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During university, I had an interview for a quant role. I was asked an option pricing question, and then the interviewer immediately picked up the phone, asked something, then spent the next 2 minutes yelling at the person on the other end. I had a question, so I looked at him during this, and he paused, said "Why are you looking at me, you have 3 minutes left?" and went back to his stream of expletives.

To this day, I still don't know if it was part of the interview or the interviewer's working style. I learned a few new curse words and insults from the exchange, but mostly the signal to tell me I didn't want to work there.

STRIVR | Full Stack Engineer, Data Pipeline Engineer | Seattle, WA | Full-Time | https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR just announced a deal with Walmart where we are helping to train all of their employees! We are managing VR devices and building VR content on a large scale and have some very interesting problems to solve in such a new space.

STRIVR transforms the way companies train and develop employees by integrating VR into their training. We're a fast growing startup based across the US with engineering offices in Menlo Park, CA and Bellevue, WA. We're looking for folks with VR, cloud, or strong CS backgrounds. We create tools that let our team and customers create VR trainings, and software that deploys and manages those trainings, as well as collects large amounts of data to help improve them even more.

Tech stack: Unity and C# heavy, but we also use C++, Java, Python, Go, and build on Windows, Linux, and Android. We're investing a lot in .Net Core.

Want to change the way the world approaches learning? Join us! All of our engineering roles are available at both locations, see more at https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR | Software Engineer | Menlo Park, CA or Seattle, WA | Full-Time | https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR just announced a deal with Walmart where we are helping to train all of their employees! We are managing VR devices and building VR content on a large scale and have some very interesting problems to solve in such a new space.

STRIVR transforms the way companies train and develop employees by integrating VR into their training. We're a fast growing startup based across the US with engineering offices in Menlo Park, CA and Bellevue, WA. We're looking for folks with VR, cloud, or strong CS backgrounds. We create tools that let our team and customers create VR trainings, and software that deploys and manages those trainings, as well as collects large amounts of data to help improve them even more.

Tech stack: Unity and C# heavy, but we also use C++, Java, Python, Go, and build on Windows, Linux, and Android. We're investing a lot in .Net Core.

Want to change the way the world approaches learning? Join us! All of our engineering roles are available at both locations, see more at https://www.strivr.com/careers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18354503

STRIVR | Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, DevOps/Deployment Engineer, AR Engineer | Menlo Park, CA or Seattle, WA | Full-Time | https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR just announced a deal with Walmart where we are helping to train all of their employees! We are managing VR devices and building VR content on a large scale and have some very interesting problems to solve in such a new space.

STRIVR transforms the way companies train and develop employees by integrating VR into their training. We're a fast growing startup based across the US with engineering offices in Menlo Park, CA and Bellevue, WA. We're looking for folks with VR, cloud, or strong CS backgrounds. We create tools that let our team and customers create VR trainings, and software that deploys and manages those trainings, as well as collects large amounts of data to help improve them even more.

Tech stack: Unity and C# heavy, but we also use C++, Java, Python, Go, and build on Windows, Linux, and Android. We're investing a lot in .Net Core.

Want to change the way the world approaches learning? Join us! All of our engineering roles are available at both locations, see more at https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR | Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, DevOps/Deployment Engineer, VR Designer | Menlo Park, CA or Seattle, WA | Full-Time | https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR just announced a deal with Walmart where we are helping to train all of their employees! We are managing VR devices and building VR content on a large scale and have some very interesting problems to solve in such a new space.

STRIVR transforms the way companies train and develop employees by integrating VR into their training. We're a fast growing startup based across the US with engineering offices in Menlo Park, CA and Bellevue, WA. We're looking for folks with VR, cloud, or strong CS backgrounds. We create tools that let our team and customers create VR trainings, and software that deploys and manages those trainings, as well as collects large amounts of data to help improve them even more.

Tech stack: Unity and C# heavy, but we also use C++, Java, Python, Go, and build on Windows, Linux, and Android. We're investing a lot in .Net Core.

Want to change the way the world approaches learning? Join us! All of our engineering roles are available at both locations, see more at https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR | Software Engineer, DevOps/Deployment Engineer, Head of Design, VR Designer | Menlo Park, CA or Bellevue, WA | Full-Time | https://www.strivr.com/careers STRIVR transforms the way companies train and develop employees by integrating VR into their training. We're a fast growing startup based across the US with engineering offices in Menlo Park, CA and Bellevue, WA. We're looking for folks with VR, cloud, or strong CS backgrounds. We create tools that let our team and customers create VR trainings, and software that deploys and manages those trainings, as well as collects large amounts of data to help improve them even more.

Tech stack: Unity and C# heavy, but we also use C++, Java, Python, Go, and build on Windows, Linux, and Android. We're investing a lot in .Net Core.

Want to change the way the world approaches learning? Join us! All of our engineering roles are available at both locations, see more at https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR | Software Engineer, DevOps/Deployment Engineer, Head of Design, VR Designer | Menlo Park, CA or Seattle, WA | Full-Time | https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR transforms the way companies train and develop employees by integrating VR into their training. We're a fast growing startup based across the US with engineering offices in Menlo Park, CA and Bellevue, WA. We're looking for folks with VR, cloud, or strong CS backgrounds. We create tools that let our team and customers create VR trainings, and software that deploys and manages those trainings, as well as collects large amounts of data to help improve them even more.

Tech stack: Unity and C# heavy, but we also use C++, Java, Python, Go, and build on Windows, Linux, and Android. We're investing a lot in .Net Core.

Want to change the way the world approaches learning? Join us! All of our engineering roles are available at both locations, see more at https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR | Software Engineer, DevOps/Deployment Engineer, Head of Design, VR Designer | Menlo Park, CA or Seattle, WA | Full-Time | https://www.strivr.com/careers

STRIVR transforms the way companies train and develop employees by integrating VR into their training. We're a fast growing startup based across the US with engineering offices in Menlo Park, CA and Bellevue, WA. We're looking for folks with VR, cloud, or strong CS backgrounds. We create tools that let our team and customers create VR trainings, and software that deploys and manages those trainings, as well as collects large amounts of data to help improve them even more.

Tech stack: Unity and C# heavy, but we also use C++, Java, Python, Go, and build on Windows, Linux, and Android. We're investing a lot in .Net Core.

Want to change the way the world approaches learning? Join us! All of our engineering roles are available at both locations, see more at https://www.strivr.com/careers

ION360 | Mobile Lead/Developers and Media Developers | Bellevue, WA | Fulltime We build 360 cameras and software. Our flagship product is a cell phone battery case and camera snap-on that captures 360 photos and videos. We're also working on 360 home security and professional videography cameras/software. We want to democratize 360 media for anyone so that it is high-quality, easy to use, and affordable. You can see our 360 U camera at https://www.ion360.com/.

We're a small but quickly growing and well-funded team that is building iOS and Android applications that work with the cameras we are designing either through USB, wireless, or Internet connections. We deal with RTMP, RTP, h.264, embedded development, USB, and VR/OpenGL regularly. Our server stack is Node.js on AWS Lambda but we are tinkering with some Go services. We work closely with teams in China for hardware and manufacturing so have a relatively distributed team.

More details on the positions at https://ion360.com/careers/. Contact us at [email protected]

China has opened up some sites in certain cities at certain hotels and on the cell network. It is not consistent. In Shenzhen as of May, it is this way. In Xi'an it is not as of last week. In March in Shenzhen I couldn't connect to FB over LTE.

Is fax really growing?: My background is real-time communications (voip, video, messaging) so this was not intuitive for me. eFax's latest quarterly report indicates they grew their fax division by 5%; the hospitals many of our partners server have growth at 15-20% in terms of revenue and usage. In fact, our partners tell us this past year was their best in the past 20 both in terms of revenue and usage. Anecdotally, one hospital network we just talked to does it in house and is increasing the number of phone lines to their servers from 64 to 144. But the real source for this number is from Davidson Consulting's annual fax report: http://davidsonconsultinginc.com. Relevant summary is at https://www.biscom.com/blog/fax-server-industry-news-from-da.... They cite 9.4% growth; our number comes from our focus on healthcare where we source from our partners' growth, as well.

Who are the Customers/Market Size: We are focusing on healthcare because they have strong incentive to send data faster, but key segments also include legal, government, insurance, and finance/banks. The main driver for them is compliance (HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, FINRA regulations, etc) that effectively require companies to secure their communications and keep an audit trail of access/communications. Audit trail and interoperability are the main reasons companies keep fax around because it's a least common denominator when it comes to communications. The entire secure document collaboration market (including SharePoint and Dropbox) is around US$11.5B right now; the fax market is $5B of that. Telephone costs are $1.3B of that.

Why are these customers left behind: 1: It's hard to completely change out a huge system that is transmitting millions of pages of data every day and many secure document products like DocuSign aren't designed to send at scale like some of the banks use (eg, one bank does 40M pages/month).

2: Beyond the phone number system, there's no universal registrar for contact information for each company. So if company A wants to send something to company B, and both are highly regulated, if company A uses Dropbox and company B uses SharePoint for their audit trail, then how do the two talk to each other? Fax is universal and has a well-known protocol/lookup system and it keeps their audit trail in one place. It's just old, slow, and expensive (but cheaper than building custom integrations between every sender and receiver). I'll bet most people have experience receiving secure documents or signing with at least 10 different systems. If you had to receive more than 1000 documents a month, it would be really hard to do that with 10 different systems: You'd want to just use one, especially for record keeping.

Effectively, these companies either pay someone to host a fax service with copper (not IP) phone lines or do that on their own with a fax server and a number of phone lines depending on how much they are sending/receiving. They spend on IT to manage their operations, server and licensing fees for the fax software, hardware (fax boards or phone gateway routers), and phone lines. The lowest cost we've seen at scale a bank that sends 40M pages per month and spends about 1.5 US cents per page. All costs in this market are tied to page. That ends up being around $600/GB of data.

Cost to us is a fraction of the cost because we rely on the Internet, but fax users care more about speed and error rates. Today, fax takes best case 45s/page (this is at 33.6 kbps), but there are errors and retransmissions that slow this down. Our solution knows how to get data from the fax servers and back-end applications faster than fax speed on the order of 10-100mbps, so our value proposition is that we speed up their infrastructure and replace phone lines. To help us grow, we charge them about 50% of their telephone line costs because those lines are no longer needed. So in short, the major value is the speed and error rate reduction, so significant cost cuts are not necessary, but helpful for growth.

On top of the money going out periodically, it's about the cognitive load it places on the customers. I have enough decisions to make every day; additional services to consider adds the amount of time I need to think about writing off certain subscriptions from my taxes, whether or not I renew, time to make sure my credit card is up to date, check to make sure my subscription doesn't require when I'm on vacation without Internet and want to code, etc. A one-time purchase loads all of that into a single occurrence where I need that product instead of bringing it up at a calendar-determined interval.

My company uses WebStorm regularly because it's a solid IDE for Linux; I've heard of Visual Studio Code running on Linux; have people found that comparable?

The lowest I've found out there for bulk is $0.002, not $0.0001; what service do you use? I'd owe you a few beers if that's not a typo