Defy Ventures, a "Y-combinator meets Khan Academy" for people with criminal histories, is hiring a Director of engineering/Senior Software Developer to join us on our mission to transform the lives (and hustle) of millions of Americans with criminal histories.
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=====Who You Are====
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The ideal candidate is an experienced, product-focused, full-stack developer who wants to use their skills to take our already proven solution and bring it to scale.
A major part of Defy's scalable solution will be its web application, where students interact with mentors, peers, our curriculum, scheduler, projects and APIs.
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=====Who We Are====
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We’re a small but rapidly growing team of product designers, entrepreneurs, teachers and business executives who believe everyone deserves a second chance.
We move fast, take risks, and never settle for “good enough." We recognize that truly great products are built, refined and perfected over time. We come to work every day excited about building something that matters more than we do.
While Defy is is a 501(c)(3), we're dedicated to doing whatever's necessary to building a world-class team. We’re passionate about using our craft to redeem lives and restore communities and realize there are few other world-changing endeavors that can match the scalability and impact of what we're building at Defy. After all, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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=====Our Mission====
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At Defy, our mission is simple: we believe that men and women with criminal histories:
- Represent America’s most overlooked talent pool
- Are some of the scrappiest and most accomplished entrepreneurs and salesmen
- Share skills and talents with top business leaders
Defy's program breaks generational legacies of violence, poverty and incarceration by equipping the millions of men and women with criminal histories with tools and communities they need to unlock their potential and "transform their hustle" by creating profitable, legal business ventures.
Email your resume and/or Github handle to Katelyn at [email protected], with subject line: HN-Engineer.
Defy Ventures - backend software engineer- NYC
We’re a rapidly-growing startup solving a problem most people never think about.
At Defy, our mission is simple. We help formerly incarcerated men and women become legal entrepreneurs by taking them through a rigorous blended learning program.
At Defy, we believe men with criminal histories:
- Represent America’s most overlooked talent pool
- Are some of the scrappiest and most accomplished
entrepreneurs and salesmen
- Share skills and talents with top business leaders
Defy Ventures is 'Y-combinator for men with criminal backgrounds.' We harnesses the natural talents of formerly incarcerated individuals, and transform their hustle toward the creation of profitable and legal business ventures.
You would build and scale a customized eLearning platform based on the rapidly growing Open edX platform (http://code.edx.org/)
You: Must be able to develop code front to back, with knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Django, Marko MySQL, MongoDB, some Ruby and NodeJS
You'll get:
- Competitive Salary
- Full medical
- Unlimited vacation days
- Paid Phone bill
- Paid travel to conferences
Defy is an awesome team of incredibly smart individuals who love what we do and are making waves in the most underserved population in the United States. Come join us and make your work meaningful.
If you're interested, shoot us an email at [email protected] with the subject line "Hacker News- SE"
TaskRabbit has made a recent shift into a B2B play, too, as they've never been sustainable. They also made a shift in company size laying off several staff members.
Order Placed! I'd be curious to know the the male/female tee style breakdown of the sales. Could the nice folks at teespring provide us with these stats?
Dude, have some compassion. It's upsetting that this is the top voted comment. Not everyone is as well-informed and knowledgeable about things like this as you are, and this first-hand account of her experience will likely help a lot of people experiencing similar issues.
>>Using drugs to gain an unfair advantage over other people at work has unhealthy emotional side effects? Am I to be suprised by this?
Your claim that this stimulant gives its users/abusers/misusers an "unfair advantage" over those who don't use it (ie you) not only contradicts your following statement (that it causes emotional side effects) but also tells me that perhaps you're angered or upset by this perceived 'unfair advantage' you see this drug giving your peers.
If you looked at the big picture, or her story, you'd see that the drug doesn't, in fact, give its abusers an unfair advantage. Whatever temporary 'gain' they are getting is unsustainable and clearly destructive both emotionally and physically.
I agree with this argument, but not necessarily the tone of it.
Quora is a business as much as it is a consumer facing service with a strong mission to uphold. But the reality is, if Quora didn't keep its numbers out of the red and into the black by doing "annoying things" like forcing app downloads or account creation, then they would run out of capital and cease to exist. So, take your pick. Or better yet, just stop complaining.
Also, their mobile website isn't fully functional or in some cases usable. I beta test it, and it's riddled with bugs and missing features. Frankly, a lot of services today are skipping mobile web all together, and focusing on driving app downloads to provide a richer experience.
Bottom line: Services valuable to end users are also running a businesses. We must learn to give and take.
Care.com (Matrix, Trinity Ventures funded) is hiring an ios developer to join a small, fast-paced mobile team within care.com to lead our iPhone.
This is a lead iOS engineer position for you to grow into as we grow our iOS efforts.
You'll be working with a talented, fun and passionate team of individuals in a company that offers great benefits and compensation packages. We're also looking for an iOS designer.
Care.com (Matrix, Trinity Ventures funded) is hiring an ios developer to join a small, fast-paced mobile team within care.com to lead our iPhone and iPad developments.
This is a lead iOS engineer position for you to grow into as we grow our iOS efforts.
You'll be working with a talented, fun and passionate team of individuals in a company that offers great benefits and compensation packages. We're also looking for an iOS designer.
We're looking for mobile UI designer to help grow our mobile application team from the ground up, and play a big role in designing and defining mobile web and mobile app experiences for our Karoo and care.com apps.
Ideal candidates will have strong portfolios of work that demonstrate beautiful and thoughtful product design and a passion for designing simple and intuitive mobile web and mobile application interfaces.
You'll also be working on an awesome team in a fast-paced, iterative and entrepreneurial environment. Email or tweet me if interested, my name is Katelyn: [email protected], http://twitter.com/kfriedson
Wikimedia Foundation's Senior Designer, Brandon Harris, had a lot of insightful, interesting feedback[1] regarding the 'redesign,' (of which I happen to agree with):
-It's completely impractical and does not take into account some of the most basic ideas that Wikipedia is and depends upon. I don't think it's very well thought out or researched, and serves mostly as a hypothetical portfolio
piece for a design firm.
For example, the fact that Wikipedia is available in multiple languages is quite possibly its most important feature. The idea of burying language selection within an incomprehensible color band (that will only work on non-touch devices) boggles my mind.
- Many, many important principles are tossed away. Why do the designers change the meaning of the "history" button? Burying the revision history is counter to all things that wikis stand for.
- Research into the Foundation projects would tell you that storing a user's browsing history is against the privacy policy - so why include that?
- > "Sharing functions will be the same so no change is necessary" - except that there are no sharing functions.
- The most basic principle of product design is "Know the product," and these designers do not.
And finally,
This is to say nothing of the exercise in 'brand manipulation.' The most powerful brand that Wikipedia has is the wordmark itself ("wikipedia"), followed by the distinctive "W" logo (crossed "v" characters), followed by a single puzzle piece, followed by the puzzle globe. The brand rework here throws ALL of these things away and replaces them with a stylized "w" glyph that is almost but not quite exactly like the logo used by Wordpress."
I'm not bothered by much as a female in tech (and believe me, I hear a lot of ignorant, sexist remarks), but this comment really rubbed me the wrong way.
re: suggestions on how to make it intuitive to scroll down:
On the shop page: An anchor link that sits above-the-fold with a call-to-action like "start shopping" or "browse designs" would probably make it more intuitive. Anything that shows me a peak of what's below-the-fold would help.
Since the main slider occupies all of the above-the-fold real estate and has its own horizontal navigation, I just assumed I was 'done' with the page once I had scrolled through each slide.
- I can really see this type of service blowing up, once you find the right product/market/fit.
- The slider above-the-fold on the 'shop' tab distracts me from the rest of the page. It wasn't intuitive to me that I could scroll down to begin shopping.
- A simple filter would be a great addition to the 'shop' page. It'd be nice to filter by type (e.g business, creative, etc.), price or design (rustic, elegant)
- I wonder if you would see more sales if you tried a/b testing your pricing model a bit. Is there a reason why you charge the extra $5.00 for edits? If the shopper pays $99 to own the theme, shouldn't he be entitled to edit it as much as he pleases?
- You're looking for resume writers. Have you connected with Hagan Blount? I believe he designs Infographic resumes. (http://haganblount.com/resume). Some of your designs require users to highlight a quote, etc., and I wonder if they could use help writing out these areas.
I disagree with many of the arguments you make to support your theory, namely 1)the idea that the way users use Facebook wont evolve and get more sophisticated as they share more information, and 2) the idea that sharing more information about yourself even makes you more susceptible to stalker and hate crimes.
After I read your post, I went back up to the top re-read your proposal, which, in its simplest form, makes a the claim that reads: "Facebook-as-a-business will eventually kill the very users it needs to survive, because in order for Facebook to grow and profit, it will encourage users to share more about themselves with others, and as a result, users will share so much about themselves with others, (who they are, their interests, behavior, location) that they will become victims of crimes like rape, murder or even hate crimes and genocide.
This sounds outlandish, of not even a little silly. Surely, our acculturation with Facebook and the way we use it will evolve over time to protect our selves from this kind of thing from happening.
Defy Ventures, a "Y-combinator meets Khan Academy" for people with criminal histories, is hiring a Director of engineering/Senior Software Developer to join us on our mission to transform the lives (and hustle) of millions of Americans with criminal histories.
====================
=====Who You Are====
====================
The ideal candidate is an experienced, product-focused, full-stack developer who wants to use their skills to take our already proven solution and bring it to scale.
A major part of Defy's scalable solution will be its web application, where students interact with mentors, peers, our curriculum, scheduler, projects and APIs.
====================
=====Who We Are====
====================
We’re a small but rapidly growing team of product designers, entrepreneurs, teachers and business executives who believe everyone deserves a second chance.
We move fast, take risks, and never settle for “good enough." We recognize that truly great products are built, refined and perfected over time. We come to work every day excited about building something that matters more than we do.
While Defy is is a 501(c)(3), we're dedicated to doing whatever's necessary to building a world-class team. We’re passionate about using our craft to redeem lives and restore communities and realize there are few other world-changing endeavors that can match the scalability and impact of what we're building at Defy. After all, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
====================
=====Our Mission====
====================
At Defy, our mission is simple: we believe that men and women with criminal histories:
- Represent America’s most overlooked talent pool - Are some of the scrappiest and most accomplished entrepreneurs and salesmen - Share skills and talents with top business leaders
Defy's program breaks generational legacies of violence, poverty and incarceration by equipping the millions of men and women with criminal histories with tools and communities they need to unlock their potential and "transform their hustle" by creating profitable, legal business ventures.
Email your resume and/or Github handle to Katelyn at [email protected], with subject line: HN-Engineer.
To learn more, visit: http://defyventures.tumblr.com/lead-engineer or http://defyventures.org