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For people interested in Crispr, Rich Horgan started a non-profit called Cure Rare Disease working to fast-track customized therapeutics for his brother and other families with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy using in-vivo gene editing.

https://cureraredisease.org/


The whole series

When to Get Your Own Office – The Alternatives: http://blog.spacelist.ca/2013/07/02/when-to-get-your-own-off...

When to Get Your Own Office – You’re On The Hook: http://blog.spacelist.ca/2013/07/07/when-to-get-your-own-off...

When It’s Time To Get Your Own Office – The Math: http://blog.spacelist.ca/2013/07/19/when-its-time-to-get-you...


SpaceList — Vancouver, BC — Full-time — http://spacelist.ca/engineering

SpaceList is the leading marketplace for commercial real estate in Canada. Finding office, retail and warehouse space is a painful process for businesses, and we have a unique opportunity to make their search faster, more accurate and more enjoyable.

We are a group of experienced entrepreneurs, real estate processionals, designers and engineers. We hire intelligent and humble people who are focused on doing great work that makes people happy. We work hard, and we have fun. Each day we come up with new ways to make commercial real estate data more accessible, useful and actionable. At SpaceList the entire team is involved in strategy, contributing ideas and developing solutions.

-------- The Role --------

We are hiring an intermediate rails developer to build and ship great software. You will be working closely with a team of six that includes: a senior rails developer, a growth hacker, a data scientist, a marketing team & the founder.

---------- About You ----------

We don't want a short order cook, we want a chef. You need to be able to put yourself in our users shoes, understand their issues, and design a solution that will make them happy. You must draw great insights from feedback and get your ideas across clearly & concisely. You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and do what needs to get done... whether it is a quick bug fix or a customer support call. Above all else you are an excellent communicator & collaborator.

- BS CS/CE or equivalent experience

- Excellent writing skills

- Ruby on Rails, Rspec

- Html / css

- Javascript (Bonus: experience with backbone/meteor/angular)

- Postgres (Bonus: experience with mongo/redis)

- Unix


SpaceList — Vancouver, BC — Full-time — http://spacelist.ca/engineering

SpaceList is the leading marketplace for commercial real estate in Canada. Finding office, retail and warehouse space is a painful process for businesses, and we have a unique opportunity to make their search faster, more accurate and more enjoyable.

We are a group of experienced entrepreneurs, real estate processionals, designers and engineers. We hire intelligent and humble people who are focused on doing great work that makes people happy. We work hard, and we have fun.

Each day we come up with new ways to make commercial real estate data more accessible, useful and actionable. At SpaceList the entire team is involved in strategy, contributing ideas and developing solutions.

-------- The Role --------

We are hiring an intermediate rails developer to build and ship great software. You will be working closely with a team of six that includes: a senior rails developer, a growth hacker, a data scientist, a marketing team & the founder.

---------- About You ----------

We don't want a short order cook, we want a chef.

You need to be able to put yourself in our users shoes, understand their issues, and design a solution that will make them happy. You must draw great insights from feedback and get your ideas across clearly & concisely. You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and do what needs to get done... whether it is a quick bug fix or a customer support call. Above all else you are an excellent communicator & collaborator.

- BS CS/CE or equivalent experience

- Excellent writing skills

- Ruby on Rails, Rspec

- Html / css

- Javascript (Bonus: experience with backbone/meteor/angular)

- Postgres (Bonus: experience with mongo/redis)

- Unix


Looks to me that the name is not taken. Do you want to try again and ping me if you have any problems?


working now, thanks


Yes, once you installed virtualbox and our command line tool, stkr, a virtual machine will be downloaded automatically and a stack of your choice will be set up locally.

Visit getting started page https://www.stackrocket.com/docs/getting_started or ping me if you have more questions.


Ahh, thanks you!


Howdy HN users, right now we have Rails, Django and PHP stacks available. We'll be adding more stacks in coming weeks.


It wasn't clear to me from the video, are those stacks preset or can I specify Rails 2.8, MySQL 5.2, and so on?


Right now stacks are set based on preference, compatibility to cloud providers, etc


I know it mentioned somewhere that custom stacks were an option but could not find any documentation.


We will enable custom stack soon!


I'd love to see a Scala/Akka/Play 2.0 stack.


In addition to Olivier's comment, we will also have deployment option to popular cloud providers such as Heroku, PHPFog and EC2


How will this work? It sounded like a user could just build a custom VM image and send it to you. There wouldn't be a way to deploy that to heroku, right?

Are you doing sort of a blended app hosting/cloud offering?


With what we have today, code on our pre-configured RoR stack will work on heroku.

What we have in the works is detecting if you have e.g. Redis and subscribing to that "addon" for you.


Have you seen the dotcloud "build files" for specifying services? I wonder if trying to encourage standardization among cloud/app hosts on a service specification file like this would be beneficial, similar to Gemfile/Procfile/etc.

service 'redis', '~> 2.2.2'

http://docs.dotcloud.com/guides/build-file/


dotCloud team here. If there's interest, we'll happily contribute our specs and code to get things started.


I'd love to. I'll email you soon.


I smiled reading this exchange, very good-spirited. Hope you can successfully work together!


It would help but most private companies don't report annual revenues.


Sure, well any conclusions in the absence of valuation or revenue data seem moot to me.


I agree. The data is not consistent but it's probably the most well-maintained and accessible data (with its api) to my knowledge.

That is the reason I look at investments from 2005 since most investments prior to that were not entered.


The data is useful, but not in a way you used it.

I don't think you did a good job of disclosing or the problems that might lie in the data.

Since I've been following crunchbase both from the data perspective and from the perspective of how much resources TechCrunch is devoting to it, I can assure you it varies wildly.

Also the editorial policy has changed a lot in that period, in about 2007/2008 they started putting much more emphasis on international start-ups. So there are specific skews that you should be aware of and disclose them in the blog post.

So I think you did a nice job, but conclusions are not to be trusted at tall. Yes it might be the most well-maintained open data out there, but it does not make it in any more useful for this kind of analysis.


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