KevinBongart

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Comment · 1 month ago
Mainmatter (https://mainmatter.com/rust-consulting/) | REMOTE (EU) | Lead Rust Engineering Consultant | Full-time | 100–140k€

Mainmatter (https://mainmatter.com), the company behind EuroRust (https://eurorust.eu), is looking for an exceptional Rust engineering consultant to lead our team. You'll be supporting international clients like Google, BMW, and Redis in adopting Rust: reviewing their codebase, recommending and implementing improvements, driving codebase migrations to Rust, and training their team on advanced Rust concepts.

- Must be located in the EU - Excellent Rust skills, including several years of using Rust in a production environment - Excellent engineering skills, ideally 10+ years of professional experience - Excellent English communication skills

The ideal candidate has spoken at conferences, ran workshops, written articles etc.

See the full job description and contact information here: https://mainmatter.notion.site/Lead-Rust-Engineering-Consult...

Comment · 4 months ago
Mainmatter (https://mainmatter.com/rust-consulting/) | REMOTE (EU) | Rust Engineering Consultant | Full-time | 80-100k€

Mainmatter (https://mainmatter.com), the company behind EuroRust (https://eurorust.eu) is looking for an exceptional Rust engineering consultant to join our team (led by Luca Palmieri, author of Zero to Production in Rust). You'll be supporting international clients like Google, BMW and Redis in adopting Rust: reviewing their codebase, recommending and implementing improvements, and training their team on advanced Rust concepts.

- Must be located in the EU - Excellent Rust skills, ideally several years of using Rust in a production environment - Excellent engineering skills, ideally 10+ years of professional experience - Excellent English communication skills

The ideal candidate has spoken at conferences, ran workshops, written articles etc.

See the full job description and contact information here: https://mainmatter.notion.site/Rust-Engineering-Consultant-2...

Comment · 4 months ago
Mainmatter head of engineering here. From what we've seen on real projects, I can confirm that asking an AI to migrate the code results at best in somewhat functional but unmaintainable code, and starting from scratch is a better approach… However, starting from scratch doesn't work if the legacy codebase is actively being worked on (eg bux fixes and new features and refactorings) or lacks test coverage and documentation.

Starting from scratch also implies one major release where suddenly it's all Rust (so very risky). In contrast, we found that it's a much smoother transition for end-users and maintainers when we approach large codebases progressively, module by module, while the C engineers continue working on the C code and learn Rust in parallel.

Of course, each migration is different but I wanted to clarify with our field experience.

Comment · 6 years ago
This week, my wife and I made an online version of Cards Against Humanity: https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.online

Try it with 4+ players while on a video chat. We just play-tested it with 7 friends for 3 hours and had a lot of fun.

Comment · 9 years ago
Their marketing got my attention, and their rates were so much better than the competition that it outweighed the terrible brand image.

They could have gone straight to the point: "Better international transfer rates than your bank" and I'd have been very happy with it. The service is good!

Comment · 9 years ago
Their marketing material in NYC was incredibly douchey, like "stick it to the big banks".

I was using Xoom (https://www.xoom.com) at the time, which had a brand image of a trustworthy and cut-the-bullshit kind of financial company.

TransferWise's subway ads focused on a people's revolution: http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Rjm3dY.BU5FmdQmId3yj1w--/Y... or http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03525/TransferWi... are two examples.

Another thing that threw me off is how needlessly technologically-heavy their website was at the time: Javascript front-end app with big animations and the unavoidable browser-incompatibility bugs it created back then (you refresh the page and it redirects to the root page for instance).

Anyway, I tried it once and had slightly better rates than Xoom, enough to convince me to go through their bullshit to save some money on large transfers, but I almost kept using Xoom because of how much I didn't like Transferwise's image.

All that to say: I'm not surprised by your interview experience, it perfectly matches what I assumed from their team.

Comment · 10 years ago
Good point!
Comment · 10 years ago
On a parking lot, not 100% is used by cars. Lots of space for driving/walking through and around.

The example above show the paring lot partially full with a lot of space for solar panel roads: https://goo.gl/maps/ZR5kNMZYGbE2

Also, in France, we're limited in farming space. Sure, it's going to go away eventually, while we outsource farming elsewhere, but replacing fields with solar panels is not as obvious of a tradeoff as it could be elsewhere in the world.

Comment · 10 years ago
This website could use some more demos!
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
This is really strange… would you mind letting me know ([email protected]) if that's a commercial firewall, or if a specific message shows up? First time I hear about this issue, I wouldn't want it to affect other people. Thanks!
Comment · 11 years ago

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