mattcrest

I failed to mention that the UI Developer role is open to remote, but within USA/Canada only.

ACL Software | UI Developer | Full-time | Vancouver, BC or REMOTE | http://build.acl.com

Chat bots are cool, but we're looking for someone to join our 10 person UX Design team and help us build products that make a difference. Our software is used to prevent fraud and waste in organizations and governments, help companies determine strategic plans for the future, and ensure they all operate with integrity.

UX/UI Developers at ACL work closely with UX Designers and Software Engineers to deliver beautiful functioning software used by 90% of the Fortune 500 and by organizations around the world.

Skills/Qualifications

  • Understand JavaScript concepts such as object, closure, scope, etc.
  • Understand JavaScript design patterns
  • Knowledge of current trends and best practices in front-end architecture (performance, accessibility, usability, etc.)
  • Experience with or willing to learn Sass, git, and the command line
  • Experience with client side frameworks like AngularJS (MVC, MVVM,...)
  • Open to working within the view layer of Ruby on Rails

  • React, TDD and JavaScript testing frameworks, rapid prototyping

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We're also hiring for these Vancouver-only positions:

  • Software Engineer (C#, JavaScript) - http://www.acl.com/about-us/careers/open-positions/?p=job%2FogvV3fwt&s=hn
  • QA Engineer Co-op (4 or 8 months) - http://www.acl.com/about-us/careers/open-positions/?p=job%2FoM594fwO&s=hn

ACL Software [http://acl.com] | Designer, Engineer, R&D Manager, QA

Vancouver, BC | Onsite | Full-time

Why you should leave your current job and work with us: http://bit.ly/acl-ux-designer

We're also hiring for QA Engineers, DevOps, Ruby on Rails, R&D Manager and basically anyone that's wanting to do great work (https://acl-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseac...)

Our industry and marketing website may look bland and boring, but trust me, we're doing some really kick-ass stuff on the product side. Our customers include 90% of the Fortune 500 and government agencies around the world.

We're not bootstrapped, taking on venture capital, or getting headlines on TechCrunch, but we are moving at the speed of a startup, building products with Angular, Rails, Go, and have a great team that pushes each other to be better every day.

Oh, and we're located in one of the best cities in North America: Vancouver.

It's not online, but I've been told "The Back of the Napkin: : Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures" is a good book for that kind of thing.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843065/

They are bulky for traveling. I use these at my office, and just use iPhone earbuds for when I'm on the go.

I went through a search for quality headphones that can also work for Skype calls a while back. I ended up going with what is marketed as a gaming headset. While I'm not a gamer, I've found the SteelSeries Siberia V2 to be pretty great.

The pull-out mic is by far my favorite feature.

http://steelseries.com/products/audio/steelseries-siberia-v2

Sounds good. She sent a beta inquiry about getting her school on board with it.

I think the school/district-wide system is going to be your best bet. As I'm sure you're aware, teachers don't exactly bring home the bank. So personally dropping $10/mo for something like this isn't likely going to happen for most teachers (most provide quite a bit of in-classroom supplies out of pocket as well).

Something to consider in promoting to schools/districts: lack of parent involvement is one of the biggest reasons kids aren't doing well in school. By keeping parents informed on a regular basis about what their kids should be doing, there's a better chance homework will get done, studying for tests will happen, and those damn standardized test scores will improve. Well, that's the hope at least.

Sorry for the slow reply, but, that in itself doesn't connect it to an SMS number. That's just so she can contact a class as a whole, rather than individually.

The SMS connection lies in that every mobile number has an email address associated with it. So you can send an email to that address and it will be delivered to the device as a text message.

My wife is a middle school teacher and created a system similar to this using a Gmail account. She creates groups for each class, then emails to their SMS address (phonenumber@att.net or similar).

This looks so much nicer than jacking around with all the various carrier email addresses manually.

I'll have her pass this along to her district. Best of luck!

Denver, CO - Collaboratory

We're looking for a freelance jr. web designer & developer to contract work out to on a regular basis (ideally local, but will definitely consider remote). HN probably isn't our target market, but if you know a new-ish front-end dev, or are looking to pick up a bit of extra cash, look us up.

http://letscollab.org/jobs

Note: if you rock socks, don't sweat all the application cruft, we just wanted to weed people out (please mention this HN post).

Clickable link: http://momsintow.com

I'll throw in a recommendation for PayLeap (http://www.payleap.com) as a combo gateway/merchant account.

As for the the delayed billing, something like OpenGateway (http://opengateway.net) might work. It is set up for subscription payments, but there's a way to work around it. You could essentially set up the initial payment with a 30 day free trial (although don't really call it that), then automatically bill after the trial period. And instead of then billing every 30 days like a traditional subscription, you make set it up so it only charges once (no repeat).

I recently used these two in conjunction and have had great support from both companies. PayLeap has superb phone and email support and OpenGateway has solid email/web support. Also worth mentioning, I'm not an experienced ecommerce or subscription guy, but both systems were pretty easy to work with.

Develop an alternative to TicketMaster that you can white label to MLB, NFL, etc. They could be making millions of extra dollars a year if they had their own system. Why not create the system for them and skim a portion off the top.

[I'm a designer and have no idea what would be involved in making this happen, or if it's feasible from a business perspective. I'm also in Denver, so...would love to hear what comes of your project]

It looks nice, but I agree with wbond. Not only should the p tags be labels, but the divs could be fieldsets to make it more semantic.

Video slap bracelets. That is all.

I completely agree. I implemented this on a site a few months ago, but ended up removing it because while it did in fact add a cool factor, it hindered readability (shocking coming from a designer, I know).

That being said, I'm sure there are use-cases where Masonry would add value; just not sure what those are.

We haven't enabled comments on our blog precisely for this reason.

Are there any success stories or best practices for quality comments and discussions on blogs? What makes Hacker News commentary successful? User accounts required and therefore no anonymity? Guidelines?

We created a sexy setup with plexiglass, glass fogging spray paint, and mirror hangers. We get lots of compliments.

It cost a hell of a lot more than $4, but it looks a lot better too.

Here's a few pics (pardon the sweet coloring from the iPhone camera): http://drp.ly/8Az8f

You can also get plexiglass pre-fogged, but it costs more. We liked the subtle background paint color showing through.

I'll second Inc. and Fast Company. Both have great content.

For an outside the tech mag, I'm a huge fan of GOOD (http://good.is). Lots of smart thinking and and in-depth explorations of the theme for each issue.

I dig undrln. It's a very small and moldable community right now. It's done by Eric Karjaluoto of http://SmashLab.com and http://ideasonideas.com, the latter being a great blog for small design businesses.

I've gone through testing with a handful of these JS to Obj-C conversion systems and haven't found one that does a really good job of emulating a native app. Appcelerator seems to be the best option out there, but you write very Appcelerator specific JS to make things work.

While quite straightforward to work with, my main gripe with PhoneGap and QuickConnect (a similar system to PhoneGap) are: 1) the inability to have a native footer (a fixed header is possible, just not the footer)

2) no keyboard views other than the standard (eg: no number pad)

Appcelerator gets you access to both of these things because it's actually re-writing your code as native (at least that's my understanding).

Basically, for side-project or pretty simple apps, PhoneGap seems like a godsend. But for a commercial app that needs a certain polish and a truly native feel, not sure they cut it. My 2.5¢.

Also, I did a quick write up on this back in June: http://DesignLitm.us/u/14 If things have changed since then, please ignore this entire response!

The "we" line is used all over the place for web design shops. My question is does it become valid if you regularly use sub-contractors and/or interns?

I recently did a video interview with an Icelandic freelance web designer and just posted a small excerpt, of which the main topic was honesty and authenticity in business (he spoke specifically of the "we" talk).

Worth a look: http://www.designlitm.us/articles/honesty_and_authenticity/