Troupe is helping friends plan group trips together. We're just getting started on our journey to help friends create new and lasting memories by traveling together.
We are looking to hire a mid to senior engineer with deep front-end experience (React/Typescript) to help us architect our UI layer but would also be comfortable with writing some backend code (Ruby on Rails).
If you're interested, you can learn more and apply at https://jobs.troupe.com/ or reach out to me directly [email is rick at troupe].
Cuban-American here. Helping Castro's controlled economy before giving control of the government and said economy back to its people is unpopular. Allowing the Cuban people to communicate and band together within the country is attempted all the time by government-affiliated and independent organizations, most of which are in Miami and organized by Cuban-Americans. This seems like one of those attempts, sponsored by the USAID Office of Transition Initiatives[1]. If I were in charge of the project, I figure I'd probably also avoid giving this project a U.S. brand as to not catch the attention of Cuban censors or propagandists.
Networks are fully controlled by the Cuban government. Their "Facebook" is government built.[2] There are no social networks that are optimized for the tools (like satellite phones) they use to get around censors. At first glance, this seemed like a nice attempt at helping the Cubans get around these limitations.
Oooh, thanks for this! I meant it is unpopular with Cuban exiles and the surrounding community, but I am looking forward to learning more about the current state of opinion from the linked report.
> Helping Castro's controlled economy before giving control of the government and said economy back to its people is unpopular.
Unpopular with whom? Are you telling me that Cubans (meaning people who actually live there) support the embargo? Because that doesn't really make sense.
> If I were in charge of the project, I figure I'd probably also avoid giving this project a U.S. brand as to not catch the attention of Cuban censors or propagandists.
Yet, here were are...
> At first glance, this seemed like a nice attempt at helping the Cubans get around these limitations.
Well, making that true at first glance was the goal, right?
Generally it has been unpopular with Cuban exiles, Cuban activists, and others in support of a free economy and free speech for Cubans. Recently there has been movement since power was transitioned to Raul that has had Cuba experiment with more economic freedoms[1]. Opinion has indeed evolved to want to open relations with Cuba in an effort to continue that trend[2]. (h/t dragonwriter for report) But even with that, there's along way to go for the Cuban people.[3]*
The people who actually live there who saw the transition have been generally supportive of US intervention in Cuba. They have been supremely disappointed in the US for their failures in their interventions (Bay of Pigs disaster, agreeing to never invade and bring down Castro, ineffective sanctions, etc.).
As you can imagine, most of the people who live there now have grown up with texts that describe the embargo in such a way that there is no way to see it as a response to the government in Cuba. The way people paint the full picture is privately through discussions, private texts, and secret communications back and forth with extended family in Miami. I hope that helps you make more sense of what conclusions can be drawn by the people there.
Not sure if your final comment was a snide attempt at saying I'm missing depth on this issue, but this issue is quite important to me and my family and one we are pretty intimate with.
If you've read carefully, you'll know I'm not arguing a solution, but simply giving you an important perspective that was surprisingly lacking for such a lengthy original post. But hey, hasn't the Internet taught me anything?
I'm originally from Miami (now in SF) I still have a house in Miami and my Wife is Cuban. What people know about Cuba and the reality of Cuba are two different things. A lot of the time the thing that keeps people from starving there are the "Micro" Aid flights that happen every day by family members of people who are still stuck on that island. And the Cuban government charges for every pound of "aid" that comes in.
We're looking for a passionate Senior Developer who wants to be part of a lively, social work environment and who cares about being invested in the product they're creating. Our team is creating a new Flavorpill product, the go-to discovery engine for culture (http://gel.flavorpill.com) - a social tool that helps users find the best culture events happening around them.
We're Agile/XP (1 week iterations, continuous deployment, TDD, pair programming, refactoring, weekly retrospectives). We work out of an open-plan office in the heart of Soho, NYC: http://flavorpill.tumblr.com/about. We work hard, have fun, and have amazingly talented people: http://flavorpill.tumblr.com/staff.
We don't just talk about culture, we DO it - parties, museums, gallery openings, theatre, film - getting out to experience the city we live in.
