geddes
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Comment · 20 days ago
This is hitting us hard in tech, and it weights heavily on me, how will the junior people learn if the tasks we all did to learn when we were junior are now automated away. Here is a very real writeup from an Affirm New Grad about what it was like to be a new grad over the last year - https://medium.com/affirmengineering/ai-reflections-of-a-new... (I run eng at affirm) - it takes a lot more intentionality to learn. Both by doing some things by hand, but being very vocal about what you don't know- "Allow your uncertainties to be visible, and slow down to address them."
Comment · 11 years ago
This is also a cultural barrier, when I lived in germany very few people had electric clothes dryers - most people had electric washers and racks for air drying. For a german it's reasonable to assume dryer meant hair dryer.
Ultimately, because AirBNB and VRBO are p2p you are accepting a certain level of risk in exchange for a rate much cheaper than a name brand hotel. The name brand hotel buys you a level of certainty in the experience you will have.
My example airbnb in Prague - a room advertised as a king size bed, but when we got there it was two twin mattresses pushed together, with a king size sheet laid over both of them.
In my experience hosts have been honest when you ask them direct questions when researching their listing. It just takes time to do this for every listing you are interested in, and there will always be things you don't think of. "Is your bed a single mattress or two mattresses pushed together?" wasn't on my list!
Comment · 11 years ago
MemSQL - San Francisco, CA and New York, NY
We're hiring Forward Deployed Engineers. This is a great role for folks who love to be customer facing but also like to code. Our FDEs spend about 50% of their time writing code. Travel can be up to ~25%. Our customers are folks on the tip of the big-data sphere, and you would help them use MemSQL to solve extremely challenging data in problems.
If you are an amazing communicator and storyteller, and also have serious dev chops (bonus for experience with distributed systems, hadoop excosystem, spark etc), I'd love to talk to you: geddes at memsql dot com.
Comment · 11 years ago
Shout out for Haverford folks in tech. Are you in the bay area? Not a ton of us out here. We did meet up last week though: https://www.facebook.com/events/743588762415575/ add yourself to the group.
Comment · 12 years ago
Mixpanel - Remote in Europe. Dublin, London, Amsterdam preferred.
We're looking for our first support hire in Europe to provide coverage in the EMEA time zones. If you love being in technical, customer-facing roles, want to be part of a rapidly growing startup and have work authorization in the EU please e-mail me: [email protected].
Comment · 12 years ago
ditto!
Comment · 12 years ago
Is Catan really Silicon Valley's golf, like the article claims? I'd love to think so but I haven't seen any deals cemented over a game of Catan. Anyone have any stories?
Comment · 12 years ago
San Francisco - Mixpanel
We're hiring for a variety of customer facing roles here at Mixpanel. We have some of the greatest customers on the planet, and when they reach out to us they deserve to be supported by a smart, energetic and technical team.
This includes Account Managers, Support Engineers and Solutions Architects. The details are at http://mixpanel.com/jobs. I am the hiring manager, so feel free to ping me directly at [email protected] with questions or to apply. I actually read cover letters!
Comment · 13 years ago
One of the first items:
- Never send chain letters via electronic mail. Chain letters
are forbidden on the Internet. Your network privileges
will be revoked. Notify your local system administrator
if your ever receive one.Comment · 14 years ago
There was a big with Firefox on Mountain Lion that did not have flash installed. We've fixed it, so you should feel free to view the videos now. Thanks!
Comment · 14 years ago
So sorry about that. We've corrected the issue and you should feel free to view the videos!
Comment · 15 years ago
New York, NY: The Council on Foreign Relations is hiring a Web Operations Manager.
CFR publishes ForeignAffairs.com and CFR.org. We're looking for a broadly skilled web generalist with a background either in web development or server administration. In this role you'll have your finger in both pies :-). CFR is a great place for the intellectual hacker. If you are interested in foreign policy, current events and/or politics, you'll enjoy the opportunity to work alongside the thought leaders that work here.
Full job description: http://www.cfr.org/about/career_opportunities/openings.html#... If interested send me a note. gmunson (at) cfr (dot) org. No recruiters please.
Comment · 15 years ago
This is really great! On the Analytics end I'd add the following services:
Omniture (Adobe) Site Catalyst. This can usually be detected by looking for a request to the the *.2O7.net domain (though not always, some Site Catalyst users CNAME their own tracking domain to 207.net, in that case it's harder to detect)
ChartBeat (static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat.js)
Some others: WebTrends, CoreMetrics, Hitbox, Performable