stevenleeg
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Comment · 4 years ago
I've been using Kagi over the last few days and have actually been pleasantly surprised with it performing better than both Google and DDG for my use cases. It's still free during the beta so might be worth giving it a shot.
Comment · 4 years ago
Amperon | Full-stack Engineer | Fully remote (+/- 3hrs from EST) | https://amperon.co
Our platform involves ingesting and modeling hundreds of thousands of high-resolution smart meter timeseries and surfacing analyses and insights to our users at utilities and energy suppliers. We're looking for a senior front-end/full stack software engineer to help us build our user facing applications.
Our stack uses Python (Flask), React, and Google Cloud Platform. You'll be responsible for building user-facing products on top of Python APIs and interactive React visualizations. The product work revolves around transforming smart meter and weather data into exploratory insights for enterprise customers. Visualization expertise (D3) is a big plus, and if you have an eye for product - even better.
Our engineering team is still quite small, so the right candidate can have a big impact on our tools and infrastructure. We are strong supporters of open source and we encourage our employees to publish and give talks about the work they do at Amperon.
See the full job description below, or reach out to [email protected] for details/questions.
https://angel.co/company/amperon/jobs/361674-senior-applicat...
Comment · 4 years ago
There are advantages to living in cities! I live in an expensive major city (working remotely) and find it hard to imagine life outside of it (at least in the US). All of my friends/family are here, I have restaurants from practically every cuisine in the world, there are plenty of interesting cultural events, and best of all I don't need a car in order to do things.
Rent sucks, yes, but I live here because I like it here, not because I need to for my job.
Comment · 5 years ago
Or you could take the AirTrain from JFK and NJ Transit from EWR? There are other options for getting to/from these airports than just taking a cab.
Comment · 6 years ago
In certain parts of the US with retail choice this is already a reality, check out Griddy[0] in Texas. They'll give you wholesale electricity prices which is all sweet and dandy until there's a shortage of supply (generally on the hottest days of the summer) and the price shoots up to $9000 per MWh. Honestly it's a great deal if you're willing to accept the risk associated with it (or work from home and can quickly race to your circuit breaker and shut off the power when the price spikes).
Comment · 6 years ago
What about an Ode to the MTA? Or an Ode to Amtrak? Or an Ode to MUNI? An ode to the bike lane!
I think the last thing the United States needs is more people glorifying the horrendous car culture that has been built up in this country.
Comment · 7 years ago
A notably omitted section: “use cases.”
Seriously, the whole blockchain industry reeks of technologists who don’t understand business needs and business people who don’t understand the technology. Having worked in the industry myself for long enough to hit this realization I’d highly recommmend others to steer clear and not try to base their career on this stuff.
Conflictingy, I do think it’s worth most programmers’ time to at least read up on how blockchains work, as it is certainly an interesting and worthwhile academic experience in applied cryptography.