I love the work OP is doing (I'm biased as I work on profiling), but from my experience pretty much every JS project suffer from some of the problems described in this series of articles.
Thanks for the kind words! I'm in the same boat as you, profiling is a lot of fun! Yeah, the more you look, the more you realize how many projects have the same or similar problems. Hoping that more folks are aware of those issues and how to avoid them with this series.
I found the community behind https://www.extremecarving.com/ to be the most "nerdiest" of them all. Small group of people working endlessly to craft the perfect carving board, perfect the technique and advance the sport of alpine snowboarding. You can often find nerdy talks about torsion control (someone built a snowboard that has a split front to counter the board torsion during carving), board flex, technique etc. You just have to love a good old forum. That being said, this looks like an awesome resource for anyone looking to understand snowboarding :)
Hard booters are a rare breed for sure, see them every now and then. I ride a pretty narrow board but with softboots. Serious carving boards meant for plates and hardboots are generally very stiff, not the best thing to start learning snowboarding on though might work if you are coming directly from skis?
The tech scene is definitely very active, lots of events and meetups to join and some very active companies with good products around as well as active VC's in the city. Add Station F and The Family and you got a nice place to start a company.
Salary wise, I guess you are looking at 40-70k range, depending on experience and role.
The part where Paris is not that great is moving into the city. Speaking from personal experience, my gf moved in with me and tried finding a job outside tech w/o speaking French and it's basically a nightmare, she moved back. Getting any paperwork done or renting an apartment in Paris is a nightmare as well.
So overall, Paris is nice, but you need to be French or speak French to enjoy it, otherwise it might take some time and in my opinion, it's the only thing that makes Paris fall short of being a good place to move to.
I guess any other city than US. I'm fine with paying up front for multiple months, but I was asked multiple times to provide details of my salary for the last 3 months, working for the company that employs me, a FR guarantor (which not coming from France is not that easy to find, I was lucky my company helped me here) + your salary needs to be 3x rent and there's about 20 people looking to move in to every apartment 1h after it's posted on any apartment board.
My experience in London was much better... sure, a hot market meant you needed to move fast, but no hoops around local guarantors or months of pay stubs. It was easier than most local rentals I've done in Boston.
Yet strangely, millions of people from overseas do rent apartments in the U.S. every year.
There are even apartment complex chains that specialize in this sort of thing. Oakwood was one, last time I checked, and has buildings in most major cities.
As noted by my Austrian friends, you can do anything you want in America as long as you have the money up front.
I just checked the rent prices of your "oakwood" in NYC. 8000$ a 1br in manhattan all sold out. I can imagine so many foreigner lucky to rent at such cheap price.
i was just pointing that the price of oakwood is triple the normal price that is why they dont ask you 6 months upfront because ull pay those in two month timeframe LOL
Algolia | multiple roles | SF, Paris, NY, Atlanta, London | Onsite only, Full time
Hey HN, at Algolia we are facing a major challenge of scaling our team to follow our growth and our series B investment. We are currently looking for multiple dev roles, but looking for other areas such as marketing and sales as well :)
We are a hosted search API, that allows anyone to quickly build good search within hours. https://www.algolia.com/
Responsibilities depend on the role, but we normally have teams that are responsible for different areas like the dashboard, infrastructure, our open source libs etc.
Technical requirements are as per role. You don't need to be a superstar, but it helps if you want to become really good and enjoy the environment.
I'm biased, I work there, but I can say that the past year has been good to me both technically and life wise (I relocated to Paris). My co-workers are extremely nice and knowledgable people who seek to bring the best out of everyone. My colleague wrote an article about his experience -
https://medium.com/@liamboogar/celebrating-one-year-at-algol...
Undoubtedly a very bad thing to do from the intern, however I feel that if we treated this correctly we could open a debate and encourage GCP to add support. Let's not forget that this can likely ruin someone's career. It's a stupid intern mistake, let's try to get something good out of it.
We have done something similar for the hn search at Algolia but flagged it under style -> experimental in the settings panel. It's not a grid layout, but more a refresher to the current design. https://hn.algolia.com
While passive event listeners are an improvement, they are not a complete solution. It's more like the "least of evils". There is a new set of primitives that is being implemented called IntersectionObserver which solves most of the issues of having to detect when something is in view + they run on a separate thread. So you don't need to do any computations, reading the window size and whatnot magic to detect if an element is inside the window. We are currently using this in prod for our algolia static websites and it has worked very well for the majority of all of our use cases.
https://github.com/WICG/IntersectionObserver/blob/gh-pages/e...
For lazyloading stuff like images and ads. Or that technique where you have an infinite list, and the elements that are scrolled off-screen are recycled on the other end.
