evanwillms

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by evanwillms 4y ago
I've had success using the self-service tier from Ably.com, which is <$100 USD/mo. [1] Their client libraries handled most of the edge-cases that I would have had to worry about using SQS or a message broker on my own. It seem
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by evanwillms 6y ago
Proxxi Technology | Embedded Firmware Developer | Vancouver, Canada | ONSITE | Fulltime | https://proxxi.co Proxxi Technology has several headcount open for individuals with experience writing embedded C. Our new wearable wrist
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by evanwillms 8y ago
Blue Mesa Health | Head of Engineering, Machine Learning Engineer, Full-Stack Javascript Engineer | New York, NY or Vancouver, BC, Canada or REMOTE | Full Time with VISA possibility Blue Mesa Health is on a mission to deliver world-class di
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by evanwillms 10y ago
Blue Mesa Health | Software Developer | Vancouver, Canada or Remote | Full Time | REMOTE, http://www.bluemesahealth.com/ Blue Mesa Health is preventing type 2 diabetes by delivering a behavioral intervention program that he
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by evanwillms 12y ago
The author does mention the etymology of 'person' in an earlier article, so they appear to be aware of it. "'Person,' by the way, has a neat etymology. It comes from the Latin persona, referring to a mask worn on st
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by evanwillms 12y ago
I put together a quick-and-dirty excel plot of the data: http://imgur.com/uyFkjSB It's plotting the relative speedup of each router's benchmark vs the slowest benchmark on that dataset. (For example, Beego's
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by evanwillms 14y ago
Ask and ye shall receive. http://unbounce.com/content-marketing/checklist-12-things-yo... Doubly interesting since it's both an example of what they do to attract followers and a guide on the steps they take.
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by evanwillms 14y ago
You've got your causality in the wrong direction. They have a Twitter base of 25k followers because they provide something useful. Multiple times per day. With original content twice per week, on average, every single week for three y
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by evanwillms 14y ago
That's exactly what I've been wondering about enabling two factor authentication for something I use as often as email. Apparently you can print a series of one-time use verification codes that work any time to sign into your two-factor acc
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by evanwillms 14y ago
Both Eric Ries and Steve Blank are actual entrepreneurs who have tried on multiple occasions and have both success and failure in their experience. Eric Ries founded CatalystRecruiting as an undergrad, worked as an engineer for a few years,
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by evanwillms 14y ago
The Canadian appeals court has actually created precedent for an an economically 'dependent contractor'. That contractors may run their own business and meet many of the independence criteria, but still be working for a single firm or cont
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by evanwillms 15y ago
It's referring to the anecdote of Vlasic, a pickle manufacturer, and it's woes of being a supplier to Wal-Mart. Basically, Wal-Mart negotiated hard with Vlasic to provide gallon(!) jars of pickles at at much lower margins than the company
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by evanwillms 15y ago
The charcoal background made me think of Geckoboard ( http://www.geckoboard.com/ ), but that's more of a dashboard metrics visualizer than a task list.
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by evanwillms 15y ago
For many customers the issue is not features, it's pain avoidance. If you do just one thing, but better/easier/faster than the established competitor then you can approach customers on that basis. Bonus points if it allows them to save mo