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Using more than a hundred stored procedures in production

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Communication skills is more valuable than Technical skills

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Deliberate Constraints

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Writing an ebook

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Measuring parcels with Kinect

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The tyranny of billing

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The randomness idea filter

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How traditional Chinese medicine finally won its Nobel Prize

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Transwheel – parcel delivery drone

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The Haskell user experience

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Ultimate Privacy Guide

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Offer HN: Four Free Penetration Tests

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Buying a pair of second hand programmers

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Three tips for managing complexity in Node.js projects

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Wolfram Alpha Facebook Analytics

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The library shopping checklist

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Thoughts on the Kinesis Freestyle 2

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A quiet desktop

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First impressions of Leap Motion

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First impressions of Ansible: a configuration management tool

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Post Mortem of Notifymode

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My standing desk experiment

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Google consumer surveys

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The Right Way and the Wrong Way to develop software

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Propine | www.propine.com | Remote, but must be willing to work within UTC+6 to UTC+10 | Full Time Propine is re-inventing capital markets using blockchain technology. We’re the first licensed custodian for digital assets in Singapore, with a capital markets license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

We are re-imagining the issuance and life cycle management of capital market products like equities, debt, structured products and funds using blockchain technology, to reduce friction and increasing value accrual for both issuers and investors.

We're hiring for multiple roles

  - Security & Solution Architect
  - Senior Blockchain Engineers(Blockchain exp not a requisite)
  - Product Manager
Please contact Zan at zan@propine.com for more information

Propine | www.propine.com | Remote, but must be willing to work within UTC+6 to UTC+10 | Full Time

Propine is re-inventing capital markets using blockchain technology. We’re the first licensed custodian for digital assets in Singapore, with a capital markets license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

We are re-imagining the issuance and life cycle management of capital market products like equities, debt, structured products and funds using blockchain technology, to reduce friction and increasing value accrual for both issuers and investors.

We're hiring for multiple roles

  - Security & Solution Architect
  - Senior Blockchain Engineers(Blockchain exp not a requisite)
  - Product Manager
Please contact Zan at zan@propine.com for more information

Propine | www.propine.com | Remote, but must be willing to work within UTC+6 to UTC+10 | Full Time Propine is re-inventing capital markets using blockchain technology. We’re the first licensed custodian for digital assets in Singapore, with a capital markets license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

We are re-imagining the issuance and life cycle management of capital market products like equities, debt, structured products and funds using blockchain technology, to reduce friction and increasing value accrual for both issuers and investors.

We're hiring for multiple roles

  - Legal & Compliance Manager 
  - Security & Solution Architect
  - Senior Blockchain Engineers(Blockchain exp not a requisite)
Please contact Zan at zan@propine.com for more information

Propine | www.propine.com | Remote, but must be willing to work within GMT+6 to GMT+10 | Full Time

Propine is re-inventing capital markets using blockchain technology. We’ve worked with Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), to become the first licensed custodian for digital assets in the world.

We are re-imagining the issuance and life cycle management of capital market products like equities, debt, structured products and funds using blockchain technology, to reduce friction and increasing value accrual for both issuers and investors.

We're hiring for multiple roles

  - Legal & Compliance Manager 
  - Security & Solution Architect
  - Senior Blockchain Engineers(Blockchain exp not a requisite)
Please contact Zan at zan@propine.com for more information

Propine | www.propine.com | Remote but must be willing to work within +-2 hours of SGT | Full Time

Propine is re-inventing capital markets using blockchain technology. We’ve worked with Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), to become the first licensed custodian for digital assets in the world.

We are re-imagining the issuance and life cycle management of capital market products like equities, debt, structured products and funds using blockchain technology, to reduce friction and increasing value accrual for both issuers and investors.

We're hiring for multiple roles

- Legal & Compliance Manager https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2256374103/?refId=k8iyz0l...

- Security & Solution Architect https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2234259476/?capColoOverri...

- Product & Business Manager https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2256350050/?refId=jQtvFVM...

- Senior Blockchain Engineers

Please contact Zan at zan@propine.com for more information

Propine | https://www.propine.com | Director of Security Ops | Singapore or Remote | Full time

Propine is an end-to-end securities services firm built for digital securities from the ground up, aiming to fulfil the needs of institutional clients. We were admitted into Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)’s regulatory sandbox since 2019, and granted the Singapore's first Capital Market Services licence to provide independent digital asset custody services.

We're looking for a Director of Security Ops to help improve the security of our platform, architect solutions for our platform from a security angle, and undertake compliance related work. The right person would possess experience in software engineering, cyber security and blockchain.

We've transited to a fully remote team since the pandemic struck. Remote is preferred but you're required to work close to the Singapore timezone.

Please contact Zan at zan@propine.com

Propine | Blockchain/Software Engineers all levels | Singapore | Visa, Onsite | Full-time, Salary + Options

Propine(https://www.propineglobal.com/) is a VC funded fintech startup based in Singapore. We started Propine to build the infrastructure that enables the financial systems of the future. We just got a regulatory license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and are raising our Series A to expand the team. You'd get to work with different blockchains, build enterprise grade applications that serves financial institutions, and do serious security. Prior blockchain experience isn't necessary.

Please contact Zan at zan@propineglobal.com.

We use Zenhub with Github issues. Zenhub adds more structure over Github project. It hit the sweet spot for small teams, not too basic where we can't use it to run our processes, yet not so bloated where we need a manual for doing things. The tight integration with Github is a big win for us. But you can't customise things so when the team gets bigger we expect to move.

https://www.zenhub.com/

Propine | Blockchain Engineers | Singapore | Visa, Onsite | Full-time, Salary + Options

Propine is a VC funded fintech startup based in Singapore. We were incubated at Entrepreneur First(www.joinef.com) in Singapore and obtained substantial seed funding from institutional VCs. We are building infrastructure for institutions to manage their digital assets(cryto-currencies).

We are looking for Blockchain Engineers to build our dApps.

The Blockchain engineers will be working on our decentralised application which talks to the various cryptocurrencies, handling transactions securely and writing smart contracts + protocols.

If you want to join an early stage startup in Singapore, do contact us at zan@propineglobal.com.

Propine Capital | Blockchain Engineers | Singapore | Visa, Onsite | Full-time, Salary + Options

Propine Capital is a fintech startup based in Singapore. We were incubated at Entrepreneur First(www.joinef.com) in Singapore, completed our Demo day in mid July, and obtained substantial seed funding from institutional VCs. We are building infrastructure for institutions to manage their digital assets(cryto-currencies).

We are looking for Blockchain Engineers to build our dApps.

The Blockchain engineers will be working on our decentralised application which talks to the various cryptocurrencies, handling transactions securely and writing smart contracts + protocols.

If you want to join an early stage startup in Singapore, do contact us at zan@propinecapital.com.

Propine Capital | Blockchain Engineers | Singapore | Visa, Onsite | Full-time, Salary + Options

Propine Capital is a fintech startup based in Singapore. We were incubated at Entrepreneur First(www.joinef.com) in Singapore, completed our Demo day in mid July, and obtained substantial seed funding from institutional VCs. We are building infrastructure for institutions to manage their digital assets(cryto-currencies).

We are looking for Blockchain Engineers to build our dApps.

The Blockchain engineers will be working on our decentralised application which talks to the various cryptocurrencies, handling transactions securely and writing smart contracts + protocols.

If you want to join an early stage startup in Singapore, do contact us at zan@propinecapital.com.

Well I'm the founder of a startup, funded, and actively hiring. I'm considered old myself(late thirties), so I see the value of experience.

Going through the variables.

A - no. B - no. I tried that in my previous company, it won't work unless everybody buys in. C - no. D - yes. E - toss up. The average age of the management is in the late 30s, the average age of the whole team is in the mid-late thirties. No twenty plus young kids(rarity in startups nowadays). We've seen shit, made many mistakes, so we're hopefully on the way to becoming better managers F - hell yes. Both founders have kids. Principle is "Work hard, and go home" G - Unavoidable I - Blockchain

Please reach me(check my username)!

Propine Capital | Head of Information Security & Blockchain Engineers | Singapore | Visa, Onsite | Full-time, Salary + Options

Propine Capital is a fintech startup based in Singapore. We were incubated at Entrepreneur First(www.joinef.com) in Singapore, completed our Demo day in mid July, and obtained substantial seed funding from institutional VCs. We are building infrastructure for institutions to manage their digital assets(cryto-currencies).

We are looking for a Head of Information Security to help secure our infrastructure and Blockchain Engineers to build our dApps.

The Head of InfoSec will be developing and implementing processes to contain security threats, implementing an incident response structure and ensuring that compliance and governance is met.

The Blockchain engineers will be working on our decentralised application which talks to the various cryptocurrencies, handling transactions securely and writing smart contracts + protocols.

If you want to join an early stage startup in Singapore, do contact us at zan@propinecapital.com.

Propine Capital | Head of Information Security | Singapore | Visa, Onsite | Full-time, Salary + Options

Propine Capital is a fintech startup based in Singapore. We were incubated at Entrepreneur First(www.joinef.com), and recently completed our Demo day in July. We are building infrastructure for institutions to manage their digital assets(cryto-currencies).

We are looking for a Head of Information Security to help secure our infrastructure and our customer's assets. You will be developing and implementing processes to contain security threats, implementing an incident response structure and ensuring that compliance and governance is met.

If you want to join an early stage startup in Singapore, and make an indelible impact, do contact us at zan@propinecapital.com.

Overall it is positive. Be mentally prepared, the percentage that eventually make it to demo day is not high. I came to EF to look for my co-founder. The quality of the cohort is phenomenal(on paper that is), albeit most are first time founders. There are researchers, engineers and domain experts all coming from diverse industries/fields. As the cohort size is so big, there are many possibilities. They will not so gently nudge you towards forming a team with complementary strengths and great fit to the problem. The scary part - when you look at teams that present on demo day, they look like a team tailor-made for the problem. What is the probability of that happening organically in the wild? Go for it, just the friendships cultivated with the cohort of great people is worth it.

There're accelerators that take in applicants pre-idea, pre-team pioneered by Entrepreneur First(https://www.joinef.com/) from the UK. The cohort size is about 100, and the founders come from diverse industries and backgrounds. It vastly increases the odds of finding a co-founder - a person who has complementary skills, is committed, and wants to start the company at the same time. Though the thought of starting a company with a stranger can be hard to fathom, you have 3 months to test out the working relationship with different people before committing.

Disclaimer: I found my co-founder from the EF program and completed the program.

Propine Capital | Software/Blockchain Engineers, Singapore | Onsite, Full-time | www.propinecapital.com

We are a fintech startup based in Singapore. We graduated from Entrepreneur First(www.joinef.com), one of the top startup accelerators globally. We are building infrastructure for institutions to manage their digital assets. We are looking to hire engineers of all levels and you'll be working on a variety of crypto currencies, writing dApps. Blockchain programming experience is not necessary, though advantageous.

Those interested, do send in your resume to zan@propinecapital.com. It doesn't matter which discipline you are from. You will get a take-home assignment, followed by an in-person chat for culture fit.

Courex - www.storeviva.com | Multiple positions in Engineering | Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Vietnam | Full Time

# What the company does

Courex is an 8 year old ecommerce logistics company, backed by the Keppel Logistics. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following

  - last mile delivery
  - warehousing
  - omnichannel integration
Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff
  - We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model.
  - We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect
  - We have autonomous robots and conveyor belts coming in early 2018 to sort parcels
Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world in a huge traditional industry.

# What the job entails

We are expanding to South-east Asia. We have a few positions

  - Node.js/Haskell/Scala engineers
  - Front-end lead
  - Data Scientist
  
# Contact

Please email zan+hn@courex.com.sg if you are interested.

Courex - www.storeviva.com | Multiple positions in Engineering | Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Vietnam | Full Time

# What the company does

Courex is an 8 year old ecommerce logistics company driven by technology. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following

  - last mile delivery
  - warehousing
  - omnichannel integration
Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff
  - We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model.
  - We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect
  - We have autonomous robots coming in late 2017 to pick and sort parcels
Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world in a huge traditional industry.

# What the job entails

We are expanding to South-east Asia. We have a few positions

  - Front-end lead
  - Head of Data Science
  
# Contact

Please email zan+hn@courex.com.sg if you are interested.

Courex - www.storeviva.com | Multiple positions in Engineering | Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Vietnam | ONSITE in Singapore(or REMOTE in Southeast Asia)

# What the company does

Courex is an 8 year old ecommerce logistics company driven by technology. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following

  - last mile delivery
  - warehousing
  - omnichannel integration
Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff
  - We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model.
  - We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect
  - We have autonomous robots coming in late 2017 to pick and sort parcels
Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world in a huge traditional industry.

# What the job entails

We are expanding to South-east Asia. We have a few positions open.

  - Front-end lead for all our products.
  - Engineering(all levels) in our Inventory team who uses Haskell to sync & track stock movement
  - Engineering(all levels) in our Transport team who uses Node.js/React to run our delivery operations
  - Head of Data Science
  
# Contact

Please email zan+hn@courex.com.sg if you are interested.

Courex - www.storeviva.com | Senior Engineer | Singapore | Full Time(40% remote)

# What the company does

Courex is an 8 year old ecommerce logistics company driven by technology. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following

  - last mile delivery
  - warehousing
  - omnichannel integration
Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff
  - We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model.
  - We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect
  - We have autonomous robots coming in 2017 to pick and sort parcels
Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world in a huge traditional industry

# What the job entails

We have 1 position open who will be working on our Inventory related products. The stack is in Haskell and React. Production experience in Haskell is not necessary, but a keen interest in functional tongues is required. We allow our engineers to work from home 2 days a week.

# Contact

No formal qualifications needed. Please email zan+hn@courex.com.sg if you are interested.

Courex - www.storeviva.com | Senior Engineer | Singapore | Full Time(40% remote)

# What the company does

Courex is an 8 year old ecommerce logistics company driven by technology. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following

   - last mile delivery
   - warehousing
   - omnichannel integration
Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff
   - We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model.
   - We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect
   - We have autonomous robots coming in 2017 to pick and sort parcels
Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world in a huge traditional industry

# What the job entails

We are looking to add 1 Haskeller(or someone who wants to pick up real world Haskell). We allow our engineers to work from home 2 days a week. The stack is in Haskell and Scala.

# Contact

No formal qualifications needed. Please email zan+hn@courex.com.sg if you are interested.

Courex - www.storeviva.com | Engineering all levels | Singapore | Full Time(60% remote)

# What the company does

Courex is an 8 year old ecommerce logistics company driven by technology. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following

  - last mile delivery
  - warehousing
  - omnichannel integration
Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff
  - We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model.
  - We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect
  - We have autonomous robots coming in 2017 to pick and sort parcels
Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world in a huge traditional industry

# What the job entails

We are looking to add 2 engineers. We allow our engineers to work from home 3 days a week. We have 2 stacks: one is Node.js with a React frontend + stored procedures, triggers and functions doing the heavy work in the DB; one is React frontend with Haskell + Scala.

# Contact

No formal qualifications needed. Please email zan+hn@courex.com.sg if you are interested.

Courex - www.storeviva.com | Creative Director | Singapore | Full Time/Consultant/Onsite or Remote(Asia only)

# What the company does

Courex is a 8 year old ecommerce logistics company driven by technology. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following - last mile delivery - warehousing - omnichannel integration

Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff - We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model. - We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect - We have autonomous robots coming in 2017 to pick and sort parcels

Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world.

# What the job entails

We are looking for someone strong in design who can help us in the design of our web and mobile applications. It can be a full time position or as a consultant.

# Contact

No formal qualifications needed. Please email zan+hn@courex.com.sg if you are interested.

I've read "On Writing Well". I then discovered "Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace" by Joseph Williams. "Style" is better than "On Writing Well". "On Writing Well" opened my eyes to what bad writing is, while "Style" explained how to write clearly. He took an impossible topic - writing clearly, showing you the elements of clear, consistent and impactful writing, distilling down into actionable lessons. The advice is not vague like "Use the active voice", "Don't start sentences with And"; he shows you why with examples. Even the passive voice is more suitable in certain cases. After reading the book, it changed the way I read and write. Very few books change the way you think. "Style" is one of them.

Courex - www.storeviva.com | VP Engineering | Singapore | Full/Flexi-time

# What the company does

Courex is a 7 year old ecommerce logistics company driven by technology. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following - last mile delivery - warehousing - omnichannel integration

Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff - We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model. - We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect - We have autonomous robots coming in 2017 to pick and sort parcels

Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world.

# What the job entails

We are looking for someone to lead the inventory management or omnichannel products.ur tech stack is Node.js/PHP/Scala/Ruby. We allow our engineers to work from home a few days every week.

# Contact

No formal qualifications needed. Please email zan+hn@courex.com.sg if you are interested.

Courex - www.storeviva.com | VP Engineering | Singapore | Full/Flexi-time/Onsite

# What the company does

Courex is a 7 year old ecommerce logistics company driven by technology. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following - last mile delivery - warehousing - omnichannel integration

Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff - We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model. - We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect - We have autonomous robots coming in 2017 to pick and sort parcels

Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world.

# What the job entails

We are looking for someone to lead the inventory management or omnichannel products. Our tech stack is Node.js/PHP/Scala/Ruby/Haskell. We allow our engineers to work from home a few days every week.

# Contact

No formal qualifications needed. Please email zan+scala@courex.com.sg if you are interested.

Courex - www.storeviva.com | Lead Engineer/Senior Engineer | Singapore | Full/Flexi-time

# What the company does

Courex is a 7 year old ecommerce logistics company driven by technology. We help our customers manage their supply chain so they can focus on selling. We do the following - last mile delivery - warehousing - omnichannel integration

Our operations is driven by technology. Some interesting stuff - We run a hybrid crowd-sourced(uber style) + fixed fleet model. - We built an automated parcel dimension measurement machine using Kinect - We have autonomous robots coming in 2017 to pick and sort parcels

Experience a different sort of scale. Not bits and bytes, but parcels, machines and people. Your work affects the real world.

# What the job entails

We are looking to add 2 positions. One to lead the inventory management and omnichannel products, the other to help at our delivery web and mobile applications. Our tech stack is Node.js/PHP/Scala/Ruby/Haskell. We allow our engineers to work from home a few days every week.

# Contact

No formal qualifications needed. Please email zan+hn@courex.com.sg if you are interested.

Courex - Singapore - Full time - Polyglot developers

Courex is a technology driven logistics company founded 6 years ago in sunny Singapore. We are bootstrapped, profitable and proud. We are building solutions to fix the logistics industry. Especially in last-mile logistics.

Our tech stack

PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Scala, AWS, ZeroMQ, Docker, Ansible, mobile(iOS, Android), OpenCV, PCL. There are heavy elements of computer vision, machine learning(route optimzation).

We like generalists who knows a variety of technologies. But so long as you do good work and you work well in a team, we'd love to speak to you. This position requires you to be based in Singapore.

Please contact Zan at zan@courex.com.sg