ricaurte | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
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ricaurte | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
The Honest Company - Hiring Software Engineers - Santa Monica, CA
About Us
The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco-friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed. We're growing really fast, recently having hired our 250th employee, and have raised $52 million to date, while being only 2.5 years old.
Our awesome office:
-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...
-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28
We like to have fun
-- http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/
-- http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/
======================
Positions Available
We are continuing to expand our technology team and hiring for the following positions:
-- Back-End Engineers (Jr., Mid, and Sr.)
-- Full-Stack Engineers (Jr., Mid, and Sr.)
-- Sr. Front-End Engineers
-- QA Automation Engineers
Send resume to: The Honest Technology Team - [email protected]
======================
Our stack:
-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)
-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end
-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server
-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable
-- RabbitMQ is our main queueing system
-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby
======================
What will we look for in you?
We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.
If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:
The Honest Technology Team - [email protected]
ricaurte | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
The Honest Company - Hiring Software Engineers - Santa Monica, CA
About Us
The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco-friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed. We're growing really fast, recently hiring our 200th employee, and have raised $52 million to date.
Our awesome office:
-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...
-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28
We like to have fun
-- http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/
-- http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/
======================
Positions Available
We are continuing to expand our technology team and hiring for the following positions:
-- Back-End Engineers (Jr., Mid, and Sr.)
-- Full-Stack Engineers (Jr., Mid, and Sr.)
-- Sr. Front-End Engineers
-- QA Automation Engineers
Send resume to: The Honest Technology Team - [email protected]
======================
Our stack:
-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)
-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end
-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server
-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable
-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby
======================
What will we look for in you?
We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.
If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:
The Honest Technology Team - [email protected]
ricaurte | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)
The Honest Company - Hiring Software Engineers - Santa Monica, CA
About us
The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco- friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed.
We're growing really fast with over 170 employees as of our 2nd birthday in January (http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/) and have raised $52 million to date.
Our awesome office:
-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...
-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28
We like to have fun - http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/
======================
Positions Available
We are continuing to expand our technology team and hiring for the following positions:
-- Full-Stack Engineers
-- Back-End Engineers
-- Front-End Engineers
-- QA Automation Engineers
-- We are also looking for interns for the above positions
Send resume to: The Honest Technology Team - [email protected]
======================
Our stack:
-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)
-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end
-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server
-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable
-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby
======================
What will we look for in you?
We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.
If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:
The Honest Technology Team - [email protected]
ricaurte | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
The Honest Company - Hiring Software Engineers - Santa Monica, CA (INTERN yes, REMOTE no, H1B transfer maybe)
About us
The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco- friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes.The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed.
We're growing really fast with over 170 employees as of our 2nd birthday two weeks ago (http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/) and have raised $52 million to date.
Our awesome office:
-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...
-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28
We like to have fun - http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/
======================
Positions Available
We are continuing to expand our engineering team and hiring for the following positions:
-- Full-Stack Engineers
-- Front-End Engineers
-- Back-End Engineers
-- QA Automation Engineers
Send resume to: Justin Ricaurte ([email protected])
======================
Our stack:
-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)
-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end
-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server
-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable
-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby
======================
What will we look for in you?
We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.
If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:
Justin Ricaurte ([email protected])
ricaurte | 14 years ago | on: Running Your Own Node.js Version on Heroku
And a link to Heroku Buildpack: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: YC S11 Rejection Letter
If you are a business or other non-technical person, a friend and I are building a product to help you get your software idea built and launched, so that you can start making money off of it. My email is in my profile if you're interested.
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: UW Lamborghini lab in top gear, Aventador next
"On Tuesday at a car show in Geneva, Lamborghini is taking the wraps off the first production car to come fully through the lab, through its entire gestation process.
Called the Aventador, it's a $370,000 Batmobile that goes from zero to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds.
The Aventador's bare body -- before the V-12 motor and other parts are added -- weighs just 504.9 pounds."
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: Ruby Performance in the Rails Development Environment
I've had this problem as well while developing with Rails. I've been doing some lisp development using the teepeedee2 webserver and I've found a way to make a test server that will most of the time render test pages in less than a second, because asdf smartly only recompiles those pages that have been altered. The times it takes longer are when I modify the code for teepeedee2.
One problem I did have was that certain portions of my code would no longer work after reloading the system - for example I would store function references in variables and if those pages recompiled I would lose those variables that I set. A way I found around it was that each time a page was sent to the webserver and after it reloaded the system, I would have it reload those specific variables. Now if something like that could work in rails, where you always reload specific pieces of code that would no longer work if their underlying code was modified, then you might be able to make it work.
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: Talk about Disruptive technology
This sounds like something that could lead to an interesting YCombinator application. :)
The nice thing about this type of technology is that you have enough paranoid people in the US to market to initially (assuming you're in the US or that the US is easy for you to sell to, and no, I'm not trying to be condescending of people that are paranoid). Another interesting bit could be to donate one piece of the technology to opposition movements in countries run by dictators, when somebody buys your devices. How you'd smuggle it is one question, but I'm sure there are NGOs that would gladly help you.
Fred Wilson might be interested in it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158529
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: The Power of Comparison: How It Affects Decision Making
I remember seeing a previous article on HN talking about how you should have 3 products to sell instead of 1, because it helps to anchor the customer when they make a decision. That makes a lot of sense when you consider the study shown in the article about how people valued two books in isolation and then relative to each other.
One thing to possibly take away is that if you have a more "featureful" product (like the 20,000 entries v 10,000 entries) that's not as nice, people will be willing to pay more for it, if it is next to a nicer "less featureful" product. Obviously, this might only work in limited domains, like the dictionary example, but food for thought if you're selling your own product or one on eBay. And whether people would actually end up buying the 20,000 word dictionary instead of the 10,000 word dictionary is another question entirely.
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: How to Make Trillions of Dollars
He would have had to assume a 15% rate of return in order to yield $100,000.
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: A Global Database for Facial Recognition
Face.com seems to be essentially going down that path. Now whether they store all of the faceprints or not, I don't know. They also have a developer API that is in alpha right now.
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: U.S. Tries to Build Case for Conspiracy by WikiLeaks
"But in interviews, people familiar with the case said the department appeared to be attracted to the possibility of prosecuting Mr. Assange as a co-conspirator to the leaking because it is under intense pressure to make an example of him as a deterrent to further mass leaking of electronic documents over the Internet." - Emphasis mine
I thought laws were supposed to be enforced for justice, not to intimidate the people.
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Paying for University as an undocumented student
If a 2 year-old is mature enough to be capable of illegally overstaying a visa on their own free will and understand the consequences, then 3 year-olds should be able to vote and 4 year-olds should be able to go to jail for a lifetime. He was 2. He shouldn't pay for a crime his parents committed.
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: Ranking the popularity of programming languages
This is an interesting comparison, but it is most likely just a high overlap between their userbases - people that use github also use stackoverflow, and vice versa. This also doesn't include the number of people programming with a language in a corporate environment whose work is not public nor on external servers.
Megan Squire posted in a comment this link to a collection of multiple source code repository websites datasets, although it is only open source projects: http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/list
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: 'Old fogies' obsession: Turning waves into power
One of my favorite passages:
"We were sitting around saying we can't understand why America isn't doing better in renewable energy," says Fred Lightfoot, 82, an allegedly retired electrical engineer from Bremerton. "And then we thought: 'Hey, we're engineers. Instead of complaining, as we usually do, why don't we come up with something?' "
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: Is Precognition Real?
It would be interesting if they combined these types of studies with brain scans to see if there are any patterns within the human brain during positives and negatives. This would help to find if there is a neurological basis for precognition, or if it is all really just random chance.
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: Offer HN: Tax Help for Startup Entrepreneurs.
On a related question, I'm intrigued as to how this kind of market is different from Apple's App Store[1]. I know Google expenses its AdSense partner cost as traffic acquisition cost[2], but what about them makes the IRS/SEC view them differently?
[1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/23/app-store-1-of-apples... [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1792921
ricaurte | 15 years ago | on: PadMapper Maps Out Crime Levels of Cities
Foot traffic would be great for places like suburban malls or the weekends, but is less relevant for things like burglaries and car thefts (unless its burglaries at businesses). For city centers, worker population density would work just as well during the week, since workers are going to be the most likely to be in an area from 8am-6pm.
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https://www.honest.com
About us
The Honest Company passionately believes in creating not only effective, but also unquestionably safe, eco- friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers (with super stylish designs) and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products – all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed.
We're growing fast with over 250 employees and have raised $122 million to date, while being less than 3 years-old.
Some recent press:
-- Jessica Alba’s The Honest Co. Raises $70M, Preps for IPO - http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/08/26/jessica-albas...
Our awesome office:
-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jessica-alba-honest...
-- http://www.lonny.com/magazine/October+2013/xC34VaNFEkE/1#28
We like to have fun:
-- http://instagram.com/p/efoaU_Muud/
-- http://instagram.com/p/jSqeESMujh/
======================
Positions Available
We are continuing to expand our technology team and hiring for the following positions:
-- Full-Stack Engineers (Jr., Mid. Sr.)
-- Back-End Engineers (Jr., Mid, Sr.)
-- Front-End Engineers (Sr.)
-- QA Automation Engineers
-- Devops Engineers
Send resume to: The Honest Technology Team ([email protected])
======================
Our stack:
-- Ruby on Rails backend for our E-Commerce Site (Python and/or Node.js experience perfectly fine)
-- Angular.js and themed Bootstrap on the front-end
-- Our warehouse currently runs off an in-house created Ruby server
-- TDD with rspec, capybara, and jasmine tests keeping things stable
-- RabbitMQ is our main queueing system
-- Datastores - MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
-- iOS app in the app store - Honest Baby
======================
What will we look for in you?
We want to see someone who will take initiative to support the company's mission of delivering safe, eco-friendly, beautiful and affordable home and family products to all current and future customers. Someone who is known to smile and crack a joke while working on a difficult problem. You take pride in your work, deliver clean, well-tested code and are able to communicate with your teammates about your work and find creative ways to improve code and processes. We like to cross-train everyone to be full-stack engineers, so if you're back-end or front-end, we would also like you to want to learn the other side while working for us.
If this sounds like the type of place you would have a lot of fun working at, contact:
The Honest Technology Team - [email protected]