I wonder if you could make the kite itself lighter than air to avoid issues where the wind dies down? E.g. a kite shaped airship.
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If I actually want to go to one of those sites I just edit the hosts file and comment out the redirect line.
On my mac, the /etc/hosts file looks like:
# #
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com twitter.com www.facebook.com reddit.com
127.0.0.1 mail.google.comIf the marginal tax rate for the Dr. is 50% (like it probably is in CA) then a $300 deduction is $150 in tax savings.
At my company (Mixpanel), the modern equivalent is our support team, which is filled with smart, hungry people who want to get their foot in the door in tech.
Now, we have former support folks all over the company (sales, sales engineering, services, software engineering, product - just to name the departments I can think of offhand), who are often our top performers as ICs or who have grown into leadership roles. Some have left to start their own companies.
It's actually been one of our most effective hiring channels!
It's complicated because the price is based on your user volume so there's not a single price to show. We've heard this feedback though and are working on an improvement!
I'm really excited about this release - sampling has been necessary to support some of our largest customers for many years, but has a bunch of issues, as Vijay points out in this post.
I love the fact that moving sampling to query time lets us beat the tradeoff - we get something like 90% of the speedup of ingestion time sampling with none of the downsides, and the only incremental cost is storage which is cheap. It's a big win.
First, the framing of equality and redistribution, and the suggested emphasis on focusing our efforts on raising the floor rather than lowering the ceiling:
In Anderson’s view, the way forward was to shift from distributive equality to what she called relational, or democratic, equality: meeting as equals, regardless of where you were coming from or going to. This was, at heart, an exercise of freedom. The trouble was that many people, picking up on libertarian misconceptions, thought of freedom only in the frame of their own actions. If one person’s supposed freedom results in someone else’s subjugation, that is not actually a free society in action. It’s hierarchy in disguise.
To be truly free, in Anderson’s assessment, members of a society had to be able to function as human beings (requiring food, shelter, medical care), to participate in production (education, fair-value pay, entrepreneurial opportunity), to execute their role as citizens (freedom to speak and to vote), and to move through civil society (parks, restaurants, workplaces, markets, and all the rest). Egalitarians should focus policy attention on areas where that order had broken down. Being homeless was an unfree condition by all counts; thus, it was incumbent on a free society to remedy that problem. A quadriplegic adult was blocked from civil society if buildings weren’t required to have ramps. Anderson’s democratic model shifted the remit of egalitarianism from the idea of equalizing wealth to the idea that people should be equally free, regardless of their differences. A society in which everyone had the same material benefits could still be unequal, in this crucial sense; democratic equality, being predicated on equal respect, wasn’t something you could simply tax into existence. “People, not nature, are responsible for turning the natural diversity of human beings into oppressive hierarchies,” Anderson wrote.
There's also an interesting bit that I haven't considered or heard of before: the original arguments for the free market were to escape a tyrannical hierarchy, topping out with the king - a free market was much better than that. But as we have built out free-market economy, we've gotten to the point where the decisions your employer makes are just as arbitrary (and probably have a greater effect on your daily life).
Images of free market society that made sense prior to the Industrial Revolution continue to circulate today as ideals, blind to the gross mismatch between the background social assumptions reigning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and today’s institutional realities. We are told that our choice is between free markets and state control, when most adults live their working lives under a third thing entirely: private government.
Honestly you could probably write a quick pipeline to dump your json data into Mixpanel and then use JQL -- it would be a little hacky but if you have less than a few million rows it shouldn't be too much work (and would still be free at that volume).
Under certain circumstances, QSBS (Qualified Small Business Stock) rules will significantly decrease your tax burden.
Mixpanel is growing very rapidly - 13 people at the start of 2013, 36 by Jan 2014, 120 at the beginning of this year. Currently 200.
On the financial side, revenue is growing apace and we were recently valued at $865M by a16z.
==MOBILE==
On mobile, we are hiring lead engineers for both iOS and Android. On both platforms, we build crazy things that dig deep into platform internals (https://mixpanel.com/mobile-ab-testing, https://mixpanel.com/codeless-mobile-analytics)
==SITE RELIABILITY==
We are also hiring SRE’s - this is a new team, built to improve reliability and performance across our infrastructure. We have > 1K leased dedicated machines, mostly running our custom datastore.
You can find more info about what we work on at https://code.mixpanel.com, and more info about the jobs at https://mixpanel.com/jobs.
If you're interested, send me an email at tim@mixpanel.com and I'll point you in the right direction.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, but it's a much bigger investment than 100 hours.
Mixpanel is growing very rapidly - 13 people at the start of 2013, 36 by Jan 2014, 120 at the beginning of this year. Currently 170.
On the financial side, revenue is growing apace and we were recently valued at $865M by a16z.
We are hiring for many engineering roles:
* Product engineering manager - lead a team of product engineers, building everything from APIs to user facing products
* Lead iOS engineer - lead our iOS efforts; we build crazy things that dig deep into iOS internals
* Product engineer - mostly python/js/less; lots of work building tools to interact with and visualize data.
* Systems engineer - mostly C/C++/Python; lots of work on scaling, reliability, and infrastructure. This team works on our custom datastore, written from the ground up in c/c++.
* Site reliability engineer - this is a new team, built to improve reliability and performance across our infrastructure. We have > 1K leased dedicated machines, mostly running the datastore.
* Machine learning engineer - come help us build predictive analytics. We have 1 brilliant person working on this now, but need more.
If you're interested, send me an email at tim@mixpanel.com and I'll point you in the right direction.
Mixpanel is profitable, with thousands of customers and millions in monthly revenue.
ENGINEERING CULTURE
Our engineering culture:
* We do very thorough, line-by-line code reviews using GitHub pull requests. This keeps our code quality high and helps us learn.
* We try to have two people work together on every project (collaborating, not pairing). It's more fun and it results in better code.
* We practice rapid iteration. If it's better than live, we ship. We also build things so they can go live (whitelisted) long before launch day.
* We write tests for things that are mission-critical, prone to failure, or cause paranoia. Think billing and datastore code, not Django views.
* We care about learning. Right now we're reading through Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.
* We currently have 9 vim users, 2 IntelliJ, and 1 emacs holdout.
We have two types of engineering positions available - systems and product. Both of these positions require you to be able to work in San Francisco, CA.
Systems engineers build and scale our infrastructure, and write mostly C, C++, and Python. We are working on a number of new products right now with serious infrastructure challenges and we need more people with great depth to help us solve them. This position requires at least 5 years of experience.
Responsibilities of this role include:
* Working on our custom datastore (written from the ground up in C)
* Scaling the data processing pipeline (currently handling > 50K requests per second)
* Building notification delivery infrastructure (currently sending > 100M emails & push notifications per month)
* General improvements to performance, reliability, and security
* Work with the rest of the engineering team to design, build, deploy, and maintain systems
--
The engineering team is still small (14), and there's a lot of interesting stuff to do. Happy to talk details.
If you're interested, drop me a line - tim@mixpanel.com.
Mixpanel is profitable, with thousands of customers and millions in monthly revenue.
ENGINEERING CULTURE
Our engineering culture:
* We do very thorough, line-by-line code reviews using GitHub pull requests. This keeps our code quality high and helps us learn.
* We try to have two people work together on every project (collaborating, not pairing). It's more fun and it results in better code.
* We practice rapid iteration. If it's better than live, we ship. We also build things so they can go live (whitelisted) long before launch day.
* We write tests for things that are mission-critical, prone to failure, or cause paranoia. Think billing and datastore code, not Django views.
* We care about learning. Right now we're reading through Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.
* We currently have 9 vim users, 2 IntelliJ, and 1 emacs holdout.
We have two types of engineering positions available - systems and product. Both of these positions require you to be able to work in San Francisco, CA.
Systems engineers build and scale our infrastructure, and write mostly C, C++, and Python. We are working on a number of new products right now with serious infrastructure challenges and we need more people with great depth to help us solve them. This position requires at least 4 years of experience.
Responsibilities of this role include:
* Working on our custom datastore (written from the ground up in C)
* Scaling the data processing pipeline (currently handling > 50K requests per second)
* Building notification delivery infrastructure (currently sending > 100M emails & push notifications per month)
* General improvements to performance, reliability, and security
* Work with the rest of the engineering team to design, build, deploy, and maintain systems
--
The engineering team is still small (12), and there's a lot of interesting stuff to do. Happy to talk details.
If you're interested, drop me a line - tim@mixpanel.com.
Mixpanel (YCS09; http://mixpanel.com) is the most advanced advanced analytics platform ever for web & mobile applications.
Mixpanel is profitable, with millions in monthly revenue, and we're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Max Levchin.
ENGINEERING POSITIONS
We have two types of engineering positions available - systems and product.
Systems engineers build and scale our infrastructure, and write mostly C, C++, and Python. These are the people working on our custom datastore. This position requires at least 2 years of experience writing systems software. Solid C experience is a plus.
Product engineers are full-stack developers who build the parts people interact with - reporting interfaces, APIs, dataviz stuff, and more - and write mostly Python, JS, and Less. This position requires at least 2 years of software engineering experience, no specialization required. Solid JS experience is a plus though.
The engineering team is still small (11), and there's a lot of interesting stuff to do. Happy to talk details.
If you are interested, drop me a line - tim@mixpanel.com.