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I doubt this means very much, or is worth anything but FWIW...

I had arranged for myself and 2 friends to go have lunch with 2 people from OkCupid specifically about whether or not we would be a good fit into the company and what they would be able to offer. I'm only looking for an entry-level front-end dev position so my time isnt nearly as valuable, but out of the other 2 friends one is an ex-Googler, the other from Morgan Stanley, both as back-end engineers.

After this stunt by OkCupid we cancelled the lunch and will not continue on with OkCupid.

I think truly random seating could be a nightmare.

This is not a hard rule but I believe that each field should be fairly well grouped together. Just enough to keep them quiet as a group, but not close enough to make each group feel segregated. So for example, designers often like to bounce ideas off each other while they work throughout the day. QA/Support often times need to verbally regurgitate things to new employees and/or over tech support calls, managers like to verbally remind people of things.

Remove your engineers from the trajectory line of small-talk, get them away from the door, away from the coffee refueling station, etc...

Not that anybody in the office should have to deal with distractions but it's particularly dangerous when you subject your engineers to those circumstances. One thing I also liked is that in our office we seemed to have a small barricade blocking our senior engineers from the small-talk questions that the designers would often have. For example when our designers and UI/UX people would have questions about how expensive of a task it would be to resize assets/how to handle img aspect ratios, our senior devs were at the very back of the office as a last resort. This gave our junior devs/front-end guys a chance to answer any small questions before senior engineers were distracted. (which also made them feel extremely proud and gave them some respect in the office)

Just my opinion. It really depends on how many employees and what kind of atmosphere you already have/want to create. Sometimes in building a community, it's more about finding that one individual with the right personality and letting them shine. The right person can bring together your whole office if you give them the opportunity.

good luck!

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I also think it's extremely important to have your engineers facing AWAY from the middle of the office. Personally I think one of the most distracting things while I'm coding is seeing things move around in my peripheral vision.

I also think this whole thing is overblown but I hope it will help to further humble Coinbase in realizing that they really need to focus more efforts on squashing things like this before they become a problem. Coinbase has a large responsibility in whether or not Bitcoin is to become "accepted" in the USA and several small events like these left unsettled or left to fester could prove catastrophic(IMO).

I don't believe Coinbase should consider this a real "security threat". I believe that this is a negative side-effect of what may be a feature. It is certainly something that needs improvement, as I'm sure all of the people whose email has been leaked will tell you...

I'm not sure if Coinbase has an engineering blog or a similar outlet where they can speak to more developers directly but if they do not have one already, this may be the time to start. This could've been squashed entirely within a small development community but when left unsettled for so long, it is things like this that the news will latch onto and run with We all know how blown out of proportion things get when that happens.

Anyway, long story short... I hope Coinbase improves. As much as I hate to say that a tech company needs more representatie

This background from Google Ventures is one of my favorites http://www.gv.com/lib/design-details

There's always going to be a more efficient way, but when nobody else is doing anything actionable, who cares?

Congrats to the kid, he got his 15 minutes of fame. I hope it will motivate him to continue improving this world. The benefit for the rest of us is that hopefully with all of this attention, someone more qualified will come along and actually start some significant changes.

Wow that looks like the most boring, un-inspiring group of people I've ever seen. You are a lucky man (or woman) to have walked away without a job.

Let FB pump all the money into VR they want. In 5 years we'll have the company that Oculus was supposed to be, and FB will have already cleared the land and paved the roads.

I would rather see developers in the community focus more effort into already existing libraries/frameworks and making them easier to install/setup/build an MVP.

this is awesome, lmao

When things like this happen I always wonder if there are any agencies that still consult "psychics"

5/8 people in my office audibly laughed at this.

Give me a sec I'll fire up the 'ol D3 and give you a statistical analysis of age, gender, race, hair-colour, (noticed I used colour, not color), etc..

LOL

If I reply to this with constructive criticism, would that be sexist?

No.

We need more people who cannot stop thinking about their work, because of how much they love it.

Why don't we list our phone numbers?

Because our company doesnt pay engineers 6 figures to answer support calls.

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but your product looks awesome :)

I see the flow you're talking about but IMO that second sentence is just too big and too bold. The paragraph seems to drop that bomb, inch away and then come back to discredit it rather than just spitting it out like, "rumors begun to spread that Dong had..."

Anyway, no sense in nit-picking but I would like to see a couple words rearranged. I really think he's a good guy and he seems to be someone worthy of the industry's admiration.

We need many, many more people like him in this world. (from what I know about him)

I only know he is still alive because I've followed the Flappy Bird story.

I just shared this story with 3 people who only know OF him, all 3 of them replied with their condolences and then we found consolation in his humor about CounterStrike. As a reporter I would think there should be some importance in leaving zero room for misintepretation regarding somebody's well-being.

Is that wrong?

Just to clarify, Dong Nguyen is still alive... right?

The article is a little fuzzy -

"In the wake of Flappy Bird's demise, rumors spread. Nguyen had committed suicide."

Dong Nguyen speaks and Twitter shuts down.

Damn, that guys good.

Yep

Personally I hope we never find Satoshi. Chuck Norris was getting old anyway...

I lost interest at "cable company"

Today was a bad day to send my proposal for introducing bitbucket to my new company X_X

Infinite scroll is about making it as seamless as possible for the user to get new information.

How many times do you go on a paginated page, get to page 5 and say "okay, after page 6 I'm done." Then you either leave or continue on that process...

Infinite scrolling takes away your perspective of exactly how much content you're consuming and how much time you may be wasting. It is only until youre done and you attempt to scroll back up that you realize how much time youve spent.

My side-project now is very much like Tumblr/Pinterest and I found this post interesting because for awhile ive been trying to find the best middle-ground between infinite scrolling and some form of incremental, pagination-styled display of content.

Honestly I'm stumped but for right now my best solution is to load about 20 items, lazy load another 30, and use pagination for the rest. Although I've been thinking about just displaying an infinite scroll toggle switch on the bottom of the viewport after the user reaches the end of the initial item list.

I love when these multi-million dollar studies come out and the only thing that hits the news is a headline that could've been inferred by a 10 year old.

I started software development recently, and coming from the restaurant industry it's extremely hard to wrap my head around the way most people in the tech industry think when it comes to work ethic. Personally I think it has a lot to do with being spoiled with an over-abundance of jobs. Most of you are very comfortable and wouldnt be worried about finding work if you were fired tomorrow.

In the restaurant industry it is part of the culture that no successful chef rises from the trenches of building a well-regarded establishment working less than 60-70 hours a week. That is the minimum.

I've worked nearly every position in the restaurant biz (I love the industry and would do it everyday if it paid anything decent) including a couple well-regarded NYC places where I worked consecutive 100+ hour weeks for extended periods of time, 24 hour shifts, and often times ended up sleeping somewhere in the restaurant so instead of spending an hour to get home and an hour to come back, I could use 2 extra hours of sleep. When I was 17 I saved a paycheck with 112 hours on it.

At almost 21 now and having recently completely left the industry (except for occasional catering gigs) I was up until recently still working consecutive 70-90 hour weeks.

It's likely because Im young and maybe naive but the appeal for me has always been the camaraderie and for the life of me I cannot find that in a startup. I've interviewed in person with over a dozen startups now in Manhattan and Brooklyn and I've turned down offers from the majority of companies I interviewed with because at 5pm, they all turn off their computers and go home.

I want to work with a team that's put all their chips into the company. Financially, physically, emotionally. I want the blood, sweat, and tears that make up the restaurant industry. Not because I think my hours are "cool" or "impressive" because I know I wont be able to maintain those hours as I get older and have real commitments. For now what I want is a team that has it all on the line. I know the risks are high but I know the reward is higher, the friendships that come out of those experiences have always been the strongest ones for me and the experiences have taught me how to handle the worst.

As I get older I'm sure I'll come to learn the differences between being paid for physical labour and being paid to develop software. Eventually I'll be in the same boat as most of you but for now I'll continue to work a 12 hour day and wakeup excited to check my emails and excited to hack on the next feature for my next side-project.

I thought the google+ question was rather unimportant so I used the opportunity to ask about free snacks?

;) You have the right state-of-mind.

But step back a little and see the bigger picture. Real world implementation of the old affiliate system is high-quality spam in exchange for pennies on the dollar.

Yes, absolutely.

Coincidentally I'm working on mailers today but I noticed your email on Github so I'll set a reminder for myself and let you know when I have a mailing list up.

wtf hard