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SEEKING WORK - Toronto/Remote, willing to visit

I'm a full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience, including Endeca, Vine (Twitter), and as the tech lead for Search at Shutterstock Images. I'm available for full or part-time work. I also have a bachelor of Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.

I can build a web application from front to back, providing guidance to plan a simple, iterative implementation that meets your needs. I can also lead a team of engineers.

I also have DevOps experience at TunnelBear and Vine (Twitter). Most of my experience has been building scalable web applications, making build systems and doing configuration management, and React web apps.

  Skills:
  * Java, Scala, Python, JavaScript + TypeScript
  * React, Redux, Angular, Spring Boot, Django
  * Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Heroku
  * ElasticSearch, Solr, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, MongoDB
  * Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
  * GitLab Continuous Integration

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nhooey/

Email: nhooey at gmail.com

SEEKING WORK - Remote

I'm a full stack software engineer with 9 years professional coding experience.

I specialize in search and DevOps, with experience writing front-end web applications. I can help build your web application's frontend and backend, set up continuous integration and deployment, build search and indexing systems, plan and deploy backend infrastructure with configuration management, and more.

Technologies:

- Backend: Python, Java, C++, Ruby, Flask, Django, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Solr, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, AWS EC2

- Frontend: Angular, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS

- DevOps: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Sensu, Nagios, Icinga, Supervisor

Professional Experience:

- TunnelBear, Vine (Twitter), Shutterstock, Endeca (Oracle)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nhooey

Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/14193/neil

GitHub: https://github.com/nhooey

Email: [email protected]

Open to hourly or project-based billing.

I wouldn't call a glass of wine a toxic.

I've had an "ssh buddy" for years, but for a variety of things such as asking for a "download on how to hotwire a motorcycle".

I have an agreement with many friends to be an operator so they can look something up on the web, or anything else requiring some efficient technical prowess.

We just call up each other and say "operator", and if you're near a computer, you help out with whatever it is.

But if you could travel faster than the speed of light, you could send a mirror to the edge of the universe to figure out what happened in the past.

Figure out what happened to the tops of everyone's heads when they were outside, that is...

Some Americans care about "buy[ing] American", but most don't. A prime example is the Japanese auto manufacturers taking market share away from American companies with better quality cars since the 80s, eventually becoming dominant.

Not to mention that the US isn't the only market for smartphones out there, so a large portion of the market certainly don't care if something is manufactured in the US.

Making quality software is probably the biggest opportunity for RIM right now, not the location of manufacture.

I totally agree. I have two 1920x1200 screens, and I put two browser windows per screen, so I always max out at exactly 960.

Donated.

I've never donated to anything like this, but Sony's actions are fundamentally corrupt and if unchallenged, will set a terrible precedent for all of us, and severely hurt this individual.

Does anyone know if The Art of Computer Programming will be released as an eBook soon?

The Google Talk client is horrible. It wastes tons of CPU when it's loading up the contact list, and still uses a bunch just while idling. If you have it on all the time, it will eat your battery away such that a Blackberry 9700 with no other apps running won't last a full day. I tested this on my own device a while ago, it might have gotten better, but I doubt it.

Blackberry Messenger (BBM) also has a typing indicator, delivered and read indicators, and it's faster than anything else out there.

Also, the fact that it's only on mobile devices and not desktop computers means that you know your message will get delivered to someone's pocket instead of the computer they may have left on. An odd side effect of its lack of portability.

I'm not really sure, maybe Gartner has some vague reports on that.

RIM does make money on the use of their Business Enterprise Servers (BES), so in corporate installations they're taking in large sums of money on a per-year basis. Given that, and my assumption of Apple's superior profit per-unit, it might be hard to tell who makes more money on their phones overall.

Do you not find the Adam Tablet compelling? It's going to have the NVidia Pixel Qi screen that can go greyscale so you can see it in the sun, and runs Android.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Tablet

It should be coming out in a few weeks, so it should be one of the first decent iPad competitors.

By the 2nd quarter of 2010, RIM was still beating both Android and Apple in market share for Smartphones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

It's more like everyone else tried making Blackberry killers, and has yet to succeed.

You still have to shave your neck to avoid looking like a slob.

To extend your idea about redundantly entering a password when downloading a free application, Apple also sends you a redundant receipt for $0. That can't be anything but training the user to a set of behaviours.

Don't just make assumptions, there really isn't a risk from running pirated games that you get from torrents. People tend not to be malicious when seeding.

I can't believe nobody else mentioned this sooner or that you haven't received many more points for your comment.

Most people don't even think about the fact that they're locked into a contract for 2+ years (in the US), they just think about how the other phones are cheaper. But even for the people who consider the costs of being locked in, they can see that not being locked in provides little advantage.

If the entire market wasn't locked in to their contract, and could trivially take their phone number with them, they would have maximum provider mobility and the competition would get steep. If only a few people do this, it won't actually improve service or make the companies willing to adjust prices to keep these specific customers.

I'm not sure how the market came to this in North America and other select places, but I can see how it's going to be very hard for it to change.

Not getting sweaty in the summer, especially when going up hills.

Also most important, a car has heat and a car has air conditioning. There are parts of Canada that are so horribly cold in the winter that it's unbearable to walk around even if you're all bundled up. It would be even worse on a Segway because you wouldn't be generating body heat with your muscles.

Waiting for the bus really sucks in cold places in the winter, way more than when it's too hot in the summer.

Maybe if everyone had personal super-small Popemobiles that went slow enough they were no more a threat to pedestrians than bicycles.

One of the advantages a Segway has over a bike is that you don't sweat when you ride it.

You can only ride your bike to work if you don't care if you're sweaty, or if you have a shower and the time to use it once you get there.

And one major problem I see with not having cars is being able to go somewhere outside of the city on a weekend, when all the ZipCars are taken. If you reduce the amount of cars a city needs on average, everyone is seriously screwed during peak time. Maybe a graduated pricing scheme would fix this: With all of the cars being more expensive on the weekend, you could have a special set of reserve cars which are even more expensive on the weekend so people who really need them and are willing to pay can depend on that reserve.

However the advantages gained from people sharing cars instead of everyone having their own, far outweigh the costs.