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michaelx | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2015)

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Front-end development with a focus on HTML5, (S)CSS, JavaScript, React, and Liquid; back-end development experience with PHP, Ruby, Java, and MySQL; Git; Gulp.js; AWS.

Résumé/CV: http://michaelxander.com/documents/mxander-cv.pdf

Email: See CV

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Product Designer & Dev, I run an independent online magazine w/ over 5,500 subscribers.

Mostly interested in product design roles.

michaelx | 11 years ago | on: Tim Ferriss interviews Alexis Ohanian (reddit and hipmunk) on Y Combinator …

This is EP36 from The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast).

Shownotes:

Ep 36: Alexis Ohanian on Y Combinator, Getting Punched, and Picking Winners

Alexis Ohanian is best known for being: - On the Forbes “30 under 30” list multiple times (then he turned 30)- A co-founder of reddit and hipmunk- In the very first class of Y Combinator, arguably the world’s most selective startup “accelerator”…

michaelx | 12 years ago | on: Kowloon Walled City

I‘m also fascinated by Kowloon Walled City since the first time I saw it in the Dreamcast game Shenmue 2.

One of the best documentaries IMHO is the following 4 part series from 1989 which shows the everyday life in KWC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w

I also recommend the already mentioned book City of Darkness and movie Chungking Express. Additional Jackie Pullinger‘s books "Crack In The Wall: Life & Death in Kowloon Walled City" (http://amzn.to/1nNKkuq) and "Chasing the Dragon" (http://amzn.to/1kd9zWc) are worth a read.

michaelx | 12 years ago | on: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier

I'm using Arq since 2011 to backup my most important data to Amazon S3+Glacier and can highly recommend it.

Today v4 has been released and comes with new storage options (GreenQloud, DreamObjects, Google Cloud Storage, SFTP aka your own server), multiple backup targets, unified budget across S3 and S3/Glacier, Email notifications and many more clever features.

michaelx | 12 years ago | on: The sad state of website password standards

Great summary and essential for every new and existing product. It's a shame how many brand-new startups still limit the password length for example. Really, it's one of the first things users do. Don't establish a relationship with a mistake, it's a burning bridge.

michaelx | 12 years ago | on: 1Password 4 for Mac is here

The guys of Binarynights (ForkLift) are working on an alternative called Locko: http://www.binarynights.com/blog/

It's available as an early beta and pretty promising. Competition is always good and Apple will pushing AgileBits further when they release Mavericks with the iCloud Keychain.

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