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by ahuibers 15y ago
Um.. most PhDs in the experimental sciences involve lots of drudge work, and 14 hour days, and the people who make it are generally very hard workers. This may not be true in theory or engineering.
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Work at Bump (YC09) - Python, distributed DBs, functional programming.
1 points by ahuibers 15y ago
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Passionate programmer looking to move to mobile? Come work at Bump.
1 points by ahuibers 15y ago
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EE generalist? Write C or Python? Work at Bump's phone-to-place group.(bump.theresumator.com)
1 points by ahuibers 15y ago
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by ahuibers 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=3000
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by ahuibers 15y ago
2 minute video on working @ Bump: http://db.tt/P4ecIIm
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by ahuibers 15y ago
Mountain View, CA -- Bump Bump is the #7 app in US for all time and #3 in Japan with over 40M downloads. Innovation you create at Bump will push out to >>10 million active users and growing. We are hiring for Applied Mathematics
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by ahuibers 16y ago
One big reason robots aren't very good is because actuators are not very good. There are no good artificial muscles. Motors are great to power wheels and propellers but not much else. On the sensor side, robots can see, hear and even tou
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by ahuibers 16y ago
We (Bump) have 12 redis machines now with 72 or 96GB each. 6 masters and 6 slaves. The slaves are hot spares and persist to disk, per the blog.
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by ahuibers 16y ago
Make it so that comments don't need to be made right away (to get upvote exposure) to be in the top 10 or 20. Maybe you could normalize each upvote by the number of views per unit time (view rate). You could measure success by trying to i
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by ahuibers 16y ago
Bump is hiring in Mountain View, CA (soon maybe SF/SOMA as well), mostly local. Our immediate needs are: Operations, HTML5 development, Android development, Design, R&D including someone who knows both CS and prob/stats. WHY SHOULD YOU
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HTML5 Contractor, Mountain View CA or remote (Bump Technologies YC09)
5 points by ahuibers 16y ago
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by ahuibers 16y ago
Bump is hiring and will definitely do H1B sponsorship. I believe visa difficulty can vary by country though e.g. India may be more difficult. We are hiring for server(python/redis/mongo/C)/operations/Android/DESIGN. http://bu.mp/jobs Ple
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by ahuibers 16y ago
I did YC summer 2009 (Bump). Of the 3 founders I was the most critical going in, mostly based on valuation. But unlike most investor relationships, the money is the minority part of the value provided. The majority is things money can't
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College Tablet Kno To Debut at $599(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by ahuibers 16y ago|0 comments
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by ahuibers 16y ago
Make an improved version of etherpad! This was a great project/company, that ~ended when Google bought them. Would love to see someone run with this.