Virtual Field | Software Engineer | REMOTE (USA only) | Full-time | https://virtualfield.io | $100k plus $5k for insurance
At Virtual Field, we use VR headsets to perform medical eye exams in ophthalmology offices. We use ReactJS, Unity (C#), and Ruby on Rails.
We're looking for software engineers with at least 3 years of professional working experience to join our team. We're a small company that is profitable and bootstrapped. We've been fortunate to grow through the pandemic and are expanding our engineering team.
What we're looking for: Strong programmers who want to work remote (US only) and love to code. You preferably have experience with React and/or Rails although similar frameworks are fine. And you can write and read recursive code and map/filter/reduce functions.
Your role at Virtual Field would be writing React and Ruby code to add features for our doctors and patients to use on a daily basis. You will write a ton of code, unit tests, etc. and may also dip into our C# / Unity code base over time.
I finished Confessions a few weeks ago, and this review does it justice. The first few chapters, which are autobiographical, completely changed how I view antiquity. From "ah, these people are tough to relate to and certainly must have led much different lives than me," to "Augustine could come spend a day with me, or I a day with him, and neither of us would feel much out of place." He is today's "young professional" -- working, traveling, and being entertained in ways that are strikingly similar to today's tech worker.
The latter half of the book is a bit trickier. Like the other commenter, his treatment of time was food for thought - not just for me but for philosophers and scientists for centuries to come. After finishing that chapter I got lost in Wikipedia learning more about it, eventually finishing with articles on general relativity (Augustine to Einstein... not what I expected from a 16 century old book).
Even if you don't write Clojure code in your project, the Clojure REPL can be used to experiment with Java code in the same way the Groovy or Scala REPLs can.
I totally agree. It is an imperfect comparison, and by no means did I intend to directly compare the horrors of war with a few years spent in a hacker house. But it is interesting that the reasons quoted above can be used to justify so many levels of exploitation.
> “Teens have a greater risk tolerance. They can live in conditions we would find inhospitable. They have a fresh mind; they have so much optionality, youth, and stamina.”
Sounds like the same reasons we send young people to fight in wars. No spouse or kids to care for, easy to get excited about "the adventure," and, as a result, easy to exploit.
I built a shell in Haskell for a class project this semester. At some point I'll get around to releasing it on Github. It doesn't do much aside from backgrounding tasks, piping, and supporting environment variables (both in a config file and dynamically through a built in export command). But it was fun to build!
I was about to comment with the same observation after looking at your parent's link. Has the hacker news audience really grown that much in the last 2 weeks?
I thought roughly the same thing until this semester, my fourth in university. I took my first class with under 10 people, a combinatorics class, with an outstanding teacher. The class was demanding, and it is the first time I have attended office hours on a weekly bases. I learned more than I ever have in any single class in my academic career, and I can directly contribute that to the amount of interaction I had with my professor. Now, had he been less adept at explaining concepts, perhaps it wouldn't have made a difference. But having easy access to him directly impacted the amount I learned.
I once worked with an engineer who implemented the card game hearts in every language he learned. After the first implementation, you don't have to spend so much time thinking about the problem domain and can focus on finding the most idiomatic solution in the new language. The other benefit is that the project always has a clear endpoint.
To be fair, the science section of the ACT is testing the ability to understand graphs and read short passages on scientific topics. In this sense, it is more of a reading comprehension section than a science section. In my opinion, this is more fair than testing specific science topics that a student might not have been taught in their high school.
Oddly enough, I find movie soundtracks to be the single most distracting music selections during work. I constantly find myself zoning out and thinking about movie scenes. For me, a soundtrack carries a heavy emotional weight similar to watching the movie itself. In the case of LoTR, I get this crazy nostalgic feeling and have a strong desire to watch LoTR again. Great movies.
I find that albums I have listened to more than 15 or 20 times help me focus the most during work or study. New albums and hip-hop both tend to distract me.
Thanks for sharing. Just downloaded and am using it right now. Just the fact that I can comment once again is a huge improvement over my last daily. I was really beginning to miss my Android and its version of HN.
I think this issue is causing real identity problems for many in the Republican party. As noted above, the libertarian wing is clearly against surveillance. However, IMO some of the most fundamental tenants of conservatism are anti-authoritarian, leaving pro-surveillance conservatives on the wrong side of the aisle in many respects.
It is absolutely astonishing to me that so many conservatives defend mass surveillance. As for the laws being established under Bush, I don't actually see that as a factor in many people's minds. I find that many conservatives hardly consider Bush to be an exemplary Republican and thus aren't ashamed to criticize his presidency. Many of his policies were so contradictory to the core conservative philosophy (education reform, surveillance, Patriot Act).
Of the conservatives in my area, I'm hearing everything from people who care a lot all the way to people who have no idea there were leaks. Which, it is important to note, is what makes this issue so strange. From what I can tell, the same has happened in the Democratic party. Crazy!
I guess I rationalize spending the money for University in two ways:
First, the cliché: You are almost guaranteed to make enough money coming out of college to pay off debt incurred in a reasonable amount of time. Anything extra from that point is profit.
Second: Use college as a time to not only learn what is being taught, but also to explore your crazy interests that would never get the time of day if you weren't being fed, housed, and taken care of. There is so much about college that you really do gain aside from the degree.
Definitely look into financial aid if you haven't already. I had many friends attend their first year of college without exploring financial aid, only to discover that their next 3 years could be 50% cheaper.
Funny to think that the experience gained by attending Harvard for 4 years wouldn't be worth anything if you couldn't tell people you attended Harvard (due to the NDA).
Just goes to show that the degree, not the education, is what really matters.
Wow, that's an option I hadn't even considered due to North Korea's closely watched borders. I guess it's hard to imagine a terrorist style nuclear strike from NK.
I fail to understand why North Korea is seen as a serious threat. The country can't fire a missile much further than Japan, failed miserably when attempting to launch a microwave-oven satellite, and has no technical abilities that are not given to them by China. According to South Korean friends, North Korea is seen as a joke even by its closest neighbor who it has vowed to destroy.
Contrast this with Iran, who clearly has the brilliant minds necessary to weaponize nuclear technology, and pairs those minds with funding and equipment. Their neighbor, Israel, is clearly nervous (as they should be), and the country has demonstrated that it can fire long range missiles.
And yet, it seems that every time I turn on the news I hear some horror story about how NK has done another stupid crazy thing, all the while Iran is moving closer and closer to nuclear weapons.
I'd be interested to compare the benefits of a 4 day week with those of a 5 day, reduced hour week. I'm inclined to believe that the reduced hour week would give you more productive days while still making lots of time to sleep in or spend the afternoon with family.
Has anyone worked in this kind of alternative environment?
We were actually allowed to use Mathematica on our Linear Algebra exams this semester. I think it made the tests a lot more effective because you didn't have to go through the algebraic trouble of finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors, so the professor could focus more of the testing time on applications of those values.
Having a computer in class opens the door for cheating, but in smaller classes it would be easy to tell if a student were browsing the Internet rather than finding a determinant.
At Virtual Field, we use VR headsets to perform medical eye exams in ophthalmology offices. We use ReactJS, Unity (C#), and Ruby on Rails.
We're looking for software engineers with at least 3 years of professional working experience to join our team. We're a small company that is profitable and bootstrapped. We've been fortunate to grow through the pandemic and are expanding our engineering team.
What we're looking for: Strong programmers who want to work remote (US only) and love to code. You preferably have experience with React and/or Rails although similar frameworks are fine. And you can write and read recursive code and map/filter/reduce functions.
Your role at Virtual Field would be writing React and Ruby code to add features for our doctors and patients to use on a daily basis. You will write a ton of code, unit tests, etc. and may also dip into our C# / Unity code base over time.
Apply by sending your resume to [email protected]