dphase · HackerTrans

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I've been a fan of Aqua Data Studio for years and it doesn't seem to get mentioned often. Cross platform and supports a myriad of dbs. http://www.aquafold.com/aquadatastudio.html

dphase

12 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Where are we?

- Doesn’t matter - you can work from your preferred location. But in case you’re wondering, we’re in Hattiesburg, MS.

Who are we?

- http://www.schoolstatus.com

- SchoolStatus is a data framework for the K-12 education industry that combines a school district's disjointed data systems into one easily-accessed location. Our web-based interface allows educators to make data-driven decisions - regardless of previous technology experience. We also provide a mechanism for principals to deliver evaluation measures to teachers for real-time classroom feedback.

- Our backend engine provides mechanisms for automated data retrieval and sanitation, allowing the customer’s data to remain fresh with no interaction needed.

- Launched in January 2013, we’ve quickly become the data solution for roughly 50% of Mississippi public school districts and are currently migrating into other states. We’ve been revenue-driven and maintain profitability, which has made us attractive to potential funding sources and we’re currently considering our options.

Who are you?

- You are a talented, enthusiastic programmer that can’t wait to assist in the development of our backend engine and front-end interfaces. Our core technologies include:

* Ruby as primary language on backend. Due to lack of APIs on many third-party educational systems, data retrieval is often performed by various scraping methods. Experience with Mechanize, Nokogiri, Watir, and the likes are the icing on your cake.

* Ruby’s Padrino, a highly extensible framework built on Sinatra, is the glue connecting our backend to frontend.

* MongoDB, Redis, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, and Amazon Redshift provide our various data stores.

* Objective-C/UIKit powers our teacher evaluation instrument for iPad and you are totally okay with that.

* Angular.js on the frontend is something that makes you smile. Data visualizations created with Highcharts, D3, and Charts.js.

* By no means are we limited to the languages and technologies above. Solutions from other areas are always welcome - as long as they play nice with others (Flash.)

What will we give you?

- Competitive salary with full health, vision, and dental benefits.

- Retirement plan (comparable to the big guys that have way more meetings) with company match that will make sure your cohabitating hamsters are well-cared for in their old age.

- Flexible vacation structure (meaning just tell us you’re going out of town), including a company-provided condominium in Florida. Yes, we have a condo.

What will you give us?

- Loyalty to the company goals as a whole and a desire to serve the greater good.

- Flexibility to perform outside of your specific role when it’s needed, included talking with customers and attending trade shows from time to time.

- A good sense of humor - because nobody likes a boring job.

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Contact us with questions, resume/CV, or portfolio at [email protected]

dphase

13 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

I hate they left Airmail out of this article. I switched to it from Sparrow about a week ago and haven't been very pleased so far. It kinda feels like what Sparrow may have eventually become.

dphase

13 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

This may explain some strange occurrences I had yesterday.

Starting at 7am, I received an Apple ID password reset request every 4 hours and 19 minutes, ending last night at midnight.

This Apple ID is also the login for my personal developer account (several years old). My developers IDs used for work never received a password reset request.

dphase

13 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Get the pcl6 utility.

    pcl6 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf infile

dphase

13 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

I'm not sure, but I think we should spearhead an effort to rewrite the Linux TCP/IP stack in Forth.

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

The Cuckoo's Egg is an amazing read. You get a very play-by-play account of the story, see an 80s honeypot in action, and if I remember correctly, read about interactions with the still running Chaos Computer Club.

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

How far ahead of the game do you really think you can get when you're asking permission at every step? Just don't be malicious.

I wish we could drill this mentality into everyone.

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

I absolutely love textfiles.com -- their BBS documentary was amazing. This is the first time I've come across telehack, very cool. I look forward to playing with it more when I get some freetime.

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Silicon Toad! Completely forget about that name. Lots of fun groups back then, actually writing interesting code instead of useless antics likes DDoS and website defacement.

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

I hate that the majority (I assume) here on HN didn't get to cut their teeth in the BBS era, you really missed out.

I see comments below mentioning "breaking into computer systems" -- you have to realize this was an era pre-Google, pre-www, in a lot of people's cases, pre-Usenet even. We were often limited to 60 minutes of access daily to a BBS, fighting busy signals to even get a node. Using every minute of that time to download textfiles, download cool stuff from the demo scene (sometimes with the pleasure of compiling them with TASM). We didn't have Linux boxes piled up in the back, to learn and explore Unix, many, like myself, had to fire up a war dialer, find a system, and use those crazy textfiles we read from our local BBS to work our way around. It wasn't, in most cases, for nefarious means -- it was our only option.

It was a great, great era. Hard to understand if you weren't there. Do yourself a favor and check out a few old boards that are still available through telnet. It's not the same, but you'll get an idea.

(I guess this response officially puts me in the "get off my lawn" club!)

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Ditto, his eccentricities are very much missed. I have a hunch there's more to come.

dphase

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Don, you've had a couple of great stories make it to HN recently -- awesome reads. Looking forward to reading many more.

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Padrino is excellent and does not get enough coverage.

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

I've done this successfully with Ruby Mechanize.

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

It was more of a CDE clone in the late 90s, definitely not as recent as 5 years ago.

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

This can be changed on OS X with a

  defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int [value]

I personally use a value of 1. There's an entire article on this at http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/18/change-font-smoothing-setting...

dphase

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

It would be wonderful to see it become ORM agnostic on the Ruby side for simpler integration into Sinatra/Padrino.