Volscio

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Head of Engineering, Cloudburst. Brooklyn, NYC. NYU-ITP, Georgetown-MSFS, DLI-West, Modern Standard Arabic. UT Austin-Classics. Formerly: Candy Digital, Flashpoint, Vimeo, The Barbarian Group, ChatID, The Colbert Report, social media ops analyst, DHS contractor, US Army Arabic linguist/crypto-analyst/paratrooper. https://benturner.com/

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Comment · 3 years ago
Cloudburst Technologies | NY, NY | Remote | Full-Time | https://burst.cloud/

Cloudburst is a seed-funded New York-based remote-first company helping customers with detection, prevention, and investigation into cryptocurrency market manipulation and fraud.

Senior+ Backend Software Engineer: https://www.indeed.com/job/senior-backend-software-engineer-...

Data Collection Engineer: https://www.indeed.com/job/data-collection-engineer-b930cd79...

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Comment · 7 years ago
Charity Majors talks about the Manager-IC pendulum. You should rotate between the two every couple of years.
Comment · 7 years ago
Sorry about that! We're just about to start our summer intern process in the next week or two. If it's helpful, you can reach out to me at ben(at)flashpoint-intel(dot)com.
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Comment · 7 years ago
Given so much discussion on this topic, the first thing I looked for was whether there was a reference to whether a company does timed code pair interviews and white boarding, or uses some other method (paid trial period, take home test, etc). Would that be worth adding?
Comment · 10 years ago
DC's metro system is in another league of dysfunction from the other systems which suffer from the typical, chronic burden of heavy use.

The article lumps it all together; "hey, we should do a transit article today".

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Comment · 11 years ago
I (along with many others, I would assume) would be interested in seeing data on what the usage trends are for different devops tools.
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Comment · 12 years ago
You're kidding right? Kids coming out of Courant are in decent demand, especially in NYC tech departments.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
DERELICTE! It is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique.

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