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DataJoint | Senior Engineer | Remote (US), Houston/Austin, TX | https://datajoint.com

DataJoint is seeking a Senior Engineer skilled in building computational platforms in modern cloud environments. This is a unique opportunity to join our team to scale up our existing solutions and invent new capabilities to support life sciences research in biotech and drug discovery. Technologies: Python, k8s, SciPy | NumPy, Typescript.

Apply Online at: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4084617843/

Record360 | 3 Engineering Roles | Remote | FTE | CONUS

Record360 is an asset inspection and workflow company that works in heavy equipment and other logistics spaces. We make simple tools that just work, with people in the field using mobile devices to inspect and perform other operations on assets. The engineering team is ~10 people. We are a profitable, growing company with a good work-life balance. Our core hours are 10a - 2p to allow for overlap in CONUS. People must have existing US work authorization, cannot sponsor.

Our Platform is React / Ruby on Rails / GraphQL / Postgres / Kubernetes / Redis / AWS.

We are hiring for three positions, details including comp at the links:

* Senior Software Engineer focused on Integrations

* Mobile Engineer -- iOS

* Software Engineer -- Platform.

https://recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/All/e0f0f5b...

I was really disappointed when I saw this, but not because of the content, which is great, but because I saw Cats (Year) and assumed that the link was going to be explaining git using the _movie_ Cats. Sadly, the movie was Cats (2019).

Would have been nice to have an executive summary

That's Indexing and Abstracting, not Cataloging, a different area of librarianship/information science. Sorry.

More seriously: The poster must have had some context in mind when they posted this to HN and it would be interesting to learn what that was; even if it was just "TIL libraries don't keep books forever."

Bad JSON Parsers 7 years ago

This works out well in practice -- the ruby parser that ships with the language (the 100 levels one) works for most purposes and will even go back to an all-ruby implementation if it can't load its C extension. It's a reasonable default parser for almost all cases.

However, if you need the all-singing, all-dancing, handles the most complex use cases super fast parser, which is Oj at the bottom (which handles infinite levels), then you have the option to install it and use it.

Personally, I'm on a tight Things.app <-> Bear.app loop; professionally, it varies. For keeping professional stuff up to speed I'm on a Things.app ingestion -> Asana loop that throws off artifacts to a google drive and various git repository markdown files, which might be writing new documents or keeping existing documents up to date.

Although it should be noted in that article:

"Over the follow-up period, there were 341 deaths from cancer: 154 among participants who took vitamin D (1.1%) and 187 among those who took the placebo (1.4%). Although this difference was not statistically significant, the difference in cancer deaths between the groups started to widen over time, the researchers reported.

The researchers plan to follow the participants for another 2 to 5 years, to see if a statistically significant difference in cancer deaths emerges. Laboratory studies have suggested that high blood levels of vitamin D may decrease the aggressiveness of cancer cells and the likelihood of metastasis, explained Dr. Manson. If so, longer follow-up will be needed to assess its effects on the risk of death from cancer, she added. Other studies have suggested that regular use of vitamin D supplements may reduce the risk of dying from cancer, she said."

So they're still continuing to follow that up long term to see if it has a longer term effect.

I have a side project that I've been working on which is re-implementing a couple of old rails4 projects that old customers still use in Phoenix/Elixir. It's been going pretty well.

I'm also working on a generative mobile game in react-native, which is fun but is taking a while to do.

Farewell and good luck on your new adventure, loved your product and used it to our great advantage a few years ago.

waffle.io was github projects, built on top of the github api, a few years before github projects. basically a github-based kanban board. It was pretty great if you were a smallish startup.

  Location: Seattle, WA, US
  Remote: Yes (Experienced Remote SDM)
  Willing to relocate:  Yes (within the PNW)
  Technologies: Last several projects have been cloud-based Rails projects, I've mostly been a technical co-founder or player/coach SDM
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corprew/
  Email: temporary-2019-03@corprew.org

I wish journalists would publish headlines like this and Kodak's recent adventure as "The company that currently has the rights to the name [Whatever Past Beloved Consumer Brand] is [Doing Whatever]"

It would be a lot clearer.

I'm really glad that these folks are succeeding, they've been at it a really long time. They contacted us when I was on a non-profit board that ran an event a few years ago, and it was obvious that it was a great idea that we had no way of implementing. Now that everyone has a phone with them all the time, they're past that barrier.

I hope that they get great success.