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This was a great interview but Mitchell: https://youtu.be/WjckELpzLOU
He covers his LLM uses too! Highly recommend, and Mitchell thoughts on open source inspired me to start contributing to projects outside of my common experience.
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Procore (NYSE: PCOR) builds the most widely used construction management platform in the world. Our software connects every stakeholder on a construction project — from owners to general contractors to specialty contractors — and we're used on projects worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
We're hiring across the engineering org in Austin, TX at all levels:
*Individual Contributors:* - Principal Software Engineer - Staff Software Engineer (Streaming Data Infrastructure) - Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) - Senior DevOps Engineer (Mobile Platform) - Security Engineers (multiple levels)
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Our core platform is a large-scale Ruby on Rails monolith serving thousands of concurrent users on active construction projects. If you enjoy the challenge of performance, scalability, and developer experience at scale in Rails — this is the place. We also work extensively with React, TypeScript, and Node.js on the frontend and in supporting services.
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Comp is competitive — IC principal roles range $198K–$273K base + equity. Engineering management roles start around $169K base + equity.
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Also, tax incentives on new EVs push the used market lower, creating a false sense of depreciation.
I expect the market to reconcile the difference now that EVs subsidizes are ending.
Another possible alternative is that the consumer has to be educated that buying used EVs is not like buying a used cellphone, and that EV batteries do last 10+ years.
Claude code with rails is amazing. Should out to Obie for the Claude on rails. Works phenomenally well.
The second hand market is so good for Thinkpads because there were so many of them bought by businesses.
Framework isn't the top choice for business.
What's step?
If you work on an older and large rails code base, you can easily find the programmers who came from more "formal" languages like java.
They build layers and layers of code to "isolate" rails and end up with big ball of mud. Once you do that you have to keep wrapping and adapting, and commanding, and querying and it takes a gang of more than 4 developers to maintain a feature set that could be done with 1 good rails dev.
Code is liability. Features are the asset. Well written rails has one of the best bang for the buck for lines of code per feature.
For databases, DBML is my preferred choice. I wish there was a javascript ui viewer that is not owned by company.
I think there is a market. I pay for mealime monthly, I don't even know how much it costs. The cost of an app to help the family choose a dinner menu instead of eating out is worth it. Not only for money savings, but for health as well.
One of the best features is to streamline the online ordering from the app.
It works very well.
You should take a look at the jobs at Procore.
down for me
It got a lot better recently. You should take a second look.
If Robots/Ai allow us to extract more value per hour worked, it will unlock more work that wasn't worth doing before.
Paradoxically, efficiency generates more available work, not less.
The amount of work to be done is not finite.
They already have cloud services for high paying enterprise customers (dgx cloud)
I'd risk say the dating market is even more broken *because* of tinder.
I love the idea, nice website.
I actually would love to hear more about the journey you briefly touched on the description. Like how you learned to code, what tech stack you choose, what was hard, what resources helped you, etc And what you would do the same and different if you had to do it again.
Is anyone using zed with success? I tried to use but it seemed slow to search compared to sublime.
<Lots of opinions from here on:>
Lots of features were nicer, but search is my most used feature.
From all the other possibilities, this seem the one that I am more inclined to successfully transition to.
I really liked sublime when I switched, but now it feels stuck in the past.
I am waiting for the right time to try again. If you are using and liking it, I would like to know what are the features you most like.
I had the exact same thoughts.
Thank you for applying! That should not happen, we usually get back to everyone either way. If you can send me your email or full name, me and the recruiter can search for your application on the HR database and correct the error going forward.
Reach out to rafael.floresta@procore.com and I can help you.
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We are really looking for folks with strong Ruby/Rails experience. We have one of the largest rails codebase in the world.
We are also hiring on several other areas (Kafka, mobile, react, etc).
Feel free to DM me or ask questions here about my experience working here.
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I use barrier and it is a lot better than synergy.
that is awesome. Thank you! I been wanting something like this to take lessons for a while.
It does have a positive spin, and that is a good thing.
I did check your comments and you seem to have a negative spin on most of your comments.
Maybe their tone is not compatible to yours. But gross and delusional seem wrong considering what they have accomplished so far.
Their work is inspiring and deserves the praise and positivity.
Can you expand on the mean expected lifetime earnings?
For reference, Disney market cap is 156B. Also, apple has a similar cash pile.
If you considering code reading part of coding, coding 20% of the time is certainly not enough. The article is meant for a neurotypical ideal average employee. There are many effective programmers that have different workflows.
A trait of a good manager is allow different people to be effective in the collaboration of writing software together.
The article paints an unreal rosy picture where "everything runs smoothly and has forward momentum".
Working with a live system is messy. There is always compromise because there is never enough time to keep everything smooth.
It is very common to be stuck at some problem. That moment you let a problem clunk around your brain and you randomly think of a solution in the shower or at the grocery store is way too common. And honestly fun.
Kim's convenience is amazing
I wish I could have this on something like superpowered.me, so
I could log what I say, and give me ongoing feedback on my dictation.
When I read prompts I am being more deliberate about my speech, and my results will be better than they actually should be.
This, combined with a spoken grammar feedback, would be meaningful to help non native speakers to improve their English.
It would be nice to have a specific set of prompts that are good to evaluate speech. For example, I am a native Portuguese speaker so I might struggle with Th's and R's.
Also the random phrase generator always generate the same phrase.
I am interested too.