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Boston | Full-Time | Kyruus | http://kyru.us

Hi. I'm Dave Gandy. I'm the lead product designer at Kyruus. I wake up every single day excited about my job. Why? Kyruus is going to change healthcare. No exaggeration.

Kyruus is a well-funded, big data healthcare startup in Boston. We believe that the right data at the right time can help doctors make better decisions. We believe data can save lives.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT KYRUUS:

- Product design. From the top of the organization, Kyruus is committed to product design done right. It's awesome.

- Purpose. Every day, I get to help make the world a better place – a little at a time.

- People. I work with some of the best people I've ever met. More than just smart people. Good people.

Kyruus needs good people. Specifically, a UI/UX developer to join the design team. Come work with me.

ABOUT YOU

- You think users should drive how things are designed.

- You think design should drive what gets built.

- You love the intersection between art and technology.

- You often start designing on paper.

- You like to prototype directly in HTML & CSS with a dash of JS.

- You know the difference between UI and UX.

- You'd describe yourself mostly as a UI designer.

- Programmers think you're a designer. Designers think you're a programmer.

- You have a GitHub repository. You might have even contributed to an open-source project or two.

- You have examples of websites you've designed.

SOUND INTERESTING? Feel free to contact me directly. I look forward to meeting you.

Dave Gandy - dgandy@kyru.us

Lead Product Designer, Kyruus - http://kyruus.com/careers

Creator & Maintainer, Font Awesome - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
Still more relevant than SAP or Oracle are today and both of those companies are doing pretty well...
They are lucky that most businesses move slowly and are generally resistant to change.
Thanks! I'm glad you can learn from what I say AND from what I do. Your notes are exactly what I was going for.
> you have to estimate your income for the year, and the tax office gives you a tax rate. Anything above that level gets taxed at an exorbitant amount (>50% for the 100k$ salary)

The higher tax rate is a safety mechanism in case you would fall into a tax bracket with a higher percentage. This does not mean you are necessarily taxed at a higher rate; you are just saving in case you earn so much that your tax bracket will change.

If you don't fall into a higher tax bracket, you will get the money back when the tax office checks the numbers afterwards.

This system is in place so that you wouldn't get surprised by huge tax deficit when you fall into a new bracket at the end of the year.
It would be interesting to do placebo vs. placebo trials (telling patient A he's getting a specific drug and giving him a placebo instead, and telling patient B he's getting another drug which treats the same condition, and also giving him a placebo).

i.e. would you subjectively report more pain relief when given ibuprofen (placebo) vs. vicodin (placebo).

But, pesky IRBs :(
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My 64GB iPad has 57.1GB free space. That's 89%.

57.1 - 32 - 16 = 9.1; 9.1 / 16 = 0.56875; 16GB iPad has 9.1GB free space? That's 56%.

My 16GB iPhone 5 has 13.4GB free. That's 83%.

13.4 + 16 + 32 = 61.4; 61.4 / 64 = 0.959375; 64GB iPhone 5 has 61.4GB free space? That's 95%.

Edit: These calculations are not accurate. Read replies.
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Bitch please.

If you want to insult me for no particular reason - at least have the balls to swear at me with your real account.

Trollers gonna troll.
Are strokes order available for Unicode codepoints? I know that for many languages they're not important (for example people are free to write 't' from top-to-bottom but from bottom-to-top too) while in others stroke order is very important, like in Japanese.

However how would stroke order work for a Unicode codepoint? If it exists, there has to be a lot of info in addition to the codepoint of, say, a kanji.
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* HTML 5 / CSS 3

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I'm in the UK.
> Here are two real world issues that could arise

Definitely true.

On the other hand, non-tech folks often don't even make an attempt to remember password an put them on sticky notes in front of the screen. (At it can still get worse...) I think for these people long alphanumeric passwords are the best.
Microsoft Office 365 is down
As naive as thinking that a strict set of names will on some level prevent bullying when "Children bully each other for far less"?

If this is indeed a reasoning for why some countries have naming lists then they have far big problems then bullying in schools. Children are a direct reflection on their parents and their parents jobs at parenting. If this is the case the problem will not be fixed with a naming list, if anything this just exasperated the problem by telling anyone with a name not on that list "yep your name is crazy".

If you want to stop bullying you need to look to the parents and the media, not some naming list is a direct application of what is "politically correct".

On the same note, are these same countries going to reject immigrants with children who's names are on these lists? That would never be acceptable right? So now an immigrant has less rights then the people actually born in that country? Interesting.
Using a story about marketing to market your new marketing product, eh? I'm onto you!

I don't have any products to sell, but it was still an interesting read. Good to see you focusing on building trust before selling since that was one of the things your last e-book sales page was lacking (at least in my opinion).
... is to get listed on the first page of HN.
This is why you should never use Oracle DB
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iOS & Ruby on Rails. Familiar with graphics & non-ARC iPhone apps. Contact: sp668@cam.ac.uk
It's not really an issue, but I have had a number of people know me, know I'm a bit of a dweeb and clock it, normally with an eye-roll. (I personally actually like her being called Lua, I think it is really individual. She is about 20 months now and the name is really suiting her)

I agree that Ruby is a lovely name, but the only reason it wasn't included in the list is that my parents have a dog with the same name, so imagine the hilarity at Christmas and other family gatherings!

Congratulations on your son. I would have appreciated it far more if my parents named me after someone who really had a big influence on their life, not just, as in my case, my dad! I'm still convinced it was for sneaky tax purposes or something ;)
Most Secure Mode : Full Disk Encryption Using Ubuntu
A bit of advice for job posters: include a link to your homepage, it makes it much easier for job seekers to check you out.
Actually, it's not that uncommon for an Icelander to have a matronymic surname.
How to use drop shadows with CSS3
Apple to cease Mac Pro shipments to Europe
I think you may be missing some of the difficulty in RWD. The hard part, as you said, isn't implementing a few media queries and resizing stuff. That is easy, you're right.

The hard part is the design. If you need to shrink an element down 50%, is it still readable? Crisp? Does your logo do well under that kind of pressure or does it become a blob of color? If you blow it up and make it 100% on a large screen, how are you handling the columns of text? Because of course you're not just letting text lines expand indefinitely, right? Because that would be a readability disaster.

Those are just a couple examples of where an overzealous programmer can get the design totally wrong by implementing the "easy fix." RWD is still pretty hard to get really right.
What I don't get about Bitcoin is, since it is a distributed p2p currency system, Who is "generating" the digital bill?

In normal currency, a central bank would generate notes that are backed by an equivalent valuable good (ex. Gold, Jewels, etc). I am aware that's not true in modern systems because a central bank can emit more inorganic notes, but that has a direct impact in the inner value of the currency.

In this system, I can't see who is in charge of emitting the digital "note". So, how is exchange rate calculated then? Bitcoin mining is another blur concept.

Does anybody know how this actually works?

Edit: Fixing some typos
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I ship.

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The Gothenburg office is also hiring, if you prefer the west coast of Sweden!
Only because of the two soccer players named Ronaldo whose name has been heard by every football fan on earth.

There is nothing intrinsically "easy" about the name itself.
Seems like both of them require as server. Something I think means the title is misleading about. It's certainly ambiguous. I was excited to see a browser based, all client side IRC client. Oh well.
Deceptive Sex Appeal: Community-Based Products
> a phd pays out 150K over six years

I'm not a CS PhD, but I'd be astounded if they pay tuition.

I knew PhD students in a variety of fields when I was doing mine, and everyone received money from the University rather than paying tuition.

You're point about opportunity cost stands though.
No, my landlord and I have an agreement that stipulates the terms under which they can enter the place I rent, and I trust them to honor them. Ultimately, they have a key though. It's a risk I accept.

The most valid argument that I can think of is that, in a "device appliance" context, many people aren't aware that they're renting. I don't suspect that they'd change to owning once they understood that they're renting, but it might make them more sensitive to the agreement under which they are renting.
> How many times do I have to say it: The Microsoft Surface is a turd.

This should have been the article's title, just so readers know what the author plans to say. Not to argue for or against the position, just for maximum candor.
The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird (2010)
" . . . capital is scarce even with infinite money."
You'd think that would be obvious to people running a country, and yet, so many countries have tried it, over and over.
In Brazil, during the dictatorship (1960s-1980s), names were whitelisted. Everyone had "normal" names in Portuguese or approved names from other languages ("Jacques").

After the dictatorship, no limits. Some pretty...different... names have started to proliferate, typically for people of lower socioeconomic status. To see, take a look at the Brazilian national team's roster over time.

One particularly good example: Maicon, currently at Manchester City, worth many, many millions of dollars. "Maicon" is the phonetic spelling for "Michael." In fact, his name is Maicon Douglas. Not joking: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maicon_Douglas_Sisenando
(for some reason the EN wiki page reversed the names)
Verold Studio on Betakit - "the GitHub for CG artists"
This was far more interesting in Orthodox Russia just one century ago. Children was given names by the church pope using the calendar table "svyatcy".

No wonder why people killed popes, destroyed churches and gave their children some crazy names based on slogans and acronyms
One thing that gives me confidence in the future of BTC is the constant controversy surrounding it.
Edinburgh or anywhere. Full-time engineers. Open source web stack/SaaS

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FreeAgent is a company born out of the frustration that accounting is just too damn hard for freelancers and small businesses. We run a SaaS product to empower people with the knowledge and means to make that easier, and let them do things their way.

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That's what backups (and brainwallets, etc.) are for.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

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Rails, HTML5, CSS3, Ember, Backbone, Responsive design, SCSS, Coffeescript.

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I'm partially booked right now. I'll find the time if you have a great project, though.
Related:

A version of this for kanji that is very accurate

http://kanji.sljfaq.org/draw-canvas.html
(I had to deal with that during the years when I lived as an American overseas)

As in, you had to get an employment/education/whatever visa? I'm snickering at this: I've found that we Americans have a really easy time getting whatever visas we want whenever we want. Some nations will issue a month (or longer) visa just from the airline informing them, "we have an American on board this flight". Some will issue a visa at the immigration gate. For a many-year work visa you'll typically have to go through an embassy or consulate, but as long as you don't get stuck in the same line as the Indians (this is not a statement about Indians, but about how I've seen them treated in embassies!) you're not going to have much trouble.

...it's exceedingly uncommon for people to be put into jail simply for activities inconsistent with their visa status...

Which visa is it that allows a foreign national to harass, detain, and kidnap citizens without the due process of law? Does 007 have that visa? I could actually understand it if there were a more involved process for obtaining that one.
Great post and great reality check. If the data really showed that people shopping for Direct Debit do so from the desktop then this makes a tonne of sense.

There is a certain mob dogma that occasionally overwhelms the design community. The passion around responsive design today reminded me of the heated advocacy of accessible design back in 2004. It was a good thing and opening up the web to more people and especially people who are isolated in the outside world is a wonderful thing.

When a site or a service isn't yet fully formed and doesn't know what it is or who exactly wants it, "enabling it for everyone" can accidentally be paid for by "making it appealing to no-one". You need to start by figuring out why people want to go into your site and once you know that, let more of them in.

Some sites which are already useful can best improve themselves by making themselves available to more people on more devices. During the teenage self-discovery phase though, when a service is still learning who its customers are and what it itself is, there's no point optimising that for everyone because it could be different tomorrow. The important thing is to first of all find out what is right.
Sounds to me like the classic apples and oranges comparison.

In my opinion Javascript's evolution has become a requirement more than just a story of success. It was the de facto standard language for browsers but with big lacks of performances. Browsers vendors worked to improve it and everything was only a natural consequence of the evolution of the World Wide Web.

Perl's history is completely different. Perl has always worked behind the scenes, and still does it greatly. It has a stable, rock solid, very performant and widely spread runtime.

Let's just call things with their names and use them for the purpose they are born and everything will look less confusing.

More than else, always remember: You can write FORTRAN in any Language.
Is that map completely missing Novaya Zemlya?
This is great. One of the trickiest parts of learning AngularJS is figuring out how directives work, and how to write your own effective directives. The Angular team posted a couple of vids the other day that helped me a lot http://blog.angularjs.org/2012/11/about-those-directives.htm...

I'd love to see more videos focusing on directives -- as I think the rest of it is fairly straight-forward. It looks like there are a number of vids here that address directives, so I'm looking forward to watching them.
I cant wait to see the price drop enough on these so I am able to have my personal quadcopter army.
Unfortunately, you can't really trust a device, since there is always a chance that it could be rooted. See the long history of rooted game consoles.

The best you can do is sort-of trust the device. But that's not much better than not trusting the device in terms of the kind of architectures and products you can build.
If he has "nothing but bad things to say about bitcoin" - he's not the right person to ask for any answers related to digital currency and it's alternatives.
I'm not really afraid, uncertain, or doubtful of the disk space issue. I just think it's straight-up misleading and represents Microsoft's gross misunderstanding of what makes the mobile model successful.
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Actually, we are possibly expecting another (it's a bit too early to officially announce) and my wife has suggested Haskell if it was a boy! (as guard-of-terra says below, it is the name of a boy).

It is rather worryingly beginning to grow on me.

I guess I can always say he was named after the England Rugby player[1] to hide my true geek creds, and portray a more rugged image of myself.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Haskell
Big Data: Riak or Cassandra?
Hey guys,

I am a system administrator and was given the incredible well documented task to support "Big Data". In this particular case, the idea is to get an impression of the user behaviour on a quite big Swiss website by the means of aggregating all log data and querying it later for analysis.

Our Java coders are mostly settled to "Let's do cassandra!" while Riak also looks interesting. Having to support "schema changes" and running it in a mission critical environment (i.e. 0% downtime) are some requirements.

We already have mongodb running, but mongodb's sharding makes life hard when you are a sysadmin and think about backups.

So my question to you is:

Given the two alternatives, which one would you choose if it was you to run the infrastructure?
>When the best way to defend your new OS is to say "You can do this and pretend it's just like the old one!" you're probably in for a hard time.

Isn't this a best practice for UI overhauls? Whenever Google changes Gmail that's exactly how they handle it.
Iran is good at Photoshop, you think they'd pick up on that
Thanks. I don't like extreme cold but if that's the worse thing about Boston then it doesn't sound so bad.
Sold! That's just what I wanted to play with :)

I reckon I'll bust the PCB in about 5 minutes though.
My take on this is that the Microsoft's strategy for the Surface wasn't necessarily to sell a ton of Surface tablets and take out the iPad. I think it was to illustrate what Windows 8 brings to the table in terms of a hybrid tablet experience. This is similar to how Google had lackluster sales of their Nexus phone but it was a reference model of what you could do with Android. The Surface opens up some eyes to the idea of the "convertible laptop", which I think ultimately is how Windows 8 starts to make more sense. On any other configuration it's a clunky experience. Windows 8 is a poor tablet experience and a lame desktop, but as a convertible laptop it's actually quite enjoyable (in my opinion).
Boston, MA. TIM Group (previously youDevise) are hiring a Senior Linux Sysadmin.

We're a 100 person market leading financial software firm with offices in Boston, New York, London and Hong Kong. Rated one of the fastest growing tech companies in the UK by The Sunday Times (http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/leagues/dbtechDetails.a...).

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Hey! I just met you. Why are you trying to sell me something right after saying hello?
Koreans should not have any problems: 런알도?

"Ronald" is harder which is my point exactly.