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Comment · 7 years ago
That’s not true. There are several roads that wind through GGP for driving and parking. Crossover Drive cuts through approximately the middle.
Comment · 8 years ago
PayGarden | Full-stack | SF | Full Time | ONSITE (preferred, sponsor visa) + REMOTE (some positions)
What: With PayGarden merchants can accept major brand gift cards as payment - imagine Stripe, but instead of credit cards, your customers can pay with Starbucks, Walmart, Amazon (& 100 more) gift cards.
See our partnership with Watsi [0] turning major brand cards into life-changing healthcare for people, or Private Internet Access [1] making VPN payment anonymous.
How: Our systems handle millions of dollars, built primarily with Clojure/Script & a dash of Rust.
Us: If you've ever done any work with Clojure, you've likely seen someone from our tiny, incredibly high-leverage team of Xooglers & YC alumni. We've:
- contributed to the cljs compiler [2],
- built cool open-source Clojure/Scripts apps [3],
- given [4] dozens [5] of talks [6] on [7] fun and cutting [8] edge development
- run the #sfcljs & ReasonDojo meetups
You: Love working with others, taking ownership over business concerns while jumping into other parts of the stack to help out. An internal drive to continuously improve, while remaining humble.
[email protected] with "HN" in the subject, & link us to your favorite project!
[0] https://www.paygarden.com/watsi/donate-your-gift-card
[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
[2] https://youtu.be/mty0RwkPmE8?t=23m30s
[3] https://precursorapp.com/blog/clojure-is-a-product-design-to...
[4] https://youtu.be/t6CRZ-iG39g - OneGraph
[5] https://youtu.be/i9eu9e7gN0Q - Unikernels in the real world
[6] https://youtu.be/QWfHrbSqnB0 - Truly full-stack apps in OCaml
[7] https://youtu.be/Yp7MmskzF9Y - Generating & Running 1,000,000 Selenium tests in 60 minutes
[8] https://youtu.be/wjHTsaqwMIE - Polymorphic Codebases
Comment · 11 years ago
What are a couple specific examples of how this has been useful at Yelp and Netflix?
What did you solve with MOE that would have been difficult to optimize by hand?
Comment · 12 years ago
I was curious about the timeline of chat applications and googled it. EMISARI pre-dated Talkomatic by a couple years: http://www.livinginternet.com/r/ri_emisari.htm
Comment · 12 years ago
According to Wikipedia, Andrew Ng was born in the UK, and his parents were both Singaporeans.
Comment · 12 years ago
The article mentions "Keyspring" as the YC alumnus donor. I'm guessing they mean the great guys at Teespring instead.
Comment · 13 years ago
Dwolla did not perform a "background check" in the sense that you may think. When dealing with online fraud, it's common to use identify verification services like IDology (and a few others) that basically provide an API to generate these types of questions based on public records matching your name/address. Many banks use the same verification services.
Comment · 13 years ago
Thanks for the feedback, you're right that we can simplify the initial pages. We've been focusing on clear explanations of the coverage on insurance plans and taking the headache out of all the forms later in the process, so we'll definitely keep your suggestions in mind as we refine the top of the funnel.
Comment · 13 years ago
Having historical pricing data seems particularly interesting. I've thought about building a fashion site that predicts pricing trends so you can predict when to buy items on sale, and it seems like this could serve as the pricing infrastructure.
I wonder how I can tell what product sources are available, and whether new ones appear? I.e. is this only going to cover amazon.com, or does it know about nordstrom.com too?
Founder at http://www.paygarden.com