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Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by jboggan on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:02PM (#22796730)
Whoa! Congrats to Gil and the rest of the team back at Factual. I'm eternally grateful to them for giving this ex-bioinformatician a shot and starting my career as a data engineer, I learned from some of the very best. They were doing some brilliant stuff, both from a technical standpoint and an organizational standpoint, so I am glad to see them continuing forward!

Gil is also responsible for bringing Google to LA when they bought his previous company Applied Semantics so he had a lot of cultural imprint on that office as well.

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Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by driverdan on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:19PM (#22798000)
Cheering on another privacy invasive parasitic company? We need more of these ad tech companies failing and legislation banning their existence.

It's nice that they gave you a job but I hope you've moved on to something that contributes to society.

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Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by hkmurakami on Monday April 06, 2020 @04:06PM (#22797238)
Jake, I remember we chatted a bit way back when you were still at Factual. Great to see them get to this point. Hope you've been well!
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Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by nightvoomer on Monday April 06, 2020 @04:50PM (#22797717)
I remember you referring me to Factual 8 years ago. Thanks for that! I didn't get hired, but it kicked off a life long interest in functional programming due to meeting with Aaron Crow during that interview.
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Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by elwell on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:33PM (#22796989)
+1 for Clojure companies
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Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by arobbins on Monday April 06, 2020 @07:40PM (#22799024)
They aren't much of a Clojure company at this point. Also laid off most of the remaining Clojure devs today.
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Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by elwell on Monday April 06, 2020 @09:56PM (#22799715)
Sorry to hear
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