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by zavulon 5y ago
(shameless plug) I work at Yieldstreet. Our company is filled with people just like yourself. Our policy is 3 days a week from the office and 2 days remote, so obviously we tend to attract people who like working in an office - in person co
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by zavulon 5y ago
Yieldstreet | Senior Back-end, Senior Front-end/Mobile | New York, NY or Malta or Porto Alegre/Florionopolis, Brazil| Fulltime | ONSITE, partially remote Yieldstreet is a mission-driven fintech startup dedicated to bringing prospe
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by zavulon 6y ago
> Mr. Tate said he thought frequently about the story [outing Tim Cook] afterward, and even wondered whether Mr. Cook’s parents had known about his identity before the report. “It’s something that gave me pause and that I thought about,
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How to run a hackathon during a global lockdown(distributed.yieldstreet.com)
2 points by zavulon 6y ago|0 comments
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by zavulon 6y ago
Yieldstreet | New York, NY | Test Engineering Lead | ONSITE | Full time Yieldstreet is a mission-driven fintech startup dedicated to bringing prosperity to everyone. We give individuals access to high yield, low risk investments previously
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by zavulon 6y ago
Good idea. Maybe put a Youtube video of the comedian's performance on the detail page, so we get a little preview?
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by zavulon 7y ago
Yieldstreet | Senior Backend, Senior DevOps, Senior Test Automation | New York, NY or Porto Alegre, Brazil| Fulltime | ONSITE Yieldstreet is a mission-driven fintech startup dedicated to bringing prosperity to everyone. We give individuals
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Is It Really Five Stars? How to Spot Fake Amazon Reviews(wsj.com)
3 points by zavulon 8y ago|1 comments
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by zavulon 8y ago
I thought I was the only one! The Magicians is by far the worst and least enjoyable book I’ve ever read, and I read ~ 100 books per year.
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by zavulon 8y ago
This. Cliff Stoll is better known for his other book, where he got a bunch of predictions about the internet wrong, but Cuckoo’s Nest is a lot better read. Based on a true story, how a few cent $ difference led him to discover a massive hac
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by zavulon 8y ago
This exact issue caused me to use Amazon a lot less. these days, I check Consumer Reports for a review and usually buy their recommendations. Most of the time, still on Amazon - their delivery is still top notch. But - not all the time, as
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by zavulon 9y ago
For most events (at least in the US), you can only get tickets via TicketMaster. Venues sign an agreement with TM that forbids them selling tickets elsewhere. TM controls venue's entire ticket sale workflow, including inventory, printi
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by zavulon 9y ago
https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/
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by zavulon 9y ago
See my comment above - it would require a significant effort to get off the ground, as the app without data would not be useful to first users, and without the data provided by those first users, it wouldn't be useful to others.
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by zavulon 9y ago
Thank you! I definitely considered doing something like that, however — the amount of work required to crowd source the data would be significant. There would be a “chicken & egg” problem — the app wouldn’t be useful to first users, and
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by zavulon 9y ago
The API didn't change, they just made it private "for MTA use only"
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How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters(medium.com)
168 points by zavulon 9y ago|118 comments
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by zavulon 9y ago
I work for a company called Mark43. We make software to help police officers do their jobs more efficiently - our applications literally help save lives. There's a lot of interesting design challenges - for example, emergency dispatche
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by zavulon 9y ago
If on a Sunday afternoon you get a sinking feeling of despair about having to go to work tomorrow, it's time to leave.
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by zavulon 9y ago
You hit this just as we were deploying the new version of the site :) it works now
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by zavulon 9y ago
I realize that these features are what you want, and sorry that they're not making you happy. But I would bet that a very small minority of users cares about things native clients / bundled browser and Hi-Fi option. On the other h
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by zavulon 10y ago
What exactly do you do in real estate, if you don't mind me asking? Do you buy/renovate/sell, build from scratch, do you do residential/commercial, etc? And how did you get into it?
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by zavulon 10y ago
Mark43 | Various engineering roles | https://www.mark43.com/jobs | New York, NY | Onsite Fight crime with code We build software that literally helps save lives. Our clients are police departments, firefighters and EMTs. Be
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by zavulon 10y ago
I think you can interpret "like you" in a few different ways. Someone can be "like you" if they share common values, even if they have completely different background, interests, personalities, etc. I don't want to
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What does the history of height mean for the NBA's future?(espn.com)
2 points by zavulon 10y ago|0 comments
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by zavulon 10y ago
Upvoted for humor and the username.
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by zavulon 10y ago
I had a similar experience when I first started as a junior engineer at a financial company. By accident, I dropped a database in production... immediately, people found out and the head of production support came to me and said "This
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by zavulon 10y ago
It depends on what you need it for. For me, 5K screen and a very fast graphics card are important. Top of the line iMac is the only Mac that works with Oculus Rift. But if you're only looking to do web development, for example, Mini sh
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by zavulon 10y ago
I've used a Hackintosh as a main development machine for a few years. I spent ~ $800 on parts, and an equivalent (top of the line) Mac would've cost about $4K, so the money savings were great. However, it was a gigantic pain in th
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Emails from a CEO Who Just Has a Few Changes to the Website(medium.com)
115 points by zavulon 10y ago|41 comments

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