Keeping track of crypto amidst all the hype recently, it's abundantly clear to me that the recent explosion of speculation based trading is a signifier that cryptocurrency is a bubble just waiting to burst.
I don't think this is bad in any right. It looks (and I grew up in the bay area through turn of the century) just like the dot com bubble. The promising part of this is that the underlying technologies being developed, a way to distribute information and business logic in a way where there is an indisputable fully traceable truth, is huge. I think of blockchain-like platforms like Ethereum as the ARPANET to our internet. The opportunities to supplant existing fully centralized systems such as stock exchanges, escrow systems, supply chain/provenance tracking, etc. with a fully decentralized or hybrid approach is huge.
In the end though, I think it will come down to where governments draw the line in the sand. The sad but true reality is that the regulators with the guns will always have ultimate power.
Every crypto is trying to position themselves as the survivor (by way of real world 'utility') for when the bubble bursts. They all want to be Amazon, rising from the ashes of a crashed market.
Ripple's underdog challenger, Stellar XLM, is trying to claim the same mantle. So are thousands of other 'utility coins', of course, including ETH, XRB, VEN, ICX, and even the "privacy" coins, like Monero.
The fact is this is uncharted territory. We don't know for sure whether we're at the leading or trailing edge of a bubble, and we don't know for sure that any, some, or most crypto will still be around in 5-10 years.
Zenrez | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | zenrez.com
The Zenrez engineering team is building products that are fundamentally changing the fitness industry. We’re empowering studio owners to grow their small businesses and allowing them to focus on what matters most, teaching their amazing classes.
Our core suite of software products cover the full customer lifecycle for studio owners, from acquisition, to retention, to recovery.
We are a full-stack JavaScript shop. We deploy to production continuously, consistently and safely adding value for our customers. Our current focus is scalability and evolving our service oriented architecture.
Candidates should have at least 1 year industry experience.
Zenrez | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | zenrez.com
The Zenrez engineering team is building products that are fundamentally changing the fitness industry. We’re empowering studio owners to grow their small businesses and allowing them to focus on what matters most, teaching their amazing classes. Our core suite of software products cover the full customer lifecycle for studio owners, from acquisition, to retention, to recovery.
We are a full-stack JavaScript shop. We deploy to production continuously, consistently and safely adding value for our customers. Our current focus is scalability and evolving our service oriented architecture.
Interview process: A take home problem with a follow up phone pairing session on the solution and 1 onsite interview.
I recently set up a raspi to monitor my wine cellar temperatures. If you're looking for a 3rd party solution, check out librato [1]. We use them at work and they're really great. I hooked temperature readings up to librato and set up threshold alerts within a few min without ever having used their python api before.
Hammerspoon is actually just a fork of Mjolnir from a few of the more active community members.
It has a bit more modules and whatnot and emphasizes ease of use more than Mjolnir. It comes pre-packaged so that you don't need to bother with Luarocks and finding each and every package that you want. It is also under active delevopment. .Steven Degutis, the Mjolnir creator and maintainer, has said that he won't be doing anything other than merging necessary pull requests.
So really, for what you're using it for, probably not much. It's almost a matter of preference.
Good Eggs brings local, farm-fresh groceries right to your door! We are a technology focused company with a CTO who previously founded Carbon Five, an exceptional agile development shop. See our Engineering Blog and Github account:
We have a great mission (https://www.goodeggs.com/philosophy) - to grow and sustain local food systems worldwide - and everyone here is deeply committed to it. We have expanded to 4 cities - New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco - and our investors include Sequoia Capital, Harrison Metal, Baseline Ventures, Collaborative Fund and Westly Group, among others.
There are ~20 of us on the engineering team and we’re actively growing. We’re building next-generation web and mobile applications with JavaScript across the stack, including Node.js, MongoDB, AngularJS, and CoffeeScript. The team has been built from the ground up with practices around test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous deployment.
== About you ===
Ideal Candidates Will Have:
* 3-5+ years full-stack web application development in Ruby, Python, Java, or JavaScript
* TDD experience / experience with pairing / Continuous Deployment
* Domain expertise in: e-commerce, billing, payments, or warehouse distribution software
Downside is that after using a proper functional language (clojure[script]) you end up wanting some really basic things such as immutable core data structures.
I feel like if you start from scratch on a javascript project, it's possible to program in a functional manner. I've found it really tough to introduce functional concepts to an already full stack javascript codebase.
BTW: I'd recommend ramda [1] for those interested in functional javascript programming. The auto-currying makes it way more powerful than underscore/lodash in terms of encouraging pure reusable functions.
Good Eggs brings local, farm-fresh groceries right to your door! We are a technology focused company with a CTO who previously founded Carbon Five, an exceptional agile development shop. See our Engineering Blog and Github account:
We have a great mission (https://www.goodeggs.com/philosophy) - to grow and sustain local food systems worldwide - and everyone here is deeply committed to it. We have expanded to 4 cities - New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco - and our investors include Sequoia Capital, Harrison Metal, Baseline Ventures, Collaborative Fund and Westly Group, among others.
There are ~20 of us on the engineering team and we’re actively growing. We’re building next-generation web and mobile applications with JavaScript across the stack, including Node.js, MongoDB, AngularJS, and CoffeeScript. The team has been built from the ground up with practices around test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous deployment.
== About you ===
Ideal Candidates Will Have:
* 3-5+ years full-stack web application development in Ruby, Python, Java, or JavaScript
* TDD experience / experience with pairing / Continuous Deployment
* Domain expertise in: e-commerce, billing, payments, or warehouse distribution software
Good Eggs brings local, farm-fresh groceries right to your door! We are a technology focused company with a CTO who previously founded Carbon Five, an exceptional agile development shop. See our Engineering Blog and Github account:
We have a great mission (https://www.goodeggs.com/philosophy) - to grow and sustain local food systems worldwide - and everyone here is deeply committed to it. We have expanded to 4 cities - New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco - and our investors include Sequoia Capital, Harrison Metal, Baseline Ventures, Collaborative Fund and Westly Group, among others.
There are ~20 of us on the engineering team and we’re actively growing. We’re building next-generation web and mobile applications with JavaScript across the stack, including Node.js, MongoDB, AngularJS, Backbone, and CoffeeScript. The team has been built from the ground up with practices around test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous deployment.
== About you ===
Ideal Candidates Will Have:
* 3-5+ years full-stack web application development in Ruby, Python, Java, or JavaScript
* TDD experience / experience with pairing / Continuous Deployment
* Domain expertise in: e-commerce, billing, payments, or warehouse distribution software
I don't think this is bad in any right. It looks (and I grew up in the bay area through turn of the century) just like the dot com bubble. The promising part of this is that the underlying technologies being developed, a way to distribute information and business logic in a way where there is an indisputable fully traceable truth, is huge. I think of blockchain-like platforms like Ethereum as the ARPANET to our internet. The opportunities to supplant existing fully centralized systems such as stock exchanges, escrow systems, supply chain/provenance tracking, etc. with a fully decentralized or hybrid approach is huge.
In the end though, I think it will come down to where governments draw the line in the sand. The sad but true reality is that the regulators with the guns will always have ultimate power.