Every so often I crave dive bars, bad rock, dancing and free pours in rooms with black walls and sticky floors. It's a disease. Who's with me?
Genuinely falling in love with Santa Rosa a bit more the longer I spend here.
Discovery of the day: Santa Rosa has municipal WiFi! I mean, I also have 4G, but, neat!
You give me Bieber
On my Facebook
Bieber on every site
Bieber!
In the morning
Bieber all through the night
Revolution in Ukraine
Human rights at the NSA
Indonesia sailing warships
But you share Bieber anyway
You give me Bieber
My employer, Latakoo, is an enterprise media management company. We help people send files - mostly video, but we're expanding - really fast using any Internet connection.
A lot of our customers are involved in news and journalism. Here's a sample:
Used @latakoo on Air Force One to ship video of POTUS leaving DC as the plane was taxiing! Pretty cool technology. pic.twitter.com/N2rABZcCzF
— Jim Long (@newmediajim) December 9, 2013
It's not uncommon for us to get support requests from journalists in places like Syria who need to get footage out quickly and securely. Shortly, we expect to talking to people in Sochi a lot.
So here's the thing. We're a small, very agile (with a small "a") startup, and we need a little bit of help getting some of our upcoming projects out the door. They're all high profile, directly affect customers who themselves high profile, and are full of really meaty, interesting engineering problems. Oh, and they're based out of Austin or San Antonio in Texas.
Here's what we need:
Sound interesting to you? Great. Email me at ben@latakoo.com, and let's talk!
Please, please, please, no agencies, offshore or otherwise. I want to work directly with individuals, and you have to be local to Austin or San Antonio.
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Going to go out on a limb and say that if you have to ignore international human rights law for a paycheck, it's probably not a winner.
The US government's own Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board calls to end NSA spying: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/politics/nsa-telephone-records-privacy/index.html
@ShaneHudson @danharmon I'd go with the whole "watchdog decides NSA spying is useless, should stop" thing.
And another reminder that if you're a freelance iOS or PHP developer looking for work in San Antonio, email me too: ben@latakoo.com
@atl And it's a negative reaction to net neutrality in the original article, which .. well ..
Fascinating reaction to Netflix's business model, with implications about the profits involved in cable TV. http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=227873
A gentle reminder that if you're a freelance iOS or PHP developer looking for work in Austin, you should email me: ben@latakoo.com
@bitoclass Have you seen this? Victoria Line suspended because it's been submerged in concrete. http://usvsth3m.com/post/74285062011/you-wont-believe-why-the-victoria-line-is-currently
@seriouspony I'm convinced they're gathering information and bringing it back to the mothership.
@obra I completely didn't realize you founded Best Practical. Okay, that's sealed that deal for me!
Any osTicket users out there? Is it working out for you?
Biggest downside to caring for my mother & helping my dad: Downton Abbey. Do not want.
Stripe is 4 years old, launched on Hacker News 2.5 years ago. They're now worth $1.75bn. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304632204579337043662898228
@fawceisfawce App.net's Bitcoin crowdfunding drive is: https://bitcoin.app.net/
@juliepagano From the feed, looks like he was expelled from school at the end of the year. Probably wider problems :/
"I'm trying to decide if I want a coldbrew so late." "Yeah, a lady overdosed on caffeine & had to go to hospital." "I'll have the chai."
Who has a contact at Business Insider? I'd like to pitch my 43-slide post on what it's like to drink a coffee made by a barista.
I think we've all known people who have thought this. You can build Facebook by firing up some Adobe software, right? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101017181529AAuqEeT
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