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nahurst.substack.com 2mo ago

Mental bugs due to lack of imagination

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en.wikipedia.org 2mo ago

Swiss Cheese Model

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news.ycombinator.com 2mo ago

HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

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gabrielweinberg.com 2mo ago

Principles almost always have exceptions

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tracesofhumanity.org 2mo ago

Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity

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blog.val.town 2mo ago

Migrating from Supabase to Render (2023)

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www.bloomberg.com 2mo ago

OpenAI Finalizes $10B Joint Venture with PE Firms to Deploy AI

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nahurst.substack.com 8mo ago

Artificial intelligence will kill artificial gates

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thinkingmachines.ai 8mo ago

Tinker: Call for ML Research Projects

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nahurst.substack.com 8mo ago

Bottlenecks in AI-Assisted Product Development

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www.standardcap.com 8mo ago

Standard Capital: Series A lead investor for 10% equity via application

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www.datcreativity.com 4y ago

The Divergent Association Task measures verbal creativity in under 4 minutes

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engineering.teacherspayteachers.com 10y ago

The Fear of Breaking Things

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github.com 11y ago

Design Pattern Code Examples

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

Coupon collector's problem

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www.kinsahealth.com 12y ago

The Kinsa Smart Thermometer

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objcsharp.wordpress.com 12y ago

The Great Pointer Syntax Debate

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giftmating.com 13y ago

Show HN: GiftMating - gift ideas based on things your giftees already love

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blog.nahurst.com 13y ago

Don't re-elect SOPA supporters on Tuesday

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www.theverge.com 13y ago

AT&T's FaceTime blocking draws formal FCC complaint from interest groups

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blog.nahurst.com 13y ago

Visualizing Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

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www.space.com 13y ago

Explosion on Jupiter Spotted by Amateur Astronomers

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blog.hirelite.com 13y ago

Don't hire only self-described awesome developers

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torrentfreak.com 13y ago

RIAA Revenue Dwindles As Labels Cut Back

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arstechnica.com 13y ago

Craigslist reportedly blocks search engines to kill competitors

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blog.nahurst.com 14y ago

Code, Picasso, and Simplicity

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lessig.tumblr.com 14y ago

Ok, so f*ck it. I’m back.

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blog.hirelite.com 14y ago

Warning signs in a non-technical cofounder (can you spot them?)

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elapsedtime.blogspot.com 14y ago

Turn the 3700 Closing Post Offices into Tech Centers/Incubators

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areallybadidea.com 15y ago

Developers, developers, developers

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Teachers Pay Teachers | NYC | Full-Time | Engineers, Product Managers, Product Designers

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Since we've started, authors on Teachers Pay Teachers have earned over $200M. Here's a bit more of the backstory (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econo...).

Our engineering culture focuses on Fearless Development (http://engineering.teacherspayteachers.com/2015/10/11/the-fe...), curiosity, learning, and autonomy.

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at nhurst@teacherspayteachers.com.

Teachers Pay Teachers | NYC | Full-Time | Engineers, Product Managers, Product Designers

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Since we've started, authors on Teachers Pay Teachers have earned over $200M. Here's a bit more of the backstory (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econo...).

Our engineering culture focuses on our mission, curiosity, learning, and autonomy - read more about it here http://engineering.teacherspayteachers.com/mission-values.ht...

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at nhurst@teacherspayteachers.com.

Teachers Pay Teachers | NYC | Full-Time | Engineers, Product Managers, Product Designers

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Since we've started, authors on Teachers Pay Teachers have earned over $200M. Here's a bit more of the backstory (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econo...).

Our engineering culture focuses on Fearless Development (http://engineering.teacherspayteachers.com/2015/10/11/the-fe...), curiosity, learning, and autonomy.

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at nhurst@teacherspayteachers.com.

Teachers Pay Teachers | NYC | Full-Time | Engineers, Product Managers, Product Designers

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Since we've started, authors on Teachers Pay Teachers have earned over $200M. Here's a bit more of the backstory (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econo...).

Our engineering culture focuses on Fearless Development (http://engineering.teacherspayteachers.com/2015/10/11/the-fe...), curiosity, learning, and autonomy.

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at nhurst@teacherspayteachers.com.

* Full Stack Engineers * DevOps Lead * Tech Leads *

TeachersPayTeachers - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com (TpT) New York, NY

We're building out a new engineering team at an established startup in Ed-Tech. TeachersPayTeachers is the world's first and biggest online open marketplace where teachers buy, sell, and share original educational materials. Our community of over 3 million active teachers connects and shares knowledge on the site every day, and has generated over $100 million in sales of some of the best, original, most creative classroom resources. Where you come in: although the company has a lot of users and strong reputation, only now are we building out our NYC engineering team to build out TpT's future. This a green field opportunity to set the engineering culture and how we organize ourselves going forward while maintaining an app at high traffic and still growing!

If you're interested in hearing more, I'd love to get in touch - nhurst@teacherspayteachers.com

Amplify - http://www.amplify.com/tablet - New York, NY

Amplify is re-imagining the way teachers teach and students learn. We enable teachers to manage whole classrooms and, at the same time, empower them to offer more personalized instruction, so that students become more active, engaged learners.

We build our products with Angular, Node, and Java (Android). Contact me directly at nhurst@amplify.com if you'd like to hear more.

New York, NY (full-time)

Mobile Engineers

Backend Engineers

Kinsa - We're on a mission to track and stop the spread of disease. http://kinsahealth.com

Did you ever wish you could save lives by doing what you do best? At Kinsa, you can. We’re looking for help transforming how people care for themselves and their families.

Please contact nathan@kinsahealth.com if you're interested and check out http://kinsahealth.com for a bit more background.

New York, NY (full-time)

Backend and mobile engineers

Kinsa - We're on a mission to track and stop the spread of disease. http://kinsahealth.com Did you ever wish you could save lives by doing what you do best? At Kinsa, you can. We’re looking for help transforming how people care for themselves and their families. Please contact nathan@kinsahealth.com if you're interested and check out http://kinsahealth.com for a bit more background.

Kinsa - New York, NY

Back-end Engineer

Mobile Engineer (Android)

Did you ever wish you could save lives by doing what you do best? At Kinsa, you can. We're on a mission to track and stop the spread of disease. Check out http://kinsahealth.com for more information and contact nathan@kinsahealth.com if you're interested.

New York, NY (full-time)

Mobile Engineers

Kinsa - We're on a mission to track and stop the spread of disease. http://kinsahealth.com

Did you ever wish you could save lives by doing what you do best? At Kinsa, you can. We’re looking for help transforming how people care for themselves and their families.

Please contact nathan@kinsahealth.com if you're interested and check out http://kinsahealth.com for a bit more background.

New York, NY (full-time)

Mobile Engineers

Kinsa - We're on a mission to track and stop the spread of disease. http://kinsahealth.com

Did you ever wish you could save lives by doing what you do best? At Kinsa, you can. We’re looking for help transforming how people care for themselves and their families.

Please contact nathan@kinsahealth.com if you're interested and check out http://kinsahealth.com for a bit more background.

New York, NY (full-time)

Kinsa - We're on a mission to track and stop the spread of disease. http://kinsahealth.com

Did you ever wish you could save lives by doing what you do best? At Kinsa, you can. We’re looking for help transforming how people care for themselves and their families.

In the short term, we're looking for a:

    - Lead Mobile Engineer
    - Lead Electrical & Hardware Engineer
    - Generalist Software Engineer
    - Visualization Engineer
    - Product Manager
Please contact nathan@kinsahealth.com if you're interested and check out http://kinsahealth.com for a bit more background.

Each year I've had a secret I use to find gifts for people: go to Amazon, find two things I know my gift recipient likes, then compare the "similar items" section to find matches. It's kind of tedious to do, but it works like a charm. This year, I made a GiftMating to do the same things with less effort.

Tech behind the scenes: Rails, Zurb Foundation, Amazon Product Advertising API

PS: really loving Foundation as an alternative to Bootstrap - you get a responsive layout that you can use by specifying the grid in css instead of in html.

When I see job post titles like these, sometimes I find myself trying to give the company the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're just bragging about themselves instead of asking developers to evaluate themselves ("awesome developer" => "awesome job for a developer").

It's fine to brag, but they can do so much better than a single dimensional word like awesome. All companies think they're awesome. I'd love it if they took the time to express the subtleties of WHY they think they're awesome.

p.s. Thanks for the comment. I read a lot of your writing and appreciate the perspective.

One thing I've been wondering a lot about is anti-warning signs - things that turn technical cofounders off that aren't necessarily bad things.

The first thing that comes to mind is arrogance. It certainly puts me off, but it seems like you need a good dose of arrogance to think you can solve a daunting problem.

Here are larger graphs if you want to dive deeper.

Languages: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S218608...

Frameworks: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S218611...

Data: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S218609...

Mobile: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S218612...

Additionally, a few people have noted some terms that I need to merge. I'll try to update the graphs within a few hours.

New York, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley

Hirelite is on a mission to put recruitment agencies out of business. We host speed interviewing events over video chat to connect companies and developers directly. We have two upcoming events:

For jobs near NYC on 7/13 - Companies participating so far: Findings, Work Market, Etsy, JWed, Hyperpublic, Rent The Runway, Recombine, Yipit, TheLadders, IndustryGraph

For jobs near SF/Silicon Valley on 7/12 - Companies participating so far: Moblyng, AdRoll, Wikia, IndieGoGo, Breezy

If you're interested in participating as a developer, sign up at https://www.hirelite.com/events

Thanks for the feedback Ben. I post the articles on HN when I publish them. Maybe next time, I won't publish them to HN and see if the readers do it on their own.

I was under the impression that self-posts were not frowned upon. I've found some of the best content here to be self-posts.

I try to make sure Posterous attributes them to me (see the end of this post for an example).

If people don't find them interesting, I can stop posting them. I had been under the impression that self-posts were fine. Most of the time, we're trying to be an advocate for job seekers (currently just developers) in a market that is very company friendly.

It wrote the post - glad it was amusing. It happened about 2 years ago while I was at a startup in NYC that was tanking. I was thinking of jumping ship before the eventual collapse. The problems I experienced during this particular job search led me to eventually start Hirelite.