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.
Apply by sending your resume to jobs@virtualfield.io
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).
I fully agree. The Confessions is an incredibly modern book, when I read it the first time I couldn't believe it was written at the time of the Roman Empire. Also, the text is full of wit, like when he describes time (“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”).
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.
> “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.
People fighting in wars get killed. People doing this at worst come away feeling like they've wasted/lost a few years of their life - life goes on - and at best come away feeling fulfilled and/or wealthier (what more can you ask for?).
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.
They used to call it "paying your dues". The fact is some of them will be exploited and get nothing, some of them will make a huge name for themselves and learn how to build businesses instead of following a traditional career path.
Personally if I had it to do over I would take my chances at being exploited in SV over the career prospects of doing things by the book in middle America; and fwiw I'm saying this as a college-educated late-comer to Silicon Valley (8 years ago at 28).
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 would totally use something that allowed me to use Haskell like I use bash. Turtle allows me to do some of it. I'm thinking more along the lines of this project that never took off though:
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.
My memory on the test itself may be a bit hazy (~24 years ago) and my interpretation at that age may not have been accurate, but I do seem to recall some amount of reasoning was required. E.g., looking at a graph and drawing a conclusion from it. Not any great feat of reasoning, but still one that the school faculty felt was beyond the reach of their students.
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.
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 jobs@virtualfield.io