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by thematt 8y ago
This is a complete house of cards, for multiple reasons. It's yet another boom that will result in a lot of hardship for people. First, all the fracking in Texas is fueled by cheap interest rates and private equity. The industry as a w
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by thematt 8y ago
Blue Origin | Senior Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-time | https://www.blueorigin.com Blue Origin is developing technologies to enable private human access to space at dramatically lower cost and increased reliability. T
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by thematt 8y ago
I'm pretty sure drivers don't get to see your tip until after they have rated you.
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by thematt 8y ago
The bond market certainly doesn't think they will do just fine. Their debt is commanding a hefty interest rate.
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by thematt 8y ago
Codeplex
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by thematt 8y ago
Profits drive competition and competition discourages stasis. So it is necessary? Probably not. But we probably get a better result with it being outside of academia.
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Blue Origin Livestream of New Shepard’s 8th Test Flight(youtube.com)
4 points by thematt 8y ago|0 comments
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by thematt 9y ago
Why do you say they don't work? The videos seem impressive.
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by thematt 9y ago
Their corporate debt also got downgraded to B3 by Moody's today.
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by thematt 9y ago
Completion of DUC wells doesn't have much if anything to do with predicting or waiting for a particular price, as most E&P companies are all hedged on a yearly basis. It's more about the manpower/equipment needed to frack
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by thematt 9y ago
I can't speak for other companies but at Blue we are regulated by ITAR, which means candidates must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (current Green Card holder).
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by thematt 9y ago
Absolutely, we pay for travel expenses to come interview with us.
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by thematt 9y ago
We don't have remote software engineers currently (maybe in the future).
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by thematt 9y ago
The web development that happens is typically for: * Systems that analyze flight or test data * Systems that enable manufacturing, supply chain, or other supporting business activities * Systems that are considered to be "customer expe
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by thematt 9y ago
You can come work for us at Blue Origin! My team members do a lot of web development and we're recruiting heavily right now. We hire everyone as Software Engineers, but there are a variety of specializations people come in with and foc
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by thematt 9y ago
It's far from unstoppable. They might have market share in the US because of their first mover advantage, but they ceded to Didi in China and to Yandex in Russia.
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by thematt 10y ago
Blue Origin | Seattle, WA | www.blueorigin.com Software Engineers, Software Engineering Managers and Technical Product Managers Blue Origin is developing technologies to enable private human access to space at dramatically lower cost and in
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by thematt 10y ago
Bill Gates doesn't give a single thought to accounting overhead or tracking things for income tax purposes. He has a team of people whose job it is to do that.
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by thematt 10y ago
I'm sure having a McDonald's Gold Card helps: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/nov/...
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by thematt 10y ago
I'm not sure how splitting up the NSA fixes anything. Wouldn't the new offensive organization still be compelled to seek out zero-day exploits as well for their mission? What happens when they find one that the defensive organizat
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What Seattle Should Learn from Silicon Valley(bizjournals.com)
1 points by thematt 10y ago|0 comments
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by thematt 10y ago
It is rapidly getting worse. It doesn't help that many cities are shipping their homeless people to Seattle. Literally buying them bus tickets. http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/portland-begins-sending-home...
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by thematt 10y ago
EC2 was only in limited beta back in 2006. It wasn't in full production until 2008.
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by thematt 11y ago
This isn't a "who is hiring?" thread obviously, but if anyone wants to be a part of our team we are always looking for folks who share our passion for space, especially those who happen to build software too! https:/&#x
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by thematt 11y ago
I love wpull! I'm actually considering using it for a large upcoming project but unfortunately there are some pretty significant bugs in their backlog. wget seems to be a bit more battle hardened.
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by thematt 11y ago
Maybe in certain countries, but the big picture is that worldwide barrels/per/day consumption is continuing to increase: 2014: 92,086,000 2013: 91,243,000 2012: 89,846,000 2011: 88,974,000 2010: 87,864,000 Almost all that increase
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by thematt 11y ago
Why do you hate VM's so much? Usability? Or is there some technical reason?
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by thematt 11y ago
We are hiring C++ folks, but applicants for any position (not just software) must be a US Citizen or permanent resident alien.
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by thematt 11y ago
I lead the software team at Blue Origin, come check us out. We're right outside Seattle. https://www.blueorigin.com
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Washington State House OKs bill banning ticket bots(komonews.com)
2 points by thematt 12y ago|0 comments

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