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zubairshams | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)

Populate | Senior Software Engineer (BE & FE roles) | New York | Remote (USA)

I'm the Founder and CTO of Populate, a rapidly expanding Healthtech startup that fully automates doctors' workflows. Having recently closed our second VC funding round, we're now on the lookout for multiple Senior Engineers to join our team.

If the prospect of making a substantial impact on technology, product, and culture in an early-stage startup with proven traction excites you, we'd love to hear from you.

Backend: C# Frontend: React + Typescript

Apply Directly: zubair[at]populate[dot]com

Job Postings: https://boards.greenhouse.io/applytopopulate Website: www.populate.com

zubairshams | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)

Populate | ONSITE New York, New York | REMOTE | Founding Engineer roles

Populate is an early-stage, venture-backed Health Tech startup operating in the $808B US healthcare industry solving challenging engineering problems.

We are building the next generation Electronic Medical Records system targeting the Podiatry and Orthopedics practices. We have a clear path to expand the market vertically to include additional services and horizontally to other kind of healthcare practices.

Competitive salary | Stock Equity | Healthcare | Autonomy and flexibility

Tech Stack: C#, F#, .NET Core, Go

Website: https://www.populate.com Job links: https://boards.greenhouse.io/applytopopulate

zubairshams | 5 years ago | on: The Early History of F# [pdf]

The difference between doing functional programming in C# vs doing functional programming in F# is subtle but important. A true FP language like F# will not allow code that introduces certain classes of errors FP is designed to prevent. Whereas in C#, a developer needs to be really careful not to introduce those errors even when following FP style. C# will always allow mutable states, null values, global variables, to name a few.

zubairshams | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?

I once wanted to deploy a React front end (only), not served by Node. I spend 4 hours just to do a simple deploy and the app kept crashing. Finally, an obscure build pack command that needs to be executed surfaced on a blog post which solved my problem, which was not to be found ANYWHERE else!

zubairshams | 6 years ago | on: Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

One great book on how the culture of an entire giant company can change is "Who says elephants can't dance" by Lou Gerstner. He was the CEO of IBM who orchestrated IBM's transformation from a mainframe supplier to a service-oriented company. My take on the process is this - the change can be done and has been done when there is an existential crisis. The crisis may not be apparent from the outside, but company internals can notice a terminal decline of their core product/service and has an impetus to change the direction. Even then, it's not easy. I would argue that Microsoft had to make somewhat of an about-turn from Windows because first the Internet and second the Cloud was putting pressure on their core business threatening to make the OS a marginal player. I don't think Google is in that position, at least not yet. Google Ad business is not facing any terminal threat. Thereby it is much harder for Google to make a culture change because simply the pressure to make the change is not there at an organizational level. [Edit: Prepositional corrections]

zubairshams | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you expect from a new manager in an existing team?

1. Understand the hopes, motivations, needs, barriers faced by the members of your team 2. Learn the expectations and objectives set by your superior in terms of achieving success 3. Bring your expertise in connecting the two. Your team wants a manager they can respect. Be aware of your management style and improve upon it. If your team knows you have their back and can make things happen they will respect you 4. In turn, respect your team members. Set a clear path for their career growth. Nothing sucks more to see a manager who is too busy sucking up to upper management for his/her own good ignoring the people who support him/her

zubairshams | 7 years ago | on: Raising of Chicago

All the traffic is in River North, the area straight north bordering downtown. River North is where most of the nightlife is.

zubairshams | 13 years ago | on: That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer

In my opinion, the book is about 1) How geographical location and natural factors (accidental agriculture etc.) resulted in some part of the humanity accumulate certain knowledge that helped accelerate them over others 2) Advancement of certain civilization is not a necessary indication they are better, smarter, more hard working, but an indication of accumulated knowledge resulting from #1 over a long period of time 3) #2 culminated in Europeans dominating the world over the better part of last 500 years

zubairshams | 13 years ago | on: Never mind talent: Practice, practice, practice

People who seem successful from the outside, are in general, very hard working and focused in their venture. I have few friends from high school who always got good grades and understood topics very fast. Being around such gifted students made me feel insufficient. I could never compete with them no matter how hard I tried. In my mind I was trying hard. Turns out, while I was slicing my waking hours between sports, hanging out, studies and socializing, they invested all those hours to study class materials, read supplementary materials, reading ahead for the class next day. To me, sports, studies and friends were equally important while they kept single minded focus on where they want to put their hours. It also turns out, the method is replicable. You can put single minded focus on anything and be reasonably successful. I believe it. Because I have seen it happen in my life. Albeit, there are talended people and hard work will always fall short of talent + hard work. But hard work will get you far enough.

zubairshams | 13 years ago | on: iPhone 5

All the map comparisons so far are between Apple and Android. Anybody has experience using Nokia maps and how that fares against Google or Apple map product?

zubairshams | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Facebook Connect bad for business?

Also, as a generic facebook user, I feel increasingly queasy when I see some app I signed up to use is posting all my activity on that app on my facebook page. Not welcome. Yes, I can control the publishing right for the app on my facebook page but usually I find myself tend to remove the app entirely. It's getting prevalent to use facebook connect as login for a new business, but personally I doubt if this practice is viable and applauded by the user.

zubairshams | 15 years ago | on: Does .biz domain extension hurt your business?

Thanks for the response phlux. It's a healthcare patient management related software. However, we do have product on a completely different area. May be looking for a generic catchy name for the company is better than product based domain name? I appreciate your help very much.
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