MadMoogle

Location: Middle of nowhere New York State Remote: yes! Willing to relocate: to anywhere rural or any city with an easy commute to a rural area Technologies: Whatever you're using. I love to learn. Resume: available on request Email: hn@lj3.me

I am and have been a technology agnostic web engineer for the past 10 years. I've worked for both large companies and startups on projects as diverse as B2B marketplaces and online video games, some of which have brought in millions of dollars in revenue.

The areas in which I create tangible value include fast implementation of customer facing application features, services integration and internal tooling. I can work across all layers of a tech stack myself or work with specialized teams (ie: a database team, a backend team, etc). Whatever it takes to get the job done.

How expensive is rent out that way? I remember looking into it a few years back and found it was more expensive than living in the city, considering I would have had to buy a car.

It rings true for me as well, but there's still a floor on it. I like a quieter environment than most extroverts, but there is no such thing as an absolutely silent environment (not unless you spend a lot of money to make one of those soundless rooms).

There's also the matter of acute vs chronic noise. Any steady, constant noise, like a fan or music, I can tune out. Aggressive, sudden noises (like somebody shouting on the street) trigger something primal in me. It attracts my attention and if it's loud enough will even trigger my fight or flight reflex.

It makes me wonder if the reason the sensory processing dial on introverts is a little jacked up is because that trait results in a more sensitive fight or flight reflex.

I have no idea why this comment was downvoted. This is solid advice.

Depression/Lack of Interest is at least giving HN a run for its money. Besides, not everybody who spends time on HN will think it's their biggest productivity killer. Definitely A productivity killer, but maybe not the biggest one.

Do you agree with what Michael O'Church says about MBA culture? I've read a whole lot of his side of the argument but very little from somebody 'in the center of the MBAs'.

Location: Middle of nowhere New York State Remote: yes! Willing to relocate: to anywhere rural or any city with an easy commute to a rural area Technologies: Javascript, nodejs, angularjs, jquery, PHP, mysql, Java, C# Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=29204218, http://lj3.me/webdev Email: lylejantzi3rd@gmail.com

I am and have been a technology agnostic web engineer for the past 10 years. I've worked for large companies and startups alike working on projects as diverse as B2B marketplaces and online video games, some of which have brought in millions of dollars in revenue.

I'm open to both full time and freelance/contract web development positions. Most of my attention has been on Javacript and HTML5 recently, but I'm always willing to learn something new, as long as it provides a practical improvement over what I'm currently using.

Some of my other interests include services integration, tooling, creating compelling product features and getting the job done. I've been known to implement product features starting at the database and moving my way through the various layers and systems until the feature is done. I don't like delaying a frontend feature because I'm waiting on the backend team to expose a simple endpoint. If it's something I can do myself, I just do it.

Feel free to shoot me an email. I'm happy to have a conversation about what you're working on and how I can best contribute.

I don't buy it. After all, if he's never done anything outside the realm of acceptable political beliefs, then nobody has anything to lose by going into his politics. And if he has, they surely have the right to know, especially the Mozilla employees. Clearly, that's not why those comments are being downvoted.

Either the HN crowd is finally tired of the political chicanery or they're afraid that fostering further discussion could reveal something about Chris Beard they don't like. This would cause yet another round of political nonsense that winds up in a second Mozilla CEO resigning. That would be extremely embarrassing not just for Mozilla, but Silicon Valley as a whole.

There was no sense of separation or exclusiveness.

Even for the people who didn't eat with the group every day? I notice that those people tend to get excluded over time. Not on purpose, necessarily. It's human nature to see things in terms of "part of the tribe" and "not part of the tribe".

maybe you're not working with the right people..

This depends on a lot of factors. Even if you absolutely love everybody you work with, you may not want to eat lunch with them every day. For example, you work in an open office environment and see, hear and talk to them for 8-12 hours every day. Some would argue that, under those conditions, taking an hour in the middle of the day to be by yourself or to meet with people you don't see quite so often would be considered healthy.

On the other hand, if you all work in private offices 8-12 hours every day, then taking an hour and socializing with your co-workers sounds fantastic.

Do you still use google products?

Instead of keeping squishy balls at my desk, I have something that resembles Thor's hammer, except it's weighted. I play with it idly during the day[0], which helps strengthen my grip and forearms. I started doing this when my hands started to show signs of RSD. Haven't had an issue with it since.

[0] I don't swing it, as I'm too worried about accidentally hitting somebody.

Have you ever had an issue with people asking why you wear the same shirt all week?

Same, except I use an alum block instead of alcohol. I also don't use shampoo, conditioner or soap on my body. I shower daily with cold(ish) water and only water.

I'm merely dispelling the "common sense" myth that caffeine has a built in limiter, thus making it "safe" without any conscious effort on your part. It doesn't and it isn't.

In a high stress startup environment that provides an unlimited amount of coffee and energy drinks and always seems to be in crunch mode, it's easy for your caffeine consumption to creep up to "could kill a horse" levels. I've seen it happen to others. I've had it happen to me. The end results aren't nearly as bad as, say, alcohol addiction, but it's still not something I want to live through twice.

Ah, thank you! Poor sound isolation is one of the biggest reasons I don't live in a city at present.

Over time, you need to drink more and more to get to that sweet spot. Most people do self limit, but not because of that.

That's because it is a medical condition - haemorrhoids. Googling "piles" is not a pretty thing...

Here's an odd question: how's the soundproofing in your apartment? Can you hear lots of street noise even with all the windows closed?

Location: Middle of nowhere New York State Remote: yes! Willing to relocate: to anywhere rural or any city with an easy commute to a rural area Technologies: Javascript, nodejs, angularjs, jquery, PHP, mysql, Java, C# Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=29204218, http://lj3.me/webdev Email: lylejantzi3rd@gmail.com

I am and have been a technology agnostic web engineer for the past 10 years. I've worked for large companies and startups alike working on projects as diverse as B2B marketplaces and online video games, some of which have brought in millions of dollars in revenue.

I'm open to both full time and freelance/contract web development positions. Most of my attention has been on Javacript and HTML5 recently, but I'm always willing to learn something new, as long as it provides a practical improvement over what I'm currently using.

Some of my other interests include services integration, tooling, creating compelling product features and getting the job done. I've been known to implement product features starting at the database and moving my way through the various layers and systems until the feature is done. I don't like delaying a frontend feature because I'm waiting on the backend team to expose a simple endpoint. If it's something I can do myself, I just do it.

Feel free to shoot me an email. I'm happy to have a conversation about what you're working on and how I can best contribute.

I blew a technical phone screen with Zynga and not only did the interviewer not respond to any of my follow ups, the in house recruiter actually blocked my calls. Radio silence seems to be fairly standard after deciding to reject a candidate.

Read the site. He suggests water temperatures that aren't cold enough to make you shiver. In fact, if you're shivering, you're way past the 80/20 point. This isn't woo woo crazy shit, he's done his research.

Existential question of the day: If the answers are almost all lies or omissions, what's the point of asking the questions? To get good at spotting the rare honest answer among the PR? And how do you know what's a lie and what isn't? There's no way to verify anything they're telling you unless you know somebody working there.

If you're the fifth person I've spoken to that day, any questions I have about the company have most likely already been asked and answered. Would it comfort you or worry you to find out I'm asking questions I already know the answer to just for the sake of appearance? Or is there something else at work here I'm not getting?

Could he have sued the studio if he could prove it was his idea?

It's been done before and is the reason why studios do not read unsolicited scripts. Art Buchwald sued Paramount when Eddie Murphy was given sole story credit for a movie he unsuccessfully pitched. Art won the lawsuit, but instead of appealing, paramount settled for $900k and in exchange the ruling was vacated.

So what happens when it detects a speed zone in the middle of winter when I'm on a patch of black ice? The result is often a spinout resulting in totaling the car on a guard rail or a tree or a snowbank. I'll pass. Braking and acceleration are too important for maintaining road traction. Why would I compromise that to avoid a speeding ticket?

That's a beautiful table and a beautiful video. It would definitely appeal to users with good taste in aesthetics. Unfortunately, I wouldn't buy it. For less money, I can get a Steelcase Airtouch. It's straight forward, mechanical, adjusts faster with one hand and some elbow grease and there's zero chance of a prankster hacking my desk. That said, I have no doubt you'll sell plenty, it looks really cool!

Something else to keep in mind: I hope you have an easy way of locking the table height. Whenever somebody comes to my desk to look at something on the screen, they lean on the desk. With your desk, if they lean in the right place, the table moves.

Talk to anybody who works for a company who offers meals. 12-14 hour days are typical at most. Not officially, of course, but that's the point. Raw ROI aside, the real benefit of offering meals is to foster the type of culture where the company is "home." You eat there. You exercise there. You socialize there. There's no need to have a life outside of work, so a lot of the employees don't have one. If you're always around your work and people you work with, chances are you'll spend most of your time thinking about and doing work. It's a way of getting 14 hour days out of people without them realizing it or complaining about it. In that way, it's absolutely a form of "mind control" (operand conditioning).

Most would say the above is harmless and it benefits the company, which benefits the employee, so why is it such a bad thing? It's bad because this type of culture makes it extra easy for engineers to burn out.

Why is github or online portfolio a requirement? It doesn't explain what's being verified, or what we should do if we don't have either of those things.

The Peregrine looks to be the most promising platform for this kind of input. The only limitation I've seen is you need the finger dexterity of a guitar player to quickly and accurately type that way. Then again, the only other solution I've seen is the four button spiffchorder[0] and a trackball in the other hand. I don't like those only because you can't do anything else with your hands while you're using them.

[0] http://chorder.cs.vassar.edu/spiffchorder/forside