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by jlees 12y ago
Although, it is an anagram of snail, just not intentionally so... I can't believe I didn't notice that until you pointed it out.
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Next-Gen Email Platform Nilas Grabs $8M, Preps Its Own Email Client(techcrunch.com)
36 points by jlees 12y ago|13 comments
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by jlees 12y ago
Atom Shell is a neat way of getting the desktop feel while using web tech. Is there an equivalent for mobile?
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by jlees 12y ago
Usually some kind of finders fee, e.g. $10-20k for a software engineer placement in the SF Bay Area. Often paid after a specific period of work has elapsed (e.g. 3 months). Sometimes a percentage bonus based on the first year's salary.
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by jlees 12y ago
Left Google about a year and a half ago; leaving at 4pm is pretty unusual from the folks I worked with, though I had a couple of team members who would have 'pick up kids from school' blocked out on their calendar, and taking a lo
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by jlees 12y ago
Varies a lot between teams, even between individual teams in the same organization. Though the teams I was on were pretty good about cutting things if it was clear work wasn't going to all get done.
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by jlees 12y ago
Most of the Lyft drivers I've spoken to recently lived in Walnut Creek or further out. I only occasionally seem to get someone from Oakland, let alone SF.
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by jlees 12y ago
If you love math but are not so keen on software engineering, maybe data science could be an interesting alternative.
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by jlees 12y ago
Maybe traditional work just isn't the answer. Or maybe a task you kind of like doing but can't find the will to finish on your own becomes a really awesome job, and your 'just because I want to' stuff remains a passionat
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by jlees 12y ago
> "we're looking for people who are passionate about [thing that literally no-one has ever been passionate about]" I heard this framed pretty well last night by someone who worked for a video ads company. "We don&#x2
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by jlees 12y ago
It's mentioned in "Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive" [1], which despite the title, is a really interesting book. The Freakonomics blog quotes it here: http://freakonomics.com/2009/04&#
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by jlees 12y ago
It's probably not so much news though since the Shoreline "tech campuses" shuttle up to Google, Intuit, LinkedIn etc was already a thing[1]; this replaces it. [1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q
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by jlees 12y ago
I specifically meant the prohibited criteria, though I suppose as not drinking could be due to health or religion, it's also in a grey area... Could you sue someone for not hiring you because you don't fit in at the frat house?
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by jlees 12y ago
"Not a fit" can get dangerously close to "You're not the same gender/race/orientation/age-range as our core team" (especially if that happens to be true).
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by jlees 12y ago
Several programs get a commission _and_ charge tuition.
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by jlees 12y ago
Definitely agree with this. I do see more folks out there (like myself) with one foot in both the data science and production engineering worlds, and my personal approach to the problem of black boxes would be to have more of us! Rather tha
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NA Server Roadmap Update: Optimizing the Internet for League and You(boards.na.leagueoflegends.com)
2 points by jlees 12y ago|0 comments
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by jlees 12y ago
Good training data's partly hard to come by because there's often reasonably poor inter-annotator agreement on sentiment datasets -- that is to say, humans disagree a lot in how we interpret a phrase. What reads like sarcasm to yo
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by jlees 12y ago
Well, junior developers are just that: junior. That definition can range from 'just finished a coding bootcamp' to '4 years of CS with a bunch of practical internships'. Depending where a developer is on that spectrum, t
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by jlees 12y ago
Another coworker might well value having it to run errands. But yes, having a Lyft style driver use it for the day is less viable.
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by jlees 12y ago
Is Heroku sufficient? It doesn't have the email aspect but there are plenty of standalone options there. It abstracts away a lot of the headache from custom VPSen, as long as the sort of thing you want to host is supported. AWS OpsWork
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by jlees 12y ago
At a startup I consulted for, we had a developer who had come via toptal.com. He was heads and shoulders above anyone I've worked with via oDesk etc. Good screening could find diamonds in the rough, though. You could also google around
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by jlees 12y ago
And for the management side, growing an engineering team from 1 to N will teach you more about people and (early-stage) organizational dynamics than any number of case studies. However, learning by doing -- and potentially failing -- doesn&
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by jlees 12y ago
Yeah, I'd be interested in folks' thoughts on Portland/Seattle. Considering a move up the west coast from SF.
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by jlees 12y ago
That's one heck of a writing prompt.
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by jlees 12y ago
To qualify yes. You can teach a beginner enough in three (hardcore, dedicated) months to get on the ladder as a junior developer somewhere. To excel? No way. You need to be very prepared to offer that beginner a lot of support on the job
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by jlees 12y ago
I'd say the closest things would be actual honest-to-goodness academic courses online, e.g Coursera/MIT/etc computer science tracks.
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by jlees 12y ago
People won't onboard a freelance developer for a short project unless they are desperate (and startups can often be desperate in different ways), but they will onboard advisors and consultant leaders to get them through tough periods.
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by jlees 12y ago
Close - San Francisco - Full-Time We're a seed funded startup based in SoMA helping transform how business development is done. Our network intelligence platform aggregates data about businesses and people from a number of sources to u
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by jlees 12y ago
> We switched from Hipchat and we didn't really have a good reason - it just felt better. Exactly the same here. The whole experience (especially the first run flow) was delightful and we immediately felt great about the decision.

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