sufyanadam

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Roofstock Owner Services - Stessa | Oakland, Remote | Ruby, Rails, AWS, React Native | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer Roofstock (https://www.roofstock.com/) Owner Services - Stessa (https://stessa.com) provides Real Estate Rental Property Owners (& Homeowners) a platform for keeping their financials and property related data in good order and all in one place. Sick of your bank not letting you search back through all your transactions ever since account opening? Dreading Tax Time? With Stessa, you never have to worry about losing track of any financial transaction or expense related to your real estate. A large portion of the population will own real estate or a portion of it at some point in their life, and anyone with any real estate tremendously benefits from our platform. Come build out an awesome product and be a user of what you'll build!

Email me at sufyan.adam(at)roofstock(dot)com

Comment · 5 years ago

Roofstock Owner Services - Stessa | Oakland, Remote | Ruby, Rails, AWS, React Native | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer

Roofstock (https://www.roofstock.com/) Owner Services - Stessa (https://stessa.com) provides Real Estate Rental Property Owners (& Homeowners) a platform for keeping their financials and property related data in good order and all in one place. Sick of your bank not letting you search back through all your transactions ever? Dreading Tax Time? With Stessa, you never have to worry about losing track of any financial transaction or expense related to your real estate. A large portion of the population will own real estate or a portion of it at some point in their life, and anyone with any real estate tremendously benefits from our platform. Come build out an awesome product and be a user of what you'll build!

Apply here https://jobs.lever.co/roofstock/5ef3bebf-cd0b-4ad1-9274-6199... or email me at sufyan.adam(at)roofstock(dot)com

Comment · 5 years ago

What are these features that PMs can't live without, that they don't get with an alternative such as, say, Pivotal Tracker?

Comment · 5 years ago

Pivotal Tracker. I've found it to be a much more productive tool, and teams using it typically move alot faster and are far happier than those using Jira.

Comment · 5 years ago

Teams is down too

Comment · 6 years ago

The tables / spreadsheet functionality can be super helpful when you just need to jot down thoughts which lead to comparisons which lead to calculations which lead to helping you decide which path you want to go down. It's really great to not have to leave the context of what I'm doing and just open up an org mode buffer and jot down my thoughts and then come out with an answer that is backed by calculations I'm confident in. Very handy 'back of the envelope' or 'napkin' alternative!

For anyone looking for a good place to start, here's a great resource: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#GettingStarted

Comment · 6 years ago

This is great. Nice work! I built something really similar about 3 years ago, a few months before my 4th child was born. Then I lost interest lol. Super barebones POC https://justwatchwith.me/ The idea was that you could stream videos directly from your machine and watch in sync with remote friends and family, controlling the playback with a pause button. I didn't maintain it for a while after I built the POC because not many of my friends / family were very interested at the time. If I only had more time to improve it..... they probably would've appreciated it more under current circumstances if I continued to work on it lol

Comment · 6 years ago

Pro-tip for engineers on spreadsheets: Org-mode & emacs is a great tool for the random spreadsheet you might want to scratch out to compare something or get some running totals or do cost-benefit analysis or whatever. Check out https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-lisp-... and https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/org.html...

I recently used it to find out how much a certain company owes me based on a monthly guarantee obligation they have continuously fallen short of . I've also used it to do comparisons and find out the maximum I can save on a refinance from different lenders etc, whether I should lease or purchase a car etc.. Very useful!

Comment · 6 years ago

This elephant was addressed long ago by Jon Wiegly's use-package.

Comment · 6 years ago

I've been using web-mode and it's awesome. Works well with jsx. My config is here https://github.com/sufyanadam/.emacs.d

Comment · 6 years ago

You nailed it. This is the fairest proposal with the best outcome for all sides. Thank you for posting.

Comment · 6 years ago

I have to disagree with you on almost all points. I lived in East Africa for 20 years, and my observation of the African people was that their intelligence was similar to what you'd find anywhere in silicon valley. The problems you mentioned with financial services was solved way back in 1999 and rivals any mobile / cashless system anywhere else in the world, and that was long before things like square came out in the US. Other issues you mentioned such as electricity and water are the reason why you will find some of the most innovative people out there. Rather than complain about their inconvenient lack of opportunities, they think outside the box to achieve whatever they want to achieve. When everything is handed to you on a silver platter, that is what causes lower IQs, and when you have less and are constrained, that is what causes you to innovate. It's amazing to see what some of the makers there make, even the children, when they have very little, or practically nothing sometimes.

Comment · 6 years ago

I'm one of those people who feel the same. I'd rather read than watch.

Comment · 6 years ago

+1 A million times on this, you nailed it.