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spade commented on Coinbase employees petition to remove execs web.archive.org/web/20220... · Posted by u/shh-shhh

On surface, it sounds like 360 feedback which is pretty standard, am I missing something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360-degree_feedback

spade · 3 years ago

360 feedback usually happens a few times a year while Dot Collector feedback seems like it's for every meeting [0][1]. This reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive" where everyone is rating everyone for every social interaction (e.g. saying "hi" or paying a cashier).

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-asking-staff-rate-e...

[1] https://qz.com/1071749/bridgewater-associates-ceo-ray-dalio-...

spade commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017) · Posted by u/whoishiring

spade · 8 years ago

Eaze | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time Onsite

Eaze (eaze.com) is the easiest, fastest, and most professional way to get medical marijuana delivered. Eaze has quickly become the #1 technology company in the fast-growing $6 billion cannabis industry by developing the first logistics technology and on-demand service that can help dispensaries deliver to qualified patients in less than 20 minutes. Openings:

-- Senior Front End Engineer

-- Senior Back End Engineer

-- Senior Mobile Engineer (Android, iOS)

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/eaze?lever-via=kaABpnlgzz

spade commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017) · Posted by u/whoishiring

spade · 8 years ago

Eaze | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time Onsite

Eaze (eaze.com) is the easiest, fastest, and most professional way to get medical marijuana delivered. Eaze has quickly become the #1 technology company in the fast-growing $6 billion cannabis industry by developing the first logistics technology and on-demand service that can help dispensaries deliver to qualified patients in less than 20 minutes.

Openings:

-- Senior Front End Engineer

-- Senior Back End Engineer

-- Senior Mobile Engineer (Android, iOS)

spade commented on Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/whatok

harrisreynolds · 8 years ago

HUGE news in the grocery delivery space.

Groceries are one of the few large markets that require some proximity to customers due to costs and spoilage. Each grocery store is a type of mini-distribution center for grocery products.

Shipt and Instacart have succeeded to date because they use existing distribution channels and set up marketplaces for the "last-mile" of delivery. This is in contrast to Webvan in the early 2000's who tried to do grocery delivery by building their own distribution and failed spectacularly.

Amazon has become an expert in distribution and logistics. But it is clear that using their current model doesn't generally work with groceries (RIP Webvan, 1998-2001). Bananas need to be treated much differently than books.

So what does Amazon do? But Whole Foods!! A moderate sized grocery store with a significant national footprint and lots of higher income customers.

Now they instantly have a pre-built distribution channel that is already optimized for the grocery business (which again is much different than non-perishable consumer goods etc).

Things definitely just got interesting in this space!! I still believe that Instacart and Shipt can succeed, but they need to maintain a laser focus on making their shoppers and customers happy! And grow as fast as possible while Amazon digests Whole Foods!

[Note: I was the early CTO for Shipt responsible for building their grocery delivery platform and initial engineering team. Go Shipt!]

spade · 8 years ago

Do you think this acquisition actually opens doors for Instacart/Shipt? Existing grocery chains are now going up against Amazon. Maybe they'll be more willing to partner with Instacart/Shipt to compete?

spade commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017) · Posted by u/whoishiring

spade · 8 years ago

Eaze | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time Onsite

Eaze (eaze.com) is the easiest, fastest, and most professional way to get medical marijuana delivered. Eaze has quickly become the #1 technology company in the fast-growing $6 billion cannabis industry by developing the first logistics technology and on-demand service that can help dispensaries deliver to qualified patients in less than 20 minutes.

Openings:

-- Front End Engineer

-- Back End Engineer

-- Mobile Engineer (Android, iOS)

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/eaze?lever-via=kaABpnlgzz

spade commented on Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used? · Posted by u/whitepoplar

spade · 9 years ago

Zojirushi SM-SA48-BA Stainless Steel Mug, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HYOGTTG -easy to clean -great ergonomics -best heat/cold retention vs. other products

spade commented on Uber starts self-driving car pickups in Pittsburgh techcrunch.com/2016/09/14... · Posted by u/flinner

Animats · 9 years ago

Well, they certainly didn't under-sensor the thing. The big model Velodyne LIDAR, a small LIDAR looking upward, stereo cameras in all directions, and probably some radars.

The big rotating Velodyne thing has got to go. But so far, nobody who claims to have a suitable solid-state 3D LIDAR is actually shipping. Quanergy claimed a solid-state LIDAR suitable for automotive use [1][2] and showed it at CES, but never shipped. Their web site hasn't been updated since 2015. They were aiming at a price point around $100.

Advanced Scientific Concepts has a suitable LIDAR that costs far too much. Space-X uses an ASC unit on the Dragon capsule for docking. ASC announced they were getting into automotive in 2012 but never shipped.[3]

Somebody is going to do this soon. The technology works. It's a cost problem. Once the cost comes down, cars can have multiple LIDARs (at least fore and aft) near the top of the windshield and rear window. This gets rid of all that topside gear.

[1] http://www.quanergy.com/products/ [2] http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2016/presentation/s6726... [3] http://www.advancedscientificconcepts.com/applications/autom...

spade · 9 years ago

Since self-driving cars are still a new experience for most people, all of that visible topside gear might give riders a sense of security.

spade commented on AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game gogameguru.com/alphago-5/... · Posted by u/doppp

the_mitsuhiko · 9 years ago

I wish they counted it. Was curious to see how that works.

spade · 9 years ago

This video compares the Chinese counting method vs. the Japanese/Korean counting method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4OqfDA0-hE

spade commented on How the feds took down FIFA espn.go.com/espn/feature/... · Posted by u/wglb

spade · 10 years ago

I googled "American "football" is a game played by carrying a ball in one's hands, or throwing it by hand. Why on earth would someone come up with such stupid name as "football" for this kind of game?" and this was the first result: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-American-football-called-footba...

spade commented on Google cuts Cloud Storage prices another 10% after Amazon S3 price cut thenextweb.com/google/201... · Posted by u/mfringel

jaytaylor · 13 years ago

> .. Google's fleet undoubtedly has more machines than Amazon's in total ..

Given that this assertion is mandatory for your argument to hold water, actual numbers to support your claims are required here. And since Google and Amazon don't publicly share this data, where does that leave us?

spade · 13 years ago

From 2009 to 2011, Google spent ~$8B on capital expenditures (buildings, property,& equipment) while Amazon spent ~$3B on capital expenditures. Given Google's scale, they probably have better economics than Amazon.