Futurice Blog
futurice.com · Company blog · on HN since 2010
Futurice is a Finnish software consultancy whose blog covers front-end frameworks, Elm, Android, tooling, and its workplace practices.
What HN saysHN links it for engineering experience reports such as Elm in the real world, and for its voluntary salary publication story.
48HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Reactive MVC and the Virtual DOM11 people · 212 points · first shared 2014 · 28 comments on HN
- 2Elm in the Real World2 people · 214 points · first shared 2016 · 44 comments on HN
- 3A Saner Windows Command Line2 people · 154 points · first shared 2016 · 161 comments on HN
- 4Programmer proverbs2 people · 139 points · first shared 2015 · 79 comments on HN
- 5Combining React, Flux and Web Components2 people · 16 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Announcing fromfrom – a library to transform sequences of data in JavaScript2 people · 9 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 7A minimal serverless IAP Terraform Recipe2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 8Android development has its own Swift (2014)2 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9OpenResty: A Swiss Army Proxy for Serverless1 people · 96 points · first shared 2020 · 10 comments on HN
- 10Why debugging is all about understanding1 people · 96 points · first shared 2015 · 79 comments on HN
- 11Open source template for building static web sites with Prismic.io and AWS S31 people · 83 points · first shared 2016 · 21 comments on HN
- 12Improving documentation of open source software1 people · 77 points · first shared 2019 · 19 comments on HN
- 13Open Source Rapid Hardware Prototyping1 people · 65 points · first shared 2019 · 4 comments on HN
- 14Migrating SVN repos (with full history) to Git1 people · 19 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Time Is the Fire in Which We Burn: Explaining the Complexities of Time1 people · 14 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
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omahlama · 2015-05-21
In my previous job at the Finnish software consulting company Futurice (http://futurice.com), there was a long discussion about this that ended with a volunteer-based publication of peoples salaries - around half of the 200 people opted in. The result was a bit anti-climatic: peoples wages were consistent and fair, no big drama.
After switching jobs to another software consulting company Reaktor (http://reaktor.com), I brought up this topic and the discussion was very similar. I decided to try a different route: I created a wiki-page called "Voluntary salary information" and added my name and salary to the top of the page. I then wrote a post to our discourse board explaining why I thought this was important. As of now there are 68 names on that list ( with only 1 obvious troll ) out of about 300 employees. Our head of HR replied to my discourse post with a detailed explanation of how peoples salaries are decided. Overall a great day for transparency.
tlarkworthy · 2020-11-02
I think you can store emails but process them only in an anonymizing publicly auditable proxy, ensuring that downstream business services do not have plaintext access whilst still being able to send outbound emails whenever you want. I wrote about it recently: https://futurice.com/blog/trustworthy-services-from-cloud-provider-imp…
The key is to grant cloudfunctions.functions.sourceCodeGet (Or AWS/Azure equivalent) on the edge so anybody can verify that your proxy is above board. End users just have to trust the Cloud Providers access controls, not the service providers word on implementation.
RubenSandwich · 2018-01-07
Not just IP problems, but also encourages bad work habits. His company should of sponsored this work if they felt it was in their best interest. This type of hero behavior burns people out and keeps open source projects with very limited resources.
Edit: To the author because he replied once to this thread: I hope in the future you feel comfortable in the future asking for time to work on open source projects during company time and realizing that you doing work that benefits your company for free is not in your or your companies best interest long term. If you feel that they would be unwilling to do this during work hours then push for something like this: https://futurice.com/culture/sponsoring-free-time-open-source-activiti…
pmarreck · 2016-07-07
https://www.noredink.com/ uses it
https://circuithub.com/ uses it
Futureice uses it, here they talk about their experiences with it: http://futurice.com/blog/elm-in-the-real-world
Here's a presentation by Richard Feldman of NoRedInk on their experience: https://presentate.com/rtfeldman/talks/shipping-a-production-web-app-i…
I think new technologies are best evaluated by a careful subjective evaluation of their future promise (something to grow with) instead of looking at how many people are using said technology already... but I'm a startup guy with Shiny-Thing Bias (STB). :) (and I'm already an Elixir fan, and Elixir is chummy with Elm!)
marknutter · 2015-02-10
Exactly which part of that thread leads you to believe that "React plays just fine with Web Components". I suggest you watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TD0efcwVg which gives a very clear picture of the current state of React/Web Component interaction, including the challenges associated with it.
edit: another good read if you're interested: http://futurice.com/blog/combining-react-flux-and-web-components
fiatjaf · 2014-12-24
Recommended read: http://futurice.com/blog/reactive-mvc-and-the-virtual-dom
m90 · 2018-08-26
Not the Elm Architecture, but I found this a very good article on how MVC differs from unidirectional approaches: https://www.futurice.com/blog/reactive-mvc-and-the-virtual-dom/
niutech · 2015-12-05
If you want Swift on Android, have a look at Eclipse Xtend: http://futurice.com/blog/android-development-has-its-own-swift
jt2190 · 2015-04-03
Andre's twitter feed has a link to a article on the same topic. (edit: I find it easier to read an article instead of slides.)
http://futurice.com/blog/reactive-mvc-and-the-virtual-dom
mjohn · 2014-12-31
Interesting, I've been playing with React/Flux a bit lately. I enjoy them more than other JS frameworks, but agree it doesn't feel like it's quite right yet.
This blog post from the same author gives a bit more detail than the presentation slides: http://futurice.com/blog/reactive-mvc-and-the-virtual-dom
Looking forward to seeing the presentation video