lukatmyshu

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by lukatmyshu 6y ago
We had a bunch of IPs for each of our servers to get around some of their auto-blocking stuff. Eventually we got approval from AIM but that was fairly late. You're right in that we had crazy-impressive web UI but the backend was also
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by lukatmyshu 6y ago
Are you me? I had the exact two same issues when I was at Yahoo (2005-2007) basically due to Jerry & Filo. Somehow happy to know that I wasn't the only one :)
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by lukatmyshu 9y ago
Asapp - based in NYC - hiring Android, iOS, Web, Backend, ML engineers. http://www.asapp.com/
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by lukatmyshu 13y ago
In 11 years I've only worked with two that I thought were great. But those two have convinced me that they can add a tremendous amount of value. Think of them as oil in an engine. The best ones know how to communicate extremely wel
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by lukatmyshu 13y ago
As far as a common library, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLib It has hash table, binary trees, linked lists/resizeable arrays.
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by lukatmyshu 14y ago
I've gone from first contact to first day in 5 (monday -> monday). I think it's imperative that you work quickly when it comes to candidates. Do your due diligence and when a candidate is in the office give them your time and attentio
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by lukatmyshu 14y ago
Not necessarily true. I 'attended' college for 4.5 years, completed 140% of the required credits to graduate but I'm technically 3 classes shy of my degree. I left school in 2003. Suffice it to say, I don't think has_degree can be impleme
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by lukatmyshu 15y ago
Have you read the who is hiring thread? More and more companies are okay with remote workers. Anecdotally I hired a guy recently who is remote. I don't want to comment on his salary ... but i wouldn't be typing this if it were less.
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by lukatmyshu 15y ago
New Delhi, India -- Full time. I'm the CTO of a startup being funded by Airtel (largest mobile telephone provider in India) and Softbank trying to attack the mobile application landscape in India. I was so excited about this I moved to New
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by lukatmyshu 15y ago
Mountain View, CA San Francisco, CA New York City, NYC Meebo Work on projects that reach over 185+ million users a month. remote work is totally cool as well. Check out a list of all of our jobs here http://www.meebo.com/jobs/
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by lukatmyshu 15y ago
Mountain View, CA San Francisco, CA New York City, NYC Meebo Work on projects that reach over 185+ million users a month. remote employee's totally cool as well. Check out a list of all of our jobs here http://www.meebo.com/jobs/
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by lukatmyshu 15y ago
Mountain View, CA San Francisco, CA New York City, NYC Meebo Work on projects that reach over 185+ million users a month. remote employee's totally cool as well. Check out a list of all of our jobs here http://www.meebo.com/jobs/
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
Orbitz/Expedia are travel-agents --- kayak/ITA Software are simply aggregators of flight results. There is a world of difference. For one thing, I am not sure how Kayak would be able to handle an itinerary that has multiple airlines in in
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
Meebo -- http://www.meebo.com/jobs/teams/internships/ Located in Mountain View, CA and NYC, NY. Looking for students with interest in JavaScript, Python and C.
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
Wouldn't that also lead to incentives for teachers to encourage students towards professions that would have greater future earnings? Thereby discouraging them from fields that may be useful to society but not that economically viable (I s
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
Not the founder, but one of the core committers does (full-disclosure, I also work @ meebo). http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/MarkDoliner http://www.meebo.com/team/ <--- look for the guy called "The Pidgin Guy". That list is sorted
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
Meebo, Mountain View, CA / NYC, NY http://www.meebo.com/jobs/teams/internships/ Example past intern projects: optimizing a javascript buddylist for thousands of buddies, implementing a web-based filetranfer, building out a cassandra clust
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
Well ... did you want leave your company? If that's the case then going back seems like the wrong idea. If you're good, you can find a new job in this market in no time.
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
So many questions (and so many places this could have been fixed). a) As soon your dive buddy saw your air gauge was that low he should have gone into the share air procedure. Parent's idea of letting him have your main reg while fumbling
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
gets ... at least you theoretically can use strcpy securely.
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
This is generically how long-polling usually works (you have one fast channel for sending messages, then a persistent HTTP connect (either using longpolling or http streaming) to send back responses/results. However it doesn't seem like y
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
The company I work for is currently looking for people interested in machine learning & data analysis and I've interviewed a fair number of people that have a background/story similar to yours. The one piece of advice I have is to spen
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by lukatmyshu 16y ago
We've got a few TB in couchdb-lounge (we also wrote couchdb-lounge) so we think it works. Big pluses ... it's got a RESTful API which means that we don't need a special library to access it in any language ... if you can speak http you can
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by lukatmyshu 17y ago
(expanding on this) nginx uses a buffer-chain architecture internally. This means that if your data comes in chunks when you read it in (remember, nginx is event based) then it's stored internally in fragments that correspond to those read
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by lukatmyshu 17y ago
I went to cal and work in silicon valley filled with students from stanford. It hurts me. Especially because I am constantly impressed with the quality of the students that come out of stanford. The students I've interviewed coming out f
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by lukatmyshu 17y ago
Plus w/ jsonp can't get the response from POST requests and you don't get notification that your page didn't load. So your web-stack needs to be able to handle sending any errors via jsonp as well. In any case, they don't solve the same pr
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by lukatmyshu 17y ago
The reason that they use N.subdomain.facebook.com is so they can avoid the default "2 http requests per domain" rule in older browsers.
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by lukatmyshu 17y ago
Try https://www.meebo.com