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denniszon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)

  Location: Chicago, IL
  Remote: No
  Willing to Relocate: Yes, preferably to SF (from there)
  Technologies: Design Tools, Python, Java, HTML/CSS, R, XAML (Windows Dev)
  Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmwu77ztzyp z5a8/Resume%20v18.pdf
  Email: denn.zhao@gmail.com

I'm actually an intern @ Microsoft right now as a PM/Product Designer but I write front end code. Go to school @ UChicago as a Econ/Stat major and graduating this coming year. Looking for something in PM/Design/Data combined!

denniszon Tinder Valued at $5B

Bloomberg Article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/iac-said-to-buy-bac...

denniszon Out of 15M brackets, none remains to win Warren Buffet's $1B March Madness bet

There's still one perfect bracket after BOTH days (though not in the Buffet challenge): http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2001973-this-is-the-only-...

denniszon I want to intern for Airbnb.

Sorry to hear that, but thanks so much for the encouragement. Fingers crossed for good news!

denniszon I want to intern for Airbnb.

Thanks!

denniszon Ribbon Launches P2P Payments App. No app or account required

Awesome product that's mobile oriented too. It's nice for my friends to not have to download an app to pay me back for one meal.

denniszon Mother

If you scroll down far enough, you get to the 'technical details', where the device is described as 'a white mother'. I just found that funny, haha.

denniszon Coin: A step in the wrong direction

I agree with the article in that non-card based payments methods (Square) are the future, but we've seen again and again that moving towards the future takes steps (look at tablets - we had so many iterations on tablet computing before we got to the iPad, and who knows if that's even the end all be all).

My point is that Coin is a much smaller stride for the typical consumer; only SV geeks (guilty) are as excited about NFC payments as HN is, and the typical person sees this aggregation of cards as 'technology' that they're much more familiar with. No surprise that it's blowing up.

Just my two cents.