NBC News | NYC, LA, Seattle or Remote | Frontend Engineer - Elections and Live Experiences
We build the interactive Big Board for NBC News and MSNBC. On Election Nights, Steve Kornacki uses our application to tell the breaking story: Surprise turnout in Ohio! Kornacki will tap into the district-level view and show us what's happening in the live election result data. And by "us" we mean millions of viewers around the world.
Our team's mission is to enable world-class data journalism. To that end, we build out data visualizations and tools for breaking news topics. And right now our focus is Elections.
Because we work in service of journalism, our technical core values are being both fast and accurate. Our primary product is the Big Board, but we also maintain additional tools for data processing and management. Our technology stack includes; Vue, Mapbox, D3, Node, React, Jest and Cypress.
Email news.digital.tech@nbcuni.com to apply, and put "HN" in your subject line
NBC News Digital | New York (Rockefeller Center) & Seattle | Full-Time | Onsite | Several Software Engineering Positions (varying seniority) Details: NBC News is one of the most trusted news sources in the world and has a heritage of technical and product innovation in both broadcast and digital.
We hare hiring multiple positions for our front end, content tools, apps, data analytics, and API teams. Software engineers on our team work with technologies like React, Node.js, Go, GraphQL, Elastic Search and more to create the platforms that power NBC News's websites and applications. We collaborate closely with product managers, designers and the newsroom to build products that help manage NBC's content and make it accessible to our web sites, apps, developers and other experiences. We offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and awesome views from a landmark skyscrapers in Manhattan and downtown Seattle.
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Have you heard anything about what they plan to do with the 8gb when this happens? I've heard they'll stop making them, but it'd be nice to buy one of the leftover stock at a reduced price. I have an 8GB and it's fine for my needs (still 4.7gb free) since I mostly use it for online content.
I tried to get through this, despite the piss poor writing ("Let's begin at the beginning...") and the arrogant tone. I skimmed the beginnings of every chapter, and realized that this book could be written in 5 pages. Then I read the part about him cheating to win a kickboxing tournament. That's when I chucked the book aside, and picked up Warren Buffett's biography instead. Talk about contrast. Buffett is insanely talented, works hard AND smart and has incredible depth. Ironically, Ferriss himself recommended the Buffett bio at a talk he did. My prediction? Ferriss is going to do talks to plug his book at smaller and smaller venues, whoring himself out to everything but the local Elk's club, following in the crap footsteps of Andrew Keen's book tour. Then, as he realizes the ship has lost all momentum, he'll admit that this book is just another corner-cutting, outsourced, unoriginal, first-draft, lazy piece of work in a long line of shams that he's pulled.
Good luck grokking the four tones of Mandarin, it's tough, but doable. I was lucky enough to have been raised speaking Mandarin, though my skill isn't great and I probably have a thick American accent. donw, the traditional characters are beautiful, and easier to remember (though harder to write). But when it comes to China in specific, I've been told that the traditional/simplified character thing strikes up the Taiwan/PROC tension. It's a beautiful language, and there are plenty of movies that will get you to understand that. A girl I dated improved her Mandarin tonalities after we watched "Crouching Tiger," of all movies. However, many of the "mainstream" Chinese actors we're aware of here in the US do NOT speak Mandarin as a first language, and their accents aren't very good in roles where they're forced to speak Mandarin.
"Someone once said that learning Chinese is "a five-year lesson in humility". I used to think this meant that at the end of five years you will have mastered Chinese and learned humility along the way. However, now having studied Chinese for over six years, I have concluded that actually the phrase means that after five years your Chinese will still be abysmal, but at least you will have thoroughly learned humility."
This is a really good essay that I read long ago. My view is... you got nothing to worry about. Between how hard Chinese is to learn, and the eagerness of Chinese to learn English (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/28/080428fa_fact_...) and the fact that even at current rates of growth it'll take decades for China to catch up means English will be the default international language for a long time yet.
Tones aren't so bad. Characters aren't half as ugly as most people imagine; a few years of diligent study will suffice (same as for Japanese, I imagine).
A good question for you, is how has your life as an ABC impacted your relationships with people from the mainland? I've heard that ABCs are looked down upon as being almost subhuman by a lot of Mainlanders.
Tom DeMarco's books are awesome. Slack really opened my mind, instead of optimizing every waking hour, I used a "structured procrastination" approach in getting things done.
We build the interactive Big Board for NBC News and MSNBC. On Election Nights, Steve Kornacki uses our application to tell the breaking story: Surprise turnout in Ohio! Kornacki will tap into the district-level view and show us what's happening in the live election result data. And by "us" we mean millions of viewers around the world.
Our team's mission is to enable world-class data journalism. To that end, we build out data visualizations and tools for breaking news topics. And right now our focus is Elections.
Because we work in service of journalism, our technical core values are being both fast and accurate. Our primary product is the Big Board, but we also maintain additional tools for data processing and management. Our technology stack includes; Vue, Mapbox, D3, Node, React, Jest and Cypress.
Email news.digital.tech@nbcuni.com to apply, and put "HN" in your subject line