Packlane | Frontend Software Engineer | Remote | Full Time | https://packlane.com
Packlane is an online printing company that makes the process of ordering custom packaging easy and affordable for brands of any size by offering low minimums, fast turnaround, plenty of customization options, and free online proofs in 3D.
Some basics of what you'll do as a Frontend SE:
* Spend your time steeped in HTML, CSS and Javascript and pinch hit in our Elixir codebase.
* Build internal and customer facing interfaces with ES6, React.js, Webpack and modern preprocessing for CSS.
* Hone your debugging skills and contribute suggestions to the overall team.
* Utilize unit testing and continuous integration to keep the bugs out.
* Collaborate with stakeholders, department heads and consultants to provide the best user experience possible.
* Work in cross functional teams
* Pair program with teammates to hone your skills and grow.
At Packlane, we help customers create impactful custom packaging -- and we need you to create the powerful code that makes it all possible.
* Senior level experience with CSS and JavaScript. You’ve built big projects in production and used both CSS and JavaScript (ECMAScript 2015 and 2016) in anger.
* Capability and interest in championing best practices in React.js.
* Proficiency with Brunch, WebGL, Canvas, and HTML5.
I was reading the report because I was interested in the net effect that Amazon has on the retail job market. But I am disappointed at how poorly the report is written.
For instance, the claim of the 4 job cuts for every job that Amazon creates is based on the following statistics: the number of new hires at Amazon in a certain period, against the number of jobs lost in the brick and mortar retail industry in the same period.
Apparently the assumption is made that every single job loss in the brick and mortar retail industry is to blame on Amazon. As if Amazon is the only Internet retail shop in the USA.
The rest of the report is full with other weak claims and sensational titles as well. It appears that the writers had their conclusions already made up before they started investigating ...
My custom packaging startup Packlane (http://packlane.com) uses Meteor. Really grateful for this update since the old Mongo version had some major issues.
The reason your site is taking long to load is because you have multiple >1MB assets. Open up the Chrome inspector and look at the network tab. You're loading 7.7MB, 7.3MB of which are images. There are two gifs that are over 2MB in size. You should reduce the size of them to 200KB at most, and also consider delaying loading images that are below the initial viewport until the user needs to see them. I also recommend compressing all of your jpg's and using a tool like ImageOptim to strip out any extraneous data.
You can't be serious. First of all, wildlife and the rich biodiversity of nature has its own intrinsic value without needing to be "useful" to humans. Second, we're constantly learning from other species and I doubt we're even close to knowing everything there is to know about them. Some of our best tech was inspired by wildlife (sonar, swarm robotics, aviation, the list goes on).
Couldn't agree more. Protecting wildlife is like protecting nature's most valuable works of art, and it's a real tragedy that they have become so marginalized in our anthropocentric system. It would be fascinating to focus on solving problems that go beyond our own species. One of the main issues is the economics of biodiversity — how do you put a price on the preservation of an ecosystem or a species? It's certainly not a straightforward answer, but it's a question that's well-worth thinking about.
I'm pretty sure a gondola can hold its own in a hurricane (as long as it isn't running). Most urban systems use the same technology as alpine systems, which have to withstand harsh blizzards.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ⚛ Berkeley, CA
Web Developer | full-time or part-time
Berkeley Lab is looking for a talented web developer who will work on building powerful web-based tools for materials scientists on the Materials Project team (see materialsproject.org). We use millions of CPU-hours a year to compute the properties of advanced new materials, and disseminate the information with web interfaces and APIs.
This is a great opportunity for a developer with an interest in science and energy-related innovation. You'll work with a very small team of scientists and engineers and will have a major impact on any aspect of the project that interests you — from application architecture to data visualization.
A successful applicant will have experience in:
▪ HTML (HTML5 desirable) / CSS3
▪ Python and Django (or similar framework)
▪ Javascript — experience with Backbone.js,
CoffeeScript, and Require.js is highly relevant
▪ Web services technologies and REST
▪ Information visualization — knowledge of javascript
graphing libraries such as d3 or HighCharts and
understanding of information visualization techniques
highly relevant
▪ MVC-style development
▪ Writing unit-tests for client side applications
▪ Unix environments
▪ User interface design principles
If you're interested in applying, or you simply want to ask some questions about the position, feel free to get in touch via the email listed on my profile.
Packlane is an online printing company that makes the process of ordering custom packaging easy and affordable for brands of any size by offering low minimums, fast turnaround, plenty of customization options, and free online proofs in 3D.
Some basics of what you'll do as a Frontend SE:
* Spend your time steeped in HTML, CSS and Javascript and pinch hit in our Elixir codebase.
* Build internal and customer facing interfaces with ES6, React.js, Webpack and modern preprocessing for CSS.
* Hone your debugging skills and contribute suggestions to the overall team.
* Utilize unit testing and continuous integration to keep the bugs out.
* Collaborate with stakeholders, department heads and consultants to provide the best user experience possible.
* Work in cross functional teams
* Pair program with teammates to hone your skills and grow.
Full description and application: https://packlane.breezy.hr/p/c907b966592b-frontend-software-...