This is also a cultural barrier, when I lived in germany very few people had electric clothes dryers - most people had electric washers and racks for air drying. For a german it's reasonable to assume dryer meant hair dryer.
Ultimately, because AirBNB and VRBO are p2p you are accepting a certain level of risk in exchange for a rate much cheaper than a name brand hotel. The name brand hotel buys you a level of certainty in the experience you will have.
My example airbnb in Prague - a room advertised as a king size bed, but when we got there it was two twin mattresses pushed together, with a king size sheet laid over both of them.
In my experience hosts have been honest when you ask them direct questions when researching their listing. It just takes time to do this for every listing you are interested in, and there will always be things you don't think of. "Is your bed a single mattress or two mattresses pushed together?" wasn't on my list!
We're hiring Forward Deployed Engineers. This is a great role for folks who love to be customer facing but also like to code. Our FDEs spend about 50% of their time writing code. Travel can be up to ~25%. Our customers are folks on the tip of the big-data sphere, and you would help them use MemSQL to solve extremely challenging data in problems.
If you are an amazing communicator and storyteller, and also have serious dev chops (bonus for experience with distributed systems, hadoop excosystem, spark etc), I'd love to talk to you: geddes at memsql dot com.
Shout out for Haverford folks in tech. Are you in the bay area? Not a ton of us out here. We did meet up last week though: https://www.facebook.com/events/743588762415575/ add yourself to the group.
Once I move in July, there will be at least two Haverford software engineers in Seattle. That's enough for a meetup.
I wouldn't send this message through HN, but I don't know another way to contact you. If you join one of the Haverford LinkedIn groups, we can talk that way and stop spamming this thread.
Mixpanel - Remote in Europe. Dublin, London, Amsterdam preferred.
We're looking for our first support hire in Europe to provide coverage in the EMEA time zones. If you love being in technical, customer-facing roles, want to be part of a rapidly growing startup and have work authorization in the EU please e-mail me: geddes@mixpanel.com.
Is Catan really Silicon Valley's golf, like the article claims? I'd love to think so but I haven't seen any deals cemented over a game of Catan. Anyone have any stories?
Is Catan really Silicon Valley's golf, like the article claims?
I'd believe it of the old Silicon Valley. The new one, with Snapchat and Clinkle and spider pooping and expensive real estate and multiple liquidation preferences? Probably not. I think golf is the new golf in Silicon Valley.
We're hiring for a variety of customer facing roles here at Mixpanel. We have some of the greatest customers on the planet, and when they reach out to us they deserve to be supported by a smart, energetic and technical team.
This includes Account Managers, Support Engineers and Solutions Architects. The details are at http://mixpanel.com/jobs. I am the hiring manager, so feel free to ping me directly at geddes@mixpanel.com with questions or to apply. I actually read cover letters!
- Never send chain letters via electronic mail. Chain letters
are forbidden on the Internet. Your network privileges
will be revoked. Notify your local system administrator
if your ever receive one.
I think when I got on the internet around 1996 half of the e-mails I got were chain letters. Proves the fallacy of trying to claim that something is 'forbidden on the internet.'
I worked a college computer lab help desk in 1996. When people reported that they got a chain letter from one of our students, we forwarded it to the folks in charge of the mail servers & they got a stern warning.
Eternal September was in 1993, and the RFC 1855 was written in 1995. It is specifically a response to Eternal September:
"Today, the community of Internet users includes people who are new to the environment. These 'Newbies' are unfamiliar with the culture and don't need to know about transport and protocols. In order to bring these new users into the Internet culture quickly, this Guide offers a minimum set of behaviors which organizations and individuals may take and adapt for their own use."
There was a big with Firefox on Mountain Lion that did not have flash installed. We've fixed it, so you should feel free to view the videos now. Thanks!
Ultimately, because AirBNB and VRBO are p2p you are accepting a certain level of risk in exchange for a rate much cheaper than a name brand hotel. The name brand hotel buys you a level of certainty in the experience you will have.
My example airbnb in Prague - a room advertised as a king size bed, but when we got there it was two twin mattresses pushed together, with a king size sheet laid over both of them.
In my experience hosts have been honest when you ask them direct questions when researching their listing. It just takes time to do this for every listing you are interested in, and there will always be things you don't think of. "Is your bed a single mattress or two mattresses pushed together?" wasn't on my list!