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by lafay 11y ago
'Sneakers' is worth a re-watch if you haven't seen it lately. Seems very prescient on the topics of crypto and the NSA -- especially when you consider that it came out before most people had heard of the Internet.
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Designing for Database Fairness(kentik.com)
4 points by lafay 11y ago|0 comments
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by lafay 11y ago
Because I enjoy the work and I like being part of the action. I invest my money too, but it doesn't meet the same need.
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by lafay 11y ago
I've worked at both startups and big companies since I first came to SV in 1999. And some startups that became big companies. For me, there's much more than the practical & financial considerations laid out here. Deep down
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LinkedIn’s Hoffman: Half of Tech ‘Unicorns’ May Not Succeed(bloomberg.com)
3 points by lafay 11y ago|0 comments
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by lafay 11y ago
Just as a counterpoint: the Nevada Gaming Commission has plenty of time and money to sift through the source code of every gaming device that gets deployed in NV.
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by lafay 11y ago
Kentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Interested in building a time series database, crafting a sleek, intuitive front-end, or evangelizing a breakthrough approach
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by lafay 11y ago
Totally agree here. Evanston is a "suburb" only in the sense that it's a separate municipality. In all other respects, it might as well be just another neighborhood within the Chicago city limits. Which is not to say that E
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by lafay 11y ago
Kentik | San Francisco, CA | Multiple positions | ONSITE preferred, REMOTE considered http://kentik.com https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Kentik is network operators, software engineers, and data scientists b
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Implementing PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers(kentik.com)
3 points by lafay 11y ago|0 comments
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Burning Man: The Musical(burningmanthemusical.com)
1 points by lafay 11y ago|0 comments
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Kentik: netflow-based traffic visibility at Terabit scale(kentik.com)
9 points by lafay 11y ago|0 comments
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by lafay 12y ago
I think networking is essential here. Ask your friends (and friends of friends) to introduce you to HR / legal folks within their employers. Be politely persistent. It may take several asks, especially for the most important connect
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by lafay 12y ago
100% agree. So many of the great tech success stories have started with someone deeply technical who knows how to sell. And not just to customers -- also to talent. Ventures with that kind of person at the helm are the ones worth joining