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Obligatory Michael Lewis quote, from Boomerang (2011): > Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that …

That’s how I imagined it, kind of a hybrid of what I’ve seen called Product Marketing Manager and Product Analyst, but other replies and OpenAI job postings indicate maybe it’s a d…

What’s the GTM role referenced a couple of times in the post?

What AWS services are you using currently and what drives your costs? We’re a nonprofit with apps that see ~1000s of users a month, but mostly in the US. I think we see good saving…

https://www.graphistry.com/ ?

Along these lines, Square’s incident response meme lives on as https://outage.party/

Like you, “engineer’s engineer” was the phrase that came to mind for me too. Just really loved the craft, always happy to get into it and unpack a problem with you. Everything was …

A point in time count isn’t a good denominator to understand cost per person given an annual budget. This article sheds some light: https://missionlocal.org/2019/07/in-san-francisc…

Square | Software Engineer | San Francisco | Full Time. ONSITE. VISA. On Seller Experience we're looking for senior engineers, and an engineering manager, to join our Onboard Platf…

Here is the most accessible implementation I've seen https://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/ with tons of references and existing implementations.

Square employee here. Looks like a phishing scam to me, thanks for sharing it. I don't work on that stuff myself, but you can forward the email to spoof@squareup.com and we'll do w…

Assuming your whiteboard session is a good test of basic CS proficiency, the real question is "does basic CS proficiency correlate with effectiveness at the job?" - if you're like …

Has someone suggested whiteboard proficiency is sufficient by itself? Fair point, that is a straw man. I haven't experienced an all-whiteboard interview - there's always been more …

The question is: what is your tolerance for (a) false negatives and (b) false positives? Rephrasing (a): who are we passing on, are they in fact good potential employees, and what …

There are other places that have published them already. e.g. see Appendix B in this report http://www.sfcta.org/images/stories/Planning/Shuttles/Final_... from http://www.sfcta.or…

Leaflet is a promising framework so it's great to see open source add-ons for it. This clustering library has an impressive and comprehensive set of features: configurable look and…

The logger, spawner and cloudant coffeescript files are in the lib folder: https://github.com/heroku/vulcan/tree/master/server/lib When the app is created it sets NODE_PATH=lib so …

The node.js buildpack has good instructions for how to upgrade it yourself if needed: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs (and the buildpack docs are now public since…

Zach Lieberman's stream of consciousness poem from the end of this year's Eyeo creative code festival.