hpvic03
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Comment · 2 years ago
Data point of one (as is this essay), but Twitter hasn’t changed that much for me.
In some ways the timeline algo actually feels more addictive.
I do see posts that might have been flagged under the previous team, but if I don’t like them I can mute or unfollow - it’s not that big a deal.
A bigger issue in my opinion is the government demanding that social media companies censor things, and I think Elon has done a good job shining light on this.
Comment · 4 years ago
Agreed.
The way I see it though is it's a solution looking for a problem.
"Look, we can build a decentralized database."
"Wow, let's try and use this to replace EVERYTHING"... and yet so far it has replaced nothing.
The most basic and obvious use cases – a Venmo replacement, a credit card replacement, and sending money across borders – these are all still done the traditional way, and it doesn't seem like that's about to change.
I'm hoping to be proven wrong, especially for the credit cards use case. Would be nice if everything cost 3% less. But it doesn't appear to be on the horizon.
Comment · 4 years ago
Interesting.
There are those pre-installed samples there already, they couldn't just be swapped out with an imported file – there's something special about those files?
Anyway I think it's hugely underrated, hopefully you guys can do a v2 sometime. I'm blown away whenever I use it, it feels like a huge technical achievement.
Comment · 4 years ago
Hey! While you’re here, could you share why the Tempest doesn’t allow you to use your own samples?
Could you guys open source some parts of Tempest so people could keep working on it?
Asking as a Tempest owner and huge Sequential fan.
Comment · 4 years ago
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Engineering Managers | Full-time | Remote | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure. We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
Why you should consider joining:
- Challenging technical problems (1M+ units, real-time bidding, terabytes of analytics data)
- Exciting, growing company (rev. up 4X from last year)
- Strong engineering team (from Instacart, Digital Ocean, Carnegie Mellon PhD)
- Nice, collaborative culture
- Fully remote, and we know how to do it
- Effective project process
- Really great tech stack
Our tech stack:
- Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
- Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
Comment · 4 years ago
... and my crime is?
Mentioning the idea of wrongthink?
You're kind of proving my point.
Comment · 4 years ago
This essay is so prescient.
Does anyone else think wokeism has gone too far, and we're sliding into a 1984-style era full of newspeak, wrongthink, and thoughtcrimes?
I feel a little afraid to even write that, even as a question mark, even at that level of abstraction.
That right there is probably an indication that it perhaps has gone too far.
To be clear, this is coming from a person who is hispanic, supports gay-rights, and voted for Bernie. Not that any of that should matter.
Comment · 4 years ago
Why you should consider joining:
- Challenging technical problems (1M+ units, real-time bidding, terabytes of analytics data)
- Exciting, growing company (rev. up 4X from last year)
- Strong engineering team (from Instacart, Digital Ocean, Carnegie Mellon PhD)
- Nice, collaborative culture
- Fully remote, and we know how to do it
- Effective project process
- Really great tech stack
Our tech stack:
- Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
- Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
Comment · 4 years ago
Great. It wasn't when I submitted this.
Gotta love HN :)
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm aware, it's just an expression.
Didn't know about the email though, I'll send them one.
Comment · 4 years ago
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Engineering Managers | Full-time | Remote | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure. We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
Why you should consider joining:
- Challenging technical problems (1M+ units, real-time bidding, terabytes of analytics data)
- Exciting, growing company (rev. up 4X from last year)
- Strong engineering team (from Instacart, Digital Ocean, Carnegie Mellon PhD)
- Nice, collaborative culture
- Fully remote, and we know how to do it
- Effective project process
- Really great tech stack
Our tech stack:
- Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
- Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
Comment · 4 years ago
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Engineering Managers | Full-time | Remote (Anywhere +/- 5 hrs PST) | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure. We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
Why you should consider joining:
- Challenging technical problems (1M+ units, real-time bidding, terabytes of analytics data)
- Exciting, growing company (rev. up 4X from last year)
- Strong engineering team (from Instacart, Digital Ocean, Carnegie Mellon PhD)
- Nice, collaborative culture
- Fully remote, and we know how to do it
- Effective project process
- Really great tech stack
Our tech stack:
- Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
- Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
Comment · 4 years ago
Have any details? I have a close friend with treatment resistant depression.
Comment · 4 years ago
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Tech Leads, Engineering Managers | Full-time | Remote (Anywhere +/- 5 hrs PST) | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure.
We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
Alexis Ohanian (reddit co-founder) led our Series A via Initialized and is on our board.
Our tech stack:
Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
We don't do whiteboard interviews, practical challenges only.
Our culture is collaborative & friendly, everyone is learning from each other all the time.
Shoot me an email at vic [at] adquick [dot] com if this sounds interesting to you! Or apply at https://jobs.adquick.com
Formerly Tech Lead @ Instacart.