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perspectivezoom

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About perspectivezoom

https://github.com/perspectivezoom email me at hn@perspectivezoom.com

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    Comment #49169286

    Location: San Francisco Remote: Open to onsite, hybrid, or remote (and have worked in all 3 environments) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, React, Python, GraphQL, …

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    Comment #49114134

    I will second git-spice. It does exactly what you want and, importantly, no more than that. There's no upsell to anything else; it's "just" a good tool that knows its purpose and b…

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    Comment #48750995

    Location: San Francisco Remote: Open to onsite, hybrid, or remote (and have worked in all 3 environments) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, React, Python, GraphQL, …

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    Comment #46159532

    I'm a heavy user of git-spice: https://abhinav.github.io/git-spice (created by a former coworker) and can't really go back to a time without it. While still not nearly as good as F…

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    Comment #40635569

    I was Triplebyte's first engineering placement. I still remember going to a random SoMa apartment with Harj and Ammon and Guillaume and coding up tetris in ruby, having no prior ex…

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    Comment #37748803

    Location: San Francisco Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, React, NextJS, NodeJS, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, HackPHP, SQL Résumé/CV: https://www.lin…

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    Comment #23719231

    I just watched a video about this, that basically goes over all your points: "Air Cargo's Coronavirus Problem" by Wendover Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2oPk20OHBE A…

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    Comment #9841615

    Nice job. You may want to take a look at https://github.com/gaganpreet/hn-hiring-mapped/ , who wrote a python script to extract location info from who's hiring posts. (Demo at http…

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    Comment #9635931

    I was thinking about spec compliance. I think the best thing would be to provide these guidelines in the whoishiring post, and then ask that those who follow the guidelines put a u…

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    Comment #9635912

    Yaml I think would take too much vertical space and make reading the normal thread not as useful as it is right now.

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    Comment #9635904

    Yes. Please add a way to reliably determine metadata on hiring posts. I wrote https://github.com/perspectivezoom/curated-hn-hiring but abandoned it after a couple months because it…

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    Comment #7972224

    Location: San Francisco or East Bay Remote: No Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: SQL, Ruby on Rails, Backbone/Marionette Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perspecti…

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    Comment #7836342

    San Francisco Bay Area, Local, Full-Time Stack: Ruby on Rails, MySQL/Postgres, Backbone Marionette, SASS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perspectivezoom Contact: hn@perspecti…

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    Comment #7686890

    San Francisco Bay Area, Local, Full-Time Stack: Ruby on Rails, MySQL/Postgres, Backbone Marionette, SASS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perspectivezoom Contact: hn@perspecti…

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    Comment #6478970

    Creator of curatedhnhiring.com here. This is good stuff. I'm going to hand enter all the locations for October tonight, but you can compare your auto-generated September data again…

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    Comment #6317823

    In its current implementation, once the JS gets your computer location, I just store the data in window.currentLocation. Until I add the functionality, you can start a location sor…

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    Comment #6317743

    Fixed. While fixing, I found another bug where double clicking within 400 ms breaks off the animation and prevents the complete callback from firing, but I'll worry about that anot…

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    Comment #6317688

    Yep, the same level thing is a pickle. Like you, I'm determining top level comments via the same "s.img" indentation image with. Feels terrible, but it works. Same with the comment…

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    Comment #6317553

    I tried doing a header bar with company name, but it looked super redundant for the majority of postings: Company Name followed by Company Name. Problem is, the first line sometime…

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    Comment #6317524

    So, to get location, I looked at each entry and typed in the city name, then ran those locations through the Google Maps geocoding API. To get more specific locations, I would have…

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    Comment #6317248

    Source: https://github.com/perspectivezoom/curated-hn-hiring I wrote it in about a day, so there's a lot of jenky code. Just wanted to get it out there and see if it's worth spendi…

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