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  Location: Vancouver, Canada
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby/Rails, React, JS/TypeScript, Postgres, Linux, HTML/CSS, PHP/MySQL
  Résumé/CV: https://tarential.com/preston-st-pierre.pdf
  Email: tarential@gmail.com
Full stack senior engineer with 15+ years of experience in multiple languages and platforms, including server administration. Can learn any new tech, but specifically wish to work more with React, Node.js, Go, Elixir, or Kotlin.

Looking for full time remote work.


Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Typescript, React, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://tarential.com/preston-st-pierre.pdf

Email: tarential@tarential.com


Predictable Revenue | Vancouver, Canada | Full Time | ONSITE

Senior Software Developer | Ruby, Rails, AngularJS, PostgreSQL

Predictable Revenue is a profitable, fast growth international technology company with offices in the Gastown area of Vancouver, BC and Santa Monica area of Los Angeles, California.

This is a full-time local role with meetings in our Vancouver office, but your working hours are flexible and we support telecommuting.

More information: http://predictablerevenue.com/about/careers#op-50880-senior-...


Carburetor (carb.io) is hiring a remote Ruby on Rails developer. We're a small (~15 employees, 4 devs) profitable bootstrapped startup creating tools for automating the Predictable Revenue Cold Calling 2.0 method promoted by Aaron Ross (our cofounder).

Salary Range: $60k-80k (Cdn). Remote: Optional. More info: http://carb.io/careers.html#op-50880-senior-software-develop...


While this is very interesting, the profiles may need to be "tweaked" a bit to be realistic. For example, the first profile it generate for me was a:

-Female

-Fitness instructor

-Weighing 205.9 lbs

-Standing 5 feet 1 inch

Individually, any of these things might be ok. Any three could even be possible. All four, however, just doesn't seem to work.


The occupations do seem the most likely to cause suspicion. Some of them are trades where you have to be licensed or registered to have that occupation, so a quick search would prove the person does not exist, or at least is lying about their job.

Then there's the automobile, which could also raise red flags. A Fiat Tempra driven in the USA would probably be suspicious to anyone who knows that Fiats probably weren't sold in the US in 1994, for example. And it might be weird for a clerk to be driving a 2010 Infinity...

Back in the BBS days there used to be programs written to auto-generate identities in bulk, for reasons i'm not aware of. They were designed to minimize scrutiny because there might be humans actually looking at the data you used, since there was less automation in terms of processing accounts back then.


I'm not sure why National Auto Parts would needs a Perianesthesia nurse who runs a website called SuicideLaws.com, but they seem to be paying him well enough to drive 1992 Ferrari 512 TR.


She could be a weightlifting coach.


It is so good for productivity that I've completely stopped using "staying up late" as a method to get things done. If I have a lot of work to do that's a good sign to get to bed early and start in the morning when I'm fresh.

Problems that I spend hours on the night before seem to solve themselves magically in minutes. After a while I got the hint: Just go to bed and sleep. You save time and feel better.


"When I was on acid I would see things like beams of light, and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns." --Mitch Hedberg


I have a Dell Vostro 2420 I got with Ubuntu for around $50 less than the same machine with Windows ~6 months ago.

However, it seems this is no longer possible. I've searched Dell's site and the only Vostro 2420 I see with Ubuntu has different hardware (i3 vs celeron). Very disappointing. I will not pay the MS tax.


Actually, for me it was the other way around. It was only natural to use Debian for my servers when I used it already at home :)


Debian has been my home for 5+ years. It was the only distro I ever tried where the package manager didn't eventually (or immediately) fail on me and require me to fix either the package or my whole system manually.

I have tried my share of distros in the past [0], but haven't felt much need to go outside of Debian recently. Perhaps things have changed, but now I'm happy here :)

[0] http://www.linuxtoday.com/author/Preston+ST.+Pierre/


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