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There is something to be said for boring, reliable software. New languages seem to rewrite UNIX tools and abandon them as a rite of passage.

Deploying static sites is the original and best candidate for engineers overengineering

Clearmatics | Software Engineers | London | On-site or remote

Clearmatics (https://www.clearmatics.com) is an established blockchain R&D company in London, UK. We have good ties to the Open Source / Ethereum community, our Lead Engineer works closely with the Ethereum Foundation, and the company is an EEA Member.

We're looking to hire multiple senior engineers to expand our team. Our stack is Ethereum-like so familiarity and passion with the space is key. We are looking for people who are not afraid of unknowns and enjoy working with others to problem solve and break new ground. You should have more than a passing interest in the Ethereum or cryptocurrency space, with contributions to Open Source Projects being a distinct plus. You should be able to reason about technical problems, argue thoughtfully and contribute in a team setting.

We have a lot of hard problems to solve. If you'd like to make significant contributions to the blockchain ecosystem and think you are a match then we'd love to hear from you!

https://clearmatics.workable.com/j/649B4309C7

Clearmatics | Blockchain Engineer | London, UK | Full-time | http://www.clearmatics.com/

Clearmatics is an established blockchain R&D company in London, UK. We have good ties to the Open Source / Ethereum community, our Lead Engineer works closely with the Ethereum Foundation, and the company is an EEA Member. We're funded and have revenue, so we won't be doing any ICOs. We're looking to hire multiple senior engineers to expand our team. Our stack is Ethereum-like so familiarity and passion with the space is key.

* Good grasp of Computer Science fundamentals (data structures, algorithmic complexity, etc)

* Experience in strongly typed languages (C/C++, Golang, Scala, Rust)

* Demonstrable interest in Ethereum / the cryptocurrency space

* Comfortable working in a new field

* Experience with network and concurrent programming

* Willingness to work on research projects and brainstorm solutions with team

* 5+ years experience as a software engineer

https://clearmatics.workable.com/j/649B4309C7

I switched from Jekyll -> own rolled Node.js generator -> Hugo.

For me it is better because of simplicity and speed. I use it to power a 400 page blog (https://shapeshed.com/) with this source code (https://github.com/shapeshed/shapeshed.com).

I used Jekyll in a small organisation and it meant everyone needed a working Ruby environment This caused much pain across platforms. Hugo ships a single binary for multiple platforms so setup is far simpler. It is also amazingly fast and there have been major performance improvements in 0.17 too (https://gohugo.io/meta/release-notes/).

I love it!

Pass https://www.passwordstore.org/

Good luck but I'm not really sure how this product is differentiating from other bundled voip and messaging products other than better UX/UI.

Where is the revenue model and where are the open APIs into the service? Messaging is becoming really saturated now. User experience might get you some of the way there but interoperability with things outside your walled garden is also important for success IMHO.

Do one thing and do it well.

IMHO cURL is the best tool for interacting with HTTP and wget is the best tool for downloading files.

I'm another advocate for dwm and st. Compiling dwm takes seconds (it is a small codebase) and keeps configuration out of the core.

Some more information on the legal action here [1]

The action makes repeated reference to the European Convention of Human Rights, and UK lawyers have already questioned [2] the legality of revelations around GCHQ's activities in relation to ECHR.

The current legislation [3] covering GCHQ's activities is from 1994.

1: https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/stop-breaking-the-...

2: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/gchq-mass-sur...

3: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/13/crossheading/the...

Seems you can't buy the phone outright in the UK and have to buy it through network providers. Would have been good to see an unlocked version purchasable direct from Motorola.

Why prioritise this over an API for HN? 2014 and we are still screen scraping.

Choose Arch. Pick any desktop environment and learn how easy it is to switch if you don't like Unity/Gnome/etc

It would be interesting to graph SaaS products being purchased and then being closed down over time. It would be a good barometer of the skill levels of decision makers in acquiring businesses.

If you run Linux in a VM on VirtualBox on OSX you get the best of both worlds. If you are curious it is a great way to experiment.

The other point to make is that if you use terminal POSIX compliant tools (vim, mutt, tmux) and favour web applications over native ones you can create a highly portable environment so the choice of underlying OS becomes a subjective question of taste.

Isn't the point that with a REST interface you can move your UI layer entirely to client-side JavaScript with any of Ember/Angular/Backbone. Behind the REST interface your tech can be anything and you can swap it at will.

I haven't seen anything to compete with tmux and wemux https://github.com/zolrath/wemux. It works great!

Whatever you think of HUD, Unity, Ubuntu TV, Ubuntu on Android you have to admire someone pursuing a vision.

There's a reasonably new language called HTML that is a good development platform too. Works on all devices.

OSS development has to be funded somewhere and to date it has been the benevolence of bigger organisations that have awarded grants or developer time. This gives the opportunity for a developer to offer to solve a problem and for the community to vote with their pockets. It empowers developers and the community to get behind a problem space and if people don't want it it won't happen.