Blinkist is a #1 book summary app in the world with more than 25M users.
We have several open Software Engineering positions:
– Backend Engineer for the Growth team
– Senior Backend Engineer for the Personalization team
– Staff/Lead Frontend Engineer for the Web team
About our stack. We build our frontend with Vue.js, Nuxt and Tailwind. Our backend is mostly Ruby on Rails. We use RabbitMQ as our event bus, we have Redshift and Snowflake for our data analysis, we run Datadog for monitoring. Everything lives in AWS, with our CI/CD pipeline we ship many times a day.
I just want to give straight forward feedback here: I visited your jobs page and was greeted with a non dismissable cookie banner, which only allowed me to set my preferences after 3+ clicks. You should really think about disabling that stuff on your jobs page. This turned me off as an engineer.
Hi everyone, Anatoli is here, the author of SQL Habit.
Problem: SQL is a language of data but many resources out there teach it on examples that are far from reality of a modern Internet company.
Solution: SQL Habit teaches SQL from scratch with examples from a fictional Internet company. You'll start from 0 and learn about how data helps this fictional startup to solve day to day challenges in Product, Marketing or Business departments.
After 6 months of building and 600 commits on Github I'm really excited to share SQL Habit with HN! Looking forward to your feedback (+ it's Black Friday sale)!
Thanks for a good feedback! Btw I've added Sandbox mode where one can practice without restarting the game every time. I hope Sandbox and lower BPM will make the flag a bit greener :)
I like sandbox mode much better, it seems better for learning if you can just keep going until you are tired.
It seems like there's a bug, I tried changing the settings (different string, different tempo) and with the radio button still set to "sandbox" but it seems like it went into survival anyhow. (I had five hearts and the game ended quickly)
Just fiddling around with it, it seems like you have to let a note ring for a fair amount of time before it figures out what note you are on (just like any tuner I have ever used). I suppose it's just a hard problem to solve, but it seems like that would get in the way of playing the game at a higher tempo or trying to do a similar game that used more than one string at a time (having multiple notes ringing at the same time also seems to inhibit it from zeroing in on what note you just played). Is this why you restricted the game to a single string at a time?
I have not played Guitarsmith, Guitar Hero, or whatever the commercial games are which teach you guitar, but people who use them have told me that they are very accurate with recognizing whether you are playing the note or making a mistake. I'm curious if you have any sense of whether that's true. If so do they just have much more sophisticated algorithms for examining the waveform and extracting the notes?
Here you go, I've added Sandbox and Survival mode you can choose from. Is "Survival" the right word to indicate that game has "health"? (I'm so far away from gaming haha)
Sorry, my bad. I meant you can't set FFTSIZE higher than 2048 and we need at least 8192 to identify notes correctly (at least in Safari). Does Firefox allow higher FFTSIZE than the default?
Yes, up to 32768, per spec [0]. It's just that Safari does not implement this part of the spec, which has changed in early 2015 to allow for longer FFTs [1].
Blinkist is a #1 book summary app in the world with more than 25M users.
We have several open Software Engineering positions:
– Backend Engineer for the Growth team
– Senior Backend Engineer for the Personalization team
– Staff/Lead Frontend Engineer for the Web team
About our stack. We build our frontend with Vue.js, Nuxt and Tailwind. Our backend is mostly Ruby on Rails. We use RabbitMQ as our event bus, we have Redshift and Snowflake for our data analysis, we run Datadog for monitoring. Everything lives in AWS, with our CI/CD pipeline we ship many times a day.
Ping me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/makaroni4/ or browser our jobs here: https://www.blinkist.com/jobs