trekking101

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by trekking101 5y ago
Koffie Labs | Software Engineer | REMOTE (US/Can) |getkoffie.com Trucking insurance for the 21st century! This is a relatively antiquated industry with a ton of manual and heuristically-driven processes. Underwriting (assessing risk) i
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by trekking101 6y ago
Koffie Labs | Software Engineer | Remote (US or Can) | Full Time We're an InsurTech focused on trucking insurance. This line of business (like most of insurance in general!) is anachronistic in every way. We bring an experienced team a
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by trekking101 6y ago
Koffie Labs | Data Engineer | NYC (remote in USA/Canada) | Full Time This is a unique role that offers broad exposure to software engineering and data science. We are eager to find underrepresented candidates who are early in their car
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by trekking101 7y ago
Koffie Labs | Lead Software Engineer | Brooklyn, NY (Borough Hal) | Full-time, Onsite | $130k-$150k +equity | https://getkoffie.com Koffie is an insurance company purpose built for the autonomous vehicle era. We are taking tran
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Ask HN: Best tool for managing fundraising?
1 points by trekking101 8y ago|0 comments
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by trekking101 9y ago
One person's metadata is another's data! You (may be unintentionally) characterise it as a market where you check boxes on "datasets" to buy, but it's far from that. Monetizing by licensing/selling some kind of
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by trekking101 9y ago
GBNST (guilt by non-scientific thinking): Radio waves = sound = speed of sound, therefore wtf sound = light, but now I 'see the light.' After having a second cup of coffee I did a doh! and realized conflating 'radio' wit
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by trekking101 9y ago
Somebody please explain this line from the post: Radio waves travel at the speed of light 299 792 458 m/s.
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by trekking101 10y ago
One person's metadata is another's data
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by trekking101 10y ago
What inspired you to start this project? There are numerous open source geocoders and the core problem isn't the software anyway, it's data. I'm often perplexed by people spending time building new things thinking they'v
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by trekking101 10y ago
But why? Forget about the tech. What does this accomplish? What3words is nonsensical for the same reasons- Amazon Prime is not coming to Mongolia anytime soon and it has a lot more to do with little disposable income/economics than log
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Ask HN: Best apps, hardware, services for seniors?
3 points by trekking101 10y ago|1 comments
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by trekking101 10y ago
Fascinating. On my wish list is which SDKs use location in some way. A real pain on iOS to understand permissions (super easy in Android)
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by trekking101 10y ago
My point is I would expect to find a heck of a lot more "journalists" working for a traditional media outlet than in the tech press
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by trekking101 10y ago
Anybody care to run the numbers on j-school grads at 'traditional' publishers v techcrunch et al? I stopped reading techcrunch years ago when it became clear they largely copied & pasted PR. Rarely do they ask competitors&#x2F
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by trekking101 10y ago
You know this is from a hum-drum conference producer, right? The last thing they care about is saving the planet. Unless that gets more people to attend their conferences. Which by the way are terrible.
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by trekking101 11y ago
Thasos Group / Senior Quantitative Researcher / NYC Based / Full Time ONSITE WHAT: Want to help redefine macro-economic forecasting for the 21st century? It ends up location data is a pretty good indicator of economic activit
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by trekking101 11y ago
Thasos Group / Senior Quantitative Researcher / NYC Based / Full Time ONSITE What: Want to help redefine macro-economic forecasting for the 21st century? It ends up location data is a pretty good indicator of economic activi
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by trekking101 11y ago
I was in the audience and he gave a pretty clear hint that commerce (a la tencent) would be the path forward for monetization
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by trekking101 11y ago
Thasos Group / Senior Quantitative Researcher / NYC Based / Full Time ONSITE What: Want to help redefine macro-economic forecasting for the 21st century? It ends up location data is a pretty good indicator of economic activi
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Startup days are over, how to transition to the corp womb?
2 points by trekking101 11y ago|0 comments
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Career coach recs?
1 points by trekking101 11y ago|0 comments
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by trekking101 11y ago
Really? Nobody wants to comment on this thread?
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by trekking101 11y ago
Ha! There are no general purpose tools--lots are a) overkill or b) not robust enough given your task but two general ones that have served me well (and of course lot of Python scripting for my domain-specific issues): Refine (formally from
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Decision Node: NewCo or BigCo??
1 points by trekking101 11y ago|1 comments
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Web-based timeline software you like?
9 points by trekking101 12y ago|1 comments