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I would apply to something like Toptal. When we were first built our team for my startup, we used Toptal contractors for quite a while. They were solid, and to my understanding, ma…

Flat World Technology | New York City | Lead Backend Engineer & Lead Front End Engineer Flat World Technology is building an intuitive data analytics platform that helps our client…

I'm curious if anyone knows if there is a significant difference between #36 "Be (religiously) silent" and #115 "Exercise (religious) silence."

AFAIK, the only volunteering they offer is in person -- in classrooms, at hackathons, on field trips, hosting interns, etc.

I've worked with ScriptEd for a number of years; volunteering, fundraising, judging hackathons, hosting interns, etc. I've seen first hand how their organization can have a great i…

Yes, there are a lot of things that I think good, solid recruiters bring to the table. Here's why: I have a great relationship with a couple recruiters that have a) introduced me t…

That's always where I struggle, too. "How does this scale to real life problems?" That being said, the article goes into that—pretty well, I think—after the sum method. It focuses …

I was literally just wondering that, too. In NYC, for instance, there are a number of places [1] that are considered "destination chargers" that are parking garages throughout the …

I love reading Matt Levine's writing; I enjoy the humorous tone. A bit of Louis CK for the financial world. But I didn't get that he was dismissing the security concerns. I read it…

Senior Engineer | Ellevest | New York, NY (onsite) (Job description, including interview process, is online here: http://ellevest.com/careers/senior-engineer-client-platform.... ) …

Match, Tinder, OKCupid, HowAboutWe, now PlentyOfFish. I'm curious if there are other mainstream dating apps out there? There are apps like Grindr for the LGBTQ community; JDate for…

Capybara has been a part of my/our workflow for a while; I'm curious why this is on the frontpage -- is there a specific update I'm missing? Either way, I really enjoy Capybara -- …

I love that GitLab has their code publically viewable. It provides another example of a large Rails application which is always useful as a way to "see how other people approach ch…

That totally jibes with what I found "reassuring" in a sense. That even very smart people sometimes get hit with inadvertent "multiple problems looking like a single issue" situati…

Hear hear on said Old Wizened Graybeard habit. The amount of pain inflicted from twenty jobs all starting up at :00 (or even :30, :45, etc.) when they could easily run at :04 or :1…

This line: I would have sent out an email to the mailing lists earlier; but since at each point I thought I was "one change away" from fixing the problems, I kept on delaying said …

One of my engineers was a ScriptEd volunteer last year and she has since convinced me to hire a ScriptEd intern this summer, as well as volunteer at the Hackathon in a couple weeks…

Coincidentally Coda Hale's sneaker ( https://github.com/codahale/sneaker ) just popped up in my Twitter feed earlier. Sneaker stores the secrets on S3. Keywhiz stores the secrets i…

I interviewed at SeatGeek five years ago when they were a very small team. I was super intimidated at my first "startup" interview. No need to be; Jack and Russ were some of the ni…

That's probably fair. I, funny enough, used quotes, because I couldn't think of a less serious word than frightens. Concerns is maybe a better word choice.

This "frightens" me a lot more than the Google car does. I trust that automated cars will be safe "enough." I don't think I would necessarily trust an automated car that can find i…