Thanks Jonathan! Awesome to hear that you're excited about the auction.
Great questions on the auction system dashboard. The left gray box indicates how many GPUs are available for on-demand access. So in your specific example, 688/1464 GPUs means that 688 GPUs (out of a total available pool of 1464 H100s) are ready to be rented. Finally, the 1040 GPUs and 8 GPUs all indicate GPUs that are currently being allocated to customers.
1) That's sort of a tangential point. Maybe I wasn't clear in my original statement. But meetings that start immediately without any sort of ease-in, even if they are started on time (to your point), often feel really transactional. We're all working with other humans, not other robots! Remote work creates much less opportunity to connect with each other. Virtual meetings are one of the few times we do see our team face-to-face. And we should realize that socializing a bit can be just as productive as talking about actual "business". Icebreakers (even if the term sounds "cringe") are really helpful in that regard.
2) Agreed, your coworkers don't necessarily need to be your friends. At the same time, they also shouldn't be reduced to robots or black boxes that you interact with only when you need something from them. They're humans! As social creatures, we tend to work better with people when we trust them. Often, that trust is built on liking and/or respecting the other person. That's where icebreakers can be really important too.
Looking for Full-Stack Software Engineers. We work in PST and are flexible to most timezones. Contract period flexible depending on your availability. Option to convert to a full-time position if there's mutual interest on both sides.
Brief Project Overview: Cadence is software that remote teams use to run and facilitate delightful bonding activities. Our mission is to help remote workers build high quality relationships and feel less lonely when working remotely. We're early, but hundreds of people already use our software to host awesome team-bonding and social events with their teams.
Tech: Typescript/React, NextJS, Firebase, Node.JS
2-3 years experience
Remote
Start: ASAP, Full Time
Why join us? - We’re a small, highly collaborative team who loves working on creative solutions to challenging problems. We value a hacker mindset, differing opinions, and above-all, a “can-do” attitude. We don’t settle for the status quo, and we’re deeply motivated to build a future where remote work will thrive.
What you'll do - We're looking for a highly capable engineer to write and ship code that teams will use immediately to run events. You'll get the joy of seeing our customers enjoy live team-building events using the product you've built.
If interested - Email me (I'm the CEO) at [email protected] with a link to your resume and preferably a Github/public portfolio link.
Cadence is software that remote teams use to run and facilitate delightful bonding activities. Our mission is to help remote workers build high quality relationships and feel less lonely when working remotely. We're early, but hundreds of people already use our software to host awesome team-bonding and social events with their teams.
Why join us? - We’re a small, highly collaborative team who loves working on creative solutions to challenging problems. We value a hacker mindset, differing opinions, and above-all, a “can-do” attitude. We don’t settle for the status quo, and we’re deeply motivated to build a future where remote work will thrive.
What you'll do - We're looking for a highly capable engineer to write and ship code that teams will use immediately to run events. You'll get the joy of seeing our customers enjoy live team-building events using the product you've built. Our tech stack is Typescript/React, NextJS, Firebase, Node.JS, and deployed using GCP. Bonus points if you've worked with live video/WebRTC before.
Email me (I'm the cofounder & CEO) at [email protected] if you're interested.
Lolol!!! Happy to send this to that guy if you somehow provide us his contact information :) I'm on Twitter here if you wanna DM me: https://www.twitter.com/melissadooo.
And yes, absolutely. Webcams - and actually cameras in general - REALLY struggle with back-lighting. Having a key light pointed at a wall so it's more diffuse and so it can cast a softer glow onto your face is ideal.
It's a standalone site because we wanted people to be able to easily share it with their teammates right before important video calls.
A few people have given us really helpful feedback about more information to include (e.g. setups for different types of remote workers). But we haven't decided how we'd like to build on it further yet. If we did, what would you like to see from the site? / what would be most helpful to you?
Yeah, definitely agreed with you that it's difficult if your house isn't wired for ethernet. I actually do let a long cable drift along my floor :P Having a strong upload speed is crucial to letting others be able to hear you without any lag - and that's one of the most important factors to having a great video conference. This is why we wanted to emphasize a wired connection, but we also provided the specific upload/download speeds that could get you the high quality call as well.
Yeah, as we point out in the Checklist.video site, unfortunately only Zoom, Google Meets, and WebEx give you the option to turn off self-view. (Notable lack of this ability in Microsoft teams!)
hey swyx! a "UVC camera" simply refers to a camera that connects to your device over USB. most "typical webcams" are actually UVC cameras. the ones that are not, are the fancy SLR set-ups that you have to jerry-rig to your computer with multiple connectors and hubs. these are the setups that typically cost at least $1k.
Starting a reading accountability group has been incredibly helpful for me. Every day we post what we've read as we try to make reading (even the tiniest bit) a daily habit.