rkabir

eero | Software Development Engineer | SF/USA/VISA/REMOTE

My team works primarily using Scala with some occasional Python. Most of us are currently in the Bay Area, but you can be anywhere.

eero is the first company to deliver a whole home WiFi experience using mesh technology to make sure you never have to worry about WiFi ever again.

Our mesh routers rely on a cloud backend built in Scala, backed by Postgres.

Our cloud-based backend allows our users to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot their devices and networks from anywhere. In a typical week, you will work closely with a cross-functional team including product managers, designers, and iOS, Android, and frontend engineers to prototype, design, and build core experiences for existing and future products.

You will also be defining APIs, reviewing technical proposals, and contributing to our internal tools and test frameworks.

Interested in learning more? Email me (Ryan): rkabir@eero.com

I tried calling, no answer

https://github.com/rkabir/metapoet

SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

6.004: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

6.042: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

CLRS: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms

Boston, MA (Remote welcome, but onsite would be awesome)

ProBueno (http://www.probueno.com)

We're looking for an engineer and a marketing/growth hacker to help us change the way people think about volunteering their time for charity.

(The engineering position lists front-end, but a back-end/middle/generalist/whatever (we're on Rails) would be awesome - anything to take some load off of me :) )

We're super early, angel-funded, and since you'd be employee #1, for the right person, non-trivial equity is definitely on the table.

To read more: http://www.probueno.com/jobs?hn=yay

You could also use our WIP http://thirsst.com -- but we disabled the feed bundles for new users. Ping me at ryan@grow20.com if you care.

Cost reduction is relative. I don't go to the gym, I work out at home if possible, and supplement with music or audio streams that I find enjoyable. And I'll prefer social physical activity (swimming, badminton) to sedentary social activity.

I think it's important to make it easy to switch projects or life tracks. Some would say that it makes too easy to sit in a pool of confusion - but on the other hand it means when you're sticking with something, you want to stick it out.

It's pretty close to what I have right now:

* Wake up (and get up) at my leisure: no alarm - I'm able to maintain this for the most part, unless of course there are specific commitments.

* Catch up on info-glut before breakfast - forces me to get through it all faster. Work-related email and information is included in this set. Anything not supremely important gets sent to Instapaper so I can get over my need to feel like I should read something, and promptly forget about it and move on with my life.

* 30-60 minutes of exercise (usually a jog or the treadmill, but swimming when convenient) that lets me digest the information I've just been exposed to if necessary, and think about what's important today. I take notes during.

* Shower / hygiene (also good for thinking)

* Breakfast (preferably alone and in quiet), while I outline my plan for the day.

* Work (repeat as necessary). I work while signed onto restricted IM accounts that make me available to very few people - namely, work associates and immediately close friends with whom I can be completely free to ignore or converse with at my leisure. When I need/want to focus, I ignore. When things are slower, I'll socialize more.

* Breaks - Sometimes I'll interrupt work with a longer form break. Sometimes a walk, sometimes a conversation. Never RSS/Twitter/Facebook.

* Stop for lunch / dinner when I'm hungry. Either meet up with people or read longer-form non-fiction if solo (picking off vignettes from Instapaper)

* Evenings (read: late night) before bed is for [optional] leisure. If I'm productive and enjoying my work, I won't stop and I'll cancel plans as appropriate. If I'm not enjoying my work but I'm behind schedule, I'll keep going if I can. Otherwise, I'll do any subset of {social, videogames, reading, watching, writing}.

* Sleep iff I'm at the point where I want to sleep more than whatever I'm doing.

Days of travel, guests, or otherwise special significance deviate from this quotidian rhythm.

The next off-shoot of Saturday House is Jigsaw Renaissance: http://www.jigsawrenaissance.org/

sorry, didn't see this until just now - hope to join you for the next one.

Anyone on here going to this? (Or just plain in Seattle?) Let's meet up! rkabir@gmail.com

Alternatively, I will likely be wearing a bright yellow t-shirt...

my TA secretly recommended Norvig's book over Winston's, but we used Winston's "Artificial Intelligence"

For more philosophy, read Minsky's books / papers, and the readings outlined here: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...

Minsky's paper "Steps toward Artificial Intelligence" reads like a summary of 6.034 at MIT.

Speaking of which: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...

So, after waking up this morning, I realized that it would be more than a bit awkward (and probably very stressful for some) to meet this weekend, with interviews / decisions and all happening.

So we're NOT going to meet this weekend, and instead let's push it out so everyone has more notice - to December 1st.

Maybe people in other cities want to have meetups for the same weekend?

I really wanted to mod this +1, Funny and remembered this isn't slashdot.

But to be fair, I used to do the same.

On the other hand, I'd love to network with people who've applied at all in the area, whether they get accepted or not...

Anyone interested in a meet up? :)

ditto - did the same thing without realizing.

Before you hear back, you could do what we did - assume you got rejected.

What would you do today if you knew you were rejected already?

Hint: for bonus points, assume that YC is out to get you, and gives your brilliant idea[s] to some other shmucks.

Strap down and build. Don't get bogged down in details.

Our initial idea launched (by someone else) this past weekend. Luckily it forced us to come up with something a lot better by the deadline.

Are you recommending this book today (opposed to when it came out) for any particular reason?

I prefer Charles Stross for a bit of a mind-bend. Accelerando is available for download here: http://www.accelerando.org/

I think this is somewhat in line with how it seems Noble-prize winning research happens when the winner is a grad student...

might be the obvious question here - but do you have any friends? (that have programming knowledge). My non-hacker buddies come to me with ideas all the time.

oh i know what negative hearts are... haha

depending on your (my) mood - sometimes there's a post that needs to be unloved. but i think if you implemented that - most posts would be in the negative hearts.

unsolicited feature ideas to keep things relevant(knowing that scaling, etc are way more important):

let me subscribe to people, while still keeping things anonymous. some posts i really like, etc - that can be used to mix in a higher number of their other posts with my main consumption (if you're not already doing this).

similarly - let me ignore people. you could have some algorithm-fu to keep track if i hit ignore on the same person multiple times - for a real ignore, rather than just a bad post.

i also imagine an overhear.us facebook app is in the works? :)

will there ever be one language to rule them all?

care to tell why?

paul - thanks for answering. I was concerned that an awesome site like socialmoth had lost its userbase - glad to see my worry was unfounded.

(disclaimer: i totally miss the old school socialmoth.com and the community without any facebook - but if fb is where it's at, then fb is where it's at. i was the one who posted a couple times that i was glad you put ads on sm - i REALLY like the site / concept)

it seems (at first glance) that the facebook app has less comments / conversations based on posts than the main domain - is this something you've seen from an aggregate perspective?

otherwise, it seemed (from a user's perspective) that sm had this core set of users in the beginning - i read about it on techcrunch, etc. and then when the facebook app came out - all hell broke loose (not to mention "love inflation"). I'm guessing facebook caused a near-exponential spike in users?

also - props on overhear.us - looking forward to enjoying it as well.

(not to mention - what can be learned from the flow of the users to / away from the site over time)

herdrick: I posted "is the site dead? i made a post yesterday morning and it's still on the front page." on socialmoth about 12 hours ago - and it's still on there. I stopped going when the site became too popular - and now - my posts stay on the frontpage for 12-72 hours... I wondered if the mass of [contributing] users had left...

I'm of the opinion that [good] Sci Fi is a weak form of philosophy. Societies that don't exist are constructed and described, and then readers can read and digest the implications.

My favorite part of the annual issue is the bits about how people got their start. A surprising number of them seem to have bounced back from living in their car / not having a home, job, money - but then skyrocketing. I bet their perspective of risk changed dramatically.

Human Intelligence Enterprise: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...