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We build Basis, Centro's answer to the challenging and convoluted digital advertising landscape. Our engineering teams across North America work closely with product managers, designers, and testers, creating well-crafted solutions to the complex problems of our industry. Our sales team is rapidly growing our client roster. As an engineering organization, we are aggressively optimizing to reach this scale, while at the same time building industry-leading features that will land even larger clients.
Our stack is Ruby on Rails, Node, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, AWS
I've recorded all kinds of music in Ableton. The main thing you have to cope with is Ableton expects you to work with a constant tempo on a grid, although it doesn't force you to in any way. It's very easy to just record straight into it like any other multitrack DAW and turn off all the grids and quantization.
I'm still a fan of Logic Pro and will most likely buy the upgrade. My workflow gravitates towards Ableton for grid-based compositions (I do a lot of electronic music) and Logic for anything where I'm recording "real" instruments like guitar and vocals, because of Logic's great comping workflow.
I don't think they _should_, I just think they _will_. Really, what international megachain wants people doing "social experiments" with their customer-loyalty infrastructure?
Why would they care as long they get 15 cups of coffee sold? And one person with lots of free coffee tokens is very less likely to use them all than various persons having them.
It's more than that though. Apple attracts more customers that are more willing to spend money on their platform. In doing so, they attract more high quality applications and developers that can make a living off of that ecosystem. Android is doing that as well, but more slowly, in no small part due to the difficulty people often face with the Android Marketplace.
How do you define high end? Because to me, and people in general out there, Apple is (always) high end in the sense that they're about as high quality as you can get as far as these kind of devices go. They don't charge "high-end" prices for some of their devices, but price isn't the metric you judge something to be high end or not.
Of course, if high end for you means diamond studded or gold plated, then we have a different case here.
I would have preferred a list with more editorial input than "listed in the order received." As a math novice, I'd be much more interested to learn what Salman Khan's favorite math book is than Joe First-Post's.
If we succeed, the name will be considered great. If we fail, people will blame the name. Does the name really affect anything? I bet good results are more important.
My employer paid for a branding agency and wound up throwing away most of their names and settling on a name we came up with ourselves. They did give us one good name that I wound up using for a logging tool two years later, so it wasn't a total waste.
I'm of the opinion that if you don't have creative enough people on your team to come up with a good name you probably have bigger problems than the lack of a creative name.
Of course you're right. You can succeed with a bad name and fail with a good name. It's just a mistake to make your job harder than it needs to be (since it's already so hard!). With as much money as you guys raised there's really no excuse for having such a poor name. IMHO.
Note: I'm a fan, and hope you guys kick ass -- I'm just being honest with my opinion.
I don't think you can generalize this as being binary. It makes it a hell of a lot easier for someone to spread the word if the name rocks. Your product has to be killer enough to over-compensate for a bad name, but imagine a killer product and a killer name.
Back in the day (around the turn of the century) I worked for a startup building a web application using Common Lisp. We used a framework called IMHO, which was developed in-house by a couple of the lead developers. IMHO seems to have been deprecated, per http://www.cliki.net/IMHO and the source code is nowhere to be found. I am still in touch with the authors, so maybe I can encourage them to make it more available.
Using Lisp for a web dev platform was pretty nice. I was a support engineer in those days and I always found it useful to be able to pull up a console and inspect the actual running sessions to debug problems in production.
We build Basis, Centro's answer to the challenging and convoluted digital advertising landscape. Our engineering teams across North America work closely with product managers, designers, and testers, creating well-crafted solutions to the complex problems of our industry. Our sales team is rapidly growing our client roster. As an engineering organization, we are aggressively optimizing to reach this scale, while at the same time building industry-leading features that will land even larger clients.
Our stack is Ruby on Rails, Node, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, AWS
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