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www.servicenow.com 5y ago

ServiceNow to Acquire Canadian AI Pioneer Element AI

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www.utsavahuja.com 6y ago

My journey to 9 software engineering offers

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www.elementai.com 6y ago

Element AI Raises $151.4M Series B to Transform Commercial Operations of Company

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medium.com 6y ago

Google to Grab: One Year Later

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highrisehq.com 7y ago

Basecamp ends development of Highrise

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www.mongodb.com 7y ago

MongoDB Acquires Realm

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www.gitpod.io 7y ago

Gitpod: One-Click Online IDE for GitHub

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justinjackson.ca 8y ago

Where do you find the time for side projects? (updated)

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www.immun.io 8y ago

IMMUNIO has been acquired by Trend Micro

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www.tristanharris.com 9y ago

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds   from a Former Google Design Ethicist

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www.quora.com 9y ago

Why should the best engineers in the world come to Canada

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blog.mldb.ai 9y ago

MLDB.ai joins Element AI

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venturebeat.com 9y ago

Chat company Smooch raises $7.6M

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www.businesswire.com 9y ago

Codeship Secures $7M in Series A Funding

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open.buffer.com 10y ago

Building in the Open: Introducing Buffer’s Transparent Product Roadmap

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squeakyvessel.com 10y ago

Mature Developers

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blog.francoismaillet.com 11y ago

NHL goal celebration hack: real-time machine learning and hue light show

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Hacker News Data Analysis 2015 Edition

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realpassiveincomeideas.com 11y ago

Real passive income ideas

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jobmote.com 11y ago

Jobmote: human-curated directory of remote IT jobs

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www.reddit.com 11y ago

I set myself a goal of earning $1k outside of the day job this year

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thetransitapp.com 11y ago

Uber will live side-by-side with public transit and bike sharing in a single app

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whois.domaintools.com 12y ago

Mattt Thompson (of NSHipster fame) grabs SwiftHipster.com

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fivedollarstartups.com 12y ago

The Five Dollar Startup

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www.forbes.com 12y ago

Intuit Snaps Up Docstoc To Expand Small Business Ecosystem Empire

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www.kitchensoap.com 13y ago

On Being A Senior Engineer

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www.tablexi.com 13y ago

Code Like a Chef: Layer Simplicity

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www.patrick-wied.at 13y ago

Expanding my Passive Income Experiment

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craigkerstiens.com 14y ago

How Heroku Works - Maker's Day

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www.sourcefabric.org 14y ago

Booktype: free open source platform to produce books for print, Amazon, iBooks

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I've been there! I definitely felt the same 4-5 years ago after 15 years as a software developer. I then changed to a support engineer position on a product for software developers (i.e. Travis CI). And it was amazing! All I was doing all day was troubleshooting/debugging customer issues. Given my background as a dev, I could dive into the codebase when needed and also look at the logs and metrics to understand what was happening. I also had the chance to code some tools to help deliver a better support experience (e.g. Slack bots, admin dashboard). This is definitely my new calling and I'm currently looking for a new position on a similar product after a rewarding 4+ years at Travis. Hope this helps!

5:45 - Wake up, go downstairs, take tablet or phone. If my youngest does not wake up I read HN, reddit, Twitter, e-mail until 6:00-6:10

6:10 - Shower, get dressed

6:25 - Wake up girlfriend if she's not already, start preparing breakfast for my 2 daughters

6:40 - wake up oldest daughter if she's not already

6:45 - eat breakfast with my girls

7:05 - clean up table and dishes

7:10 - change diaper and put the cloths of my youngest

7:15 - brush teeth, grab lunch, kisses to everybody and out the door around 7:20-7:30

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8:00-8:15 - arrive at work