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Stripe Team: Well done otherwise. Love it.
If you like the work/company that much, clearly 7.5% of $X,XXX is greater than 100% of $0. And you'll still be part-time to pursue other things/ideas/etc.
I use Evernote for nearly everything I do. Task lists, projects, ideas, goals. Evernote saves me one of my most precious resources: time. I've worked Evernote into my daily workflow for getting things done.
And I have a stack of Moleskines I've used for reminders, sketches, random thoughts that I scratch down in a hurry throughout my day.
This is the perfect product for my everyday use. Looking forward to when they arrive (they will ship in October). I just wonder if I bought enough of them.
I completely agree. Been listening to it all day. I'm thankful that the OP added this link to HN. It made my day that much brighter.
Thanks for sharing this. I found it very encouraging.
Absolutely. And it is an important enough topic to warrant the purchase of two books from my perspective.
However, it looks like your mailchimp account is setup to link to phpscalingbook.com (which is the wrong domain). I clicked on the "continue to website" link after confirming.
curl -w "\nTotal time: %{time_total}\nTime pretransfer: %{time_pretransfer}\nTime starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer}\nSize download: %{size_download}\n Speed download: %{speed_download}" www.example.com
Roswell is run similarly to a college campus (I've had previous experience supporting NY State colleges), meaning there are many departments, each run fairly independently of each other and each with different technical needs.
The departments usually fall in one of three categories: there is an educational group that works with UB's medical campus, a clinical component that treats patients, and obviously a heavy research component. During my time here, there have been at least four startups/companies that have formed as a result of research I've helped support.
Roswell currently has about 3,300+ employees. The Programmer/Analyst positions you have seen are an attempt to fill needed positions in various departments.
Everyone's version of "cool technologies" is different. I'm of the opinion, for the most part, whatever gets the job done thoroughly and accurately works.
In the past nine years I've written and maintain about 20+ applications in VBscript, C#, Actionscript, PHP, Ruby, etc with the various associated frameworks. Since every department requires something slightly different I've had to adapt as needed. However, recently we've been running with an inhouse PHP framework called Surebert which was/is written by a co-worker.
Interestingly enough for me, I've never written anything professionally in Java, but a lot of my co-workers have.
Out of the five of us on the web team, I'm the Apple fanboy. So I'm on a MacBook, iPhone, etc. Another one is on Fedora, another is using a Dell (ugh). To each their own.
And Roswell lets me moonlight on the side. I've had fairly steady freelancing gigs for a couple years now.
Interesting place to work. Good people. Very little complaints (nothing's perfect).
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Some great things are happening in Buffalo/Roswell, this is just one of the more vocal discoveries worthy of attention. I truly hope this trial continues on successfully as the PIs (principal investigators) envision.
On a personal note, I find it mildly entertaining to say that "I code to cure cancer". It is an honor to support incredibly smart people working to eradicate such a horrible array of diseases.
There is definitely a huge buzz going through Roswell's campus regarding this.
Here is the publicly available information regarding this particular Phase I study.
0. no one is perfect.
1. co-founders keep each other on task.
2. relationships and perspectives matter.
I'm grateful for my co-founder too, however I'll be sending him this for a laugh which I realize is not oa's intent. But then again, doing so may just build that relationship that much stronger which is the oa's intent. Ironic, no?
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