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by cynusx 9y ago
You seem very focussed on the money-side of the equation, however for most people job satisfaction consists of more things like feeling part of a team, being friends with colleagues and growing as an individual. e.g. some companies enable y
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I am seeing quite some issues with google chrome and twilio lately, dropped calls and non-responses from twilio's RTC servers. It could be a chrome issue though because firefox works fine.
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I actually don't get why facebook doesn't bury political posts in your feed. People are not going to be more "connected" when arguing about politics online. From an AI point of view it's much simpler to detect if a
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by cynusx 9y ago
NoviCap | Barcelona | On-site We are looking for a great senior engineer to help us close the $1.5 trillion trade finance gap. We are helping small businesses get early payment for their outstanding invoices. Main language is ruby but we ar
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by cynusx 9y ago
Do you happen to know a startup working on making it easy to list securities as tokens?
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by cynusx 9y ago
I don't get why ycombinator doesn't advertise on a sidebar to the right similar to stackoverflow or reddit ads. There would be a lot more 'job ad' inventory and it wouldn't interfere directly with the user experienc
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Essentially they will build a hypothesis around what makes your company worth investing in (e.g. great goto market, passionate customers, technology likely to be bought, ...) and will focus on double-checking what they believe needs to be t
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NoviCap | Senior engineer | Barcelona | ONSITE NoviCap helps small businesses make payroll by giving them a cash advance for work they already did and invoiced for. We are a small international team based in BCN and love clean code, functio
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by cynusx 9y ago
Primary goal of CTO's is to make sure that the technology serves the business. As C-suite, you are also involved in setting the company strategy and are responsible for building the technical organization to own it. Outside of executin
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The whole idea that people pick their education based on rational assumptions when they are 18, know essentially nothing and are coming straight out of an environment where perceived status is all that matters on the playgrounds is ridiculo
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by cynusx 9y ago
I was afraid of air pollution in Barcelona too as my wife is allergic to some pollutants but if you don't take a flat facing the street and go slightly uphill (gracia, sant gervasi, sarria, ...) it is totally fine. She hasn't had
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by cynusx 9y ago
That's a different reason, there are strong differences in dialect between LATAM regions and the barista probably didn't understand the colombian dialect of Spanish.
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As somebody who has been hiring engineers in Barcelona for 2+ years now as founder of NoviCap I can tell you more from an employer POV. (if interested more info about us: https://gist.github.com/noverloop/ec033c20c02cf9
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by cynusx 10y ago
In WWI the US finally intervened as Germany pursued unrestricted submarine warfare, directly ignoring US wishes. However, the US also realized that continental europe ignoring US wishes would be the default regardless of which party won. If
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US decided only to commit to D-day when the soviets were gaining ground on the Germans. In fact by the time they made the decision to do that, the soviets had already liberated half of ukraine. 4 months after the decision, the soviets had l
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by cynusx 10y ago
Bear in mind that germany declared war on the US in december 1941 and the US took some time to mobilize, it was only in 1943 the US agreed to cross the channel and open a second front in may 1944. This decision was made after the battle of
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The need for Germany to secure their left flank to avoid a two-front war and France's realization that it has nothing to gain from war with Germany also led to the creation of the European union in response. The idea was to deeply inte
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NoviCap | Senior backend engineer | Barcelona, Spain | Onsite | Full-time | https://gist.github.com/noverloop/ec033c20c02cf9e219d2fc9739... Want to work on software that matters, how about software that finances millio
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by cynusx 10y ago
did you guys use experienced sales people?
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NoviCap | Senior software engineer | Barcelona | ONSITE, VISA novicap.com https://gist.github.com/noverloop/c009b47332cb75b8659692753e... . === About us === NoviCap is helping companies that need money to get early paym
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by cynusx 10y ago
There are well-known strategies for breaking cartels doing price-cutting. e.g. Dow chemical ( https://fee.org/articles/herbert-dow-and-predatory-pricing/ ) Although repackaging chemicals is probably easier then rese
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NoviCap | Senior software engineer | Barcelona | ONSITE novicap.com https://gist.github.com/noverloop/c009b47332cb75b8659692753e... === Senior software engineer == We are looking for a senior software engineer who can
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I think it is also partly because any inefficiency in work leads to an increase in the Billable Hour. When it makes you more money it isn't really broken.
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I think that's a genuine concern, the only way I can think of that breaks this paradigm is by users to elect moderators. This would also give a platform to new and grassroot politicians to rise up over time. Right now, grassroot enthou
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NoviCap | Barcelona, Spain | Full-time | ONSITE | jobspec: https://gist.github.com/noverloop/c009b47332cb75b8659692753e... === Senior software engineer == We are looking for a senior software engineer who can pull his
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I have this theory that blockchain is a great fit for distributed consensus and that it should be able to replace zookeeper as a much more robust tool. What do you think?
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it's definitely still a hassle but there is this great free solution that is not very well known, at least for when there's internet on the devices: https://file.pizza/
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The US declared independence in 1776 and had the unification civil war in 1861. The political process is very gradual and even if a divisive issue such as slavery would pop-up in the EU then I doubt it would escalate into civil war. The EU
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Voters are not keen on being governed by a government they didn't elect, if you look at it that way then you can see the civil war as the final step in the consolidation of the democratic authority that was vested in the US president a
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The human brain is what they call a recurrent neural network which means that it contains directed cycles. Classic neural networks are strictly hierarchical and one-way. If you take into account that signals can keep resonating in the brain

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