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by alexose 10y ago
> Focus on engagement. Twitter's value is LIVE, but they've never leveraged push notifications and text messages in a way that makes sure you never miss out when important/relevant conversations are happening, so how are y
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by alexose 10y ago
Out of curiosity, who do you refer to when you say "liberals"? I think of myself as liberal, and I bet we could find plenty of common ground.
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by alexose 10y ago
REI is an interesting example. It's a co-op in name, but the employees don't have much representation at the top. (See: http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/07/11/24328725/rei-work... ).
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by alexose 10y ago
Not necessarily a killer app idea, but: I think there's an opportunity to redefine the idea of an employee-owned company. A company with an employee stock pool of 100%-- not 10%-- with no opportunities for dilution, non-voting shares,
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by alexose 10y ago
Will GOES-16 improve the existing models? Or is the plan to create new models? I'm really curious to know how the higher resolution images will be used.
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by alexose 10y ago
Maybe there's an opportunity here! "Chef needed, Remote work welcome"
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by alexose 10y ago
Ashland resident here. The "remote" jobs got a chuckle out of me.
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by alexose 10y ago
The 200mi Leaf isn't out until 2018, and even then, the bigger 60kWh battery won't come standard. The fact that there's a 238mi EV available today for less then 30 grand is a huge achievement.
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by alexose 10y ago
I find it pretty amazing how a huge, publicly traded company that was in the beginnings of a cultural death spiral (circa 2010) managed to pull itself together. I can't think of many examples of leadership abandoning the philosophy th
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by alexose 10y ago
> population stagnation/decline and the multitude of economic problems that come along with it. I'd be curious to know if there are any good books on the subject. It seems like this is something that we're going to have t
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by alexose 10y ago
> Companies have a huge intensive to stay, establish partnerships, branding, funding and so on. Companies have huge incentives to act altruistically, but individuals within those companies sometimes have huge incentives to maximize short
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by alexose 10y ago
I love it! Doesn't get much more minimal than that. Here's my relatively bloated pomodoro tracker: http://alexose.github.io/pomodoro/
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by alexose 10y ago
Hi! Vets.gov dev here. We're not in charge of VONAPP, but we work with them. I'll see if I can't track down a good contact for this.
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by alexose 10y ago
USDS is hiring! https://www.usds.gov/join If you want to work remote from SF, check out 18F: https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f/
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by alexose 10y ago
Thanks for this. In my experience at USDS over the last year, it's absolutely true.
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by alexose 10y ago
Kudos to Stephen Levy on painting a vivid (and accurate!) picture of what we do at the US Digital Service. Don't forget: You too can help Dominic! https://www.usds.gov/join
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by alexose 10y ago
> The ACA was a sham; it measures the insured rate, not the ability of citizens to receive the care they need. On that metric, its failing terribly. Can you elaborate on this? Not because I think you're wrong, but because I haven&#
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by alexose 11y ago
I couldn't agree more. It shouldn't surprise anyone that cheap outfits are cutting corners on something optional. Structural engineering solved these kinds of problems with building codes. While I'm not sure that's the
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by alexose 11y ago
The worst offender, IMO, is request. I've seen more than a few projects pull it in just to make a single HTTP call. Just look at its package.json: https://github.com/request/request/blob/master/pac
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by alexose 12y ago
They're becoming less recognizable: http://www.faradaybikes.com/
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by alexose 12y ago
Cool project! Though, the OSX requirement makes its utility pretty limited. Could someone host iMessage as a service without being sued into oblivion?
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by alexose 12y ago
Any chance the talk was recorded? I'd love to hear what happened during those few months...
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by alexose 12y ago
Given that many legitimate news articles are generated programmatically, it might just be a matter of publishing the templates :)
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by alexose 12y ago
Crimson Hexagon - Boston. Hiring UI/UX Designers and Engineers. We use machine learning techniques to make sense of a vast reservoir of social data. As one of the few companies with direct access to the Twitter Firehose as well as the
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by alexose 12y ago
) Don't worry-- I closed the unclosed parenthesis.
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by alexose 12y ago
UI Engineer - Crimson Hexagon - Boston We use machine learning techniques to make sense of a vast reservoir of social data. As one of the few companies with direct access to the Twitter Firehose as well as the full Facebook and Google+ APIs
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by alexose 12y ago
The next generation of startups is going to have to address some employee equity problems, I think. This notion that early hires are going to share a small piece of the 10% employee pool needs to stop. Being employee #1 of a startup can be
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by alexose 12y ago
In the spirit of repurposing old hardware with a Raspberry Pi, here's a project I did with an old rotary phone: http://alexose.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-rotary-voip-phone.ht...
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by alexose 12y ago
Crimson Hexagon - Boston - UI Engineer We use machine learning techniques to make sense of a vast reservoir of social data. As one of the few companies with direct access to the Twitter Firehose as well as the full Facebook and Google+ APIs
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by alexose 12y ago
Crimson Hexagon - Boston We use machine learning techniques to make sense of a vast reservoir of social data. As one of the few companies with direct access to the Twitter Firehose as well as the full Facebook and Google+ APIs, we face uniq

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