Resi | London On-site | Mid-Level Ruby Dev | Full-time |
We are Resi, a London based team that is changing how residential architecture works in the UK. We're a well-funded company of close to 100 people. Usually based in Brixton when not in lockdown.
We are looking to add a back-end engineer to work on our Ruby on Rails tech stack. You would be joining a small team of other engineers and designers working across the consumer and business products.
This is a topic close to my heart. Ever since console gaming went 3D I realised I can't look at anything from a first person perspective without feeling violently ill.
The effect takes hold quicker if I'm looking at someone else playing but even when it is me controlling the action I will be ill within minutes. If I let it get to that point the only solution is to go to a dark room and lie down for an hour or more.
I sometimes joke about it, but in reality I do worry about a future of HUDs and VR environments.
From the two available theories I find the Sensory Conflict Theory the more compelling although I'm still not convinced they have entirely cracked it.
Along with gaming I get similar effects from 3D movies. I struggle to understand the postural challenge that comes from watching a 3D movie vs a 2D movie in the same cinema seat. From my lay persons perspective it would seem to have more to do with the ability of my eyes/brain/inner ear processing more information simultaneously and making contextual sense of it.
Would you happen to have epilepsy? My girlfriend also has trouble looking at first person shooters and third person shooters. It gets her dizzy and nauseous. She has epilepsy and apparently it feels similar to the post-seizure aura.
Not that I'm aware of. At least I don't think I've ever shown any signs of epilepsy and certainly have never been diagnosed with it.
I've mentioned the 'motion' sickness issue to my GP in the past but it was dismissed as nothing very serious. On the one hand I understand as I can avoid the triggers relatively easy but equally its troubling to know something so innocuous can make me feel so sick.
But the size of EU member states varies drastically. Germany is home to 83,000,000 people, Malta just over 440,000.
Is the EU suggesting that Malta's population should only be able to stream content 2x the volume of its domestic content output? And that's assuming the likes of Netflix was able to hoover up all of that domestic output which seems untenable.
For reference, IMDB shows 297 movies from Malta, and Netflix' catalogue in Malta offers 716 movies.
So even assuming the current catalogue is completely devoid of Maltese movies, there is still some margin available to fulfil the strictest requirements. Although I think the actual requirements is to include 30% movies from the EU.
I don't think your interpretation of the requirements is correct. From upthread:
> The proposals will require that streaming services give over at least 30% of their on-demand catalogues to original productions made in each EU country where a service is provided (individual EU Member States could choose to set the content bar even higher, at 40%)
Yeah, I'm failing to see the practice behind this as well.
It was big news in Croatia that Netflix got a local TV show available in its catalogue a few months ago (The Paper, AKA Novine in Croatian). As far as I can tell, it remains the only one.
In practice, does that mean that Netflix would have to reduce their Croatian catalogue to like three shows until they purchase the rights to reproduce additional domestic ones?
The source[0] for the info just says "local content" (unlike techcrunch which adds "made in each EU country where a service is provided", but I can't find that detail anywhere else) and also says that Netflix is already close to this percentage, so I think it can be from anywhere in the EU.
Perhaps Netflix can just hire some people to produce some documentary content about Ireland? But then, this will have the adverse effect of having a large part of Ireland's film and television industry controlled by Netflix et all.
It can't work mathematically unless it is from any EU country. There are more than 3 EU countries, which means that eventually you will get some great content from some other country that you are not allowed to access. That is 30% Irish, 30% French, 30% German, and 30% Italian content already doesn't add up, meaning some things that you personally might want from a different country are on the list of things you are not allowed to access even though the streaming provider you are on has all rights.
If it can be from any EU country, then the country will be France. France already has laws like this and has historically invested in their content industry, so it should be (should) fairly easy to license that content and fills the requirements.
Once you have an amazon.com account, you magically also have an amazon.de account, and an amazon.it account... and it's a few clicks to switch in the app. Maybe that's how it'll go?
maybe. However in most countries the courts tend to see through such things. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon doesn't risk this loophole. If they do (even accidentally) I expect some lawyer will sue - there are a bunch of EU countries to choose which to sue in, the results might be different in each.
Resi (resi.co.uk) | London | Full-Time | Front-end Engineer
We are Resi, a London based team that is changing how residential architecture works in the UK. We bring technology to an industry dominated by email, phone calls and spreadsheets. Focusing on the customer experience but building the processes and technology to allow us to compete at scale.
In short we are looking to add someone to the team who can work with both our designers and back-end engineers to make our product ideas a reality.
We are a Ruby on Rails app, with pretty vanilla HTML/CSS/JS/AJAX front end. Experience of working in a Rails environment would be useful but definitely not a pre-requisite.
We haven't yet added any React components but it is on our roadmap.
The ideal candidate would be opinionated about how to organise and build front-end code as a codebase matures and scales.
Thanks for link. But the selection seemed very odd. I wondered how they got that list from HN. The site says
All links to Amazon, Safaribooks and O'Reilly get extracted once a week from Hacker News posts, make sure they are indeed books and then rank them based on how often they are mentioned and the karma of the user.
Ahh. I guess that's it - people don't bother giving Amazon/other links for well-known books. Or sometimes the book has its own website.
Also, that site makes money by linking to Amazon. That seems a bit dodgy to me!
Hmm is it really that hard to extract book titles that aren't links to Amazon/publishers? C'mon hackers! :-)
BuildPath | London, UK | Full-time | On-site | Ruby on Rails
We are BuildPath, a London based team that is changing how residential architecture works in the UK. We bring tech and product thinking to an industry dominated by email, phone calls and spreadsheets. That means we can offer professional grade architecture packages to our customers 10x faster and 10x cheaper than a traditional architect.
In terms of tech, we are a very typical Ruby on Rails stack (Postgres, Heroku, Redis, etc.) It is a relatively young codebase, so no legacy technical debt to avoid. You would be joining as the first backend engineer, working alongside me the CTO. The wider team is currently 12 people (mix of Sales, Design and Architects), we are funded and are growing very quickly.
If it sounds interesting, drop me a line at jules [at] buildpath [dot] com
I would only ever share that level of data if we had already signed a term sheet and were in the latter stages of DD.
The sad fact is that there are unscrupulous VC firms out there that are just looking to mine you for data. Either for the benefit of a company already in their portfolio or as a comparison point for another deal they are considering.
During the Dublin Web Summit (two weeks ago) Drew Heuston stated that Dropbox hadn't touched the previous funds they had raised. I wonder why the need to raise the money at this point?
We are Resi, a London based team that is changing how residential architecture works in the UK. We're a well-funded company of close to 100 people. Usually based in Brixton when not in lockdown.
We are looking to add a back-end engineer to work on our Ruby on Rails tech stack. You would be joining a small team of other engineers and designers working across the consumer and business products.
https://resi.freshteam.com/jobs/Cp5GHrt2OFlm/mid-level-ruby-...