martian

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by martian 13y ago
I agree with other critiques here that this A/B testing calculator does little to add to the conversation, and someone who uses it would be mislead in how to interpret results. The procedure my team uses is: 1) hypothesize an expected
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by martian 13y ago
San Francisco - Thumbtack (H1B ok!) Thumbtack is a Sequoia-backed startup that is changing the way people hire local service professionals like house painters, guitar tutors, or wedding planners. We like Python. :-) http://www.th
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by martian 13y ago
San Francisco, Thumbtack. H1B welcome. (You probably haven't heard of Thumbtack. We've been flying under the Silicon Valley radar for quite some time.) Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire people to help you get things accompli
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Let Designers Code, and Engineers Design(blogs.wsj.com)
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by martian 13y ago
I'm curious to know what kinds of problems you work on, then? I find that I need to have a strong working knowledge of data structures every day. Hashes, lists, trees, and so on. Knowing how to apply data structures in production code
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by martian 13y ago
The Bay Area is a great place to be if you're an engineer. You get many job offers in your inbox every week. Your friends have long since stopped asking you if you want to work at their startups, but you know just how quickly that woul
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Levels of Excellence(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
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by martian 13y ago
San Francisco, Thumbtack, Software Engineer Thumbtack is a new way to hire local services, e.g. photographers, tutors, or home contractors. With millions of users and an active consumer base across the US, we're riding the proverbial r
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by martian 13y ago
A great talk on the topic is this one. The basic argument is that global singletons (and global state generally) is detrimental to maintainability, flexibility, and testability. The talk discusses several strategies for moving away from glo
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by martian 13y ago
San Francisco - Software Engineer (H1B welcome) Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, and contractors. Over 300k small businesses around the country have joined Thumbtack, and we&#x2
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by martian 13y ago
San Francisco - Software Engineer (H1B welcome) Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, and contractors. Over 250k small businesses around the country have joined Thumbtack, and we&#x2
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by martian 13y ago
> "supports privacy and stores no information" Interesting that there's still a Google Analytics tracking call on the page.
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by martian 13y ago
I agree that the word "Social" is loaded -- the tech industry has contorted its meaning and I did (yes) take the word in a more literal/historical sense. Prime might be wise to rethink the branding. Maybe "social" i
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by martian 13y ago
There is a lot of negative commentary on this thread (thanks HN for always providing such valuable feedback), but I'd like to point out what I think is useful and positive with Prime. First, health is inherently social. When you&#x27
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by martian 13y ago
Geoffray Warnants did a simple CSS3 Tetris in 2011: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/tetris-css3...
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by martian 13y ago
This is an old post and it suffers from some shiny rhetoric, but it was very technically relevant for work I did recently. I had a similar problem as the OP: millions of images stored on S3 that each needed to be rescaled to a set of four n
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by martian 13y ago
San Francisco - Software Engineer (H1B welcome) Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, and contractors. Over 250k small businesses around the country have joined Thumbtack, and we&#x2
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by martian 13y ago
You should add Feedspot and Goread. Both are reasonably faithful clones of the original. Goread has the advantage of also being open-source, in Go, so you can install your own on Google App Engine. https://github.com/mjibson
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by martian 13y ago
Feel free to email me directly if that page doesn't work. Cheers!
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by martian 13y ago
San Francisco - Software Engineer (H1B welcome, Intern positions available) Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, and contractors. Over 250k small businesses around the country have
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by martian 13y ago
I think it's awesome that people are creating more games like this -- Minecraft is a huge success, which suggests there is a big market. Another one I like is http://deepworldgame.com/
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The Kids' Guide to the Internet (1997)(youtube.com)
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by martian 13y ago
San Francisco - Software Engineer (H1B welcome) Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, and contractors. Over 250k small businesses around the country have joined Thumbtack, and we&#x2
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by martian 13y ago
San Francisco - Software Engineer Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, and contractors. Over 250k small businesses around the country have joined Thumbtack, and we're making re
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Designing with Forces (Ryan Singer)(vimeo.com)
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by martian 13y ago
Thumbtack - San Francisco Thumbtack is a new way to find and hire local services like DJs, photographers, house cleaners, French tutors, and contractors. Over 250k small businesses around the country have joined Thumbtack, and we're ma
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A Local Services Hub to Rival Angie's List?(businessweek.com)
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MapStack: Maps for All(content.stamen.com)
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Leveraging Big Data To Create More Secure Web Applications(codeascraft.com)
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by martian 13y ago
San Francisco - Software Engineer Thumbtack is a new way to hire local services. We connect over 250,000 small businesses -- from DJs to French tutors to wedding photographers and general contractors -- with new customers every day. Our vis

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