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Two things about your observation: First, I don't actually own any books with large illustrations or photographs, and second, I would argue that my iPad Pro is actually a better device for viewing documents with large illustrations or
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Wonderful. I will go find it tomorrow.
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The most productive engineering I ever do is while I'm washing the dishes.
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Certainly, and we don't encourage isolation from our engineers. They are free to work further on problems, and often do --- but when the expectation is to work your fill, rather than to work the problem to death, we find our employees
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A lot of yelling. We find people respond well when you yell at them to stop working and take time off.
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Apsis Labs, http://apsis.io
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The internet. We're at http://apsis.io
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No. I'm dumb.
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The Books I Kept(apsis.io)
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We encourage developers to work 20 hours a week. Our experience is any engineer worth their salt is as productive in 20 hours as they were in 40 --- if anything, they're more productive. We also have an unlimited vacation policy, but w
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The app itself looks really nice, but I'm unconvinced this will be useful in practice. The number of times our company has sent a contract and had it accepted without revisions is literally 0, and I see no way to customize the terms of
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There's a single feature that made me an Atom user over Sublime — and that's support for excluding files and folders in gitignore from the quick open.
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Our approach to engineering is pretty utilitarian: we don't specialize in any specific technologies (though we do build a lot of Rails applications), instead we believe a good engineer will be capable of working on any stack. We look f
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San Francisco Bay Area | Full-time | On-site/Remote | Natera, Inc Natera is building an in-house Ruby on Rails team to work on customer-facing enterprise applications. Bay Area preferred, but not required. Opportunities to work with lo
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Seattle, WA - REMOTE: Apsis Labs is looking to add our 4th engineer. We are a small design & development shop located in Seattle, WA, but work as a distributed team. We have a stable client base, offer retirement and health benefits, co
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I used to work at Genius.com when it was a marketing automation company. Super weird to see it now.
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We're hoping someday it won't; with the rapid pace of automation, we're going to need to rethink what constitutes a productive adult life. We're quickly moving past the point at which society needs a 40-hour work week, a
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Seattle, WA - REMOTE: Apsis Labs is looking to add another engineer. We are a small independent development firm located in Seattle, WA, but work as a distributed team. We have a stable client base, offer retirement and health benefits, com