Hi Nate,
Wanted to give you a heads up that I'm seeing a blank screen your "Our story" page. Chrome. No console errors. There is markup in source. https://www.lever.co/our-story
Total Annihilation was great. The big difference for me that made Starcraft superior was the uniquely balanced set of races to choose from. The two factions in TA were essentially mirror images of each other. Starcraft always felt like it had another layer of depth to strategy as a result of the various matchups between races.
I recently switched my old VPS-hosted Wordpress blog to a static site generated by Middleman[1] hosted on Github pages[2]. It's been a really nice way to maintain flexibility of design with a huge boost to performance and improved development/writing workflow. I use markdown so I can even write my articles in a markdown editor if I want to.
The presence of an itinerary for the interviewee should be a requirement. Sadly it's not. I've taken two interviews in the past week where I was in the dark as to what my visit would look like.
Interesting! I started this project a long while ago and I gradually introduced additional features and formats over time after running into performance issues with other file parsers (not Tika). Tika looks like a great solution if you don't mind the Java dependency.
I'm also in a similar position where I'd like to store approximately 560k records / user / year. My understanding is that Cassandra doesn't support some useful queries that would be useful when business logic is less clear (like group by)[1]. I'm leaning towards using PostgreSQL with a dedicated write DB until performance becomes an issue.
You might want to look at structuring your pricing in a similar manner to gym memberships given that the product has a similar usage pattern. There was an interesting Planet Money[1] podcast recently that noted that many gym memberships are structured to be yearly contracts ... because people like that idea of putting money down so that they feel committed. You might be able to tap into some of the same psychology.
I think the same could be said for all public domain images published by the government. There must be a tremendous wealth of high quality photos that are hidden away on various agency websites. I've been thinking about creating an aggregation service for this similar to unsplash.com.
This was exactly my reaction after looking at the article. Mastering underwater dolphin kick has been critical to success at the national and international level since the late 1990s.
I've always found the social issues surrounding extending life to be chilling after reading Kurt Vonnegut's take on it in "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_and_Tomor...). What would a future look like where there is very little room for young people to grow?
I'm writing an abstraction layer in Ruby for scrapping text from documents without the overhead of requiring LibreOffice or Ghostscript. https://github.com/pzaich/doc_ripper
https://github.com/checkr/flagr