leonsmith

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Head of Platform Engineering @ midnite.com
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Comment · 5 months ago
Has this position recently changed? It states this on the marketing page?

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Comment · 2 years ago
Midnite | Full Time | Remote (UK) | https://www.midnite.com/jobs

Midnite is a next-generation betting platform that is built for today’s fandom. We are a collective of engineers and designers who all share a passion for building the best sportsbook & casino experience possible.

We are hiring across multiple roles:

- Backend Engineer - https://apply.workable.com/midnite/j/FFAA2713D3/

- Junior Backend Engineer - https://apply.workable.com/midnite/j/CC0C6DF5C6/

- iOS Engineer - https://apply.workable.com/midnite/j/834FBB445D/

- Junior iOS Engineer - https://apply.workable.com/midnite/j/0ECC18C9A8/

Please mention hacker news in your cover letter!

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
OpenHab,

I'v gone from home assistant to smart things to openhab and its been stable and simple to set & forget.

It's great to setup via the UI, easy to backup and restore as once you actually start to build it into the foundations of your house you start to value the stability of it

Comment · 3 years ago
https://github.com/mssun/passforios which also uses the safari password manager flow so its pretty seamless
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Is matter actually an open standard? When I last looked into the CSA stuff you had to pay a few thousand dollars a year to become a member to access any specifications
Comment · 4 years ago
Midnite | REMOTE (+/- 3h of GMT), London | https://www.midnite.com/jobs

Our customers use our world-class sports, esports, and game wagering platform to interact with the games they care about.

Fresh off the back of our series A, we are looking for roles across the whole engineering skillset & experience levels.

Our tech stack is implemented in Python, is hosted on AWS and includes Flask, Socket.IO, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, SQS. All our code is linted, tested and automatically deployed to our test environment.

- Frontend Engineer

- Backend Engineer

- Senior Backend Engineer

- Engineering Manager

- Site Reliability Engineer

Apply via https://www.midnite.com/jobs or reach out to me directly at [email protected]

Comment · 5 years ago
Strongly disagree and I've noticed this is a common trait amongst developers. I think it stems from the fact they are more comfortable on the CLI and are used to poor interfaces that they more easily justify a sub-par UX. Just look at how many HN "readers" are out there because this site subscribes to the same philosophy
Comment · 6 years ago
I would love to see some real sale stats if those claims are real? I have no idea how much they are supposidly outselling zigbee or z-wave devices.

From a purley anecdotal standpoint, you start with the wifi devices as they are low barrier to entry, (no hub required and normally comes with some sketchy 3rd part app); If you decide to go all in and buy more than a handful you naturally progress towards the zigbee/z-wave devices and ether a fully managed Proprietary "do it for me" system like SmartThings, or you go down the self managed route with HomeAssistant or OpenHAB.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Ditto, but with z-wave devices instead. What makes you think CHIP is the next standard thats up for mass adoption when there is a bunch of competition in this space, with the likes of Sidewalk from Amazon or Thread which I think is what Apple are rolling out to the homekit enabled devices?
Comment · 7 years ago
https://www.gandi.net/ I belive at some point in the past when you ordered a weird TLD on AWS it was fulfilled by gandi on behalf of AWS.
Comment · 7 years ago
Stories like these and the bobby droptables xkcd are the reason I ended up with this plate, https://i.imgur.com/O7KEFrn.jpg It gets a lot of compliments and attention even if most people don't know what "null" is
Comment · 7 years ago
I just thought in the legality discussion its worth making sure people are talking about the same class of steroids as they are already treated and classified differently under the law.

Anabolic steroids are a Class C drug in the UK so in general are illegal to possess and distribute unless prescribed.

  Steroids are not legal lol 
  They are legal medicine
So both these statements are true and false depending on which class of steroid you are talking about or if you are talking about the group as a whole. So to have a productive discussion on the legality you need to be specific about which class and not group them together.

Anabolic steroids are illegal in the US and UK (unless otherwise prescribed) whilst most of the other classes in the UK at least are not illegal to possess or even distribute

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