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evolvedlight | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Internship for a Java Role

Many EU internships would pay the pro-rated same as a new graduate; so 200-300/month seems crazy. Here in Switzerland I think you'd expect to get around 3.5-4k per month

evolvedlight | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)

Gentwo AG | C# software engineer | Zurich, Switzerland | Full-time, on location | https://www.gentwo.com/company/about-careers?job=SoftwareDev...

Our mission at Gentwo is to make all assets bankable, investable, and manageable. We help our clients bring new investment ideas to life, from traditional finance to films, hotels, and crypto assets.

We're looking for an additional backend C# developer for the team, but we could find a place for a good Vue.JS or UX developer. Our tech stack is C#, ASP.Net Core, Kubernetes, Vue.JS, Postgres and Azure. It's all less than three years old and so far the bitrot is relatively low and enjoyment high. You can apply directly through [email protected] but I'm also available on [email protected] if you have any questions or would like to know more about the job and I'll guide you personally.

Swiss work permit or EU/EFTA required, I'm afraid we can't sponsor work permits

evolvedlight | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)

GENTWO | Software Engineer | ONSITE Zurich, Switzerland | https://www.gentwo.com/ | EU/Swiss work permit needed

We are a small financial startup helping traditional and crypto companies launch investable products on the market.

We're looking for c# (dotnet core) and vue.js developers to help us build the platform that our clients use to launch and manage their products. We are a rapidly growing fintech startup based in the middle of Zurich. You'd join a team of 4 developers - we're mostly all backend c# developers but do some javascript, web design and vue.js too.

We offer an excellent salary, good working conditions and a growing friendly team. Our codebase is also young and we use new but battle tested technologies.

If you're interested, please reach out to me directly with any questions or with your resume at [email protected]

evolvedlight | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)

Gentwo | C#/Vuejs Developer | Zürich | Onsite (CH) | 80%/Full time | https://www.g2fp.com/

We are a Zurich based financial services company, offering tailor made issuance solutions for financial products. We also have a related child company that helps make any crypto/digital assets fully investable, with a swiss ISIN.

We're hiring for C# or VueJs developers, either standalone or with both skills. You'd be implementing new projects, expanding existing tools we have and helping support the current platform. We have a relatively new tech stack of Kubernetes, Gitlab, Vuejs 2+3, .Net 5, Postgres and Gitlab. We have some flexibility to working time, several of us work 4/5 days a week, including myself. Swiss work permit/EU required.

We're hiring due to excellent performance so far, a rapidly growing business and some plans for large new greenfield projects!

You can directly send me an email/CV at sb AT g2fp.com; we're still a small company and have quick and efficient hiring practices.

evolvedlight | 6 years ago | on: Jitsi Meet features update

I started using this (for https://virtualcoffeebreak.app) but in the end had to switch to daily.co - the jitsi support for mobile devices is a bit painful and doesn't work so well. The mobile iframe is quite jarring and doesn't provide that nice user experience; for example it doesn't detect if the app is already installed or not.

Having to download an app increases the barrier compared to other solutions.

evolvedlight | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Virtual Coffee Break app for working from home

I made this as a YC SUS side project as it was difficult finding time to chat with colleagues compared to in real life. This allows people to mark that they are ready to have a break, rather than scheduling something in the calendar, so can better work around people's schedules. Works nicely on a phone, as you go and grab a tea and biscuit :)

Feel free to pop in and try it out in my room: https://virtualcoffeebreak.app/group/hello

evolvedlight | 7 years ago | on: House Oversight Committee Report on Equifax Breach [pdf]

The most alarming part of this is that it appears that the intrusion was only discovered when the new SSL monitoring certificates were being checked to ensure that the appliance was again "on". I wonder how long it'd have taken if someone hadn't spotted something suspicious by accident at that point - I'm sure we've all spotted bugs or flaws by accident when testing a completely different feature.

evolvedlight | 7 years ago | on: House Oversight Committee Report on Equifax Breach [pdf]

Page 34: The default setting for this device allowed web traffic to continue through to the ACIS system, even when the SSL certificate was expired. When this occurs, traffic flowing to and from the internet is not analyzed by the intrusion detection or prevention systems because these security tools cannot analyze encrypted traffic.

evolvedlight | 8 years ago | on: Why You Should Hire an Old Programmer

I would _never_ hire this candidate, based on seeing this.

So - the author says that he has "developed some good communication skills". Great! Moving on, let's look at his linkedin page. Quotes from past jobs: "even after our idiot (now ex) CEO canceled the platform.", "wonky JavaEE stuff.".

So, as a hiring manager, from this post + linkedin, I now know that this guy: 1) can reach large audiences, 2) trashes past jobs and colleagues publicly. And thus, I would be terrified of hiring the author, as there seems a 50% chance that this will end with my employers being trashed in the same way. That's just not worth it.

OP: Come on, give yourself the chance to be hired by removing that from linkedin.

evolvedlight | 9 years ago | on: Quest-driven OpenStreetMap editing for Android

I've done some quests this morning - and took a look at the map history around me to see many other people also doing edits from this app. This is great! The level of participation this is enabling is really impressive!

evolvedlight | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop]

- HEADLINE: Mouse to work

- DESCRIPTION: I'd like my mouse to work properly in Ubuntu (or any of my mice). When I start my laptop, my USB wireless mouse scrolls super fast. When I take it out and plug it in again, it scrolls super slow. I'd like that not to happen, and also some way of configuring the scroll speed.

evolvedlight | 9 years ago | on: Command execution on Ansible controller from host

Imagine you're in a large enterprise environment, and need to deploy something to lots of different servers that were created by lots of different people (your company bought 3 others and each used different software/linux versions/servers). Some have python in the path, some have different pythons in the path, etc. You can't immediately throw away all these servers and rebuild them - some probably have 10 year old bits of software on them where the original author has moved away. Ansible might be one of the tools you use to start fixing this chaotic situation, and having per-host configurations for things like python path is essential.
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