Spire is hiring sr software engineers to automate one of the largest SATELLITE constellations ever built. We have already launched 30+ SPACECRAFT and are targeting a steady state of >100.
Our team is ~130 people with 60 engineers across broad variety of disciplines including software, mechanical, electrical, RF, etc.
My takeaway was that he doesn't want to be in the crossfire in the ads war. I can imagine that being very stressful and unpleasant with lots of hate mail etc. Especially if you compare it to an app like Overcast that brings joy to everyone using it.
Or worse, became in pawn in the Ad Wars between Google, Apple, and Facebook.
Let's face it, AdBlock on the Web only benefit closed network like Facebook, which also has plenty of PII. If the Web dies as as an Ad platform (because of AdBlockers), guess where the advertisers can go?
Last christmas in SF I wanted to create a "winter vibe" as we were celebrating with the family, and I was looking for videos showing cozy snowfall and winter landscapes. It was surprisingly hard to find something really good. I think it'd be cool if you could select what kind of "window" you want and had a few presets like "Tropical", "Winter landscape", etc.
I personally found the mix of soothing slow music and hyper lapse videos to not be relaxing, I think I'd prefer if the videos were running at normal speed or maybe even in slow motion depending on the video.
That is certainly one source for error. There are many. Another is that testing does not give you exhaustive coverage of the state space just because each branch of the code is visited.
The standard does mention "formal verification/methods/proof" but to my knowledge it's rarely been used extensively.
HEADS UP TO IOS DEVS: You may want to update your iPhone to iOS 8.2. You'll need to download the new XCode to deploy the app after that but it's not possible at the moment due to STATUS_CODE_ERROR.
I used it pretty much daily in Sweden back in the 80s and 90s to check news, broadcasting schedule, weather, etc. There were a few hundred "pages" and each page had a 3 digit number that you'd punch in to retrieve it.
During my 14 years in Silicon Valley I haven't met any successful founders that I'd characterize as mean. Lots of them have come across as sociopathic and ruthlessly egoistic, but that's something different. They've made their way to success by looking at the economics and optimizing for themselves. If this meant manipulating, lying and breaking promises to cofounders, employees, customers, investors, etc so be it. But... I'm not sure even Steve Jobs was mean; I think he was extremely hard on people because that was the best way he knew to get the results he wanted. I never met him.
Anyway, it seems to me that most people (at least here in the west) would vastly prefer a product created by people that operate with integrity, humanity and decency to one created by dicks all else equal. And that a slightly inferior product can beat a better one out by having a better more positive story behind it.
I think there are already economic incentives for founders to behave well and that this trend will continue. The employees and customers talk freely on secret, glassdoor, etc and I think it's critical to realize that if you don't operate with decency and good values people will a) know about it, b) make purchasing decisions based on that, c) take that into account when considering employment.
I think companies will increasingly make an active effort to (if nothing else for purely financial reasons):
a) operate with decency and good human values
b) protect and elevate the company and it's people by making this clear to the public
I wonder if Boosted Boards has tried putting the propulsion system on a regular skate deck instead of a longboard. Looking at the powered truck design it seems it should be doable. It seems the market would be bigger since most skaters don't ride longboards.
Spire is hiring sr software engineers to automate one of the largest SATELLITE constellations ever built. We have already launched 30+ SPACECRAFT and are targeting a steady state of >100.
Our team is ~130 people with 60 engineers across broad variety of disciplines including software, mechanical, electrical, RF, etc.
To apply, please email me at marcus(at)spire(dot)com or visit: https://spire.com/careers/openings/?gh_jid=525585