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Re: Ask HN: Anyone work in Honolulu?

#21

Why is this flagged?

...and why can we still reply to comments on a flagged article? Also, normally I have a "vouch" option on flagged submissions, but not on this one.

Something is weird here. I wonder if for some reason the submitted actually included "[flagged]" in the title and so it just looks like a flagged article?

Re: Ask HN: Anyone work in Honolulu?

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post #16

Aloha, I'm not on Oahu, but Maui. Pretty abysmal here as far as tech work. Been here since February, and now playing with the idea of looking for "real" work. Still hacking on pet projects.

Aloha!

I'm actually on Maui too for about 2 years. It is indeed dead here for tech work. There is some stuff in the Maui Tech Park.. Boeing, defense stuff. And I've see some job listings occasionally for work in Wailuku but it's mostly IT work.

There's tons of money floating around here, I feel like there's an opportunity somewhere to start something cool but it has eluded me so far. Good luck!

Re: Ask HN: Anyone work in Honolulu?

#23
post #21

Why is this flagged?

...and why can we still reply to comments on a flagged article? Also, normally I have a "vouch" option on flagged submissions, but not on this one. Something is weird here. I wonder if for some reason the submitted actually included "[flagged]" in the title and so it just looks like a flagged article?

Hah, I definitely didn't add 'flagged' to the submission. Looks like it disappeared off the front page too which sucks. I emailed the mods(?) so maybe my poor post will receive clemency.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone work in Honolulu?

#24

I work for a small company in Kailua building real estate websites. The tech community here is small but super fun! What's your skillset? Hit me up - kevin at realgeeks dot com

I'm glad there's a community in existence!

I'm primarily a web developer, been making websites since I was a kid and transitioned into that professionally years ago. I feel most comfortable and prefer to work in Python but I've worked with a bunch of languages.

The most recent thing I worked on that I thought was cool was taking all of the voting data + voter history from a state for the past 15ish years, cleaning it up, creating a database out of it then making it accessible with a webapp, allowing different queries to be run through the front end, generating stats, etc.

I'm going to toss you an email.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone work in Honolulu?

#26
post #21

Why is this flagged?

...and why can we still reply to comments on a flagged article? Also, normally I have a "vouch" option on flagged submissions, but not on this one. Something is weird here. I wonder if for some reason the submitted actually included "[flagged]" in the title and so it just looks like a flagged article?

Recent software changes. The system used to say [flagged] only when the story was both heavily flagged and dead (closed to new comments). Now it says [flagged] if the story is heavily flagged, dead or not. Flagged-but-not-dead was the case here. That's why you didn't see a 'vouch' link, btw; there's no need to vouch for posts that aren't dead, since the purpose of vouching is to unkill them.

The reason we did this: stories that have a lot of flags but also a lot of comments don't get automatically killed by the software. This led to confusion and a lot of "why is this post not on the front page" questions. Displaying [flagged] in the title in such cases should answer, and thus preempt, most such questions. Plus HN users like it when they get more information, which this is.

Similarly, we're now displaying [dupe] on stories that are marked as duplicates but not dead.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone work in Honolulu?

#27
post #23
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...and why can we still reply to comments on a flagged article? Also, normally I have a "vouch" option on flagged submissions, but not on this one. Something is weird here. I wonder if for some reason the submitted actually included "[flagged]" in the title and so it just looks like a flagged article?

Hah, I definitely didn't add 'flagged' to the submission. Looks like it disappeared off the front page too which sucks. I emailed the mods(?) so maybe my poor post will receive clemency.

(Replying here as well as via email in case other users want to know.)

HN is for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity, which this one arguably doesn't. Plus we have rules against people using HN threads for job/hiring/seeing-work posts (except in monthly threads designated for that). Those are probably the reasons why users flagged your submission.

On the other hand, it's a borderline call, the discussion is reasonably good, and the Hawaii angle is novel, so we'll cut you some slack and turn off the flags.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone work in Honolulu?

#28
post #7

I just moved to Oahu (Kaneohe) from the mainland, thanks to flexibility of a 100% remote gig. Worth checking out, and if you play your cards right you can get a solid salary to boot. weworktremotely.com, angel list, etc.

> weworktremotely.com

weworkremotely.com

Re: Ask HN: Anyone work in Honolulu?

#29
post #7

I just moved to Oahu (Kaneohe) from the mainland, thanks to flexibility of a 100% remote gig. Worth checking out, and if you play your cards right you can get a solid salary to boot. weworktremotely.com, angel list, etc.

> weworktremotely.com weworkremotely.com

wetworkremotely.com
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