jgulbronson

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   by jgulbronson 4y ago

   All good! I agree with you, at the time I wasn't one of "the best". But I think there's a couple key things, one of which you touched on. The first is that "the best" is subjective. To me, the best engineers _a
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   by jgulbronson 4y ago

   I was the first backend engineer hired at Faire joining 2 of the cofounders in early 2018. I can assure you I wasn't getting paid anywhere close to $200k when I started, and neither were my extremely talented colleagues.
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   How Faire uses Kotlin to power our small-business marketplace(faire.com)

   8 points by jgulbronson 6y ago|0 comments
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   by jgulbronson 6y ago

   I'd be curious which annoying bugs you ran in to. I introduced Kotlin to my current company (Faire), and we've been very happy with the decision. Better type system, amazing Java interop so we could keep using all our favorite lib
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   by jgulbronson 8y ago

   Awesome read! I was actually an intern on Cees' team when we started writing db2kafka ( https://github.com/PagerDuty/db2kafka ), and got to contribute a fair amount. It was a really fun language to work with, especi
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   by jgulbronson 12y ago

   INTERN - Winter 2015 Current Software Engineering student Location: Ontario, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Android, Web Front-End (Backbone experience, some React) Github: https://github.com/J