jonhinson

Mantis Innovation | Full Stack Rails Engineer (Mid / Senior) | REMOTE or ONSITE (optional) in Houston/Denver/Boston | Full Time | $110-130k+ DOE | https://mantisinnovation.com

Mantis Innovation is reimagining facility performance. We provide technology-enabled solutions that target the entire building footprint – from roofs, walls, and pavement, to HVAC, lighting and power – as we guide our clients on their journey towards increased sustainability.

Stack Overview:

- Ruby 2.6, Rails 5 (Upgrading to latest is in-progress)

- React, Stimulus, vanilla JS

- MySQL, Redis, ES

- GCP, K8s (GKE)

What You Need:

- CS degree or equivalent experience

- 3+ years of non-trivial Rails experience

- Strong grasp of CS concepts (e.g., OOP, data structures, etc.)

- Strong relational DB skills

What You Get:

- $110k-130k+ Base Salary Depending on Experience

- Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA, FSA

- Work Remotely (+/- 3 hours from Central Time)

- 401k w/ up to 3% match

- Up to 10% annual bonus

- 15+ days PTO + 10 Paid Holidays

- Parental Leave - 6 weeks

- Tuition Reimbursement (Up to $5,250/yr)

- Equipment Budget - $5,000

If you are interested, please reach out to devhiring@mantisinnovation.com

It's a false premise that taxation does not produce a good or service. E.g. USPS, defense contracts, farm subsidies, etc.

It's not clear that you're going to end up with lower economic growth. For example, taxing some level of income that would otherwise not be spent on economic activity (e.g. savings or equity investments) and spending it on things that do result in economic active results in higher economic growth.

What do those bureaucrats do with the money that is paid with taxes? Spend it on economic activity.

The U-4 (unemployed + discouraged workers) for March was 5.3% as opposed to the U-3 (unemployed) of 5% [1].

1. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

How is Common Core, a set of standards that can voluntarily be adopted by states, equivalent to regulation?

At what rate do taxes cross the threshold of being obscenely high?

How is this true since ETFs were around several years before electronic exchanges came into existence?

So much cynicism in these comments. As a 27-year-old, I found myself nodding at almost everything stated by the author. Perhaps I don't fall into the same category as most other HNers.

1. Stay married to the same person.

I married my wife right out of college (age 22) and we were and still are serious about the "til death do us part" bit. We realize that a strong marriage is something that takes hard work on a daily basis. Are there cases where this just isn't the best route to take? Absolutely (e.g. abusive relationships, unfaithful relationships, etc).

2. If you’re going to have children do it before 35.

Our daughter is now 14 months old and we have a 529 set up for her. I'll definitely be pushing for an in-state public school.

3. Choose a career you can imagine doing for 35 years and stick with it.

I love being a software engineer and I can't imagine working at a different company than I do now. I'm constantly challenged and learning new things while being part of an amazing team.

4. Secure a job with a defined benefit pension, ideally one with a union that protects you from the wiles of a topsy-turvy job market.

This is where I diverge, albeit not necessarily by choice. I contribute to my 401k which my employer contributes a generous amount. I am not a member of a union.

5. Find a financial advisor you can trust.

This is one area where I've procrastinated. I've read a lot of personal finance books and blogs, so I'm not entirely ignorant, but I do need to find a competent professional to look after my finances.

6. Buy the best house you can afford.

I didn't quite follow this advice, as we decided to buy a house below our means, but it is in a great area, brand new and plenty of space (2100 sqft). I don't view buying a home as some sort of investment (i.e. I went in to it not expecting any significant return), but we bought towards the bottom of the market with an amazing interest rate. On top of that, we're paying almost the same exact monthly payment as we did on our apartment that was 1200sqft while putting equity into something. It does help that we're out in the burbs.

7. Years before you retire, develop long-standing interests that are not outrageously costly and that don’t depend on your job or your family.

I think this is great advice.

Many comments are saying this results in a really boring life during peak years, but I don't see that. We eat out at great restaurants, have travelled internationally, are involved in our community, actively engage in hobbies individually and together, spends a large amount of time with friends and family, etc. I suppose it's just a matter of different strokes...

As a native Texan (I've lived in the Houston area for about 26 years), I agree with most of what you say.

RE: the clinics, instead of closing, could those clinics continue to offer the other services and simply stop offering abortions? I feel like it's throwing the baby out with the bath water to just shut down altogether. Perhaps I am just misunderstanding the legislation, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't think it's a weird thing to do if someone loves what they do or is very grateful for the opportunity they have. However, I'm biased as I have written a thank you note to my CEO before (small company - I was #13 and we have 36 people now).

Evolution is simply the change in allele frequency in populations of organisms over time. This is most certainly observable.

Similar to sukuriant, I googled the name half of your email in your profile, clicked on your Trello profile, copy&pasted the text from your first entry (I did not recognize the language) into Google. Google Translate told me it was Polish.

Also, on your twitter account (same username as on Trello), you mention Warsaw a few times.

I was completely unfamiliar with the matters you mentioned in your comment.

My Google-fu leads me to say...Poland.

I was simply commenting on the semantics of the article. The wording in the title and body claims this bill is the cause of the temporary tax cut expiring. That would be disingenuous. The cause of this "tax increase" is the fact that the original legislation made it temporary. This bill has nothing to do with "...[raising] taxes on 77.1 percent of U.S. households..."

The article makes it sound like the bill explicitly raises taxes on 77% of households. This would be false. The bill simply does not extend the temporary tax holiday that was signed into law at the end of 2010. The payroll tax rate goes back to the rate we've had since 1990.

Netflix's blog post mentions they used two algorithms from one of the Progress Prize ($50,000) winners.

The article goes on to say "...you might be wondering what happened with the final Grand Prize ensemble that won the $1M two years later...We evaluated some of the new methods offline but the additional accuracy gains that we measured did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment."

The title is completely accurate.

You lack imagination.