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mikeatlas | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)

Weft - http://weft.io - Cambridge/Boston, MA (office is in central sq.) -- LOCAL/ON-SITE ONLY

   ===========================
   ====== What we do =========
   ===========================
We're the single source of truth in logistics -- we track every boat on the water, every plane in the sky, and every truck on the ground so that we can know everything that's going on in the logistics world. We do a lot of analysis and optimization, too. We’re working in the largest, least sexy, most invisible industry in the world — 90% of everything has been on a ship at one point in time. The problem -> Lots of inefficiencies in the supply chain! One of our customers spends $400mm/year shipping empty containers, another spends $80mm/year on late fees. Lots to optimize! How we fix it -> We track everything in the supply chain and make predictions and recommendations as to what our customers should do!

   ===========================
   ===== How we do it ========
   ===========================
Web/data stack -> clojure/scala/python + postgis/redshift/redis/rabbit + ruby on rails + hadoop/EMR/Spark/Docker (we’re a SOA shop)

Mobile -> iOS, android, mobile web

Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques... think ML, Neuro-AI modeling, and statistics

Hardware -> think guts of a cell phone with hardening the of industrial systems, power management to last 5 years between charges done at the cost of a dinner

   ===========================
   ====== And the rest =======
   ===========================
We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from CPG companies and telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors (a16z, atlas)! Looking specifically for:

- Senior Firmware Engineer: https://angel.co/weft/jobs/69235-senior-firmware-engineer

If this sounds interesting, please shoot us an email at [email protected] or connect with us through the AngelList posting.

mikeatlas | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

Weft - http://weft.io - Cambridge/Boston, MA (office is in central sq.) -- LOCAL/ON-SITE ONLY

   ===========================
   ====== What we do =========
   ===========================
We're the single source of truth in logistics -- we track every boat on the water, every plane in the sky, and every truck on the ground so that we can know everything that's going on in the logistics world. We do a lot of analysis and optimization, too. We’re working in the largest, least sexy, most invisible industry in the world — 90% of everything has been on a ship at one point in time. The problem -> Lots of inefficiencies in the supply chain! One of our customers spends $400mm/year shipping empty containers, another spends $80mm/year on late fees. Lots to optimize! How we fix it -> We track everything in the supply chain and make predictions and recommendations as to what our customers should do!

   ===========================
   ===== How we do it ========
   ===========================
Web/data stack -> clojure/scala/python + postgis/redshift/redis/rabbit + ruby on rails + hadoop/EMR/Spark/Docker (we’re a SOA shop)

Mobile -> iOS, android, mobile web

Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques... think ML, Neuro-AI modeling, and statistics

   ===========================
   ====== And the rest =======
   ===========================
We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from CPG companies and telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors (a16z, atlas)! Looking specifically for:

- Big Data Tech Leads (framework and language agnostic, think DevOps meets InfraOps meets Big Data meets Data Science)

- Lead Full Stack Senior Engineer (framework and language agnostic as well, but we're Rails+Angular+Foundation and Node.js too)

If this sounds interesting, please shoot us an email at [email protected]! We've also got detailed job descriptions posted on AngelList (https://angel.co/weft/jobs/)

mikeatlas | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)

Weft - http://weft.io - Cambridge/Boston, MA (office is in central sq.) -- LOCAL ONLY (no remote)

   ===========================
   ====== What we do =========
   ===========================
We're the single source of truth in logistics -- we track every boat on the water, every plane in the sky, and every truck on the ground so that we can know everything that's going on in the logistics world. We do a lot of analysis and optimization, too. We’re working in the largest, least sexy, most invisible industry in the world — 90% of everything has been on a ship at one point in time. The problem -> Lots of inefficiencies in the supply chain! One of our customers spends $400mm/year shipping empty containers, another spends $80mm/year on late fees. Lots to optimize! How we fix it -> We track everything in the supply chain and make predictions and recommendations as to what our customers should do!

   ===========================
   ===== How we do it ========
   ===========================
Web/data stack -> clojure/scala/python + postgis/redshift/redis/rabbit + ruby on rails + hadoop/EMR (we’re a SOA shop) Mobile -> iOS, android, mobile web Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques... think ML, Neuro-AI modeling, and statistics

   ===========================
   ====== And the rest =======
   ===========================
We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from CPG companies and telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors (a16z, atlas)! Looking for:

- Big Data Tech Leads (framework and language agnostic, think DevOps meets InfraOps meets Big Data meets Data Science)

- Lead Full Stack Senior Engineer (framework and language agnostic as well, but we're Rails+Angular+Foundation and Node.js too)

- Just really smart people who think they might want be able to contribute and are interested in what we're up to!

If this sounds interesting, please shoot us an email at [email protected]! We've also got detailed job descriptions posted on AngelList (https://angel.co/weft/jobs/)

mikeatlas | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

Weft - http://weft.io - Cambridge/Boston, MA (office is in central sq.)

   ===========================
   ====== What we do =========
   ===========================
We're the single source of truth in logistics data -- we track every boat on the water, every plane in the sky, and every truck on the ground so that we can know everything that's going on in the logistics world. We do a lot of analysis and optimization, too. We’re working in the largest, least sexy, most invisible industry in the world — 90% of everything has been on a ship at one point in time. The problem -> To try to decrease costs, carries have been increasing the size of container ships. The only problem there is that as container ships get larger, the variability in the global supply chain goes up (e.g. a large ship being late causes a headache to more people than a small one). How we fix it -> We track every ship on the water and run a bunch of analysis on our data sets so that we can help our customers smooth out the rough edges. (One company we're working with spends 6.5 mil every month on “late fees” because of these rough edges).

   ===========================
   ===== How we do it ========
   ===========================
Data stack -> clojure + postgres/cassandra/redis/rabbit/hadoop/EMR (we’re a SOA shop)

Web -> Ruby on Rails, Postgres, PostGIS, Angular, coffeescript

Mobile -> iOS, android in the near term

Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)

   ===========================
   ====== And the rest =======
   ===========================
We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from CPG companies and telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors (a16z, atlas)! Looking for help on frontend and data science sides! (also looking for experimentalists for fun hedge fund stuff) If this sounds interesting, please shoot me an email at [email protected]!

mikeatlas | 12 years ago | on: Rails 4.1.0 beta1 released

The letter_opener gem is pretty handy to avoid that: https://github.com/ryanb/letter_opener

Or, you could easily just create controller actions which render your emails as well:

@body = mail.body.parts[1].html_part.body.raw_source

render '/mailer_notification/preview.html', :layout => false

And in preview.html.erb: <%= raw(@body) %>

mikeatlas | 17 years ago | on: Looking for a place to stay tomorrow night (Tuesday) near San Jose

New members with no prior references may find it hard to get a couchsurfing host immediately, especially on short notice.

Simply becoming a member of the site doesn't guarantee a place to stay...so here are some helpful guides to get started in the CS community and culture.

http://www.couchsurfing.com/mission.html

http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Searching_and_requesting_a_c...

http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/How_to_write_a_CouchRequest

http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Cheat_Sheet

(I'm heavily involved on CS)

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