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Comment · 4 years ago
Stemma | Full-stack and Front-end engineers | Fully distributed (US and EU time zones) | Full-time | https://stemma.ai

Stemma is used by companies like Flexport, iRobot, Tempo, and many others, including public financial services organizations to help with discovering, understanding and trusting their data.

Data storage has been decentralized by cloud data warehouses like Snowflake or Redshift. Consumption by Looker or Tableau. Transformation by dbt and Airflow.

Organizations finally have the technical primitives they need to decentralize data consumption and transformation. But they run into a new brick wall: decentralizing understanding of what the data represents and how it actually maps to the real world.

Stemma helps solve that problem. We have strong initial traction but are still early stage: we're looking for curious engineers who are excited to rapidly iterate on new ideas with customers and build a product from the ground up. Every member of the Stemma team has the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the direction of the product, business and the engineering culture.

We're funded by Sequoia. We're currently 12 people but are growing quickly.

I read every application sent to https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stemma

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Comment · 13 years ago
Home prices are rising rapidly, but rent--even in central areas--is still quite reasonable for tenants.
Comment · 13 years ago
Sure, why not.

Dry cast iron skillet, put in oven, heat to 500*F. Prep steak with olive oil and salt and pepper.

Take skillet out of oven, put on stove at high. Cook 30 seconds on each side. (total cook time on range: 1 minute)

Back in oven, 2 minutes each side. (total cook time in oven : 4 minutes)

Let rest 3 minutes.

Comment · 13 years ago
What kind of FPGA package were you previously using?

Many FPGA CPU simulators attempt to be cycle-accurate for the purpose of architecture development, where the emulator has the leeway of treating instructions as atomic units and abstracting the rest.

Comment · 13 years ago
Even more interesting ethically considering a large portion of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google.
Comment · 13 years ago
I was thinking the opposite. I'm glad he's charging for upgrades, and charging a decent price for something some developers use all day everyday. I hope this will enable him to continue developing ST.

I'm growing fairly dependent on plugins, though -- I hope the new API isn't too hard for plugin devs to upgrade. Although with most plugins hosted on Github these days, compat is just a pull request away.

Comment · 14 years ago
In the example URL you gave, the content of the URL (base64): ({:project-id "505a125e44ae42e05a750c97", :object-instance "2", :object-type "0", :device-id "1234"} {:project-id "505a125e44ae42e05a750c97", :object-instance "1", :object-type "0", :device-id "1234"} {:project-id "505a125e44ae42e05a750c97", :object-instance "0", :object-type "0", :device-id "1234"})

seems like it would be better stored on the server in redis or something (or, at least if leaving it in the URL, a more compact deduplicated format might be worthwhile)

Comment · 14 years ago
The unlabeled referral link here at the end praising his host bothers me a bit -- shouting praises for a good service is fine, but at least note that you are getting a kick back.

> Because I know I will get an angry email or two, just let me say this. I know that Cloudflare touts other features such as security, load balancing, and keeping your site up if your server is offline. I did not test or take any of these features into account. Their biggest sector is to people that want to speed their website up, so I took them to the task on just that claim.

If this is true and people really think that CDN = faster site, then it's a misunderstanding, perhaps perpetuated by malicious marketing by the CDNs themselves.

But putting a proxy in front of an unloaded site (hosted on a relatively fast server) is of course unnecessary.

Re-run the test using `ab2' instead of simple 3-hit tests, and that's when the CDN becomes more useful. Or perhaps host the site on an oversold bargain shared server and see how it fares.

Comment · 14 years ago
I don't have serious problem with this... but ballot stuffing and fake account registration seems the domain of SEO/blackhats or Anon. This isn't a 'cute hack' worthy of praise -- it's just abuse of MIT and Dropbox systems for no great reason other than perhaps pride.
Comment · 14 years ago
PowerPC has a weakly ordered memory model, so older Mac programmers are no strangers to this sort of stuff.

There have been many multi-core ARM devices out in both the Android and iOS world for a few years, and I haven't heard too many complaints. I think most good high-level programmers know that they need to use high-level locks provided by the SDK, while anyone writing code that actually needs to deal with memory ordering probably already knows to use barriers some of the pitfalls of different ISAs.

Comment · 14 years ago
This is needlessly complex. I really don't see pixel ratios of anything more than 2x being useful. Having two versions of assets is painful enough.

The apple convention, of having images with "@2x" appended, works quite well. The server could look for a http header indicating DPI and serve accordingly. This gives the developer to provide either one single HiDPI that's served to all clients, or separate files for HiDPI and normal resolution.

Comment · 14 years ago
Yes. It's already somewhat common elsewhere in the world, by simply printing new barcodes for other sku's, sticking it on an expensive product, then hoping the cashier won't notice (they often don't in a store with a lot of different products, like Wal-Mart).

The charges are different, though, since it's fraud and not outright shoplifting.

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