knighthacker

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by knighthacker 9y ago
Airbnb Payments | Engineers and Data Scientists | Full-time ONSITE (SF) At Airbnb, we want to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. And we’re just starting. The Airbnb Payments team empowers people and communities to participate
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Why Robinhood Uses Airbnb's Airflow(robinhood.engineering)
4 points by knighthacker 9y ago|0 comments
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Scaling Mobile Messaging at Airbnb(medium.com)
78 points by knighthacker 9y ago|24 comments
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Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb(medium.com)
175 points by knighthacker 10y ago|40 comments
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You should not take any financial risks if you don't have 6 months of savings(medium.com)
2 points by knighthacker 10y ago|0 comments
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Long Term Greed(medium.com)
4 points by knighthacker 10y ago|0 comments
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by knighthacker 10y ago
My advice is to realize that you are hired as a leader in the organization. Use your leadership to change what needs to change so that the company succeeds. An important factor for the success of the company (as long as you are still hire
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Wanna be a good manager? Have you worked for one?(medium.com)
4 points by knighthacker 10y ago|0 comments
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Mastery of anything is a delusion(medium.com)
1 points by knighthacker 10y ago|0 comments
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Tilt (YC W12) is hiring passionate front end engineers. Come build with us(tilt.com)
1 points by knighthacker 11y ago
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Tilt (YC W12) is hiring engineers to expand internationally(tilt.com)
1 points by knighthacker 11y ago
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by knighthacker 12y ago
Thank you very much. The need is certainly there, and we are happy to address it.
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Tilt (YC W12) Is Hiring an Android Lead in Austin or SF(tilt.com)
1 points by knighthacker 12y ago
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by knighthacker 12y ago
1. The way I think about it is that you have a goal/vision for why you start the project. Having a co-founder is very important and necessary to achieve this goal because your business will run into a number of roadblocks that you need
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by knighthacker 13y ago
I am glad to hear that you are using Perl at Semantics3. I like what you guys are doing :)
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Lessons learned publishing my first CPAN module(engineering.crowdtilt.com)
49 points by knighthacker 13y ago|7 comments
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by knighthacker 13y ago
+1
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by knighthacker 13y ago
Having a DevOps first was THE reason we were able to focus on building the product and not invest time figuring out infrastructure.
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by knighthacker 13y ago
I completely disagree. Traditionally, Sysadmins are what you bring in once you've grown enough that operational issues detract from development. Not only this made sysadmins feel terrible over the years having to deal with nasty produc
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by knighthacker 13y ago
The post was changed by a moderator. Our blog post title is what we stand by
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Your First Hire Should be a Sysadmin(engineering.crowdtilt.com)
36 points by knighthacker 13y ago|27 comments
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by knighthacker 13y ago
Using more than one payment processor is definitely a smart move. Not only to avoid unpredictable consequences such as this acquisition, but also because it will give you a negotiating advantage as payment processing becomes more and more o
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by knighthacker 13y ago
Here is the open spec to the current version of the API: https://github.com/Crowdtilt/crowdtilt-api-spec
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by knighthacker 13y ago
I agree with you. Knowing what's the current status of the "odds" is a good piece of information to have in order to to know how to adapt/change the inputs. But my main point from the post is I want people to be OK and accepting of "failure
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The One Lesson Every Entrepreneur Should Learn(dsog.info)
57 points by knighthacker 13y ago|32 comments
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by knighthacker 14y ago
I should have read your comment before I posted mine, but I agree 100%
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by knighthacker 14y ago
I appreciate the author taking the time to write the article, but my opinion is that the whole purpose of a daily standup is to open a line of communication between team members. Well, if you have this line of communication open 24 hours, e
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by knighthacker 14y ago
Exactly. The author already said "10-15% larger than other similar ones we've seen inthe past". Doesn't that make a record-changing by definition? :)
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by knighthacker 14y ago
I think as an entrepreneur, you are gonna need to do your homework and figure out how to get the attention to your project regardless of using Kickstarter or not. Lockitron was a perfect example that used Selfstarter to fund their project a
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Show HN: Launch your own hosted SelfStarter without writing a line of code(crowdhoster.com)
89 points by knighthacker 14y ago|31 comments

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