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by aturek 3mo ago
Link for anyone looking for it https://somehowmanage.com/2020/09/20/revenue-model-not-cultu...
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by aturek 3mo ago
I've learned about several frameworks that are system language + web frontend. The general approach is, ship a small binary compiled for the specific platform, and use the platform's native browser (and whatever html frontend tech
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by aturek 3mo ago
I also prefer simple web tech, but I'm really glad you brought these points up! Ecosystems matter more than a lot of purist devs think.
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by aturek 4mo ago
Brightscript could have been worse! And much, much better, as well
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by aturek 4mo ago
> Do they just get paid out with restrictive NDAs? Yes, that's a very common part of an exit package for executives. Speaking from some first- and second-hand experience, you can get paid a hefty sum (6-12mo of salary worth of cash)
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by aturek 8mo ago
From TFA: > Many CTOs, like me, have a strong engineering background, and so I will understand some of the requests you make without needing further explanation.
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by aturek 9y ago
I see relative times (7:00pm, 12:01am, etc), but I notice there are no timezones. Is it implicitly Eastern time in the US?
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by aturek 9y ago
In answer to (1) - I'm a bit rusty, but I believe Java allows objects of the same type to access other objects' private data. I definitely agree that it's gross, but it exists elsewhere.
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by aturek 9y ago
Convoy | Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, onsite, https://convoy.com We're optimizing trucking and logistics, an $800B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls. Currently backed by top tier investors
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by aturek 9y ago
Whoops! email: alex@convoy.com
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by aturek 9y ago
Convoy | Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, onsite, https://convoy.com We're optimizing the trucking and logistics industry; automating what is, today, a $800B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls.
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by aturek 10y ago
Convoy | Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, onsite, https://convoy.com We're optimizing the trucking and logistics industry; automating what is, today, a $800B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls.
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by aturek 10y ago
Convoy | https://convoy.com | Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, onsite We're optimizing the trucking and logistics industry; automating what is, today, a $749B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls
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by aturek 10y ago
What's the best one you've seen?
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by aturek 10y ago
Convoy | Software Engineer | Seattle | https://convoy.com/ We're optimizing the trucking and logistics industry; automating what is, today, a $749B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls. Currently ba
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Study compares Amazon to 19th century robber barons, urges breakup(geekwire.com)
18 points by aturek 10y ago|4 comments
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by aturek 10y ago
I don't agree. I've seen some very junior people change their attitudes rapidly (for the better) when working on a team; if we wrote them off immediately we'd lose out on a lot of promising people. I was also one of those dev
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by aturek 10y ago
Better link with a more up-to-date list: http://jobs.convoy.com
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by aturek 10y ago
Convoy | Seattle | Onsite | Full-time We're optimizing the trucking and logistics industry; automating what is, today, a $749B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls. Currently backed by top tier investors. Read about
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by aturek 10y ago
I'd love to hear how Github is doing ACL here. We came up with a pretty neat solution on my team, which we have not yet open-sourced, for JS. But it was a lot of first-principles design work; there don't seem to be any good exampl
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Evaluating Delusional Startups(zachholman.com)
3 points by aturek 10y ago|0 comments
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by aturek 11y ago
There's a lot more to a company than what it sells. Saying "I want to work here" without knowing the people there, for me, would be a non-starter. What you're recommending (doing the background research on companies) is
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by aturek 11y ago
Great reminder to cull the backlog of my personal todo list!
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by aturek 11y ago
Convoy Software Engineers / Designers / Sales / Operations Downtown Seattle, WA We're optimizing the trucking and logistics industry; automating what is, today, a $749B industry that still relies on phone calls and paper
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by aturek 11y ago
In case anyone else is puzzled: DALY = "Disability-adjuseted life year", i.e. a year you're alive and not disabled.
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by aturek 11y ago
At my company, over the last 6 months we've tried Trello, Pivotal, and Sprintly. At past companies I've used Trac, Jira, and Asana. And for the last 7 years I've kept a daily todo.txt, where I append today's date and the
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by aturek 11y ago
What's an example of something you suddenly understood?
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Reefer Madness: Refrigerated Shipping Containers(99percentinvisible.org)
26 points by aturek 11y ago|5 comments
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by aturek 11y ago
I think people, including Amazon employees, try to put things down to some difference between AWS and retail. With the amount of cross-pollination between those two giant sides of Amazon, I doubt there's any significant macro differenc
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by aturek 11y ago
I worked at Amazon for three years, 2010-2013. My experience was better than most of my coworkers', but I watched a lot of people including some friends go through exactly what is described in the NYTimes article. There's an old t

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