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Edgio | Software Engineer | Remote Edgio was recently formed via the acquisition of Yahoo Edgecast by Limelight Networks. I am the hiring manager for a pair of roles working on the…

I was so enamored of the Twitter responses to the HBO intern's test email, that I decided to build a site that could collect and curate these kinds of "I also made a professional m…

Eh, iono. There are plenty of places with tech work outside of the bay area. And having a proven "works well remotely" on the resume seems likely to help find _other_ remote gigs d…

The issue I've read about (I'm not a security practitioner, more like a hobbyist) is that the sheer mass of bogus bounty submissions take valuable time to evaluate. If you start up…

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

I assume that someone who's configuring their router will also be configuring their children's devices in such a way that the children won't have permissions to make those changes.…

OpenDNS is handy. You 1/ Sign up for an account 2/ Configure your home's router to use their DNS servers 3/ Install an agent on a machine in your home's network, authenticate it wi…

In case anyone in the thread above didn't know, there is a different set of stockfighter challenges to play that involves writing code that accesses a REST API that be more aligned…

I am under the impression (mistaken? please correct me if I'm wrong) that patio11 and tptacek met here, and have since founded starfighters.io

My feeling, (like Colin's, I think) is that even if the announcement could have been clearer on this point, it implies that votes & comments wouldn't be the only deciding factors.

His actual response when a YC partner sincerely offered to work with Pinboard: > I feel like after seven years, I have a pretty good sense of what bookmarking/archiving needs peopl…

So I googled A/B testing vs Multi-Armed Bandit, and ran into an article that's a useful and informative response to the OP: https://vwo.com/blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/ edit:…

This is a good idea, if you remember to always tell the same lie. Being required to remember which website I told which lie to can only lead to trouble.

https://weworkremotely.com/ is a job board specifically for positions that are remote.

Moved and seconded

Definitely +1 on both of these. They're fantastic.

The claim that companies hire to prevent competition seems extraordinary. As posited here it's really nothing more than speculation.

Seems like a useful exercise.

I've heard Patrick make that very assertion.

I'm like 99% certain it's in reference to the movie "The Last Starfighter"[0] where the protagonist, an avid player of an arcade game with the same title, finds himself recruited i…