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Please contact me at rodrigo [dot] ipince [at] gmail. Always happy to connect!
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ipince··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Leanplum | Product Manager, Software Engineers (BE, Fullstack) | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | VISA sponsorship offered | https://www.leanplum.com

We're building a complete mobile marketing platform. You might've seen our billboards on the 101 or bus stops around SF. In short, we help companies engage with their mobile users. In practice, we let marketers create very granularly targeted campaigns, and we handle the delivery, reporting, and optimization for them (for example, think of a lifecycle campaign to prevent churn, or a one-off campaign to send a discount to a specific set of users).

I lead the Data Platform team that serves as a foundation for user targeting, analysis, optimizations. We ingest and process billions of events daily, and have a lot of interesting infrastructure work happening. We are a midsize company (~140 total, ~40 engineers), B2B, series C, with real sustainable revenue, and growing very fast. My team is 5 people now and looking to grow to 7. I'm also happy to put you in touch with other teams within the company.

Apply with the link below and do send me a note to rodrigo at leanplum dot com. (If you're applying for PM, just send me an email since we don't have a job listing for that now). Job listing: https://www.leanplum.com/company/careers-openings/?gh_jid=47...

ipince··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
Thank you! Fixed.
ipince··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
Leanplum | Product Manager, Software Engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | VISA sponsorship offered | https://www.leanplum.com

We're building a complete mobile marketing platform. You might've seen our billboards on the 101 or bus stops around SF. In short, we help companies engage with their mobile users. In practice, we let marketers create very granularly targeted campaigns, and we handle the delivery, reporting, and optimization for them (for example, think of a lifecycle campaign to prevent churn, or a one-off campaign to send a discount to a specific set of users).

I lead the data team that serves as a foundation for user targeting, analysis, optimizations. We ingest and process billions of events daily, and have a lot of interesting infrastructure work happening.

We are a midsize company (~140 total, ~40 engineers), B2B, series C, with real sustainable revenue, and growing very fast. My team is 4 people now and looking to grow to 7 (1 PM, 2 Software Engineers (Backend or Fullstack)). I'm also happy to put you in touch with other teams within the company.

Apply with the link below and do send me a note to rodrigo at leanplum dot com. (If you're applying for PM, just send me an email since we don't have a job listing for that now). Job listing: https://www.leanplum.com/company/careers-openings/?gh_jid=47...

ipince··on China Bans Bitcoin Executives from Leaving Country, Miners “Preparing for Worst”
The exchanges don't typically create a blockchain transaction when you trade, so block mining times do not factor in here. It's just an open market with buy/sell orders that anyone can place at any time.
ipince··on Countdown to timestamp 1,500M
Don't you see? Whether one event led to another is not important. We don't need to know for sure. It's like the end of Inception.
ipince··on Amazon's Sick New Sick Policy
Not that I'm suggesting you do this, but if you're going through the trouble of flying out to interview, you might as well do well. In the worst case, you are where you started, and in the best case you have a good offer that can give you leverage​ in other negotiations.
ipince··on Career Advice and Salary Negotiations: Move Early and Move Often
Do it once. Only once, go through the exercise while reminding yourself that you're doing it just as an exercise.

The second time (and beyond) will be orders of magnitude easier to do.

ipince··on [dead]
Hmm... Seems like it involves not being on Hacker News..
ipince··on Stealing passwords from McDonald's users
Pardon my ignorance, but how are the passwords actually stolen?

If I understand correctly, this exploit lets you execute arbitrary code on the search results page. And in this case, the code will load up an iframe from a separate place in McD's domain, get the 'penc' cookie and decrypt your own password.

So you would still need to send a link to a McD registered user, who clicked in Remember Password, and then presumably send his/her decrypted password to your own servers (how?). And also somehow steal their username/email.

Is that correct?

ipince··on Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
Well, I wouldn't expect to walk in there and tell everyone what to do. I'd have to do my research first, i.e. study criminology, learn about the field, work with them.

But yes, it would be hard regardless. That's ok.

ipince··on Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
I have a few options/dreams.

1. Become a musician. I love all kinds of music and drums/percussion in particular. On the side, I'm working my way to being able to play drums+timbales for Cuban timba music. I've only been doing this for about a year and think I have a talent for it.

2. Go into criminology and/or politics. Crime is one of the biggest problems in Venezuela, with murder and kidnappings at all time highs, affecting me personally and frankly every Venezuelan. I'd heavily use technology to help me. If I can play a significant role in eradicating that problem, I'd be very proud of my life.

3. Open up a bar/restaurant. I love hosting people and providing an environment for people to have fun. Live music and a dance floor would be a must, but a nice chill lounge area should be available too. Again, I'd like to use technology, e.g. having automated beer taps that you can open with your RFID wristband or code and get automatically charged, and having something similar for standard mixed drinks (of course, I'd still keep bartenders for specialty cocktails).

I guess there are more, but these will suffice for now :)

ipince··on Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?
? Why is that a "however"? You have bonus points already!

Apply and make your dream come true!

ipince··on My Google Internship
Glad you had a good time. Any concerns about working on personal projects using Google resources (whether or not you used their laptop, you used their building, wifi, snacks, etc.). Wouldn't they own the IP? (if they wanted to pursue it)
ipince··on What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp
Use a spreadsheet.
ipince··on Analysis Shows Hotels Are Not Losing Share to Airbnb
There have been studies, but they have conflicting conclusions. Some claim there has been an impact and others claim otherwise.

A quick Google search will give you some examples.

ipince··on Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars
> why would an entrepreneur want to set up shop on Mars?

? New environment, new markets, new needs = lots of new and potentially huge opportunities. I'm asking myself the complete opposite question.

ipince··on Man Posing as Delivery Person Hides Resumes in a Box of Donuts
He means a tourist visa, B-2.

But you're right that the guy im the article is from Lithuania, so he might be using an ESTA.

ipince··on Twitter lays off around 20, shuts down engineering office in Bangalore, India
"less than 20 people" also implicitly assigns a value to 20 people. Should read "fewer than 20 people."

(ok im sorry for nitpicking)

ipince··on Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 1
Can you share which startup that is?

Or, maybe clarify what "practicing the cargo cult dance and building paper mache airplanes" means?

ipince··on The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
Sit down... at the sink?

Wow

ipince··on The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination
It seems he refers to pull-to-open when exiting.

In a stall, it's hard because there's no space. For the main door, it's unsanitary, especially if there are no paper towels (but rather air drying).

ipince··on Update on Maintaining and Running the Pokémon GO Service
More likely, the nominal values of the y-axis are confidential, and they just want to show the % reduction in traffic. I do assume the crossing with the x-axis is actually at 0.
ipince··on Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions
? Why do you claim they're trying to sell themselves?
ipince··on Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals
I want to help too!
ipince··on Kite – Programming Copilot
And the Batman v Superman. lol
ipince··on Are You Smarter Than a Quant? Questions from the MoMath Masters Contest
Because it's for charity.
ipince··on Venezuela is on the brink of a complete economic collapse
Well, the media mischaracterized what she said in order for it to sound more shocking. What she actually said was that people use more medication than they need, in general. Still preposterous, but I'm saddened that the media makes these outlandish claims that only hurt its credibility in the long run.
ipince··on Venezuela is on the brink of a complete economic collapse
Not at all. It's too unsafe, and the tourism industry is not good either. If you still want to go, do so with a local. That way you'll reduce risk quite significantly.
ipince··on Venezuela is on the brink of a complete economic collapse
I don't want to engage in this discussion, because it's opening a can of worms.

I just want to point out that this "right wing party" (which isn't really right wing as the government would have you believe) has been controlling parliament for 24 days. 24 days. The PSUV (or more factually accurate, Chavez and his supporters) have been in power for the last 17 years. You decide who is responsible for this situation.

ipince··on Venezuela is on the brink of a complete economic collapse
Towards the end of 2002, there was a general strike in Venezuela, where, most importantly, a large percentage of PDVSA's workforce was on strike and oil production basically halted. Chavez went ahead and fired 18,000 people (skilled oil industry workers) after the strike in one fell swoop. Those workers were replaced with workers loyal to the regime. Basically, everyone who opposed the government was fired from PDVSA.

Many of those skilled fired employees found themselves unable to work and left Venezuela to other countries, notably Colombia, which later experience a surge in its oil industry.

Source: I'm Venezuelan... But here's an article that talks about this: http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21607824-venezuelas-l...

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