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greg_mazurekon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

We definitely prefer to have employees in our NYC, Dublin, or Portland offices. It depends on the role and the person, as you can imagine. I think it would be very challenging to have a Product Manager working remotely -- the job requires lots of meetings.

greg_mazurekon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

Gilt Groupe - NYC (full-time)

http://www.gilt.com (web)

http://m.gilt.com (mobile)

We're currently looking for:

* Front End Engineer

* Generalist Engineer

* eCommerce Product Manager

* Senior UX Designer

* Machine Learning & Recommendations Engineers

* LOTS MORE: http://www.gilt.com/company/careers/jobs

Check out our tech blog here: http://tech.gilt.com

greg_mazurekon How I made my first app in 3 weeks for $250 with no coding skills

Great to hear! You'll be coding in no time. :)

greg_mazurekon Facebook knows you’re gay before you do

Personalization feels like the SEO of 2013. In general, personalization is very hard in terms of "what customer wants" -- look at Amazon's "products for you." In the case of Facebook, this feels like an association algorithm based on affinity rather than personalization the way Target was doing it.

Here's a link to the Target story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...

greg_mazurekon Google applies for another Glass patent, controlling your home

There's an assumption here that if you're going to be using your Google Glasses to open a garage door, you'd presumably be wearing them while you're driving. I hope they finish driver-less cars first.

Other uses listed in the patent include: "For example, target device 14 could be a household appliance or device, such as a refrigerator, television, dishwasher, audio system, video system, alarm system, thermostat, garage door, etc. Alternatively, target device 14 could be an office appliance or device, such as a copy machine, fax machine, projection system, security system, etc. Other examples of target device 14 are also possible."

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

greg_mazurekon How I made my first app in 3 weeks for $250 with no coding skills

Congratulations on this. In my experience, however, the initial cost to create is usually the cheapest part of development -- maintenance is expensive. If you have to update your app with a new developer in the future, I hope the initial developer followed good programming practices to make it easy to understand what's going on. I'd encourage you to pay another $50 next time and have the developer explain to you how the code works.

greg_mazurekon Hacker News For Africa

Mobile phone usage is very high in Africa compared to the big screen experience. Wouldn't it be nice if your design was a better mobile experience?

greg_mazurekon HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

This is a perfect size team for using HipChat. We tried HipChat at Gilt with around 40 engineers and it was too cumbersome because of the number of groups.

I hope they finally allowed users to edit their comments. That was one notable issue I had. Also, there was no such thing as a "private" group because admins had access to all groups.