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.su 7 years ago

What a cool site, any documentation on other operators?

Interesting read, fair point that they are already breaking the possession part of the law but have received a special dispensation, they could apply and receive a dispensation for the sale as well.

I had a very similar experience, replace baling hay with mowing lawns. I was an awkward shy homeschool kid but going into circuit city and getting that 32mb mp3 player on Black Friday made me feel like the coolest kid in the world.

Go Fishing 8 years ago

100% Moving away from the midwest its one of the things I miss most

You can do the 2 weeks onsite onboarding thing, the issue is that once you starting hiring developers with families, that becomes a negative more than a positive.

We use a combination of a good quality trello board with some standard activities, good 1o1 scheduling for the first 2 weeks, and scoping out small independent tickets that gives an engineer a solid base to build on.

Slack has been invaluable, and also setting a standard of face to face webcam meetings being non optional. Yes even in a remote role.

Even in 2018, theres no replacement for being able to look at someone face to face and ask them "anything on your mind ?"

Other good things, having a regular all hands to get the entire team on the same page, and scheduling company retreats

Hapi.js – v17 9 years ago

Hapijs is great software that has left me consistently happy, strikes a nice balance between too much, and too little.

Apollo Client 2.0 9 years ago

I love your stuff, I've just seen this play in action through the meteor community and how kadira grew and everything thats happened since then.

You know what they say, once burned, twice shy.

Oddball|DevOps Engineer|Los Angeles|Contract|Remote|oddball.io

Oddball believes that the best products are built when engineers understand and value the things they are working on. We value learning and growth and the ability to make a big impact at a small company. Work life balance is important to us, and not something we just pay lip service to. We believe that we can make big changes happen and improve the daily lives of millions of people by bringing quality software to the federal space.

We are hiring for a Devops engineer to manage and deal with a site that makes a positive impact on millions of Americans' daily lives

What you'll be doing:

Working hand in hand with great devops engineers building out devops best practices in the federal space.

We are looking for someone with the following skill set:

* In-depth experience with config management tools like: Chef, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack.

* The ability to create and support AWS environments.

* Skill in developing and improving CI/CD scripts and services for development and deployment.

* Experience in managing and dealing with DB migrations, writing general scripts etc.

This position is remote, and we're looking for a someone who can help us both maintain, and improve infrastructure.

Interested? Shoot me an email at rob@oddball.io

Apollo Client 2.0 9 years ago

I am a huge apollo fan, but their endgame just became clear, get people using apollo, have those products scale and need monitoring and analytics, charge for said monitoring and analytics. I knew it was coming, just sad that it was all a cashgrab in the end.

I have mixed feelings on this, it seems to me it is doable, but it requires 2 important things: 1. The Junior has worked remote before. If you get someone where this is their first remote job, unless they're incredibly organized and have a remote strategy they will lose socialization and much more. 2. A ton of work on the manager's part. Mentoring sessions, checkins, very active communication channels etc.