airhadoken's comments

Location: Greater Boston Area

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: Yes; Prefer to relocate (but not to the Bay Area)

Technologies: Front end Web; JavaScript, HTML/CSS, jQuery, Mustache/Handlebars, all non-Angular browser frameworks, Jasmine, FuncUnit. Also; Flask, Rails, Node, MongoDB & all major RDBMSs

Résumé/CV: [short] https://angel.co/bradley-momberger

Résumé/CV: [full] https://shinythingsnetwork.com/hosted/binary/momberger.bradl...

Email: <airhadoken but with an underscore between the ‘r’ and ‘h’>@yahoo.com

Website: http://shinythingsnetwork.com/

Twitter: @air_hadoken

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Front end specialist (Web), looking for senior-to-architect level engineering or combined architect-PM roles. 14+ years experience in software development, last 5-6 years focused exclusively on rich UX. JS debugging virtuoso, old school AJAXer (predating jQuery), keen interest in making software usable.

Prefers small companies over large, especially if they’re [made up of] small teams of smart people. If that sounds like your company, let’s talk.

> If your organisation needs to rely on 'confidence' to determine who is competent, then by definition it cannot directly discern which employees are competent.

That's correct specifically because in the absence of the ability to judge competence (the original research by Dunning and Kruger showed that those low in competence overestimated the competence of others as well as their own), confidence becomes the stand-in. So over time if you don't start with the most competent people in positions of leadership, and maybe even if you do, you end up with the most confident (and probably least competent) people in them over several refresh cycles.

Longer form piece on the subject: https://hbr.org/2014/07/the-dangers-of-confidence/

SEEKING WORK - Boston Area, remote OK.

Front-end testing consultant; I’ll help you get started with unit-testing your JS code, and running functional and integration tests on your UI, if you’re new to writing browser code (e.g. you were a Rails shop but you are transitioning your app to being based on Angular/React/Ember and REST services). The package includes infrastructure for your dev and build environments and training for your developers.

Other services offered:

* Service workers for your Web or mobile app

* Advanced CSS3: bevels/flexboxes/animations/gradients/etc

Portfolio: http://shinythingsnetwork.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bradley-momberger/2/a4a/1b2/en

SEEKING WORK - Boston area, Remote OK

Front-end architect for Web applications, 13 years experience.

Worked with JVM, Rails, Python, Node backends; OK with fullstack but it’s not my focus.

Extensive esperience with jQuery, Bootstrap-SASS, Mustache/Handlebars templating, HTML5/CSS3, Canvas, Components.

CanJS contributor, compatible with EmberJS, React, possibly other (non-Angular) frameworks.

Currently seeking 1wk-12wk contracts, $80/hr rate.

Portfolio site w/ contact details: http://shinythingsnetwork.com/

Seems like the high-budget model is the broken one.

Also don't forget to source the image and the containing page at the same server, or alternately to set document.domain of each side to the common superdomain.

Eight tabs? I have well over 100 open at any time with Opera. This sort of browsing behavior chokes Firefox 2.x. I'd like to see whether Firefox 3 can handle it.

I'm always about keeping a variety around. For beers produced within my own country (USA), I like the products of Sam Adams (Boston Lager, Winter Lager, Summer Ale, and some of the other winter seasonals), Dogfish Head (Midas Touch, ##-minute IPAs), Wachusett (country ale, blueberry ale, "monsta" double IPA), Gritty McDuff's, Yuengling, and Oskar Blues (Old Chub). Import choices include any Irish stout (Guinness, Murphy's, Beamish), McEwan's Scotch ale, Bass IPA, Newcastle Brown, and Lindeman's framboise and kriek lambics.

one of the commenters on the article brings up a good point. What are the statistics like for "apache", "spring framework", and "orm"?

The impression that I always got was that your best shot at using a domain to SEO (shudders) is to have a one or two word name that people would punch into a search engine as one or two words. thus the example given in the article (ten spaces => tenspaces)

Fortunately we have the Paul Gnome method.

  1. Make something users want
  2. ??????
  3. Profit!

The similarity between the product-now/revenue-later startup model and the underpants gnomes plan is disconcerting at first glance. The point is that your Step 2 materializes based on focusing on a proper Step 1.

Also, for S&G, this is the dot-bomb business model.

  1. Put something useless on the Web
  2. ??????
  3. Cash out before the investors get wise.
  4. (optional) Repeat.

Yes. This wasn't an either-or question, right?

I used a lot of LaTeX in XEmacs in grad school. Now I've really taken to LyX for shorter documents. This is really not the kind of thing you move into *Office to pretty up afterwards, though. Once you make your PS or PDF, that's supposed to be it, but that's how I like it.

If you want to do really long essays (greater than 15 pages, say), I really recommend something based on parsing a markup language (TeX/LaTeX/troff/lout) because they're then easier to compartmentalize into multiple files and the numbering of sections and figures is automatic.

Ben Franklin, for me. It seems like it will take the rest of my life to get a full picture of how his mind worked.

Title is missing one or both of "MS" and "Server" :P

I thought Pattern Recognition (same author) was quite inspiring, though I don't know if it counts as most people's definition of science fiction.

There are lots of times that I wish that I could use the wildcard in Google inside word tokens instead of just between words in a multiword string, i.e. search on googl* to get googlefight and googling as well as the expected. It could be a powerful way of capturing a set of alternatives easily. But its utility is limited for search if the user needs to know the order of tokens in the search (i.e. searching on a single regex globally on the rendered page).

I'd like to see a regular search engine interface (tokens, strings of tokens, and an exception operator) with the ability to make any token in it a regex by surrounding it with a specific marker, like bang or slash.

Should I be insulted that I'm almost no hacker?

If we could foster that sort of thing in American schools, it would scarcely matter whether India and China better prepared their students for engineering (referencing another article that was on the front page the same time as this one)

Thank you parent poster. This was the other part I wanted to cover in my post above but didn't think I could find hard data for. It seems like the contracting business has attracted large amounts of ethically-challenged scum, who are building houses that aren't likely to last as long as the mortgages paying for them. It kind of explains why new-home starts have seemed to be recession-proof in the last decade -- Say's Law lives in a very real sense here -- but at the same time it's hard to build stable neighborhoods around disposable homes.