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murtali | 4 years ago | on: Launch HN: Litebulb (YC W22) – Automating the coding interview

Three metrics you pointed out: 1. Linter 2. Cyclomatic/halstead complexity 3. identifier naming convention testing

Are those really things that candidates can get a negative ding for? Those are things that can/should be handled automatically by libraries or your CI/CD (ex: Rubocop)

More importantly, how do you get more details/nuance over things like naming or cyclomatic complexity.

murtali | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

Tinkergarten | New York | Software Engineer | Full Time | https://tinkergarten.com

Tinkergarten is on a mission to elevate childhood. We’re growing a technology-enabled network of leaders that bring families together in a natural place in their community for classes where kids learn through play. [ early childhood education ]

We're looking for a software engineer with at least 2 years professional experience. Our stack: Ruby/Rails, ReactJS, Mysql, AWS

Apply directly at: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/tinkergartencom/view...

Reach out to me at [email protected] if you have any questions.

murtali | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)

Tinkergarten | New York | Software Engineer | Full Time | https://tinkergarten.com

Tinkergarten is on a mission to elevate childhood. We’re growing a technology-enabled network of leaders that bring families together in a natural place in their community for classes where kids learn through play.

We're looking for a software engineer with at least 2 years professional experience. Our stack: Ruby/Rails, ReactJS, Mysql, AWS

If you're interested reach out to me at [email protected] --- more info at: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/tinkergartencom/view...

murtali | 8 years ago | on: Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator

To me this is the primary challenge of outsourcing your client side tracking -- you risk a wholesale block of your analytics if the Segment file gets blacklisted.

murtali | 9 years ago | on: Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation

I think their value over the long term is similar to tripadvisor/yelp - while anyone can come in a create a repository of home sharing they wouldn't have the reviews/reputation data as AirBnB has. Going into someone's home / letting someone in your home, just like hotel reviews or restaurant, reviews/ratings can matter in the decision making process.

murtali | 11 years ago | on: Pointer Pointer

Haha, this thing is hilarious. Great job. I wonder if the author manually went through images locating the finger or there was some automated way of doing it. I did notice that if you move the pointer is certain ~20x20 areas the same picture appears. I'm guessing the set of images is small enough to just manually do it.

murtali | 11 years ago | on: Airbnb Political Campaign [video]

Violating the lease is probably the biggest issue imo with Airbnb. I think part of it is that we so often gloss over legal contracts and the concept of airbnb where you can just "rent out a room" doesn't FEEL like anything wrong. If as a tenant you know it's wrong, it FEELs like a petty offense which you shouldn't be penalized for or it FEELs like a broken law.

murtali | 11 years ago

Saw this on product hunt in the morning and been playing around with it. Everything automatically gets saved in local storage and after I fullscreen/desktop the app, it makes it super easy to switch back and forth from what you're working on. I've been using good ol "data:text/html, <html contenteditable>" for simple note-taking so this is definitely an improvement.

Suggestion: Would be cool if CMD + ` could switch between different tabs/sections.

murtali | 12 years ago | on: Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner

I hope Mr.Hiroshima writes a blog post detailing what happened. I'm particularly interested in whether Twitter has implemented any changes in the way they handle high value handles/or all to prevent others who've experienced this with their Twitter account.

murtali | 12 years ago | on: How Google Is Cleaning The Web Of Comment Spam

Authentication before commenting being the biggest. People have been trying to do link spamming on comments forever. Disqus attempts to legitimize and monetize it with their sponsored stories/links.

murtali | 12 years ago

Never seen art like this before. I'm interested to see if I were a stranger walking by would my eyes totally miss the guy.

murtali | 12 years ago | on: Why Netflix should buy AMC

Why buy AMC when they can just hire the executives who made the calls on those shows? With a market cap of about $4b, AMC is pretty damn huge. Sure the content would be included but still hard to justify.

murtali | 12 years ago | on: Space Farming: The Final Frontier

"Russian crews are allowed to consume vegetables grow on their side of the space station"

I thought that line was the funniest in the article. I can imagine an image of Vladimir munching his veggies as poor Joe looks on.

murtali | 12 years ago | on: Two Men, 58 Years and Counting. A Love Story.

Felt the same way and thought I should share. The part where he says: "“The pattern now seems to be, everybody has to reveal, ‘I’m gay!’ ” Mr. Leedom said. “But the word didn’t exist in our life, and we just were. It wasn’t something you had to ever articulate. It didn’t matter..." I found that particularly interesting. My understanding of modern day gay culture is that coming out is a type of rite of passage. To them that concept seemed foreign in a way.

murtali | 12 years ago | on: Google offering same-day delivery from retailers in the Bay Area

Something like that is actually a great idea. My thought was more along the lines of economics of same day delivery. It's incredibly expensive at the moment for a number of factors one of them being employee costs but also inefficiencies in volume and demand for the service. Self driving cars I figure solve some of these issues.
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