Skytap, a cloud infrastructure startup based in Seattle, seeks a talented, mid-level or senior Rubyist for a full-time, remote opportunity as a Rails / full-stack engineer, anywhere in the US or Canada.
I’m the hiring manager for this position. My team of 5 (including this new opening) manages a product of our own that sits atop Skytap’s cloud platform and helps to drive one of the most important segments of Skytap’s business. We work closely together, wear lots of hats, operate with a high degree of autonomy, and are generally pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. :)
Yep, I've had it for about 2 years. Biggest complaints are that the buttons are on top and easy to press by accident (although there's a lock button on the side), and the lowest setting isn't low enough for me (5'8"). All that said, I think it's great for the price. I'm thinking about upgrading to a big ol' Uplift Desk because I want to get an under-desk treadmill with enough room for a chair next to it.
If you wanted mobility around the house while avoiding WAN latency and reliability issues, you could buy a server and keep it in your house, rather than renting it and accessing remotely. Then get the Air and use that to RDP, SSH, etc. to the server.
People who have equity in their homes don't typically foreclose, and owners in NYC typically still do. Two reasons for that. First, property values in NYC haven't dropped as much as in other areas. Second, co-ops constitute a very large percentage of the purchasable housing in Manhattan (and in some of the outer boroughs as well). Nearly all co-ops subject you to a very invasive board approval process where you need to reveal everything there is to know about your income and assets. They want to know that you're making more than enough money to meet your expenses and that you have sufficient reserves to cover yourself through any period of hardship. Co-ops also usually require a sizable down payment (almost always at least 20%, sometimes even 100%). If you seem risky, you don't get in. So there's definitely less of an opportunity for shenanigans with exotic mortgage products and the like than in other cities.
Also, the fact that they (okay, we) are concentrated in large cities like New York where wages for professional jobs are above national averages could drive the numbers up.
I was looking into this a while back, and I'm curious: does anybody know whether it's even possible to develop a sophisticated add-in for Mac Office? MS added VBA support back to Mac Office 2011, but VBA can only do so much. On Windows, sophisticated Office plug-ins are typically COM add-ins, which can be implemented in C++ or .NET and thus can pretty much do anything you want. Those are obviously not cross-platform, though. I believe Mac Office also supports AppleScript, but it's not clear to me whether that's any more powerful than VBA.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html: "And since FogBugz goes back many years and was originally written in VBScript, Wasabi is 100% backwards-compatible with VBScript." (granted, VB != VBScript)
I'm totally wrong. I meant to write .NET (not ASP.NET) and .NET isn't even a language, so I'm doubly wrong. It's probably been four years since I've touched the code :\
It isn't written in VB and never was. In 2000 it was written in classic ASP (vbscript) and c++. Probably a few years after that it was converted to Wasabi, which at the time was very close to VBScript, but is now equivalent to C#. For the last few years it is shipped as a .NET product on both windows and unix, and the /Dev.html page you cited is accurate. (The articles you cited from four years ago aren't accurate anymore).
I love that first article; after many paragraphs extolling the "safe" choices, at the end he casually slips in that he's actually using a language that no-one else in the world is.
I'm pretty underwhelmed by that argument, given that my iPhone 3G on AT&T's network in NYC can barely do voice OR data, let alone both at the same time.
I do it all the time actually. For example, someone will be calling me telling me something/someone I need to follow up with. I can start immediately emailing the person and at least get started, if not finish the task. Different strokes for different folks.
Edit: I also use Google Maps while talking, or check for movie times while someone is on the phone.
So then on Verizon you could do everything but hit 'Send' on the email.
I too don't put much value on the simultaneous voice/data feature, but then again I have 2 phones, so I usually multitask by using two devices. Even without that though, I've never really felt a huge demand for the voice+data thing.
* What are you guys doing with Windows Installer (MSI)? You create this installation standard which everyone adopts, then you stop supporting it yourself, making people install Office 2007 and Silverlight with BS desktop startup scripts. WTF?
* As alluded to by others here, stop making stupid UI changes for no reason. I've been using Windows since 1992, upgraded to Win7 a couple months ago, and STILL can't find anything. I'm in support, and it's basically impossible to lead a user through anything over the phone anymore, because (for example) getting to the screen where you uninstall a program looks different on almost every Windows version I support, often with multiple variations per OS.
* The .NET runtime gets corrupted ALL THE TIME for our users. This is at least partially because you release patches that fail to rollback upon unsucessful install (see http://blog.usabilitythinking.com/2010/06/root-cause-for-cor...). This was enough of a problem before you started bundling .NET with Windows so that now I can't even have a user uninstall/reinstall it without really messing with his OS.
* This may make me sound silly, but I miss VB6 -- not the language itself, but rather the ease with which you could easily throw together an executable and send it to a user and have it just work. Now, I have to build a whole installer unless I want to have issues with missing .NET versions or weird .NET security issues.
You need the RDP 6 client (>Vista), but it's there. Open Remote Desktop Connection, Click Display Tab, check "Use all my monitors for the remote session"
Skytap, a cloud infrastructure startup based in Seattle, seeks a talented, mid-level or senior Rubyist for a full-time, remote opportunity as a Rails / full-stack engineer, anywhere in the US or Canada.
I’m the hiring manager for this position. My team of 5 (including this new opening) manages a product of our own that sits atop Skytap’s cloud platform and helps to drive one of the most important segments of Skytap’s business. We work closely together, wear lots of hats, operate with a high degree of autonomy, and are generally pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. :)
More info: https://jobs.lever.co/skytap/0d7943d0-a111-4ac5-a907-5fe0704...
Don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions or would like to chat: my HN username at skytap.com.