We're a small, tight-knit team that's looking for a server-side minded individual to help build a RESTful API in either Rails or Laravel. The API will be consumed by a JS-framework (Angular, Backbone, React, tbd) and a iOS app, with future plans of opening up.
Responsibilities:
- Design core, backend software components including API and database.
- Maintain model and controller design.
- Work with frontend teams on delivering products.
- Maintain data integrity.
- Conduct code reviews when necessary.
- Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of system resources.
Requirements:
- B.S. Computer Science or related experience.
- Expert knowledge in server-side languages.
- Experience with API design.
- Experience with SCRUM.
- Experience with operating system internals, programming language design, compilers a plus
More about VentureApp:
We're building applications that provide top startups with on-demand support. Currently we're a team of 6+ and working in Cambridge, MA.
hey sandosky, author here. I write engineer-focused content (http://bostinnovation.com/author/kevin-mccarthy/), so it doesn't come as a surprise to me when some of my pieces make their way to hacker news. 'terrible' is a subjective matter, no?
In the context of another site, that article may be fine. In the context of this site, that article is terrible.
There is a mismatch in the target audience. There is an assumption the reader has not heard of projects and services common to Hacker News readers, such as Github itself.
Agreed, the content of this article is not best-suited for Hacker news.
You couldn't be more wrong about my 'self-promotion.' I simply reference my profile's URL to prove a point. Unsure how you could have possibly read into that otherwise.
disagree. Saying I was the author AND I wrote programming articles was important to display my history of writing 'hacker news'. I can't see how you think it was self-promotion knowing this.
Speaking of self-promotion, did you really take 6 different shirts to a headshot shoot (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandofsky/page5/)? And you call yourself a Boston-man! Haha, good luck to you in the future.
I believe you have problems if your response to criticism is to Google the critic and try to come up with personal information.
A typical headshot session lasts a few hours, involves several outfits, and results in several hundred photos which you progressively narrow down. I used that Flickr set to solicit feedback on potential picks.
I didn't link to that anywhere in my profile, or on my personal site. Your behavior is childish, bordering on creepy.
You should consider how this makes you look. I don't think people would take you seriously after reading this.
You criticism of self-promotion couldn't have been further off, which pissed me off something fierce. I guess I forgot the oldest mantra in the book, however: 'haters gonna hate.'
hey groxx, author here. I was using Chrome 14 for the screenshots. I noticed myself that the bar graphs were completely empty this morning after I had taken my screenshots. There might have been a temporary issue with Github
jleader, I am the author of this post and the 'programming languages who have driven past Boston' article. I literally laughed out loud when I read your comment. I was surprised when that post was on Hacker News myself (I knew it wasn't my best). I promise to do better :)
As a resident of Los Angeles, and graduate of Caltech, I'm completely sympathetic to trying to get the word out about tech innovations happening in places other than Silicon Valley.
hey protomyth, author here. Haha, I see your point abt the conservation of energy. I assumed that everyone would know that law, so I didn't address it specifically. Obviously, the return energy would be less than the expended.
I guess to assume really does make an ass out of u and me.
It's not so much for the HN audience, but the next generation of article down the chain will use that paragraph as a basis for their headline. It is by far the catchiest and I don't think they will be explicit about conservation of energy with their readers.
http://ventureapp.com
We're a small, tight-knit team that's looking for a server-side minded individual to help build a RESTful API in either Rails or Laravel. The API will be consumed by a JS-framework (Angular, Backbone, React, tbd) and a iOS app, with future plans of opening up.
Responsibilities:
- Design core, backend software components including API and database. - Maintain model and controller design. - Work with frontend teams on delivering products. - Maintain data integrity. - Conduct code reviews when necessary. - Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of system resources.
Requirements:
- B.S. Computer Science or related experience. - Expert knowledge in server-side languages. - Experience with API design. - Experience with SCRUM. - Experience with operating system internals, programming language design, compilers a plus
More about VentureApp:
We're building applications that provide top startups with on-demand support. Currently we're a team of 6+ and working in Cambridge, MA.
More info:
http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/ventureapp/api-developer/dq4fg...