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Comment · 9 years ago
Senior Full Stack Developer @ Universe | https://www.universe.com/ | ONSITE | Toronto
Interview process: - Submit application at http://universe.applytojob.com/apply/6hV3Xj/Senior-Full-Stac...
- Phone screen
- In person + pair programming challenge
As a Senior Full Stack Developer at Universe, you will apply your passion for technology and live events in your quest to build a world-class Event Ticketing platform. In this deeply technical and business-minded position, you’ll architect, implement, and evolve our frontend and backend systems with a talented team of like-minded peers. As a senior developer with great influence on our product, you’ll be challenged with the rewarding tasks of understanding our customers with strong empathy, curating an amazing product experience, and championing our vision to new heights.
_What your day would look like_:
- Writing new application code for our core product API and client (especially transactional pieces)
- Advocating best practices for development and testing
- Performance profiling new and existing features in both our server processes and in the browser
- Mentoring junior developers on the team and promoting skill growth
_What we’re looking for_:
- Experienced in Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, and/or MVC backend frameworks
- Experienced in Ember or React frontends
- Excited about BDD, automated deployment, fixing bugs, and shipping code
http://universe.applytojob.com/apply/6hV3Xj/Senior-Full-Stac...
Comment · 10 years ago
You pay for the underlying instances + storage provisioning, so performance is price-configurable.
Comment · 10 years ago
Now they just need to support the Foreign Data Wrapper extension with egress connections. Really wish that was built in because FDW itself is amazing, and AWS RDS is easy to manage.
Comment · 10 years ago
Kind of strange that there's no mention of actual behavioral genomics research here. Aside from the quip that:
> Scientists have found some genetic code that contributes to hereditary behaviors, but the bulk of it is unlikely to ever be found. Why? Because it plainly does not fit.
This is plainly not true. We've found lots of evidence for the genomic basis of hereditary behaviors. See Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis for example - plenty of statistical research is out there.
Comment · 10 years ago
> If we want to compare across QoL, opportunity, really almost any metric, we're going to group across socio-economic lines, not IQ.
Do you have any academic literature to support your claim? The only evidence you offered was just an insistence that I should agree, which shouldn't convince any fair minded person. Here's something that I found within 15 seconds of journal searching, that contradicts it: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-1130.2011....
> The results from a series of follow-up studies indicate that the IQ score at age 13 could be viewed as a relatively good indicator for future life outcomes, defined in terms of attained education, occupational status, and material well being
Finally:
> Really, come on. That kind of 'they can just pull themselves up by the bootstraps' is ignorant enough to sound like dog whistling.
I don't think we can, and I don't think I said anything like that.
Also, what's the name of your business?
Comment · 10 years ago
Opportunity is not evenly distributed, yes. But neither is skill.
> Basic income doesn't come off the backs of small business, and that is a silly reason to be so afraid of it.
What's the name of your business?
Comment · 10 years ago
Depends on the effect size.
You probably only need n = 5 for a confident answer to the question "What happens when you are shot in the head?"
Comment · 10 years ago
Depends how big the effect size is. For putting a loaded revolver next to your head, and pulling the trigger, n=30 is plenty.
Comment · 10 years ago
So this article is about people like me. I went to school in Toronto and stayed. In the > 5 years since:
- I joined a seed stage startup
- That startup raised a series A ($N millions in total financing)
- Was then acquired by a Fortune 500 company, which has kept the business as a separate unit for > 1 year
- I was a party to the deal :)
I have found salaries to be competitive when total cost of living adjustments are made (even despite the currency value). Importantly, the labour market here values skills over credentials - so there's a distinct pragmatism in the air.
So as far as startups go - not the publicly traded and pre-series-G-mega-SF-corps - I think there's a vibrant opportunity and reality.
Comment · 10 years ago
Counter fact check: there's a massive Shopify office on Spadina
Comment · 10 years ago
Can you articulate this in the form of a binary outcome? If so, I will happily make a $N00 sized bet (odds to be negotiated) on the false outcome with anyone who is interested.
Comment · 10 years ago
Wow! Massive news for the Toronto tech community. We don't have too many deals this size.
Congrats everyone at Bitstrips!
Comment · 10 years ago
This comment is strange to me, I did not have the same impression whatsoever. The numbers here, and overall picture, match all of his previous annual summary posts. It's been fairly clear in those summaries that his attention has shifted to other projects/consulting opportunities etc, and that BCC was declining in profitability.
Comment · 10 years ago
>> My mother didn't "sacrifice" everything for us, she worked hard; became a programmer; and didn't allow my sibling and I to work less then her.
That's what parent means by self-selecting, which is being used in the sense described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection_bias - a perfectly innocuous meaning.
(I say this as someone who has no pony in this race - I'm neither a resident, nor citizen, nor etc of the US)
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