besquared
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Comment · 8 years ago
Ben Thompson explains the strategic bet they're making. Mostly from the words of the organizations themselves. https://stratechery.com/2018/the-experience-economy/
Comment · 9 years ago
They added contravariant functions in 2.6 using the compiler flag --strictFunctionTypes as described in this PR https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/18654
Comment · 10 years ago
Mode Analytics — San Francisco, CA | Full-time | On-Site
Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer
Mode is an analytics platform. We build an integrated toolchain that combines SQL, python notebooks, visualizations, and interactive reporting together so that companies can answer their most challenging analytics questions quickly and easily. We're a team of analytically minded people dedicated to serving data analysts, scientists, and engineers in companies and communities of any size. We're looking for folks who are driven to make change and who believe that a world where analysts are more impactful is a world they'd rather live in.
Tech-wise we primarily use Rails and Go on the backend and Javascript/Typescript on the web side. Some of our engineers work in adjacent parts of the stack and some prefer to focus in on deep expertise in one part, it's really up to you and where you want to focus and grow.
On top of contributing to a product that our customers love you'll be contributing to a culture that you love. There's a lot more to a fulfilling life and successful career than just "crushing code". Come work at a company that thinks more intentionally about work-life balance, diversity, inclusivity, and productivity.
Comment · 11 years ago
Mode Analytics — San Francisco, CA | Full-time | On-Site
Data Engineer, Backend Engineer, UI/Frontend Engineer
Mode Analytics builds integrated productivity tools for analytics teams. Our product combines SQL, analysis, visualization, and document management into a single web and mobile platform for both businesses and the open analytics community.
We're about 24 folks today and we're looking for sr. engineers who want to make analytics teams more impactful. We primarily use Java, Go, Ruby/Rails, and Javascript. Some of our engineers work in adjacent parts of the stack and some prefer to focus in on deep expertise in one part, it's really up to you and where you want to focus and grow.
On top of contributing to a product that our customers love you'll be contributing to a culture that you love. There's a lot more to a fulfilling life and successful career than just "crushing code". Come work at a company that thinks more intentionally about work-life balance, inclusivity, and productivity.
Comment · 11 years ago
This is more likely to be the case from the transition from independent power generators to the electrical grid.
Comment · 11 years ago
Co-founder and CTO of Mode here. I'm not too concerned that visual exploration is going to replace SQL for ad-hoc data analysis or data modeling for business intelligence. I think proprietary viz platforms are strictly inferior to open sourced ecosystems like Vega in any case. Open ecosystems win over closed ecosystems in the long-run.
We're more interested in integrating the tools and ecosystems people are already using in novel ways than we are in being yet another dashboard or visualization tool. Dashboards and visualizations are incredibly valuable but they're just one of the many ways that analytics teams deliver value to the organization. There are a lot of "jobs to be done" for an analytics team and the list isn't getting any shorter.
Comment · 12 years ago
Similar to https://www.eazeup.com/
Comment · 12 years ago
A go implementation https://github.com/codahale/sskg
Comment · 13 years ago
The airport exists at and is allowed operated at the will of the government and citizens of France of which the cab drivers are merely a small part. No single union could ever claim the exclusive rights to transportation to and from the airport it as their worksite. That's an absurd analogy.
Comment · 13 years ago
Here it is with visual studio and intellij terms overlayed.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=cloud%20ide%...
Comment · 13 years ago
That reply might be off topic for the article. I just think the headline isn't topical in any way. It saddens me.
Comment · 13 years ago
A ratio without a denominator is useless.
Comment · 13 years ago
Specialized hardware was always kind of a stopgap. Even now you can see networking companies facing the double threat of virtualized networking in software. Software is eating the world as Andreessen famously stated.
As to the life span of tech companies I think it will only get shorter. One thing I find interesting is that it's difficult for humans (including myself) to really internalize the overall effects of compounding interest. I read a comment the other day in which the author was joking about how they can't wait until 2023 when they get to look back and feel how they do now looking back at 2003. It doesn't always seem that the speed at which things are happening is increasing dramatically even if that's the case. The progress between 2003 until now will be completely overwhelmed just a few years from today.