gentschev
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Comment · 7 months ago
Out of curiosity, what did you segue into from the second youth, or are you still in it? Those phases seem fun but potentially hard to get out of, either because you don't want to or because you've lost the legibility that employers and potentially love interests want.
Comment · 2 years ago
There's also the related failure mode of deciding you're going to fix all your other system problems as part of the migration, bloating the scope and creating too much complexity. Just do the necessary stuff, migrate, and then go back and fix the nice to haves.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not a lawyer, but if you've been using it commercially, I believe you have the trademark. Theoretically, you could sue them for infringement, although I don't know whether you could claim damages or just get them to stop using it.
Comment · 4 years ago
Flow state
Comment · 5 years ago
Ride sharing as a whole isn't going away. It's better than calling a cab or whatever used to be. But I could see Uber and Lyft each ending up as $5-10 B software layers on top of driving, not $50-100 B ones.
Comment · 13 years ago
I don't think you need to be social at all, but it is helpful to have meaningful work samples for potential employers to evaluate. Github's just the easiest place to put those. It's similar to a design portfolio for a designer or writing sample for a writer. Otherwise, people end up making decisions based on their interview impressions, which can be very inaccurate.
Comment · 13 years ago
Tribune Media Services - San Francisco, Chicago, upstate New York, REMOTE (for exceptional candidates)
We're looking for engineers who like problem-solving and learning new technology, not just programmers.
Join us to work on the data that powers most of the TV and entertainment apps out there. Work with a small, non-hierarchical team inside a stable, profitable company on products that are growing fast. We focus but keep sane hours and maintain work/life balance. We offer a competitive salary and the opportunity to manage your career towards technical team management or domain/technical expertise. Tools we use include Ruby, Node, MySQL, Thrift, and AWS.
Open positions include Software Engineer, Database Architect, and DevOps Manager. See the full listings here: http://www.tribunemediaservices.com/about-tms/careers/curren...
If you're interested, email ggentschev tribune com.
Comment · 13 years ago
Tribune Media Services - San Francisco, Chicago, upstate New York, REMOTE (for exceptional candidates)
We're looking for engineers, not programmers.
Join us to work on challenging problems in entertainment data processing with a small, non-hierarchical team inside a stable, profitable company that's a leader in our space. We work hard while we're at work but don't maintain startup hours, so you can have work/life balance (or use that time for a side project). We offer competitive salary, full benefits, and the opportunity to manage your career towards technical team management or domain/technical expertise.
We're looking for engineers with good problem-solving skills proficient in any language but willing to work primarily in Ruby for this position. We're also looking for a Database Architect and DevOps Manager. See the full listings here:
http://tribunemediaservices.com/about-tms/careers/current-op...
If you're interested, email ggentschev tribune com.
Comment · 13 years ago
Tribune Media Services - Software engineers
San Francisco, Chicago, Amsterdam - Full time, on-site or remote
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We're looking for full-stack engineers to work on the leading TV, movie, and celebrity entertainment data set in the industry. We're a small team that feels like a startup, but with the resources and work-life balance of a big company.
Find out more here: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/34005/full-stack-softw...
Feel free to get in touch with questions or feedback.
Greg - ggentschev at tribune
Comment · 14 years ago
Because it's not their government, and it opens a very large door to foreign governments trying to influence elections. Really, this is a question?
Comment · 14 years ago
The scarce resource in being a successful politican isn't really money, and it certainly isn't being smart, progressive, or informed. It's the ability to persuade people. Regardless, I think the idea that anyone could be president is kind of sweet but not very relevant. Most people can't or don't want to be elected to president of their high school class, let alone anything bigger. Democracy simply means that you get to vote, not that anyone could be president.
Comment · 14 years ago
Oh boy, so now it's a spelling comment. Even better.
Comment · 15 years ago
Good talk, but lots of big generalities. You have to pick and choose what to really take to heart, IMO. Good counterpoint that you may have already seen: http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-give-bullshit-advice
Comment · 15 years ago
Agreed. If anything, you won't have to worry about those death-bed regrets for long.
Also, this type of thing always seems skewed to people who worked a lot. What do the under-achievers regret?