jakemcgraw

If we repeal ACA, we'll need to force insurers to take on patients with preexisting conditions. We can't ice out 38% of Americans[0] from coverage.

[0]: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

Depending on the number of trips per day, this has the potential to greatly reduce summertime traffic from tristate region to Cape Cod / Nantucket / Martha's Vineyard / LI North Shore / Montauk.

I grew up outside of one of the most violent cities in New York State[1]. My high school was right in the middle of Newburgh, NY, and being a teenager, I spent a lot of time driving around the downtown area at night. There were a handful of blocks you stayed away from and you were good. Granted, this is with the benefit of a car, rather than walking around.

Ultimately, random acts of violence are scary but even in the "most dangerous cities" statistically rare. The politicization of city violence "What about Chicago? What about SF?" is an instant red flag that whomever you're speaking with is making a bad faith argument.

[1]: https://hudsonvalleypost.com/hudson-valley-city-among-most-d...

I wonder how much more effective this would be if the prompt wasn't "this was generated by AI." It would be really interesting if someone with a popular podcast injected an AI conversation into their feed and didn't tell their audience for a couple weeks. A real life Turing Test.

We’re (Harness Wealth) are always looking for developers with knowledge of US tax code hmu jake@harnesswealth.com

Great write up about a critical part of most interview processes without a chance to practice if you’ve never worked at an org that regularly implement complex systems.

Hello HN, I'm head of engineering at Harness Wealth. Yesterday we launched our suite of financial planning tools for startup employees. We set out to answer the question: "How will my life change when my startup exits?" It’s a question every early employee thinks about, yet there is zero accessible guidance on this. You’re on your own for the most consequential financial event of your life.

Our tools will show you the different IPO outcomes when optimizing for capital gains, minimizing risk, or avoiding AMT (alternative minimum tax). We also give you a holistic view of your net worth using our Grant Admin and Personal Balance Sheet, replacing your custom built spreadsheets.

I hope HN readers find these tools useful and we’re just getting started, we'll be adding support for RSUs, SPACs, acquisitions, and additional scenarios i the near future.

One of the first 300 users, SO was revolutionary when launched, I followed their development via Codinghorror and Joelonsoftware blogs (probably in an RSS feed). I've since moved into management and away from day to day coding, so I use it very infrequently, but, I have to imagine more than a few software startups only exist today because SO democratized software development Q&A.

The expectation that Subscriptions/Billing would be free forever is silly. The product offering is significantly more complex than the base Stripe offering. Additionally, the proposed rate of 0.5% is 1/10th what other repeatable billing providers are charging.

This is a win-win and I'll be moving my startup over to Stripe Billing in the near future.

Just kicked the tires on Optimizely for a site with less than a million MAU. They wanted $50K upfront for one year. No monthly or quarterly billing available. Went with Google Optimize instead, works fine for free. In the face of that, very surprised Optimizely doesn't do month to month to get folks started.

I was responsible for administrating an ADT security system for a Los Angeles-based startup (too many hats). Dealing with ADT was an absolute nightmare. Their support agents knew nothing about our configuration. ADT support technicians could take days to respond to a faulty sensor, which meant our operations folks would have to wake up at all hours of the night and check for false positives or disable the whole system. The experience led me to believe that office security systems are ripe for additional competition.

was hoping John Graham-Cumming would be in here to give us the behind scenes :(

excellent andromeda strain reference

The Block Crypto, Inc. | Head of Frontend Engineering | REMOTE | $100k-$130k + SIZABLE equity. The Block (https://www.theblockcrypto.com) is a VC-funded news media organization focussed on the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. We launched our newsletter and website in August 2018, onsite traffic and newsletter subs have grown tremendously since then. Apply here: https://tblck.co/hofe Email me with any questions jake@theblockcrypto.com

Just donated, and you should too!

https://gnupg.org/cgi-bin/procdonate.cgi

I recently used iron.io to process around 750K images (generating pHashes for duplicate detection). The service is fantastic.

Anyone else having their office ISP connection totally destroyed by 100+ Dropbox clients attempting Monday morning sync? We have a balanced, 300Mbs connection for about 160 users, and our network becomes unreliable during 5 minute bursts throughout the day.

Post-social network it's no surprise that people fall into these traps. Don't invest in what you don't understand.

For anyone that hasn't experienced it first hand: "programmer" + "IT/computer guy" is a recipe for professional failure. The demands are so different and balancing them is impossible. You can be an IT person or software developer but never both at the same time. It is also a sign that whomever job description doesn't understand the difference.

Refinery29 -- New York, NY. Fulltime.

Refinery29 is the cornerstone of fashion, beauty, and shopping for a new generation. In an industry dominated by traditional print publications with lackluster digital offerings, R29 has broken away and created a successful (profitable) all-digital personal style destination. We're expanding our engineering team, and require some talented, experienced individuals to help us improve the process and infrastructure which powers our high traffic website.

Please reach out to me via email: jake.mcgraw@refinery29.com or Twitter: @jakemcgraw if you're interested or have any questions.

* Senior Test Engineer *

We're still in the early phases of a more formal QA process at Refinery29. We know what we want, just not how to get there. Your job is to show us the way, help us implement a rock solid QA process. Here are some loose guidelines we came up with, but as I've indicated earlier, we're open to suggestions on how we should run this.

* Stabilize, expand and automate our testing process and infrastructure. * Lead our software development team in designing testable code, which will primarily be in PHP using PHPUnit. * Design a system for testing client-side functionality, Selenium, PhantomJS, whatever you want, it's up to you. * Design test plans for larger software/architecture projects. * Assist in legacy code documentation and setting documentation standards for future development.

* Senior Devops Engineer *

Over the last 7 months we've made huge improvements to our infrastructure to handle the high volumes of traffic we've received (30 day peak: 550Mb/s). We'd be hiring you as our first in house, dedicated Devops/Systems engineer to help us execute the improvements necessary to handle even larger traffic spikes.

* Design, optimize, monitor and maintain the server infrastructure for production, development, deployment and testing. * Build tools to optimize infrastructure resources for our development team. * Assist in cost projection for server infrastructure. * Manage projects currently being executed by consulting systems team.

Again, please reach out to me via email: jake.mcgraw@refinery29.com or Twitter: @jakemcgraw if you're interested or have any questions.

If you want to see what this would look like if it was a real business, checkout http://www.dotgo.com and http://dotgo.com/Support/Documentation/.

DOTGO solves the problem of service discoverability by mapping domain names to shortcodes representing TLDs. Want wikipedia.org? Text "wikipedia" to DOTORG (368674). Want to checkin to Foursquare? Text "foursquare" to DOTCOM (368266).

DOTGO also provides a language of reusable components, known as CMRL (Concise Message Routing Language), it allows you to create hierarchical menus, links and URL callbacks.

They're available in the United States and select countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Previously, I was a web application developer for them, I still think it's a great idea and recommend you guys give it a go.

spin up more servers brother!

New York, NY, Refinery29

Refinery29 is a fashion content platform with a large, primarily female, user base. All members of our engineering team are heavily focused on delivering the best experience possible for our users. Traffic, revenue and employee headcount have all rapidly increased in 2012. 2013 is already looking amazing, please consider joining us.

Senior Software Engineer / API Platform

We’re looking for an experienced developer who’s seen it all and is ready to try their hand at improving our web application stack and provide tooling support for our growing engineering team. If you have a strong desire to automate, abstract, improve and document a rapidly expanding codebase consider this the opportunity of a lifetime. We need someone to continue refining our web application platform and help us grow.

Nice to haves:

* Worked with 50+ machine distributed application stacks.

* Worked with any of the following: Puppet, NGNIX, Varnish, Akamai, SoftLayer.

* Designed a public API from scratch.

* Designed command line tools for automating and exposing common tasks.

Hit me up @jakemcgraw or email jake.mcgraw@refinery29.com

We're hiring for many positions, see http://the-rig.refinery29.com/jobs

Excellent job... I think a second article in which you give specific examples of how Context-aware caching would work for a simple application would be helpful. Maybe a group chat service would be a great example. Also, adding HTTP requests within Varnish allows for a much more useful cache invalidation scheme... for example, incoming requests could have an content_token and timestamp. An internal HTTP service that records whether a given piece of content has expired (through user action rather than TTL) could then be checked before serving up a cached copy.

New York, NY, Refinery29

Senior Software Engineer / API Platform

We’re looking for an experienced developer who’s seen it all and is ready to try their hand at improving our web application stack and provide tooling support for our growing engineering team. If you have a strong desire to automate, abstract, improve and document a rapidly expanding codebase consider this the opportunity of a lifetime. We need someone to continue refining our web application platform and help us grow.

Nice to haves:

* Worked with 50+ machine distributed application stacks.

* Worked with Varnish or Akamai or other major CDN.

* Designed a public API from scratch.

* Designed command line tools for automating and exposing common tasks.

Hit me up @jakemcgraw or email jake.mcgraw@refinery29.com

We're hiring for many positions, see http://the-rig.refinery29.com/jobs

total subconscience slip

When Gruber said "Readability is run by scumbags" [1] for hijacking referral links, I'd say right back at you, John Gruber, you're a scumbag for hijacking the name of the show and exiting with a total lack of class.

I hope the fluffing [2] Mike Monteiro [3] gave you was worth tossing Dan and 5by5 under the bus.

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/30/readability

[2]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fluffing

[3]: http://twitter.com/mike_wtf

New York, NY - Software Engineer (Various) - Remote possible

Refinery29 (Seed $500K, Series A $4.5M, high daily revenue) is looking for a few good engineers to join our rapidly growing technology team. Our company has gone from 8 employees a year ago to just over 75 today, and we're continuing to grow.

Our technology team is unique in that tech and product are the same team, developers often drive product design. Our number one priority in technology is hiring smart, driven men and women, giving them the tools to succeed and getting the hell out of the way.

If you're sick of building products you don't believe will succeed or having your job dictated to you, come join us!

http://the-rig.refinery29.com/jobs

Ping me on Twitter @jakemcgraw if you have any questions.

MVP BABY, AIN'T GOT NO TIME FOR TESTIN

Wow, whether through legacy support, or they just don't care, when's the last time you heard Microsoft or Apple talking about the print diagnostic page? Perhaps Ubuntu will finally crack the Linux as a truly (your grandmother can use it) alternative desktop OS.