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by randometc 4mo ago
Obligatory Michael Lewis quote, from Boomerang (2011): > Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for
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by randometc 1y ago
That’s how I imagined it, kind of a hybrid of what I’ve seen called Product Marketing Manager and Product Analyst, but other replies and OpenAI job postings indicate maybe it’s a different role, more hands on building, getting from research
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by randometc 1y ago
What’s the GTM role referenced a couple of times in the post?
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by randometc 2y ago
What AWS services are you using currently and what drives your costs? We’re a nonprofit with apps that see ~1000s of users a month, but mostly in the US. I think we see good savings using Google Cloud Run and scaling down when there’s less
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by randometc 2y ago
https://www.graphistry.com/ ?
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by randometc 2y ago
Along these lines, Square’s incident response meme lives on as https://outage.party/
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by randometc 3y ago
Like you, “engineer’s engineer” was the phrase that came to mind for me too. Just really loved the craft, always happy to get into it and unpack a problem with you. Everything was tractable through code. So long as it was Java. Like you, an
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by randometc 5y ago
A point in time count isn’t a good denominator to understand cost per person given an annual budget. This article sheds some light: https://missionlocal.org/2019/07/in-san-francisco-we-obsess-... > the Departm
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by randometc 10y ago
Square | Software Engineer | San Francisco | Full Time. ONSITE. VISA. On Seller Experience we're looking for senior engineers, and an engineering manager, to join our Onboard Platform and Onboard Experience teams. Technical Lead - htt
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by randometc 10y ago
Here is the most accessible implementation I've seen https://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/ with tons of references and existing implementations.
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by randometc 11y ago
Square employee here. Looks like a phishing scam to me, thanks for sharing it. I don't work on that stuff myself, but you can forward the email to spoof@squareup.com and we'll do whatever we can to take care of it.
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by randometc 14y ago
Assuming your whiteboard session is a good test of basic CS proficiency, the real question is "does basic CS proficiency correlate with effectiveness at the job?" - if you're like Google the answer is probably yes, and if so you only have t
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by randometc 14y ago
Has someone suggested whiteboard proficiency is sufficient by itself? Fair point, that is a straw man. I haven't experienced an all-whiteboard interview - there's always been more to it. The whiteboard is meant to filter out people who s
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by randometc 14y ago
The question is: what is your tolerance for (a) false negatives and (b) false positives? Rephrasing (a): who are we passing on, are they in fact good potential employees, and what qualities do they have that our new hires might not? Rephras
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by randometc 14y ago
There are other places that have published them already. e.g. see Appendix B in this report http://www.sfcta.org/images/stories/Planning/Shuttles/Final_... from http://www.sfcta.org/content/view/584/1/
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An animated javascript marker clustering library for Leaflet maps(github.com)
1 points by randometc 14y ago|0 comments
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by randometc 14y ago
The logger, spawner and cloudant coffeescript files are in the lib folder: https://github.com/heroku/vulcan/tree/master/server/lib When the app is created it sets NODE_PATH=lib so the app can find those files without specifying the full p
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Building Tight Game Systems of Cause and Effect(lostgarden.com)
3 points by randometc 14y ago|0 comments
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by randometc 14y ago
The node.js buildpack has good instructions for how to upgrade it yourself if needed: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs (and the buildpack docs are now public since Heroku's Cedar stack became the official default)
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What Can Go Wrong (a poem about code, art, etc.)(github.com)
2 points by randometc 14y ago|0 comments