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Okvivi

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About Okvivi

co-founder/CTO @spring, ex-googler, author of the Multiple Inboxes gmail lab, built the Google Finance charts, grew up in communism. http://www.vivi.ro

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    I've eaten the same breakfast, and the same Sweetgreen salad for lunch (in 6-12 months streaks) for the past 5 years. The reason it works so well for me is the reduction in needing…

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    As somebody that has started learning AI/ML and was looking at the exact question here three months ago - I found the Andrew Ng deeplearning.ai Coursera course an amazing starting …

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    I don't know enough about HighCharts. Funny to see that they also copied / were inspired by the Google Finance Charts sparkbar (that's what we called the thing that shows you the s…

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    Happy to hear that! :-) Despite being a little bit more complex than I think it needed to be (I was a junior engineer after all, and this was my first project at my first job) I st…

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    I built those charts on Google Finance. At the time (10 years ago) there was no better alternative for building interactive charting in browsers. After I left Google Finance I feel…

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    A library that seems to have been requested quite a lot by the golang community https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/decim...

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    Spring - Senior Engineer - New York City - http://shopspring.com (fulltime, onsite) Spring is one of the Best Apps Of 2015 according to Apple. Buying things directly from brands on…

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    Comment #7971727

    Jello Labs - New York City - http://jellolabs.com/jobs === Senior Engineer === (fulltime, onsite) === Lead iOS Engineer === (fulltime, onsite) If you want to write Go full time, co…

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    Jello Labs - Senior Engineer - New York City - http://jellolabs.com/jobs (fulltime, onsite) ----------------------- We are on a mission to create the world’s best mobile shopping e…

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    Jello Labs - Senior Engineer - New York City - http://jellolabs.com/jobs (fulltime, onsite) ----------------------- We are changing the way mobile eCommerce works. We are well fund…

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    Jello Labs - Senior Engineer - New York City - http://jellolabs.com/jobs (fulltime, onsite) ----------------------- We are changing the way mobile eCommerce works. We are well fund…

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    I guess I need to take more photos!

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    I understand what you are saying, and indeed I am trying to be diplomatic. Picking on Rails/Node was not my goal and I feared that a stronger comparison between these choices would…

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    What we are discovering is that actually it doesn't sacrifice as much as you'd think - and I think that's the point we are trying to make with our article. You get both the perform…

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    We haven't really ruled out any of the common stack tech choices. They are all good in their own ways, and have their own tradeoffs - and the intention here was not to spark wars a…

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    Jello Labs - Senior Engineer - New York City - http://jellolabs.com/jobs (fulltime, onsite) We are building something awesome around mobile commerce, trying to connect the people w…

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    I couldn't agree more. What I feel a lot of people are missing here is that Marissa's making Yahoo a place where good engineers want to work: where empowered smart people can make …

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    Jello Labs - Senior Engineer - New York City - http://jellolabs.com/jobs (fulltime, onsite) We are building something awesome around mobile commerce, trying to connect the people w…

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    I also disagree with the "wear a suit" idea. After about a hundred interviews at Google, I've seen a pretty good inverse correlation between how dressed-to-impress a candidate is a…

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    Maybe a good rule for presenters would be to imagine what happens if they replace the photo of girls in bikinis with a photo of guys in bikinis. If that makes the presentation awkw…

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    I think a lot of people think like you do, but wasn't that true when Facebook did this too? Weren't people upset for the exact very same reason? And yet Facebook went ahead and did…