Hartley Brody

SEEKING WORK Location: Cambridge, MA (Across the river from Boston, MA) or Remote 7 years of experience building web apps with whatever stack you use. For my own side-projects I tend to reach for Python (Flask) or Rails for the backend but have also worked with Django, Lua and many a PHP framework. I also work on the client-side/frontend doing Backbone, Angular and some preprocessed work in SASS and Coffeescript, although regular ol' CSS and JS are fine as well. I recently shipped a mobile web app that was entirely built and rendered in JS and hosted in a single s3 bucket. Also experienced with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, Amazon Redshift and MongoDB and have setup AWS infrastructure to handle heavy traffic loads. My first job was doing inbound marketing and I have deep experience in the advertising vertical as well, although I'm by no means tied to them and want to work wherever I can create the most value. More information here[0] or on my blog[1] or email me at hartley {{.}} brody {{at}} gmail.com [0]: http://www.hartleybrody.com/ [1]: https://blog.hartleybrody.com/

An excerpt from David Mosher's Presentation "So You Want to be a Front-End Engineer": A hacker can come up with solutions, but maybe they can’t look back after they’ve finished and realize how they came up with the solution. They just kinda poke at things until they get something that works. … At some point, you level up and become a developer and a developer understands best practices. They’ve heard other developers say things like “you should put your scripts at the bottom of the webpage” … and you use those best practices to craft solutions but you don’t really understand beneath the best practices, beneath the abstractions. … An engineer is someone who can get things done, craft a solution — they understand the best practices, but they also understand why they’re using the best practices that they are … [they] move into an understanding of the platform as a whole. This was pulled from a nifty little blog: http://blog.hartleybrody.com/hacker-developer-engineer/

This needs to be highlighted: Everyone who does anything at all in the realm of business or tech should basically never sign an NDA unless it is already positively guaranteed they are getting something out of it. You might be required to sign an NDA once you have been hired at a W-2 job if the company handles sensitive data. Or if you have already been offered a contract. Event then, make sure it is actually necessary, and run it by your lawyer. But if someone wants you to sign an NDA just to hear about their idea or business, or as a condition of being interviewed for a job, ALWAYS say no. VCs don't sign NDAs and neither should you. It's plain and simple uncompensated risk. https://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/ https://www.markwelchblog.com/2009/08/26/why-i-dont-sign-ndas/ https://blog.hartleybrody.com/wont-sign-nda/

The trend extends to other words. Sometimes I hear Programmers calling themselves Computer Scientists or Computer Engineers [1] [2] [3] when in different cases they are a Developers or a Hacker. Which they get wrong too. You are what you are. of you're acting another role you should state that you're playing that role not that you are. Ex. Computer Scientist, who can fill the role of a Programmer. This discussion keeps popping up [4] [5] , but the definitions are clear. I believe there's a Wikipedia article somewhere that explains all the differences. [1] In Puerto Rico [2] http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/undergrad/academics/degrees/cs-vs-cen [3] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5936652 [5] http://blog.hartleybrody.com/hacker-developer-engineer/

Yes, some kids did do this, but to pick a nit projects like those are usually to "near-space" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_balloon See also: - Lego Shuttle to Space: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bluQ4eOeBwo - How To Send a Weather Balloon into Space: http://blog.hartleybrody.com/in-space/ and http://blog.hartleybrody.com/found-balloon/ - Spanish Soccer Jersey in Space: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2010/07/spanish-soccer-soaring/ Your point is fair though. There are a lot of different angles to approach the problem, but it is a very hard ahem space to play in.