lukatmyshu (u/lukatmyshu)

lukatmyshu commented on Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App beeperhq.com/?hn... · Posted by u/erohead

dehrmann · 5 years ago

I get the concern, but they're probably not super brittle because chat apps still need to support old clients. I'd worry more about getting blocked entirely.

I remember chatting with the Meebo founders about some of this. They didn't really have an answer to why AIM, YIM, and MSN Messenger wouldn't block them beyond it being bad for their networks. On how they'd make money, I don't remember hearing any interesting answers. They never really figured out the money thing and ended up getting acquihired by Google.

The did have a crazy-impressive web UI for the mid-2000s; for a while, that know-how was probably their most valuable asset. The need and the market still (and have always) kinda exited, but the players changed a lot in the last 15 years. One of their business ideas was to pivot into a commercial support chat app. People use them today, so maybe they were before their time, or maybe B2B was never in their DNA.

lukatmyshu · 5 years ago

We had a bunch of IPs for each of our servers to get around some of their auto-blocking stuff. Eventually we got approval from AIM but that was fairly late. You're right in that we had crazy-impressive web UI but the backend was also unique in that we had a process running for every logged in user (and eventually we had a process running for every user who was running the iOS app)

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nikhizzle · 6 years ago

Ex-yahoo here, thought I would add my 2 cents. Yahoo under Jerry and Filo (love them both, this is not personal) had a twin culture of niceness and bureaucracy which killed us. Here are an example of each:

1. Niceness - a coworker decided to just randomly not show up for work (not WFH, just disappear occasionally). I took it to management, and was told we don’t want to hurt his feelings.

2. Bureaucracy - I left yahoo to go to Facebook. At Facebook, if you needed a server, you would go to an internal tool, slide a slider and click a button. At Yahoo, you had to take a proposal to a committee led by a cofounder, and then be repeatedly shot down until you finally persevered.

lukatmyshu · 6 years ago

Are you me? I had the exact two same issues when I was at Yahoo (2005-2007) basically due to Jerry & Filo. Somehow happy to know that I wasn't the only one :)

lukatmyshu commented on SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices techcrunch.com/2017/07/06... · Posted by u/janober

aaronlevin · 9 years ago

SoundCloud employee here.

If you are hiring, please reach out to people from SoundCloud. The decisions of who to let go were not based on performance. A lot of amazing people, both attitude and technically.

lukatmyshu · 9 years ago

Asapp - based in NYC - hiring Android, iOS, Web, Backend, ML engineers. http://www.asapp.com/

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lmm · 13 years ago

Maybe these mythical good project managers exist, but I've never seen one. I wouldn't have the first clue how to hire one. So I'd rather do a bit of less pleasant non-engineering work than lose the whole company.

lukatmyshu · 13 years ago

In 11 years I've only worked with two that I thought were great. But those two have convinced me that they can add a tremendous amount of value.

Think of them as oil in an engine. The best ones know how to communicate extremely well, are paragons of organization, and know how to facilitate decision making.

lukatmyshu commented on Ask HN: Tips for maintaining a C codebase? · Posted by u/shortlived

tptacek · 13 years ago

Wrap your libraries up in ADT-style interfaces.

Give every such interface a _create() and a _destroy() method.

Have _destroy() either return a pointer (which will always be NULL), or (better, I think) take a pointer-to-pointer so that it can zero the pointer out after destroying the object.

Don't check malloc; instead, rig your code up to detonate if malloc ever fails. Checked allocations create rats nests of error handling.

Have a common hash table, a common binary tree, and a common list or resizable array, working on void-star. Don't allow programmers do implement their own hash table or tree.

Have a common logging library, with debug levels.

lukatmyshu · 13 years ago

As far as a common library, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLib

It has hash table, binary trees, linked lists/resizeable arrays.

lukatmyshu commented on The GitHub hiring experience github.com/blog/1269-the-... · Posted by u/Empro

tptacek · 13 years ago

Am I reading right that it's 4 days from first contact to hire? That is extraordinarily fast.

I wonder how much of the work of screening candidates is done "for free" for Github tech hires, since most of the techs Github would want to hire are also users of the site.

lukatmyshu · 13 years ago

I've gone from first contact to first day in 5 (monday -> monday). I think it's imperative that you work quickly when it comes to candidates. Do your due diligence and when a candidate is in the office give them your time and attention. I have found that if you do that, it's easy to make an offer after one day interview.

lukatmyshu commented on Thiel on 60 minutes cbsnews.com/video/watch/?... · Posted by u/justhw

nickbarnwell · 14 years ago

That's true, but doing so leaves you in the same position as any high school graduate with regard to being able to list a degree on your resume. When companies are able to filter based on what you have learned X years of coruses might be a distinction, but in the present system it is only possible to have a very coarse-grained view, and in the current system

   has_degree = lambda years, total: years == total
   has_degree(3,4)
   => False

Edit: Renamed method attended_college method to has_degree to better reflect functionality.

lukatmyshu · 14 years ago

Not necessarily true. I 'attended' college for 4.5 years, completed 140% of the required credits to graduate but I'm technically 3 classes shy of my degree. I left school in 2003.

Suffice it to say, I don't think has_degree can be implemented as a one-liner.

lukatmyshu commented on College has been oversold marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/yummyfajitas

gaustin · 14 years ago

> If you're making $50k you're being screwed.

I'm being screwed then. I have a CS degree and a business Masters degree. I'm a "senior" developer and make $55k.

The primary employer in my area is the Montana State government. Programmer pay here tops out at about $60k/year. Low-end programmer salaries are about $35-$40k. In the private sector you'd be lucky to get $70k/year.

My wife and I are thinking about moving, but you can't really beat the quality of life here. Remote work is an option, but I don't really have the network/stomach to freelance and remote permanent positions are pretty scarce.

lukatmyshu · 14 years ago

Have you read the who is hiring thread? More and more companies are okay with remote workers. Anecdotally I hired a guy recently who is remote. I don't want to comment on his salary ... but i wouldn't be typing this if it were less.

lukatmyshu commented on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011) · Posted by u/whoishiring

lukatmyshu · 14 years ago

New Delhi, India -- Full time.

I'm the CTO of a startup being funded by Airtel (largest mobile telephone provider in India) and Softbank trying to attack the mobile application landscape in India. I was so excited about this I moved to New Delhi from San Francisco :).

In particular, we'll be building a free messaging solution for mobile phones. Expect to work on systems w/ millions of concurrent connections, iOS, Android and other mobile application environments. If you're looking for a startup in India in this space contact me @ vr@bsb.in