JoinHoney.com | FULL STACK ENGINEER| Full-Time | Los Angeles | ONSITE
Job Description -
You are a full stack engineer with extensive Javascript experience. You've scaled teams and products before, and have a desire to join a fast-growing company and make a difference.
You will be a part of the core engineering team at Honey, responsible for building new features and maintaining all parts of the core product. This includes backend web development (our main app is a Node.js/Express app tied to MySQL/Elastic/Redis datastores), frontend development (React/Flux), and browser extension development.
Most of our code is Coffeescript, but a knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript is a big plus.
Preferred Qualifications -
Experience developing and maintaining production web or mobile applications.
Experience with Node.js/Express.
Some experience with frontend frameworks (React, Backbone, Angular, etc).
Comfortable with one of SQL, Elastic, or Redis.
Self-motivated to build and iterate in quick cycles.
Experience with git or other version control.
If you have any questions or want to apply contact nick@joinhoney.com
It's briefly mentioned in the article but I don't think ya'll realize Haseeb is a (in)famous ex-poker player. He made high quality training videos, and did very, very well in poker. He was also at one time Daniel Cates's (junglemans) roommate (and life coach? lol) who is probably one of the strongest poker players in the world.
All these other things were for sure the real factors into the negotiation/hiring. The bootcamp meant almost nothing (besides the 6m+ experience showing he could train people to code like he's proven he could train people in poker).
Genuinely curious: Don't famous/extremely-good poker players make a ton of money playing the game? How does 200k/year compare to the kind of money this guy could have made if he remained in Poker?
having an expected value over 200k/year playing poker would probably place someone in the top 50 players, worldwide, in my estimation. I would say it's a lot easier job to be a software engineer than keep up with the discipline required to maintain such an edge. 10 years ago it was a totally different story, there was a LOT more easy money around. The level of play has advanced quickly and the boom has been over for years.
I forget the story behind Hasseb, but wasn't he considered a scammer or dishonest? Is that what you mean by "(in)famous"? A quick google search reminded me that Cardrunners drop him.
Anyway, everyone gets a fresh start. However, he'll have to be proficient at shipping code (instead of chips) and be productive if he's to keep his job/compensation level.
Really cool. I built something similar in python for giggles a couple months ago [1]. One day I'll get around to implementing other roles. Honestly the most fun part of it was co-workers hilarious attempts to break the script. ```!vote DROP TABLES```
No.. From their documentation it says they use "Industry Standard Logistic Regression", which just means logistic regression. Which can be very useful, but is also the most basic model you could use.
If the entire point is to watch someone code something from scratch, why is there no dates on the videos? How can you follow a series from beginning to end if you have to randomly guess which order a series is in?
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Hi - frankly the usability around discovering videos right now is not great, I totally recognise that. I appreciate your suggestion and we will definitely be finding ways to improve it, including adding dates
A common use case (and I'd imagine most common use case) is someone building an app from scratch. Usually this takes more than one video. The videos on the user page, and on the main video viewing page do not have a date.
So now it's almost impossible to watch old videos in order. I saw some interesting series I wanted to check out, but clicked around trying to find the beginning and could not find out which one it was and then gave up.
Hi - frankly the usability around discovering videos right now is not great, I totally recognise that. I appreciate your suggestion and we will definitely be finding ways to improve it, including adding dates.
Even a sequence number that a video was created by that author would help hugely, if I know that Lesson 2 was #92 then I know that Lesson 3 can't be #0 through #91
I'd settle for https://www.livecoding.tv/livestreams/ actually having, well, livestreams. Nothing more frustrating when trying to watch a live stream on the live stream page and finding one that looks interesting, only to find it's not actually live.
I hate Harrahs/Caeser's Entertainment. Where do I even begin.
Some interesting anecdotes:
The CEO Gary Loveman bought ~2.4% stake of NBA basketball team Boston Celtics in 2008. No Harrahs properties can take NBA bets on games involving Celtics or futures bets on who will win championship (Celtics could win) because CEO wants an inconsequential stake in an NBA team. How vain can you be?
Past couple months CEO and friends have been trying to split CET into two separate companies. One with all the valuable properties (Caesar's Vegas, etc.) the other with the stinkers (Atlantic City, etc.) bundled with debt and pension obligations. Trying to screw over all the workers. Judge recently ruled they couldn't do this, but they're still trying.
CET had option to build property on Kotai strip in Macau. CEO said it was too risky, so let it expire. The majority of profits of Las Vegas Sands (Sheldon Adelson) and Wynn Resorts Limited (Steve Wynn) comes from properties they built in Macau.
I was thinking of beginning with the fact that they're in the gambling business, myself, and that humanity as a whole would be better without a bunch of people systematically studying how to subvert the human brain by abusing deficiencies in its risk-reward computation mechanisms to extract as much money as possible from what might otherwise be the productive economy... wholly ruining a variety of lives in the process (and encouraging others to reject long-term thinking, self-control, and related virtues which frequently help a human being to prosper.)
But sure. I guess their inadequate gambling services around Celtics basketball must annoy some people too.
Your view on gambling is predicated on the assumption that people gamble under the assumption they can make money in the long run. Many people enjoy gambling knowing fully that the expected value of the process is negative.
Once you understand that people choose to gamble knowing that it causes losses, your entire argument against it falls apart unless you are willing to take it to its full conclusion and blast every entertainment industry in existence.
> Many people enjoy gambling knowing fully that the expected value of the process is negative... your entire argument against it falls apart unless you are willing to take it to its full conclusion and blast every entertainment industry in existence.
There are other forms of entertainment out there which people spend money on, yes. Some of them are quite ridiculous. Most of them don't have a business model centered around honing variable-reward reinforcement strategies to addict people and keep them hungry for more. (The fact that people enjoy engaging in it despite knowing that the expected value is negative is in fact the point I was making about malicious third-party brain-hacking.)
And yeah, by and large people get to decide what they want for themselves, even if it's self-destructive, because it's a free country, and we're substantially better off as a whole as a consequence of that freedom. And some of them choose gambling, so bully for them. That doesn't mean I have to like Harrah's or afford them any more respect and affection than I afford to Phillip Morris.
> Most of them don't have a business model centered around honing variable-reward reinforcement strategies to addict people and keep them hungry for more.
Really? Games are doing that, movies do that (sequels, spin-offs, 24/7 exposure), books do that, magazines do that... pretty much every entertainment industry that can, wants to.
Candy-picked excerpt: "What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive."
here's the thing. if you get rid of casinos, people are going to go underground.
whenever you ban or make certain activity or good illegal, you create a massive underground economy very quickly, and you can't extract tax revenues and end up spending money on the problems that arise as a result of having an underground economy.
Much rather have cocktail waitresses and air conditioned halls with security guards than sneak through a seedy Chinatown restaurant with false doors and scary looking guys.
Wow, super cool. My first thought went to back in the day there were all those addons for SimCity like SimCar or SimHelicopter. Where you got to drive/fly around, respectively in your actual SimCity loaded in from a save file.
