chrisconley

Yeah, it definitely isn't for everyone. I also love getting into the zone too, but also enjoy pairing.

The most rewarding part of pairing for me is probably the learning/teaching dynamic.

Yeah, so sorry! We modified an existing theme and haven't had the chance to fix that yet. We'll be taking care of that in the coming days!

Another cool way to cover your bases is to run monte carlo simulations.

At my previous employer, we open sourced a command line utility that we used to validate our statistical models if anyone's interested: https://github.com/monetate/monte-carlo-simulator

RealScout - Software Engineer - Mountain View, CA

We help real estate agents collaborate with their clients, so that they can sell more homes. (We've helped power over $5 million in commissions). Whereas Zillow and Trulia help connect home buyers to agents, we help agents move their clients who are serious about buying across the finish line.

We recently announced our $6m Series A [1] and are looking for engineers who love new challenges and shipping great product.

About RealScout:

* grown from 2 to 25 employees since 2012 [2]

* open source across the stack - Ruby, AngularJS, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis

* backed by prominent VC’s and angel investors including DCM, Joe Lonsdale / Formation 8 and Ken DeLeon, the number one Realtor® in the US

Feel free to email me at chris at realscout dot com anytime with any questions or to apply. Thanks!

[1] - http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/17/realscout-raises-6-million-...

[2] - https://www.realscout.com/team

RealScout - Software Engineer - Mountain View, CA (onsite or remote)

We help real estate agents collaborate with their clients in more personal, proactive, insightful and accessible ways (aka, sell more homes). Whereas Zillow and Trulia help connect home buyers to agents, we help agents move their clients who are serious about buying across the finish line.

We're looking for engineers who love new challenges and shipping great product.

About RealScout:

* grown from 2 to 30 employees since 2012 (https://www.realscout.com/team)

* open source across the stack - Ruby, AngularJS, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis

* backed by prominent VC’s and angel investors including DCM, Joe Lonsdale / Formation 8 and Ken DeLeon, the number one Realtor® in the US

Feel free to email me at chris at realscout dot com anytime with any questions or to apply. Thanks!

RealScout - Software Engineer - Mountain View, CA

The Team:

We're a fun loving bunch[1] who have our sights set on being the best engineering team in real estate. We believe in continuous improvement both in team and self. Most of our backend is in Ruby, but we're not stuck to it as we add new features/services.

The Job:

At only 7 engineers in a growing startup, we have tons of fun challenges to take on: From implementing new UI components in AngularJS to setting up our dev environment with Vagrant and Packer and writing clean APIs for our web and iOS clients to importing hundreds of thousands of home listings into Elasticsearch.

You:

You love taking on new challenges. You likely have a ton of experience building software and are tinkering with a new technology in a side project. You're ready to champion your ideas in a team eager to learn and improve.

If you think RealScout's engineering team might be a good fit, feel free to email me at chris at realscout dot com anytime.

[1] http://vimeo.com/98767317

I just remembered there was some interest in this topic a couple months ago when I mentioned [1] it, so I thought I'd throw this lightning talk up I gave last month.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7378815

I got my current gig at Monetate in December 2013 after seeing a post on Who's Hiring November 2013.

It turns out we've hired 7 our ~20 software engineers like this over the last few years.

Well, I've started on a landing page for an email course. It's pretty rough around the edges, but I suppose I could take this opportunity to solicit feedback. ;)

I would also be thrilled to get my first signup. :)

http://chrisconley.io/delivered/

Spot on. This has been sort of an obsession of mine lately using the game of hangman and decision theory to "prove" why this works and how it applies to software development.

There are so many dogmas out there (Fail fast, MVP, Agile, Lean, etc) which all boil down to the same thing: Maximizing information gain and minimizing the cost of failure.

I'm planning on a blog post/email course/talk/something in the next few weeks but it's not quite ready yet.

Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburbs) No remote, but we will help you with relocation.

Monetate helps internet marketers make their site more relevant. We turn data in action on our clients' sites by doing real-time data analysis and DOM modification to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.

What we're looking for:

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve our users' problems

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - data, UX, 3rd party JS, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of fun problems to work on

* Open source - Google Closure, AngularJS, Python, Hadoop, Mahout, Solr and Lucene - we're open source across our stack

About us:

* Founded in 2008

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical teams have full authority over (and responsibility for) the problems they work on.

* Market rate salaries

* Funded by First Round and OpenView

We're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds.

Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/

We've hired great people from HN in the past.

Please feel free to email me with any questions - cconley at monetate com

Interesting, I'll have to take a look at those.

The real reason is that it was just an idea that we came up with and decided to try it. It worked well, so we stuck with it. :)

I'm trying to parse my HipChat conversation with our Architect (who did most of the speed improvements) and it looks like going from Python to naive C loop was a 200x improvement (though that's not a direct comparison of course). Going from naive C to dSFMT we went from one particular simulation taking 14:30 down to 2:30 (minutes).

Cool stuff. @brynary, how do you organize your app? Are all seven techniques dumped into app/models or do you keep each technique in its own directory?

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By chaining together APIs, customized web crawling, and/or our own human-based API, I can build a custom solution that integrates right into your business process or app.

Email is in profile or you can get in touch through the contact form on http://datamonsters.co.

Going on last week's outage of 2 hours and last night's of 8 hours, that puts June's uptime at ~98.6%.

For a new project, I spent 1.5 hours in Balsamiq and 6 more implementing the mockup with bootstrap in rails 3.1.

The end result is quite nice looking functional prototype that's already in a good place to start building the actual app upon. Couldn't be happier.

It's a bit more expensive but there's also http://brandbucket.com.

Congrats from Houdini as well; MobileWorks looks great! We'd definitely be interested exploring this option further.

Hey all, Chris from Houdini here. This is a new idea we're currently working on - any feedback is greatly appreciated!

The price would be $0.01 for the lifetime of the image; not every time your application ask for the image.

This idea would just be the starting point for integration; we could offer a callback to integrate with your backend after an image has been moderated, so you could handle it as you wish. (For example, remove an offensive image entirely from your site)

Clickable links:

Demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2cwTSGZCY4 Houdini: http://houdiniapi.com

It might not be for every company, but my wife quit her job last year and we were able to get COBRA.

Agree with randall that it's a good starting point. Matt1 has a pretty cool html5 mockup tool too - http://jmockups.com. Glad to see multiple people in this space.

> Expand to the other major chain restaurants and source your pricing from Mechanical Turk (except for the dollar menus of course). I'd take a few precautions to validate the data. For example, you could put up an HIT to get Burger King's entire menu and have 5 people complete it. Compare, lather, and repeat. But I see that as only the first step.

I have an API that does this automatically for you, http://houdinihq.com. I'd be happy to help the OP if there's an interest in doing something like this.

I have an API that addresses some of these issues in alpha right now: http://houdinihq.com. Feel free to get in touch if you'd like - my email's in my profile.

Yeah, they are. We moved our app to our own domain for the time being.

Thanks! We also have some more advanced apis in the works, like asking multiple workers to do the same work and automatically determining the 'true' answer. From your point of view, they'll be just as easy to use though.

Pricing is still TBD. MTurk charges will be passed through directly to you with Houdini-specific charges either per task or per month.

Yeah, I'm planning on accepting non-US users.

I'm building an API on top of MTurk, http://houdinihq.com, that you could use. It's currently in alpha, but feel free to email me at presto@houdinihq.com if you're interested in an api key.