Viagogo, an international ticket e-commerce platform, has merged with Stubhub (formerly a subsidiary of eBay). We're an ambitious bunch, looking to hire effective people and transform live entertainment. We're a profitable (even during Covid) late-stage startup aggressively seeking talented engineers to solve both technical scaling challenges and business goals. It is an exciting fit for those seeking larger organizational impact compared to 1000+ employee companies while not compromising the compensation (competitive package). We have many teams hiring across frontend, backend, platform and product with a lot to build, looking for people who autonomously own and lead.
Booz Allen Hamilton | Washington, DC area | Fulltime, Onsite
Our team is hiring general software developers for our digital accelerator program. In this program the candidate will go through a dedicated training before being sent to a specific market need. The candidate's does not need a specific language background, but the desire and ability to learn modern languages and DevOps principles is a must.
Location: Madison, WI
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Software/hardware generalist, Python, Bluespec System Verilog, Javascript, C#, SAS, Linux, Windows, ASIC/FPGA
Résumé/CV: http://musicandmythology.com/offsite/theodore_humpal_resume.pdf
Email: ted.humpal@gmail.com
I have a unique background spanning ASIC to web development. I view myself as a generalist capable at, but not specialized in, most coding technology. Self-driven, highly adaptable, and full of ideas.
It's interesting that so much of the article was about this 'fuzzy' feeling the author had about people. While reading I got the same fuzzy feeling about the author. Danger, danger, red alert.
This is probably, like, a horrible way to do things. But I try to find a company (1-10 billion market cap) that I personally believe in, but saw-tooths a lot. I usually check-in once a day and watch it go up and down. I then guess if I think it is sort of on a crest up or down, then buy or sell accordingly. And never accept a loss on a trade. Instead just sit on the shares until they are in the black. And example would be CAVM. I figure it's sort of like gambling. I don't really know what I'm doing, but it works (so far).
I did that before too! Honestly, it did feel like gambling a bit. It worked until the company one day went bankrupt.
After that I started looking at newsletter service like Motley Fool, but curious to see if there are other services that people recommend. I have looked at Personal Capital (iPhone app), but haven't booked a session with them yet.
Personally, I have been a turned off by financial advisors.
Yeah, most people don't seem to think very much of this strategy (I'm even down-voted?), and no one talks about it. But I'm not sure why. I hear about the crappy 5% a year or whatever returns people get, which just never seems very good to me. But, idk, maybe I'll lose all my money one day. That's a real possibility as I spurn most advice I get.
I sort of use SAS sometimes. There are definite downsides, like the UI/IDE is an abomination from the 1980s. And anything except the most straight forward of code is impossible to read (and many other things). However, in terms of being fast and being and all-in-one language+data solution (meaning no calls to a seperate database solution) it has something to say for it.
But yeah, I sort of hate it. If it had modern syntax and data structures and UI it might not be bad.
On a side note, I've always found this review spot on and very funny. In case you are in the mood to hear someone criticize the new movies for... about as long as the movie itself.
My take is that it's all about the execution of creating a chip. x86 for example is a much worse ISA, but there is some research (no source on this assertion) that says at the end of the day it doesn't matter too much since the machinecode is just translated into some internal RISC code.
So, it isn't that PowerPC is doomed from a technical standpoint. Instead it's all about money, business cycle stuff. Less sales means less R&D. Less R&D means you fall behind of the competition. IBM doesn't really have the heavy hitters they used to in the chip business (Relative to Intel/ARM/TSMC). If you want the newest flashiest tech, you can't really use their fab - that sort of stuff.
Every chip technology node is getting more expensive for foundries, which means the chip market will likely naturally converge to a small number of players.
Viagogo, an international ticket e-commerce platform, has merged with Stubhub (formerly a subsidiary of eBay). We're an ambitious bunch, looking to hire effective people and transform live entertainment. We're a profitable (even during Covid) late-stage startup aggressively seeking talented engineers to solve both technical scaling challenges and business goals. It is an exciting fit for those seeking larger organizational impact compared to 1000+ employee companies while not compromising the compensation (competitive package). We have many teams hiring across frontend, backend, platform and product with a lot to build, looking for people who autonomously own and lead.
* Backend and Frontend software engineers
* Senior Backend and Frontend software engineers
Email resume/CV to ted.humpal at stubhub dot com