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Hah, I know that tree. The picture they used does not do it any justice. Its a beautiful tree. The lot is at end of the dead end street off Geary. Interesting one - double or triple size with main house and old carriage house on it, both set way back, unusual for that area and pretty. My guess is, it was bought to be torn down and build a couple multi-million townhomes side-by-side. Suppose it was easier for those guys to protect the tree than the home, carriage house or parcel itself. Is it that big of a loss of very unaffordable housing in grand scheme of things? The developer would not do affordable apartment building, even if it was zoned, the profit is just not there. I'd take that tree anyday over new small home. Looked at it every time I walked by it.

By the way, one fact thats rarely mentioned, that makes it far more profitable for developers to build small structures in sf is the earthquake code. Once you get over three stories, its totally different and far, far more expensive from time, engineering and materials standpoint. Dont get me wrong I'd love to see the city grow in height over some areas such as along Lincoln dr, its just not as simple as only zoning or nymbd blocking everything.

The progress marches on. The major annoyance are "talking" ads which disabling flash used to neuter. Nowadays, I see more and more autoplayed video ads served as a fallback. Almost at the point where need to do something to preserve some sanity. I like the "support the sites" mantra, but those publishers need to try to choose reputable ads networks and enforce the policy of cutting clearly obnoxious ones

It took a while. cant put a number cause a lot of it was done in spurts between other projects. altogether the project took about four months, but that included refactoring a lot of old code to play nice with mirrored writes and developing some framework level components. and waiting for hardware. and waiting for innodb conversion. and building setting up proper monitoring and alerting. future projects like that will take fraction of the time. Migration and verification itself took about 2 weeks. Yes, passes got proportionally quicker. first took almost a week, last few hours. we did not crank the speed to the max though as we wanted to keep the load low and we had time.

thanks for the link, will check it out

This is by no means a new exploit. I've know about it for about a year and sent warning emails to rather large players. The response, when I got one, was that its the industry standard. Publisher's developers see the scripts when network request to host them, and they often raise the issue. Yet the type of the ads that require those frame busters pay well, and unfortunately those concerns are swept away.

1 and 2. we are a tech company, yes we are growing, and like most serious places in this industry we never stop hiring qualified developers. this is not a monthly ad for same single job. we are growing the team, and have been successful doing that.

3. we get very few off-topic applications. most who apply do have some level of experience to qualify for the position. yes, the first screen is subjective, and we clearly make mistakes if all we have to go on is the CV without a single link to one's work. Thats why the position description suggests submitting code samples like a link to the github account would be very beneficial.

we do respond with an automated message acknowledging the receipt of the application and it spells out what to expect. We contact again to request code sample and exercise of those who pass initial screen. unfortunately sometimes those emails get trapped in spam filters. We did used to send rejection messages in the past, but this also did not work very well because many applicants expected very personal response and coaching on what went wrong. As all of us are also full time developers, we just dont have bandwidth to do that. but based on your guys's comments we'll see how we can do it again.

username subdomains are a very popular feature with many websites, especially older ones. users like it too. there is nothing abusive about it. He cant scrap several years worth of links and throw everyone at www.example.com/username

you can probably just send a link in a cover letter

Another benefit of this approach is that it takes seconds to revert to a good state if you destroyed your dataset in a mishap. use snapshots or just restart VM from original image. all while using your preferred code editor (the app source is mounted from the host OS)

even for RoR or python - might make sense for those working on multiple projects simultaneously, using different generations of frameworks