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HN Meetup Boulder?
Are there enough folks from HN in the Boulder/Denver area to try a HN meetup? Let me know in the comments if you would be interested and I can try and put something together.
- ashr 17y agoI am in.
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- ecoffey 17y agoI'm in!
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- sax 17y agoI am in for meeting up in Boulder.
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- johns 17y agoIf it's in June or later, I'm in! I'm moving there then.
- dandelany 17y agoI'm definitely in.
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- TheSOB88 17y agoI'm going to Boulder this weekend for an interview with Qualcomm. But I doubt this helps.
- sax 17y agoWhat sort of position are you applying for at Qualcomm and more importantly what sort of job are you interested in? Curious because most of Qualcomm's work is way below the abstraction level of the "average" HN audience (I work there) Boulder, is a fun place to ski/hike with plenty of young interesting folks. Tons of startup folks: http://www.centernetworks.com/why-i-love-boulder http://www.centernetworks.com/why-i-love-boulder I am usually at the Laughing Goat in the afternoons on the weekend, if you want to meetup.
- notauser 17y agoThere are people here with all sorts of backgrounds - I'm pretty sure there are some folks from Intel who read HN, as well as some I know from Nokia. I did some low level work (and most of my degree was EE), and to be honest I don't think moving up and down the stack is that insurmountable provided you are willing to spend the time (re)learning a chunk of stuff each time.
- sax 17y agoMy undergrad background is in EE and good amount of research work with compilers in grad school. I am apprehensive about working on low-level software because the state-of-art in commercial OS development in smart-phones always lags a few years behind desktop or high-end systems. The software problems have already been solved by other folks. Example, Low-level software is poorly designed from a software engineering point of view and its problems plainly evident over multiple hardware product cycles.
- TheSOB88 17y agoI didn't apply for the job; they just called me one day and offered me a trip. I think they're just trying to take advantage of lazy (college) seniors like me who haven't found a job yet. They scream 'big corporation' - they didn't even phone interview me before inviting me down, and their website calls Twitter "haiku-like streams of content". I am really wary of this company. Can you confirm or deny this? The job I'd want would be in a fairly high-level language like Python; the manager would have done my job before. I also hope for smart version control and smart employee evaluations (like not how long you work/how many LoC). I'd love to talk with you when I get down there. My email address is ebisumaru@gmail.com. Please send me a message so we can correspond!
- CRASCH 17y agoI'm there, schedule permitting...
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- oldgregg 17y agoYes please. Depending on how many people, mountain sun or southern sun?
- sax 17y agoSouthern Sun is quieter because of its size. Its hard to hear people sitting across from you at the mountain sun.
- TheSOB88 17y agoHey, I wanted to meet up with you in Boulder (Qualcomm interview guy). I couldn't find your email, so I'm spamming all your comments, which is probably against the law. Please email me at ebisumaru@gmail.com, or read my longer comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1078343 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1078343
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- petewarden 17y agoI'm up for a Boulder meetup this week. Any day but Friday is best for me.
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- sriram_sun 17y agoI would love to join. Either Boulder or Denver downtown would work fine.
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- sriram_sun 17y agoUse this comment as a counter if you are planning to come by. Thanks in advance for the free karma!
- inboulder 17y agosounds like a meetup I can get behind, when where?
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- steveplace 17y agoTechstars is doing something similar in February: http://tsbfounderdating.eventbrite.com/ http://tsbfounderdating.eventbrite.com/
- mattew 17y agoI think Techstars is a really cool program, and the founder dating thing looks like a good place to find other people to start businesses with, but I think it would be nice to just have an in person way to meet some of the folks who share a common interest in the community around Hacker News. I think a no pressure sort of event where the goal is to have a beer and meet other nerds in the Boulder area is what I am looking to put together. If people find other people to start businesses with, then that is great, but if they just have a beer and meet someone interesting, that is great too.
- hiroprot 17y agoCan't attend this week, but I'd be up for it.
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- mattew 17y agoIt looks like we certainly have enough people to get a meetup put together. I will put together an invite for sometime in early February.
- mkanemoto 17y agoI can drive in to Boulder or Denver
- mattew 17y agoMeetup this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965
- mattew 17y agoOK, meetup this Wednesday. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088965 for details and rsvp.
- mattew 17y agoSorry about all the duplicated replies about the meetup this week. For some reason the announcement of the actual meetup never got up-voted and not very many people saw it.