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Watch Cruise’s self-driving car take a night ride through San Francisco(techcrunch.com)
3 points by adrianmacneil 9y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Cruise Automation | San Francisco | ONSITE We're building self driving cars. We operate as an independent startup, but we also have the funding and manufacturing capabilities of a large company (GM). We're hiring many roles, inclu
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Decide whether you want to start a consulting firm or work on a product. Then do that. Don't start a consulting firm with the idea that you will work on products in your "spare" time. If you want to work on product ideas, you
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
If you decide to suggest this, be sure to buy Chromebox _for meetings_. The regular Chromebox cannot be upgraded or converted into a Chromebox for Meetings. This caught me out the first time. https://chromebusinessdevices.withgoo
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Have you considered that purely meritocratic actions, with no affirmative action, might only result in reaching a local maxima of productivity for an organization or industry? It's possible that by following your stance and having pure
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
The Cruise cars are already built using the Bolt electric vehicle.
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Clerky is great for creating a Delaware C Corp (if you intend to raise funding in the near future), but I wouldn't suggest this for a small side project, because a C Corp plus related paperwork is a lot more expensive than an LLC in yo
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
I'll just leave this here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias
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Docker 1.12.6 – Security Advisory(seclists.org)
1 points by adrianmacneil 10y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Cruise Automation | DevOps Expert | San Francisco | ONSITE Do you dream about AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and ELK? Do you want to work with a really smart team on the most exciting and technically challenging problems in the self driving car s
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Pro tip: If you want a reply to your application, try to avoid cold emailing hiring managers your resume. Often my inbox has a lot happening, and I'm not inclined to spend time copying your resume into our hiring software unless there
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Read "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future", and realize that even the best people overcame enormous struggles to bring products to market.
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Yes, there are earthquake standards for new buildings, and mandatory retrofitting for older buildings (as they are updated). From what I've seen, this is pretty similar to San Francisco. It would be interesting to see data comparing th
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
The problem is of course that these decisions have to be made consistently across the country, and the banks don't want to try on the "gut feel" of some random bank manager. Of course the system/criteria could be improve
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
NZ and Australia both have positive credit score systems (both introduced in the past 10 years). I wouldn't necessarily agree with a gut reaction that positive credit scores are absurdly backwards. It makes sense that I would trust som
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Thanks, I didn't actually realize that HN asks for your email but doesn't display it anywhere. Anyway, it's just adrian@getcruise.com.
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Cruise Automation | San Francisco | VISA | ONSITE We're looking for engineers help us build self driving cars. We love solving hard problems, and test our cars daily on the streets of San Francisco and Arizona. We have many roles on ou
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Bay Area Startups Find Low-Cost Outposts in Arizona(nytimes.com)
31 points by adrianmacneil 10y ago|85 comments
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Depends how much experience & skills you have, but after a year I would look to find a job paying twice that (even if you are relatively junior).
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Datadog chews on data breach, AWS user credentials in leak(zdnet.com)
3 points by adrianmacneil 10y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Yes
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
If you want full time web dev work, Auckland and Wellington are really your main options. Cost of living in NZ is high (relative to salaries), but for most people the pace and quality of life make up for it. Given that NZ timezone is only 3
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Cruise Automation | San Francisco | ONSITE We're looking for experienced full stack software engineers to build platforms and tools which support self driving cars. Come and work as part of a super talented team in SF working on really
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
You can hold ETH in a Coinbase exchange account today. Support in their consumer wallet is coming in the next few months.
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Reasonable Option Policies Are Not Scary(medium.com)
2 points by adrianmacneil 10y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
I'm not 100% familiar with it yet, but there is some code where anyone on the losing side of a majority vote can opt to fork the DAO and retain their original tokens with all investments, instead of going along with the group (similar
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Also, it appears The DAO has now raised over $100M USD: https://daohub.org/
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The DAO: Or How a Leaderless Ethereum-Based Organization Raised $50M(coindesk.com)
4 points by adrianmacneil 10y ago|1 comments
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
Just saw this. Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read. It did feel like the authors leant heavily towards justifying currently spend rather than taking a critical view on it. It also didn't go very deep into R&D spend vs s
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by adrianmacneil 10y ago
I hear this line repeated a lot on HN (it appears multiple times in this thread even), yet I've never seen a study or any hard evidence for it. How do you know that the massive profits made by drug companies in the US are being reinves

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