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Re:Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained on Saturday May 29, 2021 @06:12PM (#27328640)

Gerrit is solid: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/

Steer Through the Suez Canal

Posted by axk on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:32PM
from the cnn.com dept.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/03/cnnix-steership/

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Re:The Crisis in the Skies of San Francisco on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:00AM (#24478025)

https://archive.is/WlT2a

Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:03AM (#23972177)

Similar results at my (reasonably large) company:

* 20% want to go back to the office

* 30% want to WFH forever

* 50% want the flexibility to WFH 2-3 days a week

Re:EFF and heavyweight legal team will defend Internet Archive against... on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:35PM (#23697140)

Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

The Traditional City Is the Densest City

Posted by axk on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:04AM
from the newworldeconomics.com dept.

https://newworldeconomics.com/the-traditional-city-is-the-densest-city/

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Challenges in Maintaining a Big Tent for Software Freedom

Posted by axk on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:32PM
from the ebb.org dept.

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2018/08/30/on-social-justice-software-licensing.html

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Language engineering for great justice

Posted by axk on Sunday November 19, 2017 @02:53PM
from the esr.ibiblio.org dept.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7745

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The big break in computer languages

Posted by axk on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:07AM
from the esr.ibiblio.org dept.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7724

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Profit Margins, Bayes’ Theorem, and the Dangers of Overconfidence

Posted by axk on Monday September 04, 2017 @05:04PM
from the philosophicaleconomics.com dept.

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2017/09/pmbtdo/

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The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns (2013)

Posted by axk on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:18AM
from the philosophicaleconomics.com dept.

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the-single-greatest-predictor-of-future-stock-market-returns/

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Re:Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code on Friday July 14, 2017 @11:35PM (#14774924)

It's quite surprising. Quilt is a very common tool, e.g. for Debian developers: https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt

You should probably rename the pip package and the CLI tool to quiltdata to avoid conflicts.

Why Diversify a Concentrated Portfolio?

Posted by axk on Thursday January 05, 2017 @11:39PM
from the blog.wealthfront.com dept.

https://blog.wealthfront.com/diversify-concentrated-portfolio/

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10 Principles I Want to Live By

Posted by axk on Sunday December 25, 2016 @09:01PM
from the haseebq.com dept.

http://haseebq.com/10-principles-i-want-to-live-by

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How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation

Posted by axk on Sunday September 11, 2016 @10:24PM
from the haseebq.com dept.

http://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation

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Let's Infill a Neighbourhood (And Make a Profit)

Posted by axk on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @01:22AM
from the andrewalexanderprice.com dept.

http://andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20160809.php

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How to like people

Posted by axk on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @10:20PM
from the sivers.org dept.

https://sivers.org/d1p

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Do this. Directives – part 1

Posted by axk on Sunday April 17, 2016 @11:12PM
from the sivers.org dept.

https://sivers.org/d1

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Don’t start a business until people are asking you to

Posted by axk on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:00AM
from the sivers.org dept.

https://sivers.org/asking

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The design of my magic getopt

Posted by axk on Monday December 07, 2015 @04:39AM
from the daemonology.net dept.

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-12-07-design-of-magic-getopt.html

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Fast iOS Functional Testing

Posted by axk on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:18PM
from the thumbtack.com dept.

https://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/fast-ios-functional-testing/

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Re:Ask HN: What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3... on Sunday October 18, 2015 @03:22PM (#10409406)

Not true. I got a GC while being on an E-3 in the US.

5 Things We Have Forgotten About Open Source

Posted by axk on Saturday March 21, 2015 @03:59PM
from the jordi.inversethought.com dept.

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/5-things-we-have-forgotten-about-open-source/

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Copyright Monopoly Fraudsters Need to Go to Jail with Heavy Damages

Posted by axk on Sunday March 01, 2015 @06:20PM
from the torrentfreak.com dept.

http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-monopoly-fraudsters-need-go-jail-heavy-damages-150301/

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Cote D'Azur – Performance of pi calculation in multiple languages (2013)

Posted by axk on Sunday October 19, 2014 @09:52PM
from the jmoiron.net dept.

http://jmoiron.net/blog/cote-dazur/

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Go Dependency Management Made Simple

Posted by axk on Thursday October 16, 2014 @12:15PM
from the thumbtack.com dept.

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/go-dependency-management/

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Comparing AVL Trees in C++ and Haskell

Posted by axk on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @04:20AM
from the izbicki.me dept.

https://izbicki.me/blog/avl-tree-runtimes-c++-vs-haskell.html

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Why Go gets exceptions right (2012)

Posted by axk on Sunday September 07, 2014 @03:50PM
from the dave.cheney.net dept.

http://dave.cheney.net/2012/01/18/why-go-gets-exceptions-right?

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Faster Fast Fourier Transform

Posted by axk on Monday September 01, 2014 @12:52AM
from the kojevnikov.com dept.

http://kojevnikov.com/faster-fast-fourier-transform.html

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014) on Friday August 01, 2014 @01:32PM (#8121655)

Thumbtack - San Francisco (H1-B and interns welcome)

Thumbtack helps people accomplish personal projects central to their lives. Thumbtack can help you remodel your kitchen, get photographs taken at your wedding, or teach your kid how to play the piano. We are a two-sided marketplace that connects buyers and sellers in these service industries. We work hard to empower small business owners nationwide to grow their businesses.

Thumbtack's core values are 1) help locally, scale globally, 2) obsess over our customers, and 3) improve relentlessly. We look for people who have raw talent and drive, work well with others, are motivated to improve, and are personable and intellectually curious.

Our engineering team is a lean 14 people, and supports the larger Thumbtack team of 500. We work in a beautiful office in SoMa, eat family-style meals cooked by our in-house chefs, study CS theory together, build robots, brew beer, and provide annual stipends for self-improvement. We offer competitive salary and equity along with great health insurance and a flexible vacation policy.

We're hiring software engineers with the following kinds of expertise:

  * Front-end
  * Back-end
  * Site reliability / DevOps
  * Analytics and big data
  * Statistics
  * Data science
  * Android
  * iOS

http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering

http://www.fastcompany.com/3030952/whos-next/thumbtack-is-co...

Please contact alex @ thumbtack for more information.