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Antimatter | https://antimatter.systems/ | Full Stack Engineer | NYC or remote | Full Time

We’re an early-stage, well-funded company aiming to build the largest p2p learning network. Our mission is to help the world’s C students become C+ students.

We’re looking to expand our engineering team to build out our early product — a spatial product oriented around proving your creativity and subject matter expertise on a particular topic — and to mentor our junior engineers.

You:

    A React and Typescript expert
    You can see the big picture and identify opportunities for improvement. Ideally you’ve scaled systems.
    Big plus if you have experience in WebGL, Three.js, or d3.
    Must be willing to occasionally travel to NYC

Most importantly, we want someone who loves learning, wants to learn the way we think learning will inevitably happen over the next 25 years, and wishes Antimatter existed when they were growing up. You must also love internet culture.

    Email: jonathan@antimatter.systems
    Post: https://antimatter.systems/jobs/full-stack-engineer

[furiously googles “commenting on DOM”]

[finds nothing]

[smacks head in disbelief that this didn’t exist til now]

recently brought Redash over to my new company, installation was easy and it ran as fast as I remembered. Love low-frills workhorse sql clients like this

Would strongly recommend anything by Marty Cagan, including http://svpg.com and https://svpg.com/inspired-how-to-create-products-customers-l...

Avoid certifications at all cost

No different than asking "Why is the internet service Facebook growing but the internet service Twitter isn't?" or "Why did the internet website Facebook grow but the internet website WebVan didn't?" Bitcoin and Ethereum serve different purposes (a store of value and maybe a currency vs. a computing platform, respectively).

what are some of the other more interesting companies/startups in Toronto?

From https://peekier.com/about

"Peekier (pronounced /'pi·ki·er/)"

If it's spelled exactly as it would be if you wanted it to be pronounced another way, it should be pronounced that way

I'm the author and I partly agree with you about yet another tragedy of the commons, though it has worked fairly well for share extensions. I have a few apps that are registered to handle photos when I bring up the share sheet that I'll never use in that context, so I moved them to the end of that line of extensions and also removed a bunch from appearing there. It works fairly well.

A lot of people who read this post a few months latched too tightly onto the idea that SMS is somehow always a better interaction model than a UI. It's not. But there's a time and place where SMS is just the right way to notify someone or communicate with someone about something: http://whoo.ps/2015/05/27/what-sms-is-good-for

Telegram bots came out after I wrote it

Don't judge a Bitcoin by its price: http://whoo.ps/2015/01/08/dont-judge-a-bitcoin-by-its-price

TC is sort of where you read news after it was news, or if it's just a press release sort of thing. Not a terribly good source of information; few hold it in high regard.

You might be surprised how many VC's read Hacker News. Product Hunt is also very popular.

Apple systematically rejects apps that use private API's

It says a lot about CNN. iReports has the CNN logo on it. CNN has been dipping its toe — its whole foot, actually — into "breaking news" that is not actually breaking, misleading headlines, and low-brow flotsam.

Maybe iReport is a good idea but only if it produces genuine news. If not, then maybe it's a failed experiment.

Actually I realize now that this might only represent people's attempt to SQL inject rather than any real representation of their SQL structure

Good to know, I'd never seen that before. But still they do keep the records for 2 weeks, and it's not very far-fetched to imagine that it's rolled up into some data store that can be attached to your unique identity (even if it isn't explicitly a record of every webpage one has has visited).

Don't forget that one of the tacit reasons for G+'s existence is simply to have a reason to encourage G+ buttons on each page for further tracking of what's happening on the internet. Using a single identity helps to reconcile a unique user that help both the advertiser reach "uniques" and for Google to better understand that user's behavior.

Back to the point: Google's ethos is to track and analyze as much of what's happening on the Internet as possible. If, as an employee, you don't appreciate that this is Google's bread and butter, you simply may not care enough about these things to ever get worked up about G+'s account management.

Shouldn't that be factored into the cost structure? What does it matter that the margin on the storage costs was cash flow positive?

This sounds cruel, but Everpix was effectively operating as a Ponzi scheme. They offered services (photo storage) that they couldn't afford unless new money came in. Then the money stopped.

Right, but it did not effect the site, it effected the site's downtime (the downtime is the result). I believe the usage is incorrect.

From left-to-right

not really, to be frank

There are really two hypotheses:

1) _Teenagers in general_ do not use Facebook (which does _not_ rule out that they will become avid Facebook users once they grow out of their teenage years)

2) _Today's teenagers_ disinterest in Facebook is fundamentally different than it was for teenagers' of several years ago (which would suggest they'll never get attached to Facebook the way previous teenagers once did, and therefore never become avid Facebook users).

The 10-K report suggests #2 ("younger users were less engaged with the social network than previously") but my hunch is that it's more like #1 (I argued this here: http://whoo.ps/2013/03/04/teens-go-where-identity-isnt).

Teenagers now have more social networking options (Instagram, Snapchat, etc.) to choose from than previous generations of teenagers - which explains why today's teenagers are less engaged with Facebook than previously - but that doesn't mean they won't want/need the kind of canonical identity that Facebook provides (once that awkward, impressionable teenager actually grows into an adult with a firmer identify).

To be honest: Meh. I'm not sure I'd want this product in the first place, let alone pay for it.

For one, I don't need another browser/plugin that could potentially track me. For another, it seems like the novelty would wear off rather quickly with this.

That's remarkably clear thinking on your part...for a "Brooklyn Hipster"

Am I reading a different article than everyone else? This article isn't about the pace of innovation or what truly defines creativity, but rather that a dubiously "enlightened" creative class likes to consume books and videos that endorse their way of life.

(Which is not different from any other class of people.)

I wrote up my thoughts on this: http://whoo.ps/2013/09/29/cognitive-drain-theory-of-why-paid...

Slightly revising my position: The order in which people would choose this doesn't really matter

I wouldn't, the majority would

Totally agree. If you had four movie theaters that:

1) Charges $12 up front 2) Shows the movie for free with ads 3) Allows you to decide if you want to pay $3 for each quarter of the movie

Easy: #2 or #3, then #1.

The last person who touches the copy is someone non-technical. Their job is to make the content accessible to "slow joe in the back row", the least common denominator, etc.

Inaccuracies occur all the time when the last person to touch the text is a general-purpose reporter, not someone with domain expertise. It happens in reporting of economics, medicine, sports, etc.. I don't think they did all that bad considering the circumstances.