mtsmith85
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Comment · 6 years ago
I would apply to something like Toptal. When we were first built our team for my startup, we used Toptal contractors for quite a while. They were solid, and to my understanding, made good money. Toptal takes a significant cut of course. The bar is you have to pass a qualification test, which given your 3.5 years of experience, should be enough to get up and running.
Comment · 7 years ago
Flat World Technology | New York City | Lead Backend Engineer & Lead Front End Engineer
Flat World Technology is building an intuitive data analytics platform that helps our clients understand their investments’ impact on the world. The perfect candidate is a collaborative, tenacious engineer who is interested in solving challenging data problems and having a meaningful impact on the product and the clients who use it. You’ll be joining a team of innovators in the FinTech space who are passionate about ensuring a better future for our planet’s marginalized people and ecosystems.
Lead Front End Engineer: https://angel.co/flat-world-partners/jobs/479900-lead-fronte...
Lead Backend Engineer: https://angel.co/flat-world-partners/jobs/479952-lead-backen...
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm curious if anyone knows if there is a significant difference between #36 "Be (religiously) silent" and #115 "Exercise (religious) silence."
Comment · 8 years ago
AFAIK, the only volunteering they offer is in person -- in classrooms, at hackathons, on field trips, hosting interns, etc.
Comment · 8 years ago
I've worked with ScriptEd for a number of years; volunteering, fundraising, judging hackathons, hosting interns, etc. I've seen first hand how their organization can have a great impact on the students (and the volunteers!) If you can't devote the time to teaching each week, think about hosting a field trip, volunteering at a hackathon or maybe hosting interns in the summer!
Comment · 9 years ago
Yes, there are a lot of things that I think good, solid recruiters bring to the table.
Here's why: I have a great relationship with a couple recruiters that have a) introduced me to opportunities, and b) helped me fill roles as I was hiring. In my past four roles I've worked with a small number of recruiters to place engineers with my team — they know I'm respectful of their time, clear about my expectations, etc. and therefore they work hard to deliver good candidates, filter out the resume "chaff", and communicate realistically about what candidates they see being available. And when it was time for me to move on, besides my own meeting people and talking with different companies, this same set of recruiters supported me through introductions and potential roles. They've helped me as much as I've helped them. Mutual respect is abundantly required when working with recruiters.
I think, though, this requires a willingness to ignore the recruiters that tend towards being ambulance chasers (your cybercoders level), and not-insignificant amount of time "interviewing" and building up relationship with any recruiter I work with (on both sides of the table.)
Comment · 10 years ago
That's always where I struggle, too. "How does this scale to real life problems?" That being said, the article goes into that—pretty well, I think—after the sum method. It focuses on an "OrderKindValidator" class that is expanded.
Comment · 11 years ago
I was literally just wondering that, too. In NYC, for instance, there are a number of places [1] that are considered "destination chargers" that are parking garages throughout the city. I imagine that for an add-on fee to the monthly rental of a parking space, they also providing charging. That being said, I imagine it easily puts the potential monthly parking fee near $1,000.00 a month (given that it looks like indoor garage parking is generally around $600 - $700 a month.)
[1] https://www.teslamotors.com/findus#/bounds/43.02971601884381...
Comment · 11 years ago
I love reading Matt Levine's writing; I enjoy the humorous tone. A bit of Louis CK for the financial world. But I didn't get that he was dismissing the security concerns. I read it as he was dismissing the idea that some aspects of the hacking could have been more easily thwarted. For example, two factor authentication is a relatively straightforward protection. Now he may have been underselling how complex it is to implement, but I would have to agree that items like two factor authentication are relatively straight forward tools at this point.
Comment · 11 years ago
Senior Engineer | Ellevest | New York, NY (onsite)
(Job description, including interview process, is online here: http://ellevest.com/careers/senior-engineer-client-platform....)
== Our Company
We’re a well-funded, early-stage tech startup based in NYC that is reinventing financial services for women. We’re currently in stealth mode building a new kind of investment platform, which has the potential to be a disruptive and meaningful force for good. Our team has deep, successful roots in the startup and finance communities.
== The Role
We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to help develop our investment platform product. We’re looking for an engineer that has at least two years of professional experience writing code in Ruby. You have experience writing well tested code with tools like RSpec,Cucumber or Minitest. A strong attention to detail, a yearning to write well-tested, continuously-integrated code and an interest in developing software from the ground up are attributes that describe you. You work well both independently and as part of a team. You have experience writing well organized, object oriented Ruby code that goes past the basic Rails applications. You have strong feelings about “Plain Old Ruby Objects” and have a healthy concern of “magic.” Security is really important to you, even if you don’t have a large amount of experience in this area.
This is a full time development role that will have great impact on our product. You will be writing core code that makes trades in the securities markets. You will participate in code reviews, help develop our best practices and coding styles, and ultimately have a big impact as our company is starting out.
We’re a mission-driven company with a diverse team of people who value honest and transparent communication, simple and focused execution, and work-life balance. We’re building a NYC-based team and offer market compensation and significant equity for world-class candidates.
== Next Steps
Introduce yourself to our team via e-mail by sending a cover letter and resume to [email protected].
Comment · 11 years ago
Match, Tinder, OKCupid, HowAboutWe, now PlentyOfFish. I'm curious if there are other mainstream dating apps out there? There are apps like Grindr for the LGBTQ community; JDate for the Jewish community. But what others are there for the larger populations? eHarmony, though I've always been under the belief that religion was a key component of that site.
I find it interesting to see that Match now really owns the space and that TechCrunch is suggesting that the purchase was for "a fresh pool of digitally active singles" vs. technology (OKCupid) or a different experience all together (Tinder).
Comment · 11 years ago
Capybara has been a part of my/our workflow for a while; I'm curious why this is on the frontpage -- is there a specific update I'm missing?
Either way, I really enjoy Capybara -- especially being able to jump between different drivers for various reasons.
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