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Thanks for the shoutout! KB Clip Founder here. I'm happy to answer any questions people have. Initial feedback has been pretty positive so far. Valid point about how KB Clip is "op…

I'm working on a solution to this called KB Clip: https://kbclip.com basically it's a slack add-on that allows you to turn a conversation into a web/wiki page in just a few seconds…

Show HN: https://kbclip.com I don't think you can prevent people from migrating to discord or slack, but I built a Slack app that tries to bring the best and most frequent conversa…

I think it's the greatest thing ever. I wrote like 300 words over two blog posts here: https://amattn.com/p/the_sublime_developer_efficiency_of_eli... tldr: - It’s quirky - There’s…

Anecdotally, having managed elixir teams and talked to other managers of elixir teams: - The learning curve is real. but 2-6 months for us, not years. It's not particularly hard, j…

static typing is what drew me to go, Elixir isn't a static-typed language, but there are plenty of guardrails in the language that make up for it. Pattern-matching, guards, good co…

Elixir and the broader ecosystem have the following traits: - It's a bit quirky, there's much else like it. Ruby is the closest. - It's got a learning curve. It's not a particularl…

- Forgive yourself. It's okay. You are who you are. - Understand that there is no speed limit. You can be as fast or as slow as you should be. - Mimic. Connections and insights are…

The biggest, lowest hanging fruit thing you can do is tell them you are only interested in working at startups and you are only applying to startups. You need this in your resume, …

The contributor statement is new to me and definitely the highlight of this license: > Any modification to the software submitted to the authors may be incorporated into the softwa…

Armory | San Mateo, CA | Full Time | ONSITE http://go.Armory.io/YC-Apply Armory is a YC W17 startup called based in San Mateo (very near Caltrain). We are working on making cloud s…

Armory | San Mateo, CA | Full Time | ONSITE http://go.Armory.io/YC-Apply Armory is a YC W14 startup called based in San Mateo (very near Caltrain). We are working on making cloud s…

Don't stop this. It's essentially harmless and in the case of certain people, welcome. You want your interviewers to think have empathy for your candidates. Interviewing is already…

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Collective Health, ( https://collectivehealth.com/jobs/ ), San Francisco (very near caltrain), CA (Full time, ONSITE only, VISA case-by-case, see below) We're replacing health insu…

Collective Health, ( https://collectivehealth.com/jobs/ ), San Mateo, CA (Full time, ONSITE only, VISA-depends, see below) We're replacing health insurance with a system that membe…

I wrote a go utility that is not designed to be direct replacement, but rather nicer CLI tool that does something quite similar. My version is quite a bit more limited, but totally…

Collective Health, ( https://collectivehealth.com/jobs/ ), San Mateo, CA (Full time, ONSITE only, VISA-depends, see below) We're replacing health insurance with a system that membe…

Collective Health, ( https://collectivehealth.com/jobs/ ), San Mateo, CA (Full time, ONSITE only, VISA-depends, see below) We're replacing health insurance with a system that membe…

Collective Health, ( https://collectivehealth.com/jobs/ ), San Mateo, CA (Full time, ONSITE only, VISA-depends, see below) We're replacing health insurance with a system that membe…

Collective Health, ( https://collectivehealth.com/jobs/ ), San Mateo, CA (Full time, ONSITE only, VISA-depends, see below) We're replacing health insurance with a system that membe…

Collective Health, ( http://collectivehealth.com/ ), San Mateo, CA (Full time, ONSITE only, VISA-depends, see below) We're replacing health insurance with a system that members lov…