LukeG

Yeah I was there last month, and had fresh sashimi and fish tacos sitting on the the deck at Point Loma Seafoods, where it was still 70 degrees and glorious at 6pm. And then I flew home to a cold, gray SF ;)

I grew up in San Diego, have been working on tech in SF for almost a decade, and love the idea of moving back.

The quality of life in (western) San Diego is so hard to beat. A couple dozen (or hundred) of us moving back with some meaningful experience and success could go a long way towards making San Diego a viable place to more easily build and sustain real companies.

fwiw — and I say this as a cofounder in probably the least successful YC batch of all time — the stuff coming out of the program these these is years ahead of what it was then.

It sounds like you're suggesting that his father deserved to be fired for attempting to support unionization. You can advocate for whatever you like, but understand that this position is in opposition to generations of workers-rights efforts.

We've been using Metabase for the last 6 months, and we use it every day. So straightforward, even for non-technical, non-analyst users.

This isn't a "concept," either. It's happening — first art goes up 7/7.

It's funded so far by tech and ex-tech people. Hopefully it's a helpful contribution to the growing bridge between the tech and arts communities in San Francisco.

Anyone have a good breakdown of the differences in these benchmarks? i.e. Why does Chrome dramatically lead the(ir) Octane benchmark?

Wait, who? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001864/

hahaha so good

Eventbrite is hiring, and it's awesome here.

Unreal team, sick engineers, great problems (scaling, consumer web, data, etc). Come work with the good guys.

Check out http://eventbrite.com/jobs/

We're in San Francisco, CA and H1B friendly for the right folks.

Eventbrite is hiring. http://www.eventbrite.com/jobs

This place is amazing -- great product, awesome team, really cool engineering + challenges (mobile, fraud/analytics, box office (hardware!), et al) and we all have a ton of fun. In Soma right by CalTrain w/ all the perks: 6 meals a week + endless snacks, gym + transportation reimbursement, great insurance, you'll still have a life, etc.

We'll sell $200M+ in tickets this year and we just raised another $20M in funding. This is a great time to jump on board.

Eventbrite is hiring a frontend dev, a serious python backend engineer, and a UX expert.

If that's you, email me at luke at eventbrite. Awesome, profitable, growing, Sequoia-backed company.

Yep, all of our JobAlchemist products are - Startuply, JobSyndicate, etc.

The main case that 1-3 month trial periods don't work for is when the person you're considering hiring already has a good job, esp. one that they like. This is often/usually the case when you're talking about top tier talent. Want to try selling a stud on coming to work for you for a bit for a chance at a real job?

Great research university (UCSD), decent support schools (USD + SDSU), massive biotech/medtech startup scene, some strong big tech & gaming companies (e.g Qualcomm, Sony Online Entertainment), growing startup/web scene (Mindtouch and more), great weather, easy, relaxed lifestyle, relatively cheap housing...

One of the main distinctions between redditJobs and Craigslist is that redditJobs is explicitly designed & built to be a resource for connecting the reddit community with interested employers. That's why you see "social sites" with job boards - because they create value for both the community and growing companies.

As for the voting - we'll watch what happens with and see how we can make the data useful to job seekers as well as companies.

RedditJobs will definitely leverage reddit's (large) community - the volume will be there.

as for (c), voting doesn't affect the ranking of the jobs. We record the votes and share them with employers to get them some feedback on how their jobs are perceived.

Hey, I just sent you an email re: JobSyndicate. Happy to chat anytime.

Interesting. We're trying to put together the cash for a reasonable stipend, and will if we can. We won't give equity for intern/contract type work; almost no one goes, for good reason. That being said, we'd love to be able to bring someone on full time after the summer, assuming things go well. The summer/12 months was designed to appeal to college students who compose the traditional intern market...

We're definitely open to suggestions.

Our thought with this was "come work with us for the summer, let's build cool stuff and make some money, and we'll pay you a piece of what you earn for 12 months rather than 3. We get help when that we can't pay for off the bat, and they get (1) cool work experience and (2) paid for a year.

We thought then and continue to feel that this is a fun, unorthodox, kinda risky and potentially very lucrative way for some college kids to spend the summer. There's nothing malign about our intentions, but we're resource-constrained enough that we have to be creative in our approach.

Just because it's a rev share rather than a flat fee, though, doesn't mean it's like the staffing industry. The staffing industry pays people below-market wages in return for letting them be entirely reactive about finding work. Our approach is to have interns share some risk in return for an upside that isn't capped.