At the first internship I had in the late 90's, part of my job was taking these text files full of data and creating these huge excel reports with them.
It was something that would take a few hours to do because of how much data there was. I taught myself VBA and wrote up this little program where you just upload the file and it spit out the report in about a minute.
I luckily had a boss who saw the potential in that and while I wasn't promoted, I was just an intern after all, at the end of the summer, I was the only intern the company kept.
And they moved me all around the company to different departments and I learned a ton and it was a great experience.
I did automate a few departments to the point where people who were doing full time work had their work cut down to couple of hours a day at most.
I finally left when my friends who started doing internships at these "internet" companies were getting paid more than I was and I had asked for a raise and didn't get it.
I went through quite a few recruiters before finding someone I really liked and trusted and sent me good candidates.
What I've learned is that it really comes down to the recruiting firm. The person I ended up using, their firm has incentivized them to stay and build relationships, not just go for the quick sell. They are the only person I know who has stayed at the same firm for years.
All the other recruiters I've tried have basically jumped to a new firm every 6 months to a year, they are just chasing the money.
So I would say ask talk to the recruiters/firm. Ask them how long they've been in that company, what's the average tenure.
It wasn't about the money or the value I got out of it.
For me, it was the way I felt like I was treated.
It felt like, hey, we've pivoted the company but we still have to support these old users and they are becoming a pain, let's give them a credit on something that's kinda like what they paid for and be done with them.
Then when enough people complained, then they tried to find some solution at the last minute and even that felt dubious.
Let's try to cobble something together that's barely working for these people and make it someone else's problem.
I totally take the "lifetime" deal with a grain of salt but it wasn't like the company folded because it ran out of money or wasn't successful. It was more like we got successful so we forgot about the little people.
Hey, maybe Joyent can finally afford to refund the people who supported it when it was textdrive and then went back on their word!
Snarky I know but I'm still bitter about how it was all handled..
We have a 2016 Legacy with the eyesight system and I actually use it a lot in traffic.
It's really useful in "stop" and go traffic where you're barely moving. I just set the adaptive cruise control and it makes driving feel a lot more relaxed. I'm not sitting there alternating between the gas and brake every 15 seconds.
It's a great system, I can't imagine having another car without this kind of system in place.
Great article, I've had a similar setup for years now.
An 8 year old readynas that's still running, it's really slow but it works.
I do a sync with that and a local desktop with a big external drive.
And then I back up that local desktop to crashplan.
I have a comment about the drives, I generally like purchasing different manufacturer drives for my NAS when I'm buying them in bulk. I always worry about multiple drives from the same batch failing around the same time. It's happened to me before so now I'll buy similar capacity drives but from different models or mfrs.
I had the original doorbot. It never really worked. They made all these promises about features coming up and never delivered. The mobile apps were a disaster and never updated.
I finally returned it after trying it for a year which was the only really good experience with the company. Letting me return the product after a year.
I felt like it was a bait and switch. They got all these people to crowdfund the 1st product, delivered something that was mediocre at best and never iterated on it.
Then they changed the name and are selling a similar product.
Feels a little shady to me.
I would be really weary of backing them at this point.
I've been getting something similar from what I assume is a married couple for the past 4-5 years now.
From what I've been able to deduce from the emails, the wife has been putting down her husband's email address but constantly getting it wrong.
I've gotten American express travel itineraries, invoices for home furnishings, etc.
Los Angeles(Culver City), CA - Full-time, permanent - eSalon.com http://www.esalon.com
Looking for a junior to senior developer. Someone who gets stuff done, all around developer.
PHP, javascript, Mysql, apache, nginx, redis, potentially some hardware programming...
We're an ecommerce site that sells custom haircolor. Doesn't sound too techy I know but there's more to it.
Short summary, someone comes to our site, fills out a profile/sends a picture. We send them custom haircolor. When I say custom, I mean really custom. We manufacture and ship everything ourselves and we've built the whole system to do it ourselves. Every bottle of haircolor has the client's name on it, instructions are personalized, it's all made one off for the client.
More details..
We're an ecommerce site that sells a completely custom product that we manufacturer ourselves.
Things that you might be working on..
Front end consumer facing website.
Back end CRM customer service site. We use zendesk and custom software. Looking to integrate twilio for phone calls and build a custom call center solution.
Helping automate our production line some more. Mix of hardware and software. We have an arduino powering some stuff, potentially more.
Data mining, we're a very data driven company, constantly A/B testing and trying to make our colorists/customer service more efficient.
It's a really small team and you'll get to work on a lot of different things and have a big say in things. If any of this sounds remotely interesting, shoot me an email. I think we're quite different from any other internet startup because we produce something tangible.