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Startup to Facebook: Want the security flaw we found? Come and get it yourself(venturebeat.com)
1 points by shiftb 13y ago|0 comments
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by shiftb 13y ago
I worked with Pivotal for a little bit and learned some keyboard shortcuts for splitting windows and moving tabs from one to the other. It's definitely possible.
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by shiftb 13y ago
My wife has been using this for about a month to help teach Greek and Latin roots to her 7th grade language arts students. It's a great tool for them to use since they already know how to google.
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by shiftb 13y ago
I've come across only a couple legitimately good recruiters in my career. I've realized that a good recruiter can be valuable to a company, but I'm not sure I'd work with one as a candidate.
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by shiftb 13y ago
Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) advocates 'Hammock Driven Development.' Let your background mind do the hard work for you. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
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by shiftb 13y ago
Check out rbenv https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv
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by shiftb 13y ago
Without the bluish light keeping me stimulated and awake I get tired more quickly. Once I'm tired enough, I just go to sleep.
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by shiftb 13y ago
That's a good question. I hope this example gives some clarity to what I meant: * Worthless Brainteaser: How many golfballs will fit in this Ford? * Real-world Problem: Let's do cohort analysis on our users and see how our busines
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by shiftb 13y ago
On the contrary, we're very particular about hiring. We would rather go without an engineer than hire someone that will break the average team quality down.
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by shiftb 13y ago
We've actually done this before. Our process has evolved over time. We used to bring candidates in for a day to work with us and have them work on production code. We would pay them for their time. Unfortunately, it wreaked havoc with
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by shiftb 13y ago
It is a lot less time than you calculated. We stop the process any time they don't pass and give them specific feedback on why. Usually, this is during the initial phone call/basic test. Most candidates do 30 minutes at most, whic
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by shiftb 13y ago
I understand why you got that impression. We've automated the technical skills part of it. Hiring at Instacart isn't a completely automated, no personal interaction, process. In between the candidate applying and the technical cha
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by shiftb 13y ago
The challenges are all real projects that we've already built (and thus have a baseline for). We don't agree with brainteaser interviews. Having someone build a made up project would be just as bad as a brainteaser. We wouldn&#x27
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by shiftb 13y ago
Ark is people search and works on a pull model right? I have to look up the person I want to know about. Refresh figures out who I'm meeting from my calendar events and then pushes the interesting information to me.
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by shiftb 13y ago
I love Refresh. It pings me about 5-10 minutes before I meet someone with a dossier on them. It includes highlights from social media, things we have in common, and our last interactions. Very helpful in catching back up where you left off.
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GeoFire: Location Queries for Fun and Profit(firebase.com)
35 points by shiftb 13y ago|7 comments
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by shiftb 13y ago
I'm excited to see a competitor to W3Schools if only to have a more useful, up-to-date index. That said, a large part of the problem newcomers have learning to program is not the available materials, but rather the reason . I've
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by shiftb 13y ago
I would love to see this tacked on to Github. Or alternatively use Github as the source repository.
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by shiftb 13y ago
At my first glance it seemed to be aiming closer to MatterMark (prepared research reports). After using the site briefly it seems more like CrunchBase.
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by shiftb 13y ago
The danger in building a product like this is that you can try to be everything to everyone and end up being nothing to anyone. They've combatted this by positioning it as a simple word processor. After playing with it, the product is
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by shiftb 13y ago
Yes, Instacart uses Searchkick.
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by shiftb 13y ago
Second this. I've been wanting to use RapGenius for our engineering blog.
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Instacart Raises $8.5 Million to Offer Same-Day Grocery Deliveries Nationwide(mashable.com)
2 points by shiftb 13y ago|0 comments
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by shiftb 13y ago
Did I understand this correctly? "The IRS last year used a profiling test model to study 1,500 tax preparers with histories of reporting deficiencies and managed to recover $200 million. It cited the experience as proof that its data a
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by shiftb 13y ago
I thought this was going to be something about how the http spec misspelled refer(r)er in the http headers.
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by shiftb 13y ago
I think the pink mustache thing is brilliant on a few fronts. 1. ID. It really helps identify the car when it's there to pick you up. 2. Marketing. I remember the first time I saw a pink mustache on a car I thought to myself, 'What is that
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by shiftb 13y ago
I don't see RubyMine on here so I voted for IntelliJ. SublimeText is my fallback and vi is fallback^2.
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by shiftb 13y ago
It depends on whether you're asking about sold options and actual cash or what unsold options are worth on paper. I imagine the two amounts are significantly different for many people.
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by shiftb 14y ago
Congrats to the Firebase guys. They've done an amazing job making a difficult to manage technology seem magically easy to use.
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by shiftb 14y ago
That's incredible!

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