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Our bumpy (but worth it) road to a co-created culture(medium.com)
49 points by bcx 7y ago|0 comments
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Olark (YC W09) Is Hiring a Marketing Visual Designer (Fully Remote)(olark.com)
1 points by bcx 7y ago
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Olark (YC W09) Is Hiring a Remote Partner Marketing Manager Who Loves Small Biz(olark.com)
1 points by bcx 7y ago
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by bcx 7y ago
I could understand this excuse if instead of 2003 it was written in 1920. That said, it only contains the word "boy" once in the entire article, and only in the provocative headline. I think we can all look past the provocative he
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by bcx 8y ago
Another proposed title: "Why you need to be rich and have a white collar job to have time for leisure activities" Subtext: _less than 1% of rich people are active triathletes_ Some of the people with free time and money spend it
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by bcx 8y ago
We (Olark) specifically decided not to implement the "read-ahead" or "sneak-peak" feature because we thought it was creepy and broke customer expectations. When you are typing a message to customer service as a customer
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by bcx 8y ago
Is profitability necessarily a good milestone? Wouldn't it indicate that AirBnB has reached a local growth maxima and doesn't know where to invest the rest of its huge amount of cash effectively to generate more returns?
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by bcx 8y ago
No :) Just off the shelf DBs so far. But the FoundationDB guys are HS friends ;).
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by bcx 8y ago
I learned that basically all of Imessages and contacts are stored on foundation DB, it's pretty great this is making it into opensource. Thanks Apple!
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by bcx 8y ago
It seems that ultimately this just subsidizes the commercial real-estate owners. 1) Force companies to not have free cafeterias 2) Workers have to buy lunch from local businesses 3) Restaurant Location becomes more valuable given the large
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by bcx 8y ago
I more or less have ONLY worked from home for my entire work career, so my experience might be different than most. Like many of the commenters here I think the following are key: #Creating Time for Work (work hours) - This could mean setti
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Mental health is still an issue in the workplace(medium.com)
659 points by bcx 9y ago|330 comments
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by bcx 9y ago
I am skeptical of these findings. The graph comes from LSE's center for economic performance ( http://cep.lse.ac.uk/ ), but I cannot find any reference for a related study when searching google. I also find that it woul
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YC Alumni Front and Olark Partner on Integration(blog.olark.com)
2 points by bcx 10y ago|0 comments
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by bcx 10y ago
Part of the reason the suburban schools in good districts are so good is because they have relatively low population density and relatively high property tax revenue. So they can spend more money per student. At some point there are probab
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by bcx 10y ago
I think it's important to understand that is really happening here. Microsoft is merging Microsoft Research with their application oriented AI work. See the press release from Microsoft ( http://mnc.ms/2ddF5dC ). MSR i
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Renovating Olark with React and Redux(medium.com)
10 points by bcx 10y ago|0 comments
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by bcx 10y ago
Olark is actually entirely done over XMPP, so you could theoretically connect directly to Olark with any standard XMPP client. Trillian is doing some cool stuff in their latest Mac OSX beta using some of our XMPP extensions.
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by bcx 10y ago
One of the most exciting parts of this launch to me is that we did a ground up rewrite of the front-end in react+redux, which opens up a lot of really exiting opportunities to play with React-Native, as well as iterate quickly on bringing n
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Hummingbird: Mobile-friendly, responsive live chat(olark.com)
40 points by bcx 10y ago|6 comments
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Come Work at Olark as Our Next Product Designer (Anywhere, USA)(olark.recruiterbox.com)
1 points by bcx 11y ago
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by bcx 11y ago
Olark (YC 09) | Anywhere, USA | Product Design and Customer Engagement Marketing You probably haven’t run into a company like Olark before. We are 39 people distributed around the globe working together to fundamentally change the way peopl
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by bcx 11y ago
How many people are in your organization?
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by bcx 11y ago
For those doubting whether Bill actually writes the reviews you should take a look at: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books . Of the many books Bill has read, 81/195 have reviews (approximate). Given that he's reading
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by bcx 11y ago
Imagine some alternative titles: "How I saved a company 100K a year after I was fired" The employee could have debriefed his employer. Taken the moral high ground, and had an amazing story to tell at his next job interview + a lo
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by bcx 11y ago
This is a timely comparison to how we could imagine Alphabet/Google in the future. Provide a shield from the market to allow long term thinking.
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Olark (YC S09) Is Hiring a Senior UX Designer/Lead in SF(olark.com)
1 points by bcx 11y ago
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by bcx 11y ago
I feel like a better title for this article on HN would be "General Assembly partners with Google to create bootcamp for Android Developers" The current title implies two things: 1) That Google is creating this bootcamp on it&#x27
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Olark (YC S09) Is Hiring a UX Designer in SF(olark.com)
1 points by bcx 11y ago
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by bcx 11y ago
It could be fun, plus a recruiting technique, since it creates awareness around Netflix's culture, and I am sure they hire a lot of engineers.

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