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jayliewon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2017)

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* Location: SF, Mountain View, San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, CA, US

* Remote: Yes (depends on opportunity)

* Willing to relocate: Yes (depends on opportunity)

* Technologies: iOS, Swift, Python, Django, jQuery, full-stack web, DevOps, Redis, LAMP, Postgres, Heroku, Objective-C, Obj-C

* Résumé/CV: http://linkedin.com/in/jayliew

* Email: jayliew at jayliew dot com

* I'm looking for an iOS software engineer / development role. I've previously done full-stack web (Django, Python, jQuery). Computer Science / CS bachelors degree.

* I've worked for 2 YC portfolio companies to date, one of which was a hardware startup (Double Robotics). I've also worked for publicly traded tech companies as a contractor and as full-time employee.

* Contractor or Part-Time (non-full time): OK (depends on opportunity)

* Work authorization: Full work authorization + active US secret clearance

* Other experience: sales development / "discovery" sales, customer development / lean startup, business development

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jayliewon Show HN IRL (Mountain View, California)

I like the espresso :) Machiato too.

jayliewon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017)

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* Location: SF, Mountain View, San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, CA, US

* Remote: Yes (depends on opportunity)

* Willing to relocate: Yes (depends on opportunity)

* Technologies: iOS, Swift, Python, Django, jQuery, full-stack web, DevOps, Redis, LAMP, Postgres, Heroku, Objective-C, Obj-C

* Résumé/CV: http://linkedin.com/in/jayliew

* Email: jayliew at jayliew dot com

* I'm looking for an iOS software engineer / development role. I've previously done full-stack web (Django, Python, jQuery). Computer Science / CS bachelors degree.

* Contractor or Part-Time (non-full time): OK (depends on opportunity)

* Work authorization: Full work authorization + active US secret clearance

* Other experience: sales development / "discovery" sales, customer development / lean startup, business development

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jayliewon Practical Deep Learning for Coders

I like the idea of this: blending offline and online education. I took CodePath's iOS class ("bootcamp" but for senior engineers), and I loved it. Keep up the good job!

jayliewon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2016)

Location: San Francisco, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose, California

Remote: Yes (more like "depends on opportunity, but prefer in-person")

Willing to relocate: Yes (more like "willing to travel")

Technologies: iOS, Swift, Django, Python, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Objective-C, Heroku, DevOps, redis, AWS, Ubuntu, SQL, full-stack web, mobile

Bizniz: sales development, customer development, business development

Experience: I've had hacker and hustler jobs in both YC-backed robotics startups and publicly-traded software companies

Misc: Security clearance & full work authorization

Résumé/CV: http://linkedin.com/in/jayliew

Email: jayliew at jayliew . com

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jayliewon Show HN: Bonsai (YC W16) – bulletproof contracts and payments for freelancers

It depends. When are you expecting to go out of business?

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with them, I'm just annoyed by what you're insinuating. Dude. This is not a life altering business proposition. If your business is torpedoed because you suddenly forgot how to cut and paste, you've got other problems.

jayliewon Can Someone Turn Me On?

Disclosure: Twitter, Inc. is a paying customer of Double.

Thanks Lennon! Would love to get any user-feedback from you too :) jay@doublerobotics.com

jayliewon Can Someone Turn Me On?

Hi Phil, thanks for the comment.

Companies are definitely buying this faster than we can make them, and that remote-working use case seems to be #1. I hear ya on case-studies .. stay tuned! :)

- jay@doublerobotics.com

jayliewon Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?

Hacker Dojo in Mountain View has a MakerBot for member use

jayliewon Double Robotics (YC S12) gets Best of Show at Macworld/iWorld

Hey Ryan - pleasure seeing you there at Macworld!

jayliewon Underdressed at CES 2013

It sure did. Some people have a misconception that it's old-school (real-life face-to-face events?) and don't work. Definitely not true, so I'm glad we're able to share at least 1 data point as a counter-argument.

jayliewon Underdressed at CES 2013

thanks Andrew! The upside is when we were getting ready to leave, all we had to do was roll up that 1 banner, and that was it. All the other fancy booths had to begin the long process of disassembling their schtuff.

jayliewon Underdressed at CES 2013

Thanks to you and cocoflunchy for the feedback; seems like a valid UX point to me. I'm still learning my way around this blogging platform software

jayliewon Underdressed at CES 2013

It self-balances, and it's made to recover from nudges, people bumping into it accidentally, the kind of thing you'd imagine in a normal real-life scenario.

jayliewon Underdressed at CES 2013

Hi Peter, yes - it does work!

But just to elaborate further, I don't want to make it sound like if you cough out $4,000 and with just a bare-bones booth, you'll get the kind of attention we did at CES. I do think this $4,000 booth at CES is a good way to amplify existing "success" (loosely defined on purpose). There are definitely knock-off and undifferentiated products that didn't see as much success as we did.

Imho, it's a coin-toss if you don't already have some evidence to suggest that there is some "success" to amplify. CES wasn't a causation of success. But the right product compensated for a cheap bare booth.

jayliewon Underdressed at CES 2013

help with production process also require arms. Not yet available ;)

jayliewon Underdressed at CES 2013

It was definitely exhausting, but also exhilarating :) Thanks!

jayliewon Underdressed at CES 2013

As an additional data point for startups: despite a few people ridiculing CES, it worked out great for us.

Accounting for flight, employee salary, hotel, food, etc. and the booth space (about $4,000 for that tiny booth), we're already ROI positive. Everything that continues to pour in after that is just pure profit (being scrappy helps!) We're glad we did it.

If you're "making something people want" and you do that 1 thing really really well, don't fret over the cosmetic details that other companies with deeper pockets can afford pay for. At least that was true for us at CES, North America's largest consumer electronics show.

On a final note, we'll reward you with a surprise gift (guess what it is!) if you give up your embedded firmware engineer friend to join us. We focus more on merit; the lack of paper qualification is not a problem :) jay@doublerobotics .com

jayliewon Cause and Effect Fallacy: The By-product Does Not Make The Product

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_envy

Especially with social sciences, there's this thing called "physics envy". In physics, experiments can be repeated consistently in a pristine lab-like environment gather lots of data, to then to prove and disprove stuff, at marginal cost. It's many times impossible to do in other areas of science.

Nobody has yet been able to definitely prove a theorem, but it does not mean that existing hard won lessons today should be ignored until they can be "proved". Startups have to make decisions with incomplete data all the time.

jayliewon Cause and Effect Fallacy: The By-product Does Not Make The Product

Where is it that Zach implied that what he's talking about there is only applicable if you've decided to build a "great" product, but if you're aiming to build just a "mediocre", "successful" (but not "great"), then what he's saying is completely irrelevant and not applicable to you?

I realize you don't speak for him, but I'm curious if I legitimately misunderstood something here.

jayliewon The Product is the Byproduct

Since I can't update the post anymore, I just wanted to apologize for the tone of the comment above. It was a knee-jerk reaction, and there's no need for me to sound like that.

jayliewon Cause and Effect Fallacy: The By-product Does Not Make The Product

ha, I guess that comic is pretty popular, and I was totally being not-original. XKCD provides a link specific for hotlinking to all their comics, and I just used that link that was officially provided.

jayliewon Cause and Effect Fallacy: The By-product Does Not Make The Product

Hi, author here. I didn't see the comment that was deleted that you responded to (it wasn't me). I guess I just slapped it up there because it captured the moment of how I felt when I read the post I was responding to. Did not mean to come off as smug, I just thought that it was funny that reading something on the internets got me feeling so strongly that I wanted to respond to it.

Update: decided to just remove the XKCD comic

jayliewon The Product is the Byproduct

Yo. There's no proof that a great by-product produces a great product. Read the memo by Marc Andreessen about product-market fit. You can nail by-product and still miss the product. But of course, like Marc Andreessen said, it's popular for employers to champion "we care about our hires" (because who would do the opposite?)

Update: This post suffers from a cause-and-effect fallacy, and hindsight bias. More: http://times.jayliew.com/2012/10/12/cause-and-effect-fallacy...

So many developers are falling for this. Wake the F- up.

The irony: Zach doesn't realize he's talking like a pretentious Steve Jobs. Until you can prove cause and effect, please stop tricking developers. Yo.

jayliewon Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate

Feelings are not negotiable. Poor people feel poor-people problem pains, rich people feel rich-people problem pains. The problems may be different, but the intensity of the pain felt by them can be of the same magnitude.

If you're in America, have $0, can't pay rent, can't buy food for your kids; the fact that kids in Africa are dying from some non-1st world disease is completely irrelevant to the pains you're having.

It's a completely different thing for an impartial third party to say person X's pain is more than person Y's pans (that's relative to the observer).

jayliewon YourMechanic (YC W12) launches in South Bay (at TC Disrupt)

I'm a happy customer - congrats on the launch! :)

jayliewon San Diego: join us for SD Hacker News meetup #32 (Fri 8/31)

Thanks for organizing, Trey!

jayliewon My TEDx Talk about Entrepreneurial Depression / Happiness

Steli means it when he roots for the entrepreneur - first hand experience here. Thanks Steli! :)

jayliewon Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek

Congrats, Thomas!

jayliewon How to Price Your Product or Service-To Avoid Killing Your Business

Guilty as charged: sometimes (depending on what the item is), I can be a super cheap bastard .. maybe too frugal. A poor startup founder can't be spending money like water :)

I've run into many startup founders who try to sell me something that (1) Is not big enough of a pain for me to want to pay to solve and (2) I'm not fully convinced that the "buy from someone else" option is better than the "build myself" option.

It's an uphill battle for them, and I tell them I just might not be in their market. p.s. Granted sometimes I err on being too frugal and just need to outsource more, but the person selling to me is just fighting an additional layer of objections, at their expense :/