Started with just playing around with spare electronics/Arduino, but now I've gotten sucked into the wonderful world of retrocumputing via this kit from Ben Eater. I've already built the basic kit computer, and now exploring 6502.org and other websites for extending it.
In the comments the author says, "Blockchain is amazing technology - but it is a solution in search of a problem." That's really the tl;dr of this article. Blockchain has a lot of potential value but arbitrarily throwing it at problems won't magically create the value (not counting investors blindly throwing money at buzzwords).
Hey HN! I'm an Android engineer on the mobile growth team and we're looking to grow our team with another Android engineer (the second role called out above). Right now there are 4 of us on Android (5 on iOS), working on a variety of projects related to sharing, referrals, push notifications, onboarding, login, signup, internationalization, and more! There's two key things I love about the growth team - First, the ability to experiment on any idea I think might improve our product, and second, the ability to collaborate widely across the company on my projects. Even as a new grad new hire (~9 months on the job and right out of college), I was able to go from proposing an idea, formulating a hypothesis and test plan, to then rolling out the change because I was able to prove out the value with experimentation. And across the different things I've worked on I've gotten to work with our messaging team, trust team, trips team, and search team, to name a few. If you like driving your own projects, and collaborating with incredibly smart people, I want you on my team now!
If you've got any further specific questions about this position or Airbnb generally, feel free to email me (check my profile)!
Yes, a lot of people have been working overnight and still working hard on putting out a slightly different way to volunteer for this service. As you point out it obviously has different challenges and opportunities than a natural disaster. We're working with organizations on the ground helping folks already to identify where we can help most. There's also work to prevent the inevitable attempts at abusing this system. And finally there's also work being done to try to help folks in areas we might not have any or enough volunteer hosts.
Not true - there is no "browbeat/hoodwinkle"ing happening. You choose to volunteer your home for any of the causes. The team has been working overnight and still hammering away to create an easy way for people to volunteer their homes specifically for this issue.
(I'm an employee) We have a disaster response program through which we solicit hosts to volunteer their homes for emergencies. More information here - https://www.airbnb.com/disaster-response (We're still working on figuring out the logistics of this event so it's not on that page.)
I'm an employee, so for what it's worth, this isn't something out of the blue. Airbnb has a disaster response program that gets activated all the time for natural disasters and other tragedies - https://www.airbnb.com/disaster-response
We're choosing to activate it in response to the executive order because it goes directly against our company mission to let people belong anywhere. I'm sure PR was part of the decision but if it helps people, I'd take it at face value.
Started with just playing around with spare electronics/Arduino, but now I've gotten sucked into the wonderful world of retrocumputing via this kit from Ben Eater. I've already built the basic kit computer, and now exploring 6502.org and other websites for extending it.