If you are interested in helping to understand and be part of solving this issue, come join us at Guild Education in Denver. We're a venture backed B-corporation working to connect the future of work with (company funded) education opportunities - from the skilled trades + nursing to data scientists.
Email me at ck @ guildeducation.com for more info.
Guild team member here. If you are interested in solving this education access problem at scale - come join us in Denver!
We are hiring across our tech org including Sr and Mid-level Full Stack Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts, Salesforce developers, Product Management (Dir, Sr, PM) and UX Designers.
We're a team of 25 technologists and looking for team members to join our team as we scale to over 50 in the next 6 months. Guild is a female founded, venture backed and mission led post Series B startup re-defining how America goes to school. This is a great opportunity to join a fast growing, mission focused social enterprise and learn what it means to scale a business with impact. Oh, and did we mentioned that we pay for 100% of any continuing education (yes, including full Master's degrees) for employees inside our growing network of schools?
Application Stack: React, Express, Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, Heroku, AWS - including lots of serverless work
Data Engineering Stack: Scala, Java, Python, Redshift, Postgres, Spark, Kinesis
Guild is hiring across our tech org including Sr and Mid-level Full Stack Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts, Salesforce developers, Product Management (Dir, Sr, PM) and UX Designers.
We're a team of 25 technologists and looking for team members to join our team as we scale to over 50 in the next 6 months. Guild is a female founded, venture backed and mission led post Series B startup re-defining how America goes to school. This is a great opportunity to join a fast growing, mission focused social enterprise and learn what it means to scale a business with impact. Oh, and did we mentioned that we pay for 100% of any continuing education (yes, including full Master's degrees) for employees inside our growing network of schools?
Application Stack: React, Express, Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, Heroku, AWS - including lots of serverless work
Data Engineering Stack: Scala, Java, Python, Redshift, Postgres, Spark, Kinesis
You may not like it - but thats how TripAdvisor has always interpreted the policy. Specifically, sexual assaults have always been considered not family friendly. They are removed from the site and referred directly to the hotel for investigation. (disclosure: I worked there from 2010-2013, including a short rotation in the content moderation arm that makes these calls)
My broader point was simply that this isn't a new interpretation of this policy, they've been doing this for years.
This is a non-story. TripAdvisor has been doing this for years as it is a violation of their policies. Rapes and assaults are not considered family friendly and will be removed from the site.
Here's the specific part of the policy:
Family-Friendly
To maintain a safe, family-friendly environment, we don’t allow profanity or vulgarities in reviews. We also reject reviews that include sexually explicit comments, hate speech, prejudiced language, threats, or personal insults. So keep it PG-13! Any reviews that describe reviewer participation in illegal activities, including those that advocate or describe drug use in defiance of local laws, will be removed.
An alternative way to approach this, which the author of the article could also consider, is how might we, as technologists, build companies that help solve this problem?
For example, our country will have 3.5 M truckers (the most common profession in the US and in 46 of the 50 US States) out of jobs within 10 years due to automated trucking.
Option A: We cheer at the success of the automated trucking industry and ignore the impact (the 19th century robber barron approach)
Option B: We say "government clean up our mess" (the 21st century liberal approach)
Option C: We build companies, or organizations, that educate and employ those out of work truckers. (??)
Assuming we care about time periods longer than tomorrow, we cannot ignore the societal impacts of the companies and products we build. These cultural externalities are real; similar to the environmental externalities of the industrial revolution.
Its time for the entire tech community to decide what role our industry will play in society. We have a choice about if we want to be part of the solution - or just ignore it and wait for the coming societal chaos.
I think they expected what they've had. Some solid apps that converted over immediately and then increasing adoption from the iOS development community over time. This adoption curve probably looks similar to the consumer adoption curve of the new device.
FWIW, we've had a lot of success with our IAP driven app @ Craftsy. Apple TV revenues are definitely not the size of iPad or iPhone yet, but are promising.
Tl;DR James Altucher is a self-promoting jackass. This we've known for a long time. If you ready a paragraph from any of his work, you'll see this very quickly.
We've noticed a number of posts (on HN and elsewhere) from iOS developers concerned about iOS8 - and more specifically the new iPhone screen sizes and their impact on the asset creation/delivery/storage problem.
This is our solution from @Craftsy. It's been working great for us for months now and has lots of benefits beyond not breaking on new screen sizes/resolutions. We'd love to hear from other teams who are doing it similar/differently/better. This is definitely not perfect but as we said in the post, solves a lot of the potential problems.
We've been using Lookback for internal testing on our upcoming iOS release @ Craftsy. It's been super helpful. We're hoping to do some user testing with it over the next few weeks as well. Great service guys, congrats on the continued growth.
Interesting to note that this is where TripAdvisor initially started. It turned out its really hard to scale this 1) globally and 2) efficiently and thats where UGC came into play.
Question on the trust factor: Why should a user trust "professional" reviews over the collective opinion of the crowds? Professionals can never experience everything, so will be working from a smaller knowledge base to start and are probably more corruptible than 150 MM people or wherever TripAdvisor is these days.
Forbes, as usual, churning out horrendously written and poorly thought through articles.
Time spent is a poor way for anyone to evaluate a market or even a single product. It could mean anything from "wow this product is amazing, let me stay on it all day" to "wow this product sucks, and I can't find anything but I need to so I'm going to spend 3 hours on it finding what I need".
Its an even worse choice to then extrapolate that metric into high level prognostications about what does/doesn't matter in the space.
Mobile Web has a role for consumers and companies. Mobile apps, like packaged software of the past, also have a role for consumers and companies. The value is in understanding why they have different use cases and building software that delivers value to users for what they need right now.
But hey, if this poorly written article resonates with you, feel free to listen. And the rest of us will laugh at you all the way to the bank.
We're looking for a variety of roles including Android, Java, Front End, PM, etc. My team specifically is looking for a lead Android developer as well as a junior Android/Web Services developer.
If it matters: We're 4 years old, have raised >50 MM over 3 rounds, Forbes rated us the #19 most promising company in the country and we are looking forward to a big 2014.
Details here: http://www.craftsy.com/careers
Come join the fastest growing online education company out there. Craftsy was designed to provide the best online learning experience possible. Our courses are taught by renowned, expert instructors who take the complex and make it compelling—all in HD-quality streaming video. Craftsy customers can tap into the knowledge of their instructors and other members of our vibrant, passionate communities as they learn, make and share their projects on Craftsy.com. Craftsy was started in 2010, is backed by leading investors, and has grown to 100+ employees. Our class portfolio and categories are expanding, as are our social and eCommerce efforts. And the good news is that we believe this is just the beginning. We’re based in Denver, Colorado where you can get a start-up experience with all the lifestyle benefits our city has to offer. Curious? Shoot me an email for more! ck @ craftsy.com -----
Good luck guys. Will be really interesting to see how this aligns with actually salaries in the marketplace. Might be worth allowing users to give you their actual salary in the interest of tuning your understanding/algorithms.
i.e. The crowd thinks you should earn X. We think you should earn Y based on similar people. You currently earn Z.
This isn't new technology, it's readily available for iOS. People haven't implemented it for broad use because it doesn't work as well on iOS as intents do on Android i.e. I can't link from an email and have the OS decide if I should send it to the app or to a web browser.
IMO, this whole discussion is flawed as it assumes that the answer is teachers OR software. This is not a zero sum game.
The answer, like the answer to most things, is likely in the middle. Software including but not limited to lecture content from subject matter experts will enhance and modify the way the classroom interacts allowing local "teachers" to focus on their students.
We're looking for a variety of roles including Android, Java and a few product managers (Growth, Ecommerce). My team specifically is looking for a lead Android developer as well as a junior Android/Web Services developer.
If it matters: We're 4 years old, have raised >50 MM over 3 rounds, Forbes rated us the #19 most promising company in the country and we are looking forward to a big 2014.
Come join the fastest growing online education company out there. Craftsy was designed to provide the best online learning experience possible. Our courses are taught by renowned, expert instructors who take the complex and make it compelling—all in HD-quality streaming video. Craftsy customers can tap into the knowledge of their instructors and other members of our vibrant, passionate communities as they learn, make and share their projects on Craftsy.com.
Craftsy was started in 2010, is backed by leading investors, and has grown to 100+ employees. Our class portfolio and categories are expanding, as are our social and eCommerce efforts. And the good news is that we believe this is just the beginning. We’re based in Denver, Colorado where you can get a start-up experience with all the lifestyle benefits our city has to offer.
Curious? Shoot me an email for more! ck @ craftsy.com
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Some good ones on that list. I'd definitely add A/B testing support built into the ecosystem (and controlled remotely) as well as alpha/beta release support for new releases.
If you are interested in helping to understand and be part of solving this issue, come join us at Guild Education in Denver. We're a venture backed B-corporation working to connect the future of work with (company funded) education opportunities - from the skilled trades + nursing to data scientists.
Email me at ck @ guildeducation.com for more info.