trevoro
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Comment · 11 years ago
Bench - Vancouver, BC
We’re Bench, and we’re hard at work turning something really old (bookkeeping) into something new and appealing. As part of the engineering team, you’ll help us build tools that augment the capabilities of real accountants, eliminate drudgery, and build inspiring interfaces.
We’re a tight-knit group of engineers. We value effectiveness, open debate, picking the right tool for the job, and the joy of accomplishment. We currently use Scala, Java, and Node. We do all of our ops automation using Ansible and AWS with a bunch of other tools in between.
We’re currently looking for:
Senior Software Engineers (Platform) Software Engineers (Full-Stack Web) Devops Engineers
If you’re interested in joining Bench please visit https://bench.co/careers/
Comment · 12 years ago
A really great documentary that partially covers the history of suburbs is called "end of suburbia". Its mostly about the theory of peak oil, and how that would destroy the "american dream". Despite all those flaws it has some interesting buts about suburban development itself, and some original implementations. Specifically, a lot of transporation from city suburbs to city centers happened via light rail, versus individual cars.
Personally I dont think the suburbs are going anywhere. Im absolutely fascinated by the possibilites of electric, autonomous vehicles, and the small house movement. To me, those elements in combination might strike a reasonable balance between the desire to have ones own space, and the transportation requirements.
Comment · 12 years ago
How terribly disappointing.
If you're going to get all nostalgic about running Amiga applications then you may as well just go and download the original kickstart and workbench ROMs and fire up an emulator. FS-UAE(1) works pretty well. Someone even wrote a PNaCl emulator for Chrome.
Comment · 13 years ago
See original discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684318
Comment · 13 years ago
You don't ever seem to find startup ideas. Startup ideas seem to find you. That's why it's important to always be listening - if you listen often enough then problems will "appear out of nowhere" and you'll be in a good place to understand their potential.
Comment · 13 years ago
Vancouver has quite a few talented engineers but the teams can be a bit insular. The meetups are good and you should definitely go to either the Ruby on Rails one, or Node Brigade. CascadiaJS is happening soon too.
If you want to get some introductions I'd be happy to grab a coffee.
Comment · 13 years ago
The rumour circulating around is that they have the ability to detect which other applications are running or installed on a mobile device. Certainly for applications that have this service installed, they could correlate the owner of the device to an ID. That might help with targeting ads, but it's just a theory.
Comment · 13 years ago
It depends how far away from land you are.
A Tsunami has tons of energy, but it only really gets 'big' on the surface when that energy is constrained by the depth of the sea floor. That's why if you're on a boat and get a tsunami warning, it's better to head out to sea.
Comment · 13 years ago
By your logic I'd be running a WAP site over Gopher to satisfy the progressive enhancement ethos. At a certain point it's absurd to assume javascript isn't there. [1]
What brought on this particular use case was a JSON response where all the times were in UTC. I'm not really into forcing a technique on someone when it isn't required. If that's not your use case, then you don't have the problem!