cstigler | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I stay motivated to learn?
If you want to block access to only distracting parts of the Internet, I wrote an open-source Mac app that might help: SelfControl (http://selfcontrolapp.com)
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cstigler | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Zaption (http://www.zaption.com) || San Francisco, CA
Senior Full-Stack Web Engineer (Node.js, MongoDB, Knockout.js) || Full-Time
Senior iOS Engineer (Objective-C, sprinkling of Swift) || Full-Time
Zaption is an education-technology startup that's fixing video learning. Teachers and trainers use our web app to turn online videos (from YouTube, Vimeo, etc) into interactive learning experiences that engage students and deepen understanding. We're a small (9-person) team that is funded, growing, and has real customers and revenue. We're looking for a dev who's interested in education, and passionate about making learning more personal, meaningful, and relevant (and also good with the web technologies OR iOS dev).
If you're interested, email [email protected]
cstigler | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
Zaption (http://www.zaption.com) || San Francisco, CA
Full-Stack Web Engineer (Node.js, MongoDB, Knockout.js) || Full-Time
Zaption is an education-technology startup that's fixing video learning. Teachers and trainers use our web app to turn online videos (from YouTube, Vimeo, etc) into interactive learning experiences that engage students and deepen understanding. We're a very small (7-person) team that is funded, growing, and has real customers and revenue. We're looking for a dev who's interested in education, besides being good with JavaScript, having some experience with Node.js/MongoDB, and being able to wrangle HTML/CSS.
If you're interested, email [email protected]
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
Zaption (http://www.zaption.com) || San Francisco, CA
Full-Stack Web Engineer (Node.js, MongoDB, Knockout.js) || Full-Time
Zaption is an education-technology startup that's fixing video learning. Teachers and trainers use our web app to turn online videos (from YouTube, Vimeo, etc) into interactive learning experiences that engage students and deepen understanding. We're a very small (6-person) team that is funded, growing, and has real customers and revenue. We're looking for a dev who's interested in education, besides being good with JavaScript, having some experience with Node.js/MongoDB, and being able to wrangle HTML/CSS.
If you're interested, email [email protected]
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: Lingua::Romana::Perligata – Perl for the XXI-Imum Century (2000)
Placet mihi.
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
Zaption (http://www.zaption.com) || San Francisco, CA
Full-Stack Web Engineer (Node.js, MongoDB, Knockout.js) || Full-Time
Zaption is an education-technology startup that's fixing video learning. Teachers and trainers use our web app to turn online videos (from YouTube, Vimeo, etc) into interactive learning experiences that engage students and deepen understanding. We're a very small (6-person) team that is funded, growing, and has real customers and revenue. We're looking for a dev who's interested in education, besides being good with JavaScript, having some experience with Node.js/MongoDB, and being able to wrangle HTML/CSS.
If you're interested, email [email protected]
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: RethinkDB 2.0 release candidate
Exactly. Joins and changefeeds being the big ones. We won't switch over everything, at least to start, but there are a few places where switching a collection to RethinkDB could give us huge efficiency/simplicity gains just using joins. And it shouldn't be too hard to switch single collections over by using Compose.io's Transporters to backfill into Mongo.
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: RethinkDB 2.0 release candidate
Excited for this! We've been hoping to switch at least part of our infrastructure to Rethink, but were waiting for 2.0.
Are real benchmarks on the way with this release also? That's one critical thing we've been waiting to see. We want to see how it compares in common load scenarios to Mongo, Postgres, etc
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
Zaption (http://www.zaption.com) || San Francisco, CA
Full-Stack Web Engineer (Node.js, MongoDB, Knockout.js) || Full-Time
Zaption is an education-technology startup that's fixing video learning. Teachers and trainers use our web app to turn online videos (from YouTube, Vimeo, etc) into interactive learning experiences that engage students and deepen understanding.
We're a very small (6-person) team that is funded, growing, and has real customers and revenue. We're looking for a dev who's interested in education, besides being good with JavaScript, having some experience with Node.js/MongoDB, and being able to wrangle HTML/CSS.
If you're interested, email [email protected]
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
GPS coordinates don't generally include altitude, correct? If he's in a six-floor apartment, how could GPS define which floor he's in?
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps
FWIW, we've been pretty happy with the Froala Editor: https://editor.froala.com/
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?
I'm also a (newbie) hang glider pilot. This idea is a little further out there, but if anybody experienced with aircraft design could build a hang glider that folded into a backpack, it would be huge. Lots of R&D and tiny market, but they would pay tons for it. That convenience is one of the big reasons paragliding is more popular right now.
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: SlackTextViewController: A new growing text input for iOS
Will this work for just the input component with a separate table view controller? That'd make it much more useful for non-messaging apps also.
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)
Wooooooo Streem!
cstigler | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
Zaption - San Francisco, CA (http://www.zaption.com/jobs) - Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Zaption is a platform for video learning. Teachers use Zaption’s intuitive web app to quickly add images, text, quizzes, and discussions to existing videos from YouTube or Vimeo. We're funded by the NewSchools Venture Fund and Dr. Michael J Burry, and have real traction and revenue with large university partners.
We're a 5-person team looking for a full-stack JavaScript developer. We are on a Node.js/MongoDB/Knockout stack and offer a competitive salary, a meaningful bit of equity, and full benefits. If you're smart, friendly, and care about education, you'd be a great fit.
Email me at [email protected] or check out our Jobs page at http://www.zaption.com/jobs. You can play around with our product for free, just go to http://www.zaption.com/signup.
cstigler | 12 years ago | on: Zurb Foundation 5 Released
notQuantified !== false
to avoid type coercion here
cstigler | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: To everybody who uses MapReduce: what problems do you solve?
MongoDB: where you need Map/Reduce to do any aggregation at all.
cstigler | 12 years ago | on: Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
Modal stacked above another modal when I opened the page. Neither relevant. gags
The article's cool though.
cstigler | 12 years ago | on: CloudFront Uploads via POST and PUT
Interesting, this definitely positions them as a competitor to CloudFlare. But the CDN-as-full-proxy has some distinct disadvantages: every POST to CloudFront will have to make an extra round-trip to retrieve the data before returning to the user. We ditched CloudFlare because of this -- simple requests would take 500ms longer via CloudFlare. Presumably CloudFront will run into the same issues...
cstigler | 12 years ago | on: Shiny: Easy web applications in R
Down =(