National Grid | Remote from NY, MA, ME, CT, PA, NJ, RH, NH | Full-Time
National Grid is an energy company but currently highly committed to a large digital transformation, along with green energy efforts and DEI. My current team is hiring at least 3 more people to work on replacing the current mobile app that serves all of National Grid's customers in the US. There are many other roles open as well, though not all teams provide remote options.
Discord is one crisis away from imploding if they don't get serious about moderation tools and parental controls. They're turning a blind eye to the issues around tweens/teens interacting with much older folks online in pursuit of growth.
The way we currently do it doesn't work, but that doesn't mean that it's not a worthwhile thing to do!
If we were all slightly less lazy and were willing to separate things more like other countries, it would work much better. Or, be willing to pay the true costs of many of the materials.
It's very worth it. I can't find the link now, but there was a great article about traditional wier/retention pond building in Africa that both provided water but also helped recharge the local wells. The system had fallen into disrepair, and one local evangelized rebuilding the structures. It really took the entire community to rebuild and maintain, but improved the quality of life massively.
Shorter range, proprietary setup/configuration process, cycle IDs (crashing some android bluetooth stacks). They really want you to pay for the backend - wouldn't be surprised if they're sold at cost.
The batteries don't last as long as advertised either, but that's pretty much been true for all of the devices I've tested.
You can definitely get the hardware for <$15 in bulk if you source it yourself. There's a huge variation in quality though, as with most of the China stuff. If you're willing to deal with the caveats&lock-in of the Gimbal Beacons you can get those for $5.
Feel free to hit me with beacon questions, I've got a bunch of varieties sitting on my desk right now.
The other one on iOS is edge-dragging to go back/forward in the navigation stack. Neither of these things is -hard- to implement with current tech either!
I'd pledge in a second if there was any mention of fixing the rules that made it boring to watch in the first place. Everything became a wedge or a spinning can o' doom.
Great news, I've avoided touching my iPad reader because of the whole scraping issue to get at some of the data. Now I can justify updating for iOS8 + the new API. (just hope it gets approved in time)
It's been viable for at least a year in other forms. (Have a small demo system) However, there are some technical and social challenges associated with such a database. Most notably it would be very easy to poison the well as a thief/opportunitist. There's zero security around what beacons represent themselves as, it takes less than a second to clone one with a smartphone app.
Fixing broken projects is a super valuable skill to have and can be rewarding in its own way. I've reached the point where I hardly ever say "whoever wrote this was an idiot" and see why it ended up that way in the first place. More than code debugging it's also social and process debugging. You can probably tell by this point I also don't mind this kind of work (anymore).
Xcode still has some weird bits, but it's greatly improved lately. I well remember cursing the crashing multiple times a day. There are some wonderful additions to it I wish Apple included by default that NSHipster covered recently.
FWIW, Apple has never required storyboard. You can do everything in code if you -really- want to do it that way, no problem. Personally, I like offloading a lot of the visual stuff to storyboard/xibs unless you start getting crazy with custom animations and so forth.
Does your manager know that so much of these meetings a redundant? A good manager insulates other employees from this kind of meeting brutalization and avoids adding to it if at all possible. Unfortunately, there are many managers that think they exist to hold meetings.
Your reward tiers are pretty good, but the video goes for a full minute utill you get to the actual game. Lots of talking heads doesn't make the user want the game!
Has anyone else written about the game yet? You want it covered in other places than just Kickstarter. Are your existing fans sharing/promoting it? Have you made it easy for fans to share content about the game outside of Kickstarter? If you don't have a group of people excited about the game already and willing to promote it, your project will probably not succeed. There's nothing wrong with pulling it and retooling.
There's a HUGE difference between a corporate open office plan and a co-working layout. Corporate typically is "here is your desk, don't change anything" combined with the judgmental politics of having to watch what you do. The more informal spaces that you can actually choose where, and what you're doing is far different.
National Grid is an energy company but currently highly committed to a large digital transformation, along with green energy efforts and DEI. My current team is hiring at least 3 more people to work on replacing the current mobile app that serves all of National Grid's customers in the US. There are many other roles open as well, though not all teams provide remote options.
Senior Mobile Engineer: https://jobs.nationalgrid.com/USA/job/Brooklyn-Senior-Mobile...
Senior Software Engineer: https://jobs.nationalgrid.com/USA/job/Brooklyn-Senior-Softwa...