ankimal

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by ankimal 7y ago
Instagram is the only large social network that does not have a "reshare" FWIW.
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by ankimal 7y ago
The call out about being "Customer focused" is key! Many engineers use the Individual Contributor path as a means to just solve engineering problems and an exit route from product teams. No matter if your customers are internal (o
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by ankimal 8y ago
Are there any reasons for not moving my cash reserves from Marcus to Robinhood given: * Marcus' interest rate is also adjustable and is lower than 3%. * Marcus has no ATM access/debit card. * Getting money out of Marcus requires i
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by ankimal 8y ago
NewsCred | Lead Engineer | New York | Onsite https://www.newscred.com/careers/?gh_jid=1412116 NewsCred is the world’s leading content marketing platform. We build software that supports marketers in content planning, c
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by ankimal 8y ago
Its a free world and last I checked its not illegal to work for FB. Trust in market forces to take it course.
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by ankimal 8y ago
We recently hired an outstanding engineer who graduated from a bootcamp and previously did not apply because we had an archaic requirement around "BS Computer Science or equivalent" in our job description.
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by ankimal 8y ago
We have taken out any mention of "culture fit" which to me means more of the same. Instead, we measure culture addition. How will this person add to our culture?
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by ankimal 8y ago
We took out all mentions of prior knowledge and experience in our entry level job postings. In our more experienced posting, we only ask for prior work experience building software for X years. We list only our stack and even caveat that by
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by ankimal 8y ago
NewsCred | New York | Onsite, Full-time | https://www.newscred.com/careers NewsCred is the world’s leading content marketing company. We build software that supports marketers in content planning, creation, publishing, and
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by ankimal 10y ago
Why not show ads and give the money to a charity or any other foundation of your choice?
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by ankimal 10y ago
The way I understand it is: (build -> deploy -> feedback -> build -> deploy -> feedback ..) until you reach love, when you can start focussing on growth. The lean philosophy is to make sure your (build -> deploy -> feed
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by ankimal 10y ago
That will not even meet min. wage requirements.
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by ankimal 10y ago
Democracy won. Middle America made their choice based on a hope that Trump will bring back jobs to America, especially manufacturing to the Middle American Industrial heartland. What they failed to see was that the dream is, just that, a dr
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by ankimal 10y ago
I've had great success with Ruby/Mechanize for regular html scraping and phantomjs for dynamic page scraping.
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by ankimal 10y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that this is a terrible way to hire any Engineer, Director or not? I may have hung up after first 3 questions saying that "this does not sound like a good fit to me".
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by ankimal 10y ago
Google linked link which is not subject to paywall: http://bit.ly/2cGd7E7
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by ankimal 10y ago
If you dont want to invest in emerging markets, its not the end of the world. The risks can be higher but so are the rewards. The most important thing is to not just invest in a market blindly. Try your best to understand that market and ke
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by ankimal 10y ago
Credit where credit's due. In my time travelling in France (Paris, Nice and surrounding areas), I made every attempt to say the little things in French. "Bonjour" , "Le menu pour Anglais" or "L'Addition s&
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by ankimal 11y ago
Great attitude and a hunger to learn >> Super smart but a pain to work with, in the long run.
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by ankimal 11y ago
If you already regret not starting a company, then start one. Generally you would want to give this "experiment" a realistic timeline (ideally, multi years). Set goals on when you think this is or is not working, so that you can b
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by ankimal 11y ago
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/brin-intro.html If like me you were looking for what BRIN index is all about.
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by ankimal 12y ago
Can you talk about performance? Having written both vanilla non-js scrapers (which get you far enough) and js scrapers for those pesky web pages, I can confirm that our js scrapes took 10-20x the time. Also, I am assuming dynamically changi
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Ask HN: Instagram just changed/broke their API. How do you handle API changes?
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by ankimal 14y ago
Check out casperjs, it should make life easier. Phantomjs by itself is extremely cumbersome in my experience.
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by ankimal 14y ago
How is performance with Watir? With casperjs a page takes me on an avg. 5-10 secs. to process.
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by ankimal 14y ago
Can you provide some insights into performance? In my experience, a single page could take between 5-10 secs. to scrape.
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by ankimal 14y ago
They make scraping as easy as finding the right jquery selectors (once you inject jQuery onto the page) but can be very slow as compared to a vanilla HTML only scraper. In my experience, a phantom/casper implementation could take upwards of
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by ankimal 14y ago
Also recommend Mechanize for Ruby (uses nokogiri under the covers). http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/ http://phantomjs.org/ or "its easier to deal with cousin" http://casperjs.org/ for very client heavy sites. FWIW, you can get away wit
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by ankimal 14y ago
At last end to end database management. Can we get postgres support? At last I can focus on my app now.
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by ankimal 14y ago
I would love support for Postgres and MySql as well.

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