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dcraw

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About dcraw

David Crawford. Engineer @ alation.com. Former CEO MetricaDB, PM @ AppNexus, dev @ Pelago/Whrrl.

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    Comment #43455539

    My brother wrote an essay on how to work with "stupid" people (which starts with recognizing they're not stupid). https://jasoncrawford.org/how-to-work-with-stupid-people

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    Comment #34804770

    Awesome demo video!

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    Comment #32889131

    Read The Phoenix Project, a book which fictionalizes this issue. As a novel, it covers not only technical and process steps, but most importantly how to talk through the negotiatio…

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    Ask HN: Why is local event search so bad?

    Trying to find events (block parties, concerts, carnivals, festivals, etc) always seems horrible online. Google and Facebook both have very limited options, and the quality of the …

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    Comment #20006647

    Looks cool. You may like https://workflowy.com/

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    Comment #18102191

    Sounds interesting, but not obvious to me. What are the dividends?

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    Comment #15130503

    Most people seem to be evaluating this question on an egalitarian premise: what's best for the greatest number of people? On that premise, taking money from very wealthy people and…

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    Comment #14906223

    Alation ( http://alation.com ) - Redwood City, CA; Seattle, WA - Sales and customer success REMOTE Looking for Full Stack and Backend Software Engineers, DevOps, Product Managers, …

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    Comment #14691337

    Alation ( http://alation.com ), Redwood City, CA (sales and customer success REMOTE) Looking for Full Stack and Backend Software Engineers, DevOps, Technical Support Engineers, Cus…

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    Comment #11417060

    We had a similar problem and have made a lot of progress by reducing the size of changes submitted for review. We used to submit code only when we thought a feature was complete, a…

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    Comment #11260776

    Love this! Is there a way to trigger it to run when an event happens in my book?

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    Comment #10913707

    Alternatively: rudo?

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    Comment #10495519

    Alation ( http://alation.com ), Redwood City, CA Looking for UI and Data Software Engineers, DevOps, Systems Engineers, Customer Success Lead, Product Designer, Demand Marketing, C…

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    Comment #10313928

    Alation ( http://alation.com ), Redwood City, CA Looking for UI and Data Software Engineers, DevOps, Systems Engineers, Customer Success Lead, Product Designer, Demand Marketing, C…

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    Comment #10153546

    Alation ( http://alation.com ), Redwood City, CA Looking for UI and Data Software Engineers, DevOps, Customer Success Lead, Product Designer, Demand Marketing, Content Marketing, a…

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    Comment #9839380

    Plugging my own relatively new podcast, Theory and Craft ( http://www.theoryandcraft.fm ) Each episode we take a paper or topic from the research world and discuss how it applies t…

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    Comment #9813323

    Looking for UI and data Software Engineers, DevOps, Demand Marketing, Product Marketing, and Sales Development Representatives. VISAs welcome, though we can't relocate internationa…

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    Comment #9642355

    Alation ( http://alation.com ), Redwood City, CA Looking for UI and data Software Engineers, DevOps, Demand Marketing, and Sales Development Representatives. VISAs welcome, though …

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    Comment #9473670

    Alation ( http://alation.com ), Redwood City, CA Looking for UI and data Software Engineers, DevOps, Demand Marketing, and Sales Development Representatives. VISAs welcome, though …

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    Comment #9351995

    Alation ( http://alation.com ), Redwood City, CA Looking for UI and data software engineers, campaign managers, and sales development representatives. VISAs welcome, though we can'…

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    Comment #9127990

    Alation ( http://alation.com ), Redwood City, CA Looking for software engineers, sales engineers/customer success, and sales development representatives. INTERNs, and VISAs welcome…

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    Comment #8980222

    Alation ( http://alation.com ), Redwood City, CA Looking for software engineers, sales engineers/customer success, and sales development representatives. INTERNs, and VISAs welcome…

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    Comment #8351839

    I think it's similar to why people don't just set up an AWS box and cron rsync instead of using Dropbox. Or the same benefit as using Heroku over AWS directly. If you're not deeply…

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    Comment #6838214

    You're totally right on the averages. I'll add the percentiles but maybe I can also make it extensible somehow. I haven't thought about callback code at all... if you have any idea…