ankimal's comments

Instagram is the only large social network that does not have a "reshare" FWIW.

The call out about being "Customer focused" is key! Many engineers use the Individual Contributor path as a means to just solve engineering problems and an exit route from product teams. No matter if your customers are internal (other engineers) or external (actual clients), understanding the business is equally important.

An Engineer's goal is to solve problems. Technology is their tool to do so and the more you understand the business' problems, the more effective you become at using the right tools in the right ways.

A Distinguished/Principal Engineer's role is a multiplicative technical leader whose use of these tools in an effective manner will impact solving customer problems in a more effective and streamlined manner. Thus, building customer empathy is very important.

Are there any reasons for not moving my cash reserves from Marcus to Robinhood given:

* Marcus' interest rate is also adjustable and is lower than 3%.

* Marcus has no ATM access/debit card.

* Getting money out of Marcus requires it to be transferred to another checking account.

NewsCred | Lead Engineer | New York | Onsite

https://www.newscred.com/careers/?gh_jid=1412116

NewsCred is the world’s leading content marketing platform. We build software that supports marketers in content planning, creation, publishing, and analysis. We help brands speak to their audiences by providing both bespoke original content and content licensed from the world’s leading publishers. Finally, as pioneers in our industry, we provide unique professional services and leverage our best in class technology platform for all of the world’s content.

Its a free world and last I checked its not illegal to work for FB. Trust in market forces to take it course.

We recently hired an outstanding engineer who graduated from a bootcamp and previously did not apply because we had an archaic requirement around "BS Computer Science or equivalent" in our job description.

We have taken out any mention of "culture fit" which to me means more of the same. Instead, we measure culture addition. How will this person add to our culture?

We took out all mentions of prior knowledge and experience in our entry level job postings. In our more experienced posting, we only ask for prior work experience building software for X years. We list only our stack and even caveat that by saying that it can change. I can wager that most software engineer positions fall in this category.

Another relevant point here is that women are less likely to apply for positions with a predefined list of requirements even if they are only missing 1 of them as opposed to men. So why are we shooting ourselves in the foot with all of these requirements?

NewsCred | New York | Onsite, Full-time | https://www.newscred.com/careers

NewsCred is the world’s leading content marketing company. We build software that supports marketers in content planning, creation, publishing, and analysis. We help brands speak to their audiences by providing both bespoke original content and content licensed from the world’s leading publishers. Finally, as pioneers in our industry, we provide unique professional services and leverage our best in class technology platform for all of the world’s content.

There are multiple positions open for Full Stack Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers, along with many others. See link above for more details.

Why not show ads and give the money to a charity or any other foundation of your choice?

The way I understand it is:

(build -> deploy -> feedback -> build -> deploy -> feedback ..) until you reach love, when you can start focussing on growth.

The lean philosophy is to make sure your (build -> deploy -> feedback) loop is tight.

That will not even meet min. wage requirements.

Democracy won. Middle America made their choice based on a hope that Trump will bring back jobs to America, especially manufacturing to the Middle American Industrial heartland. What they failed to see was that the dream is, just that, a dream! One that can almost never (never say never?) come true.

This is so much easier to explain than to convince people that globalization is a reality and that the only option in many of these cases is to retrain for a high skilled economy that the US always was, and must continue be in order to be an economic superpower. No matter which party won, this section of people would be anti-establishment and unhappy with the present because nobody can break this bad news to them.

A software engineering analogy is to convince leadership that you have to refactor your stack in order for it to scale, during which new products would suffer. BUT, its easier to convince them to hire 10 more engineers who can build new product on an aging stack, which may not solve the problem, but is relatively easier to sell.

In 5-10 years, who will explain to the millions of automobile drivers (taxis/trucks/uber/lyft/..) that their jobs are dying as well? Nobody. Wait for another anti-establishment election!

I've had great success with Ruby/Mechanize for regular html scraping and phantomjs for dynamic page scraping.

Am I the only one who thinks that this is a terrible way to hire any Engineer, Director or not? I may have hung up after first 3 questions saying that "this does not sound like a good fit to me".

Google linked link which is not subject to paywall: http://bit.ly/2cGd7E7

If you dont want to invest in emerging markets, its not the end of the world.

The risks can be higher but so are the rewards. The most important thing is to not just invest in a market blindly. Try your best to understand that market and keep tabs on that market.

You don't have to diversify for the sake for diversification. You can invest domestically and diversify by industries.

Credit where credit's due.

In my time travelling in France (Paris, Nice and surrounding areas), I made every attempt to say the little things in French. "Bonjour" , "Le menu pour Anglais" or "L'Addition s'il vous plait", "Parlez vous anglais?" etc. The idea was to start any question or conversation in french and then switch to English.

Never did I have a problem over my 2 weeks with anyone. Everyone appreciated the effort to speak the language and was super polite and warm.

Great attitude and a hunger to learn >> Super smart but a pain to work with, in the long run.

If you already regret not starting a company, then start one.

Generally you would want to give this "experiment" a realistic timeline (ideally, multi years). Set goals on when you think this is or is not working, so that you can bail. This is very similar to making bets on the stock market, except that you are investing in yourself.

Now, look at your worst case scenario (failed startup). Things you will MOST definitely learn:

- How to start a company?

- What does being your own boss mean?

- Independent thinking

- Make some new friends/contacts and meet other people.

Things you will lose:

- Time

- Money

- Balanced lifestyle, perhaps

If you think, you, as a person, are the same or better, then you've won half the battle.

You need to be sure that years down, knowing the worst case scenario you dont have a new set of regrets. Also, ideas are a dime-a-dozen, its all in the execution.