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drp··on Language Learning with Netflix
Many Disney movies have great Mandarin dubs on Disney+.
drp··on NYC Fire Department forcible entry reference guide [pdf] (2006)
Previous discussion from 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11031303
drp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
Zillow | Mid to Sr+ Software Engineers | Remote (US only)

We have many openings in Zillow Rentals: front end javascript/react, back end java, full stack, and mobile apps.

Across Zillow, Trulia, and HotPads we run the network of sites with the most renters and are working to bring the entirety of renting online in a way that makes renting a home fast, easy, and equitable.

Email your resume to me at davidpe@zillowgroup.com Excited to hear from you!

drp··on 'One Ring' Phone Scam
"at not cost." A scam warning with a typo.
drp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Zillow Group / HotPads | Software Engineers, Dev Manager | San Francisco | Full Time | On site only

We're hiring all sorts of product-oriented software engineers (with >=2 years of experience) and senior software engineers: front end (node/react), back end (Java), and full stack to build the present and future of rental housing search. We're also hiring an ambitious hands-on full stack engineering manager who is an expert in one or both of Java and React, and proficient in the other.

Contact me at davidpe@zillowgroup.com

drp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
Zillow Group/HotPads | SW Dev Manager - Listings | San Francisco | on-site | full time

Come lead the small team of excellent engineers who bring rental listings to Zillow sites and build related infrastructure to power the busiest rental housing marketplace on the web. Dev managers in our group continue to spend a large portion of their time coding.

Please read the job responsibilities and submit your resume on https://www.zillow.com/jobs/openings?j=oNWo5fwW and then contact me directly at dpeters@hotpads.com

drp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
HotPads / Zillow Group Rentals | San Francisco | onsite

HotPads (https://hotpads.com) is the best rental housing site around. We have an engineering-centered, fast-paced, culture with very small teams and a huge impact. In addition to building HotPads, we build systems that power the rental listings across the largest rental network on the web.

Read our reviews on glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-HotPads-EI_IE9...

We're looking for experienced, responsible, and talented back-end engineers who want to work in Java on all parts of our systems - APIs, email, infrastructure, distributed processing, big data, and all sorts of other things you might imagine, as well as an exceptional Sr. DevOps Engineer to help keep us rolling.

Please apply to the posting you're interested in, or contact me with your deets at dpeters@hotpads.com

Sr. DevOps Engineer: http://www.zillow.com/jobs/openings?j=oIQW2fwg

[Sr.] Software Engineer (APIs): http://www.zillow.com/jobs/openings?j=oMRk3fwK

[Sr.] Software Engineer (Data): http://www.zillow.com/jobs/openings?j=oiuw2fw4

Sr. Software Engineer (Infrastructure): http://www.zillow.com/jobs/openings?j=oFXg3fwF

-Dave, dpeters@hotpads.com

drp··on PadMapper (YC S10) is Joining Zumper
Congrats Eric! Give Clymer a high five for me.
drp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)
Zillow Rentals - San Francisco, CA

We have gobs of open spaces for talented engineers to put their mark on the largest rental network on the web. Our small, product-focused San Francisco office is in the Financial District, right next to Montgomery station. Come join us!

Front End Developer - Build neat front end features on http://hotpads.com

Software Engineer - Build the back end of http://hotpads.com

SDET (billed as Sr. Software Engineer) - An exceptionally strong back-end software engineer who wants to make sure things work. Not QA. Build simulations and system level tests.

Lead Engineer / Development Manager, Fraud - Lead a small band of fraud-fighting software engineers. 50/50 coding and managing.

SW Engineer, Machine Learning - Destroy rental fraud with code.

Apply here: http://www.zillow.com/jobs/openings?l=san%20francisco and email me: davidpe@zillow.com

drp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)
Zillow Rentals, San Francisco, http://www.zillow.com/jobs/openings?l=san%20francisco

Zillow's SF office is near Montgomery station on Bush & Sansome

We're fast, efficient, passionate developers building the best and biggest rental sites on the internet: zillow.com, hotpads.com and postlets.com

All our teams are growing and we're hiring tons of folks:

  Software Engineers (front end, back end, full stack, test)
  DevOps
  UX Design
  Data Science
  Dev Managers
Come join us. davidpe@zillow.com

Zillow also has dozens of job openings in Seattle, Lincoln, Irvine, and New York: http://www.zillow.com/jobs/openings

drp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
Zillow Rentals, San Francisco, CA

We're building the largest rental housing search network on the web and need to make sure it's solid. We're hiring a software engineer/SDET to lead our back-end testing efforts, building systems to test systems. You'll be an extremely important part of a smart, fast-paced team that's responsible for the data behind the best rental sites on the internet.

http://www.zillow.com/jobs/san-francisco-office/ or email me at davidpe@zillow.com

drp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
Zillow Rentals, San Francisco, CA

Our SF office is home to a rapidly growing team that's focused on building the best and largest rental network on the internet. We have quite a few openings for experienced engineers (Database, Android, Test), as well as listing support and marketing.

http://www.zillow.com/jobs/san-francisco-office/ or email me at davidpe@zillow.com

drp··on Taking Google’s QUIC For a Test Drive (2013)
This article is from last November. The Google group response linked from the post https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/pro... implied many performance problems would be fixed within 2 weeks. I wonder how it's improved.
drp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)
San Francisco, CA - Zillow Rentals & HotPads

We're hiring back end engineers to make rental housing data better.

Please apply here: http://www.zillow.com/jobs/positions/ but also feel free to email me dpeters@hotpads.com

drp··on Registration for Google I/O 2013 will open on March 13, 2013 at 7:00 AM PDT
Got in, pressed purchase, got the modal, pressed the pay button, "Your purchase will complete momentarily ...", sat for a while, closed modal, started over x2, tried waiting for 3 minutes, timed out, no pending charges. How annoying.
drp··on Hypersonic Flight ‘Breakthrough’ Could Have Us in Tokyo by Lunch
250 * 30,000 = 7,500,000
drp··on How to Write
Yes.
drp··on Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
Some comment threads are getting very long. Collapse children would help keep these from hiding other worthy top level comments.
drp··on Our Biggest Kickstarter Surprises
Dollars pledged is the metric you ultimately care about, but I'd expect number of pledges to reveal more patterns.
drp··on Show HN: I made a site that rings a bell every time you have a new customer
We used to have a computer play a gong noise when we sold something. It was just an email client that got a copy of all the receipts and played a sound when mail came in. That got really annoying so we killed it.

Now we have a physical gong in the office that our sales reps get to bang on. We don't learn from our mistakes.

drp··on Make HTTP requests from your browser
Something fun to point it at: http://httpong.com

Particularly http://httpong.com/response but the other parts can show you what hurl.it is sending.

drp··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)
Including interns, 2/3 of our dev hires at HotPads in 2011 came to us from these HN posts.
drp··on [dead]
I submitted this under feature requests a couple of years ago. It's consistently been in the top 5 since then. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996374
drp··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)
San Francisco, CA

HotPads - http://hotpads.com

We're hiring software engineers, web user interface developers and interns to work in our office in the Mission District in San Francisco.

HotPads is a small, lively company building and running an extremely popular map-based housing search engine that's used by millions of people each month. See more here: http://hotpads.com/pages/jobs.htm

dpeters@hotpads.com

drp··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
San Francisco, CA

HotPads - http://hotpads.com/pages/jobs.htm

HotPads is hiring software engineers and web user interface developers to work in our San Francisco office. We're a small, lively company building and running a popular map-based housing search engine that's used by millions of people each month, so we need driven individuals who want make an impact on the way people find housing.

dpeters@hotpads.com

drp··on A Review of the Lean Startup Book
This book was unreadably pretentious. Constantly capitalizing "Lean Startup Movement" (and for that matter, using the word "movement") makes it sound like some sort of religion.

Readers looking for something substantive or even thought provoking will be thoroughly disappointed.

drp··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)
San Francisco, CA

HotPads - http://hotpads.com/pages/jobs.htm

We're hiring software engineers and web user interface developers to work in our new office in San Francisco's Mission District. We're a small, lively company running a popular map-based housing search engine, so we need driven individuals who want make an impact on the way people find housing.

dpeters@hotpads.com

drp··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
San Francisco, CA

HotPads - http://hotpads.com/pages/jobs.htm

We're looking for software engineers, web user interface developers and interns of either persuasion. We're a small company looking for driven individuals who want make a big impact on the way people find housing.

dpeters@hotpads.com

drp··on I am an HFT Programmer
I believe the "value" being referred to here is social rather than financial.
drp··on Y Combinator Partner Harj Taggar: "San Francisco is Becoming Silicon Valley"
SF actually has an abundance of reasonably priced office space. I don't know the medians, but a quick glance at http://www.rofo.com/CA/Mountain-View and http://www.rofo.com/CA/San-Francisco shows similar price to square foot ratios.
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