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rahij··on Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
Yep, I was hired as a software engineering intern from one of Scribd's Who is Hiring posts (also ended up interviewing at Stripe by contacting them from their post).
rahij··on How we run Spark and Sqoop in production
I had to connect to a US VPN to access the jobs page. Is that intentional?
rahij··on How to Survive an Acquisition
I'm a former employee. Never saw this either.
rahij··on Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech company to work for in U.S
I'm an ex-employee too (former intern). Not saying that the company is perfect, but the tone of adrianlmm implied that Facebook was a such a bad place to work at ("even facebook"), which it really isn't.
rahij··on Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech company to work for in U.S
I'm curious as to why that part is hard to believe.
rahij··on Request for Java 8 support on Google App Engine
IIRC, Snapchat moved off of app engine to EC2 last year.
rahij··on Show HN: INeedAResume – Modern free resume generator
If I add 3 employers, I am not able to go back and edit the first two after reaching the preview stage.
rahij··on Terminal game to test Git skills
just realised I need to diff with origin/bug. Finished the game now :)
rahij··on Terminal game to test Git skills
Anybody stuck on this? -Sn The Next Clue Is: YtrydjKsYqebDoI3h bTINUeV6 pTVY8jnK2re HRwwNy25Ps6 u0YChCo5Jtw N3xkH3G nx aGo6yQTW RVZMsf3xk tBL0sG9GAR HQbyGYdqs i6dx1fyIPGJVciz8Z1NzdrvGE CKgkFauXqfKJmas cDLerWvBTRzUikmP2 0sqk2Xhie2DcIv KtCyYTlNx7WxJp6A2yox3r aJX4r7FpUhgsyGIwc prCCNx46GKVgzaerab3gXS7ieoOf1 Jp +Sn The next clue is: YtrydjKsYqebDoI3h bTINUeV6 pTVY8jnK2re HRwwNy25Ps6 u0YChCo5Jtw N3xkH3G nx aGo6yQTW RVZMsf3xk tBL0sG9GAR HQbyGYdqs i6dx1fyIPGJVciz8Z1NzdrvGE CKgkFauXqfKJmas cDLerWvBTRzUikmP2 0sqk2Xhie2DcIv KtCyYTlNx7WxJp6A2yox3r aJX4r7FpUhgsyGIwc prCCNx46GKVgzaerab3gXS7ieoOf1 Jp
rahij··on We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation
In my experience, I think it has more to do with getting an engineer acquainted with the pipeline from writing code to getting it live on production. Once he/she is familiar with this, it takes a huge barrier out of the way for the person to be productive whenever they are ready to write some non trivial code in the codebase.
rahij··on Immigration is about talent, not costs
It is public actually. Check out visadoor.com.
rahij··on Stripe raises $70M at $3.5B valuation, double that of January
Yep, they were acquired by Paypal.
rahij··on Why Whole Foods Is Moving in to One of the Poorest Neighborhoods in Chicago
On the topic of Whole Foods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8609515
rahij··on Lecture 6: How to Start a Startup
Oops, sorry about that, I did not understand the context in your comment :)
rahij··on Lecture 6: How to Start a Startup
This person is Alex Schultz who works at Facebook.
rahij··on Lecture 6: How to Start a Startup
That is wrong. It is internet.org's logo.
rahij··on Introducing a simpler, faster GitHub for Mac
> cd /yor/src/dir > bash: cd: /yor/src/dir: No such file or directory <tab> ?

And on anecdotal evidence, I've observed that people who use git intensively everyday often have aliases to these commands that have a low probability of typos.

eg gcom => git commit

rahij··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

It does the job (and some more nice features) pretty well.

rahij··on Y Combinator’s New Head
Yep, it's called a half volley, you need to hit when you are too close to the ball. So., you need to swing the racquet forward even while it's bouncing, as opposed to a later swing in case of a regular length ball.
rahij··on Any Android app can read your WhatsApp database
Can't any app access all SMSs too in an easier manner? Whatsapp is a similar app, so why hold it to different standards?
rahij··on Police sound all-clear after Facebook evacuation Tuesday night
Wow. That was harsh.
rahij··on Facebook
An article mentions that Whatsapp spent $0 on user acquisition and marketing. If that's true, then yes, it's around $500 million/engineer.
rahij··on Show HN: Siri-as-a-Service Speech API
http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=hi%20how%2...
rahij··on Show HN: Siri-as-a-Service Speech API
Ah Paul Graham it is!
rahij··on Show HN: Siri-as-a-Service Speech API
Very cool! On a side note, Is the voice Drew Houston?
rahij··on Announcing gitsh: A dedicated shell for git commands
Yes, I use it too! Saves me a lot of time.

  $ cat ~/.bash_profile | grep git
  alias gco="git checkout"
  alias gpu="git pull"
  alias gcom="git commit"
  alias gfr="git fetch && git rebase -i"
  alias g="git"
rahij··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
I've shot you an email. Thanks!
rahij··on Groupon Switches to Node.js
That is true. However, while we still have plenty of RoR code, a lot of our services have moved to Java and Scala.
rahij··on Groupon Switches to Node.js
I work at Groupon. We'll be following up with more details soon!