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Neo
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Neo is the company blog at neo.com, writing about programming and career. Since 2012, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Ruby and Elixir: Polyglottin' FTW”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Neo is a software consultancy whose blog posts on Ruby, Elixir and functional programming (including a Y-combinator series by Jim Weirich) get linked on HN. Many HN mentions are job listings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Neo supports the next generation of tech leaders with the industry's best startup residency, recruiting platform, and diverse mentorship community.
Most-linked posts?
- Ruby and Elixir: Polyglottin' FTW3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-11-28
- /jobs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-01
- Neo honors Jim Weirich, creator of Rake2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-20
- Y-Not? - Adventures in Functional Programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-21
What Hacker News says?
Neo - http://www.neo.com/jobs - San Francisco, CA. Columbus, OH. New York City, NY. Montevideo, Uruguay. Edinburgh, Scotland. Looking for software developers in all of the above offices. Product Designers in SF. And a Design Principal in Columbus. We're always looking for passionate developers. The bulk of our software development is Ruby/Rails and iOS. If this is your bread and butter, great! But even if it isn't,…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)”Submitted Elixir and the Internet of Things – Handling a Stampede as a story · 110 points
HN discussionIt's not a definition of a criminal offence, and nowhere did I imply that. It's an observation that numerous people witnessed an event or were made aware of it, yet not one of them contacted the police. The employers response ( http://www.neo.com/2013/10/14/a-note-to-the-community-about-... ), made no reference to a crime. The closest law to not reporting a crime is Misprison of Felony ( http://www.law.cornell.edu/u…
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on “Because it needs to be said”Submitted Ruby and Elixir: Polyglottin' FTW as a story · 55 points
HN discussionNeo - Rails/iOS Software Engineer New York (also similar positions in San Francisco, Ohio, Durham, Montevideo, Singapore) We care more about passion and curiosity, less about knowledge of one particular framework. So you don’t need to know Rails or iOS but you do need to have experience in familiar frameworks, and you need to be willing to learn either or both. Languages and frameworks can be learned, passion cannot…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)”Submitted Elixir and the Internet of Things – What's in a Process? as a story · 31 points
HN discussionNeo is hiring in all of its offices: San Fran, NYC, Singapore, Columbus, Cincinnati, Montevideo, Edinburgh - jobs@neo.com We are always on the lookout for great software developers, designers and product managers. Neo is a new kind of consultancy – one that blends the best of Lean and Agile Development practices. We work in small, cross-functional teams. We not only help clients build software the right way, we help…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)”Submitted Friendly Drones with Carin Meier and Jim Weirich [audio] as a story · 24 points
HN discussionThis doesn't answer your question, but you may find it interesting - an easy way to process Sidekiq jobs made in Ruby using Elixir: http://www.neo.com/2014/08/11/ruby-elixir-polyglottin-ftw
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on “Phoenix – Elixir Web Framework”Submitted Neo honors Jim Weirich, creator of Rake as a story · 18 points
HN discussionFor anyone curious of the λ-calculus, and why the Y-Combinator plays an important role in the turing completeness of this, please check out the excellent Y-not series by Jim Weirich[0] [0] http://www.neo.com/2012/11/13/y-not-adventures-in-functional...
Comment linking /2012/11/13/y-not-adventures-in-functional-programming-part-i
on “List out of Lambda”Submitted 3.5x Increase In Performance with One Line Change as a story · 9 points
HN discussionLocation: Greater Philadelphia Area, US Remote: Yes (hybrid & on-site also OK) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: AI/ML, PyTorch, Python, Rust, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision Resume: https://jinay.dev/files/JainJinay2023.pdf Email: jinay at jinay dot dev College graduate with a long history of programming experience [1]. Selected as one of the top CS students in the…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)”Submitted Getting started with Clojure in Vim as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNot a counter to your comment, just a field report on Cincinnati, since you mentioned Ohio: Supply of ruby developers is lagging demand, with two well-known and growing agile-development companies with a ruby bent ( http://neo.com/ * & http://gaslight.co ) & a host of funded ruby-based startups coming out of The Brandery http://www.brandery.org/ that are hiring at market rates. It's an underrated city with great art…
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on “Ask HN: Which language/web framework to learn for employability?”Submitted High Performance and Parallelism With the Feel of a Scripting Language as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe thing that did it for me was watching Benjamin Tan Wei Hao talk on speeding up background jobs, which was a problem for me at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1J1lVzRuQ http://www.neo.com/2014/08/11/ruby-elixir-polyglottin-ftw
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on “Ask HN: Is ruby/rails still a good bet? What else should I learn?”Submitted Babar - A little language with Speech Acts as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://www.neo.com/ http://columbusrb.com/ http://www.fvrb.org
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on “Sites are starting to go black in memorial of Jim Weirich”Submitted Pseudo Random Number Generation in Erlang and Elixir as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two days with Elixir as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Y-Not? - Adventures in Functional Programming (Part I) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Gentle Introduction to OTP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing EstimationParty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Y-Not? - Adventures in Functional Programming (Part III) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Y-Not? - Adventures in Functional Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spruce, the Corporate Minimum Viable Product as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Don't Split Your Innovation Teams by Stage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting explicit about gender bias (from CEO of tech consulting co.) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Framework agnostic, zero-downtime JavaScript app deployment as a story · 1 points
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