) morally dubious -- the majority of animals raised to be eaten live in squalor. It is below me, personally, to eat an animal raised in those conditions. For many people it isn't AND this doesn't support the argument that not eating animals is better for the planet.

(2) environmental impact -- the UN put out a list some years ago stating that to reduce environmental impact, consuming less animal and animal product is the way to go. Here is one list [0] indicting that among a collection of behavioral changes, eating more vegetables is helpful. Here is another [1] indicating that to reduce carbon footprint, travel (rather than diet) are primary ways to do so.

[0] https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/16-ways-take-act...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52719662

End of story? You must provide more than internet ethos to persuade an audience!