Perhaps you can use Chrome developer tools to delete the blur from the DOM :)
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I like systems, tea, videogames and people.
I work on backend data microservices at Riot Games. I used to work at Nylas, and Google before that -- I also taught at Hackbright Academy.
Food intake, water intake, caffeine intake, many forms of exercise, and even the work you do daily (depending on job) aren't easy to track. Jawbone UP have a nice caffeine app that is useful if you remember to use it. I've heard of water bottles which register the movement of a sip. I still haven't found a food tracker that works for me - MyFitnessPal is the universally acclaimed one but I loathe it. Taking photos of one's food is a simple enough proxy if you aren't interested in the overall nutritional composition but more the qualitative part (and you can actually outsource and - to a small extent - automate nutritional tagging from photos). But yes, we are a long way away from being able to let much of this data be tracked automatically.
I think the important part is to figure out what questions you want to ask, if you aren't dedicated to tracking for its own sake. Are you having trouble focusing in the afternoon? Do you want to figure out if your sleep is a factor? Track your sleep religiously and go from there.
Could you initiate one?
[1] http://blog.rootshell.be/2012/01/12/show-me-your-ssids-ill-t...
Side notes on my own user preferences: I personally like seeing how fresh something is, as if something's on the homepage and brand new it's probably pretty important -- I also use the number of comments as a gauge, and splitting them to the side might make this harder.
How will this layout work on mobile?
"Quiet Please" is a small fun indie Android title with a lot of the elements that I like about adventure games. (I have to use what with what?)
* Not sure where this fell on the spectrum of 'force', but had he refused, that would presumably have increased suspicion. Damned if you do, etc.
I could have done the same homework myself, but I felt no need to. In my opinion her visa situation is her business and although we can make assumptions, we also don't know the exact details. To me, starting from the point of view that she was in the wrong and drawing on evidence to support that assumption is a form of victim-blaming that doesn't help further the overall agenda -- immigration reform is desperately needed. Unless as an immigrant who successfully got through the system, one feels others must, in turn, dutifully pay their way. I don't feel this way, but I had an unusually easy immigration experience by all accounts.
(On the flip-side my husband was very nearly deported because the border agent at LAX found my Safeway card in his wallet when he was re-entering on a visa waiver. Agent told him if he'd come along later in the day it would have been over, but he was the first borderline case and seemed like a nice guy.)
(On the flipside, if you hire decent human beings then nobody's going to be looking in the HR handbook to determine how far they can push harassment without being fired anyway.)
We're a seed-funded startup (<10 people) based in a SoMa loft. We're hiring for both our back-end and client teams.
Business development still revolves around spreadsheets and LinkedIn, and it's time to fix that. We're building data intelligence tools to help people be more efficient navigating the people they do business with and the industries they operate in. We've launched a marketplace for exclusive deal-making, and we're working on a scalable enterprise offering.
Our company culture is all about initiative, ownership, openness, and thinking like a hacker. This is a great time to join and have significant influence over the future of the company and product.
Hiring a Rails engineer for our user-facing app, and a Python data engineer for the back-end (Flask/web stack facing or machine learning/systems facing). We're also looking for someone on the business development/operations side, ideally with experience in one or both of the startup and corporate BD world.
We're open to data consulting projects, as we have a bunch of experimental data ideas we want to investigate, but our main goal is to expand our core full-time team. We always do contract-to-hire regardless.
Read more on my take on what we're doing (I lead the data team, among other things): https://medium.com/p/a1d3757d3567
If you're intrigued by people and systems too, get in touch with some examples of things you've built: jennie at close.co.
It sounds so easy in theory, doesn't it?
Getting a game in front of people who enjoy it enough to give you money is hard. Very hard. Raph's ideas from 2006 around direct relationships and celebrity are still very much on target today -- that's how most successful creators seem to manage it, beyond the randomness of viral outbreaks. (I count entering/winning the IGF as a form of celebrity.)
Beyond that, advertising it is a spray-and-pray that will likely suck up more of your money than you'll ever make, and net you a bunch of high-churn players who don't give a toss about what you've created. Not every game has an obvious niche audience to go after, not every creator welcomes or invites celebrity, and sometimes the weirdest, most un-game-like things hit a nerve nobody was expecting.
My mind keeps circling back to the 'people who bought x also liked..' problem, as mentioned by Greg Costikyan [1]. Discovery is broken, and so on, but it's not discovery - as in players actively seeking out games - I open any store on any platform and I'm inundated with choices. It's being discovered that's broken, being discovered by an audience who will truly appreciate what you've created.
The hard part is slicing the gaming landscape, and individuals' different experiences of the same game, to such depth that a Pandora-like algorithm could work effectively -- or relying on independent curation and journalism to step in and highlight the gems among a sea of overwhelming noise.
(If anyone wants to hack on the recommendations side of things, let me know!)
[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GregCostikyan/20140324/213784...
Hiring Data/Python engineers.
We're Close, a seed-funded startup (6 people) based in SoMa. We're mainly looking to expand our Python-based data team, but if you have Rails or front-end experience we're happy to chat too. We're open to folks doing consulting projects, as we have a bunch of experimental data ideas we want to investigate, but our goal is full-time.
We're building a platform where business gets done. Our goal is to build out great data intelligence about people, the people they do business with, and the industries they operate in.
Two of the things we do right now: help founders raise funding by analysing investment behaviour, and figuring out who's likely to be interested in their specific startup -- and which of those investors they already know. We also help companies get acquired by matching them with acquirers who want their skills and products.
We're opening our beta tomorrow(!) and we're moving fast -- there's a lot of potential for impact and real serious contribution. So fast we don't have a /jobs page yet. :)
Data Engineer
Looking for engineers with solid Python experience to work on one or more of: data API integrations, data modelling, machine learning and classification, NLP, API design, visualisations. We have a bunch of experimental projects we'd like to start investigating as well as some high-priority work on our core data pipeline.
Read more on my take on what we're doing: https://medium.com/p/a1d3757d3567
If you're intrigued by people and systems too, get in touch: jennie at close.co.
According to http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/San_Francis... there are a lot of non-tech sectors to balance out engineer working hours (as a PM I'd usually be in by 9). Construction, transportation (hi SFO), education, healthcare, some retail and some tourism jobs will all balance out those who arrive later.
In fact, the Caltrain schedule itself reflects peak arrive-at-work hours, I'd imagine. With perhaps some disgruntled folks who get up earlier just to get a faster train (7:59, I'm looking st you.)
I've tried another service but due to a small dent in the car I couldn't sell it - the car's actually in the shop right now getting that fixed, because using a service to sell is so much better than the alternatives. My current plan is to go back to them when it's repaired.
We're analyzing professional networks to help folks make the most of who they know. If you've ever tried to answer the question "Who do I know that's..." (looking for engineers, investing in my kind of company, interested in partnerships, able to get me featured on Google Play, etc) -- that's what we're about.
It's a huge, nutty data problem -- our professional networks aren't perfectly manicured, exemplary LinkedIn accounts, but disparate and scattered across multiple platforms. Plus there's the task of really trying to understand who everyone is, and figuring out a product perspective that avoids spam and creepiness while genuinely building relationships and value for both sides.
We recently closed a seed round and we're looking for a Python data engineer and a Rails developer. If you're interested in a rolling up your sleeves at a really early-stage startup (with funding!), we'd love to hear from you.
On the data side, ideally you have some experience with using Python for data analysis, scaling data tools, API integrations, machine learning/natural language processing, and ontologies. For Rails, we're looking for an experienced engineer who can own our Rails stack and lead integrations with our data backend.
If you'd like to learn more, please get in touch. I'm jennie at close.co, and I'm the data engineer you'd be working directly with in either role. :)