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Ephemera is building XMTP, an open and secure messaging network built to last forever
We’re hiring a cryptography-minded Rust engineer, a design-minded React Native engineer, and a blockchain-minded distributed systems engineer. All Staff Level roles.
We operate like owners, and believe that our passion combined with grit, talent, and drive can change the world. If you are inspired by solving hard problems alongside the best in the space, come join us.
StackBlitz is Monaco in the browser. No extensions or terminal. Works great for certain kinds of front-end dev, but more complicated build tooling aren't available and only JS/TS are supported.
_why would never write an article called 'setting up my own software programming company' or use the phrase 'Maybe it would’ve been easier and safer to just stick out the 9-5 and work my way up the corporate ladder in the hope that I got promoted enough to be comfortable after a while…'
Wouldn't the sheer number of coins involved make tumbling services almost useless. What is the volume that a single tumbler gets per day? If you put in tens of thousands of coins, and there are only a few dozen coins in the Tumblr that day, your coins are going to be most of what comes back.
The denials over Prism never squared with the size and capability of the system that were outlined in the documents, unless I'm missing something here. Is it not possible that the court-ordered data releases were just one small part of the Prism program, with MUSCULAR and others filling the data that could not be obtained through the legal system? Prism is just the query interface, which is not necessarily tied to one dataset.
I am a big fan of Put.io. This seems like a contender to replace it, although there is a long way to go. One of the wonderful things about Put.io is that it is so versatile. I use their Boxee app, Android App, iPad app, as well as the web version regularly. That's a lot of work to replicate.
Should definitely add Primer to the list. I've never seen another movie that uses scientific language that is not dumbed down -at all- for the audience.
Can we just take a moment and note that Kim Dotcom had two Mercedes ML63 AMGs seized in the raid. One had the license plate 'Guilty' and the other 'Mafia'. He knew what business he was in: working around the law to facilitate massive scale copyright infringement.
If we want this anti-SOPA sentiment to stick, we need to draw a line in the sand somewhere. Even on a free and open web there are going to be some people who are just plain-old criminals. I'd prefer the line to be somewhere between me & Kim.
One other fact that backs up the author's point is that while Apple has a low percentage of the computer market as a whole, they have >90% marketshare for PCs over $1000. That gives them a lot of loyal, high-end, customers who also happen to be the early adopters for new technologies.
We've been testing a new startup with a hacked together Tumblr, to simulate the app we're building. Because of this we've been monitoring our Tumblr traffic & interactions closer than most casual bloggers.
We have 300 followers right now, and I'm going to about 15% of our Likes are SPAM. A problem, but not completely overrunning the system. They seem to also be using Tumblr tag pages to find articles to like. Articles tagged with common product keywords like handbags, shoes, or a brand name get much more SPAM Like activity than other posts.
Tumblr does seem to be hiding the entries in the Dashboard for some of these, indicating that they have some sort of system in place for isolating spammers.
I'm guessing w/in a few months Google launches a G+ integration with search that lets you reference your contacts in search queries using the + operator.
I think you miss the point. He was never in it for the money. The toys, houses, and cars were a distraction. Read his quotes in the article. The sad part is that he wasted so many years showing off when he could have been fulfilling his passions.
We have tried just about everything at our shop, Thirdi.
Fixed rate quotes are dangerous because they make all the pricing decisions at the point where you know the least about the product. They lead to waterfall-esque development, since your only shot at avoiding scope creep is to catch everything up-front. Plus, change requests feel like nickel and diming to the client, slow the project down, and are just generally bad service.
Hourly billing is difficult to sell: would you buy a house, knowing that the sale price might increase by 30% after you moved in? Plus, you run into the problem of those hours not being tied to a productivity level.
We've started giving high-level estimates of projects up front, but not committing to a specific scope or price. Instead we invoice for each 2-week sprint with set deliverables. This way, the client is paying for features, not time. We start a feature backlog at the beginning of a project, but add in much more detail right before each sprint starts. The client always knows what they're buying, and we can quickly tell if we're running ahead or behind on the project based on whether we are finishing sprints early, and how many features we are knocking off.
By not getting married to one feature-set at the beginning of the project, it also allows us to throw in 'nice-to-haves' that might be easier than expected, or scale back less important features if they turn out to be more complicated than we thought. It does add time for communication and managing the backlog, of course. We have a dedicated project manager and a QA lead to keep this stuff away from our development team, otherwise they might have all gone mad by now.
Ephemera is building XMTP, an open and secure messaging network built to last forever
We’re hiring a cryptography-minded Rust engineer, a design-minded React Native engineer, and a blockchain-minded distributed systems engineer. All Staff Level roles.
We operate like owners, and believe that our passion combined with grit, talent, and drive can change the world. If you are inspired by solving hard problems alongside the best in the space, come join us.
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