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My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News
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Re: My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News
#22I must've missed the who's hiring thread. I'll tack it on here.
If you want to get in to Ember, we've been using it in production since 0.6. We'll be actively hiring people pretty soon.
Deets are: We're in Manhattan, NYC. We're a team of 3. Use Ember.js, Rails, D3.js and a bunch of crazy backend things including custom stuff. Have lots of paying customers. Lots of money in the bank and we're on our way to be cash flow positive this year.
My contact info is in my profile. We hire opportunistically so while we're not actively looking to fill a position, if you'd be an amazing person to join us, I'd hire you.
Re: My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News
#23Hey all, Jarrod Nettles here (hayvok - OP). The original code base was in PHP. Very, very terrible proceduralish PHP. Since we have to continue to maintain the current system while we rewrite we can implement once and port that code (if necessary) to the new system with minimal effort. Could I switch us to Rails? Yes, but I don't see the point. We're a PHP shop and in my professional opinion (having used both extensi…
I agree. My primary languages are C# and PHP. My C# background heavily influences the way I write PHP code using heavy OOP principals and even type-safety (using instanceof) where needed.
I avoid using associative arrays as return objects when arrays of real objects (or type-safe collections of objects) are better suited.
So I think that you can write really nice code with PHP and a good framework. It's more about the software architecture than the language.
Re: My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News
#24> In my opinion [Ember.js] the best client-side MVC framework out there. How does Ember.js compare to AngularJS and Backbone.js?
Compared to Backbone it's a lot more magic. You'll need to write less code, but it may be more difficult when you want to do something a bit more custom.
I'd also say that Ember has a steeper learning curve than Backbone.
Re: My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News
#25Let's ask God what He remembers about the first ape to capture fire.
God says...
shekels.
27:5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
27:6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
27:7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
27:8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
Re: My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News
#26> The thing that amazed me the most - virtually every applicant was downright giddy at the opportunity to work with Ember.js full-time.
Of course people want to work fulltime on the latest hotness in javascript. I'm surprised that you're surprised.
Re: My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if it were true that "90% of the people bitching about PHP couldn't put two solid arguments together," not only is that irrelevant to PHP's merit or lack thereof, it leaves a whole lot of people with valid arguments. Further, "the only thing "wrong" with PHP is that it's inelegant and inconsistent as language" is your opinion. It is most certainly inconsistent, yes. It also grows and changes in strange, illogica…
Thank you for your reply! I had written one vaguely similar to yours but ended up not posting it because i was seething with anger. I just don't understand how so much vitriol continues to bubble up on HN posts like these.
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Re: My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News
#28Interesting. I don't work for quite so sexy a company as Apple, and positions aren't going to get you working on much hot new tech, so I'm not sure I'd post "we're hiring". I assume most people here have no desire to work at boring old companies, hence the "Wtf php? Are you a noob?" type comments.
I assume most people here have no desire to work at boring old companies That's a really bad assumption. It's actually very difficult to find jobs with established companies because they maintain such a low profile. I wish they would be better at promoting themselves.
Monster.com and the company website usually have a bunch of job listings for the older companies. If you want to work at IBM, Intel, Comcast, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, etc. it isn't hard to find job listings. I'm not sure if if posting on HN is going to attract more applicants for them.
Perhaps those weren't the type of companies you thought I meant, but I work for a company in that category. If you like c#, c++, or Java and love rain 8 months out of the year, we might have a place for you in Oregon...