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justinsteeleon The Key to Snapchat's Eventual Profitability: It's Dirt Cheap to Run

The countdown refers to the amount of time you can view the snap (video/photo) before it is inaccessible. Snaps are immediately viewable (given a fast connection).

justinsteeleon How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love

Have you had an opposite gender friend review your profile?

justinsteeleon Removed gendered pronouns; replace with neutral, singular "they"

What's interesting to me is the argument that feminists have "too much time on their hands" if they are concerning themselves with submitting real gender neutral patches that make sense (ie. not this). Compare that to the creation of "languages", fake patches, and troll accounts in order to attempt to discredit actual points made by feminists.

I find the second immensely more of a "waste of time".

justinsteeleon FOBO (YC S11) Launches in SF to Become The Fastest Way to Sell Your Electronics

Is calling them douchebags for failing to think of something warranted?

justinsteeleon PHP 5.5.8 Released

As someone who's professional life generally revolves around Ruby, and in the past has revolved around Python and PHP.. it's a stupid comment. PHP is a perfectly capable language of producing high quality products.. and that is what actually matters.

justinsteeleon 25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?

Even at 8k a month, he should be putting away 50-75k a year. That alone is a pretty impressive rate. It definitely sounds like he needs to figure out what "financially free" means to him, and realize it generally is impossible to reach that in a couple years. He should be happy with how quickly he WILL reach that.

justinsteeleon Must-have Django packages

Terrible joke/10

justinsteeleon How a Fake Beard Can Get You Hired on the Internet

Shampoo and conditioner helps prevent itchiness, at any stage of growth. If it's really just stubble, soap & lotion will work.

justinsteeleon The Saddest SaaS Pricing Pages of the Year

For what it's worth, I got to that page by clicking "Email Delivery Express" via their dropdown from their homepage - http://dyn.com/

If you click the link in the article it still is the older version.

justinsteeleon The Saddest SaaS Pricing Pages of the Year

Looks like Dyn has changed theirs; http://dyn.com/email-delivery-express/

justinsteeleon My thoughts on SF after living here for six months

Because you consider shoveling those who are not as lucky in life to someone else's doorstep a solution?

justinsteeleon Interviewing as a Front-End Engineer in San Francisco

Hiring is pretty much the most important thing you do as a company.. if you can't spend an hour per position developing applicable questions for each position, you are setting yourself up for failure.

justinsteeleon Accidental Tax Break Saves Wealthiest Americans $100 Billion

I don't think "royally screwed" is the phrase you are looking for. There may not be comparably nice homes for cheaper in the area near your wife's work, but there are millions living on < 150k near you.

justinsteeleon PostgreSQL Exercises

Problem "Where2"

Fails: SELECT facid, name, membercost, monthlymaintenance FROM cd.facilities WHERE membercost > 0 AND (membercost / monthlymaintenance) < (1/50);

Succeeds: SELECT facid, name, membercost, monthlymaintenance, (membercost / monthlymaintenance) as a FROM cd.facilities WHERE membercost > 0 AND (membercost / monthlymaintenance) < (0.02);

justinsteeleon Why I hate virtualenv and pip

And who are you? No other posts, anonymous account, simply to call someone out and try to tie them to a company?

Full disclosure: Know 2 ex coworkers at Docker, no financial ties.

justinsteeleon Driving Is Going Out of Style

http://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/new-yorkers-and-cars

23% in manhattan, ~46% overall. Definitely not a majority, especially if just talking manhattan.

justinsteeleon Preview of "Explore Flask" Book

I did $4 up front, justified in my mind for "effort", and then I'll be doing the same as you (giving after if it's useful).

justinsteeleon About the Penny Arcade Job Posting

Nothing he wrote has changed my opinion about the ad or the position, except for the parts regarding his depression and lung issues, and how they handled it (well).

Overall, it reinforced that they are interested in someone who is willing to take a below market rate, is a generalist in many arenas, and is willing to work 60-80 hours a week, including 24/7 on call.

Honestly, breaking the job into 2 positions (no, they would not be reading r/aww all day, and if they were, you hired the wrong people) would make this SO much more enticing. It would eliminate the 24/7 on call (you could do every other week), you'd have someone to bounce ideas off, and if you hired the right 2 people, their expertise in the 4 'jobs' would likely be much higher than whoever is going to get the gig currently.

justinsteeleon Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

You're going to call an existing transaction nothing based on speculation from another currency?

justinsteeleon Software patent reform just died in the House

Children's toys are not generally targeted towards the parents.

justinsteeleon Coin

Is "cool hipster dude" necessary? Not that your second sentence was informative either, really.

justinsteeleon I Started Working Remotely – Track My Progress

Do you have full office meetings? If so, how are they organized both physically in the office (conference room? one mic in the middle of a desk? laptops or projectors for video?) and software wise (hangouts, skype, etc)?

justinsteeleon 75-year study on what men require to live a happy life.

http://www.businessinsider.com/grant-study-reveals-what-make... Original article.

justinsteeleon Lifestyle programming

Most families manage with combined incomes less than senior software engineers. How big does the house need to be?

justinsteeleon Pass the Rap Genius Tech Interview, Get $1,000 Cash

Relocating sucks for people with homes, families, childhood friends, etc. I live where I live (Portland, ME) because I LOVE it here. The market for tech is not here (yet, it's growing), so I work remotely for a NYC company.

justinsteeleon Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google

It doesn't have to be one or the other, it can be both. A system that does it's best to prevent abuse, and individuals who do not seek out ways to abuse it, combined make a best case scenario.

justinsteeleon Devops Horror Stories

It's not always the person who pushed it on a friday that ends up fixing it, though. They can be unreachable, without a computer, etc etc. It's just easier to change less during hours you have less people on hand, is all.

justinsteeleon Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?

The "scene" is cool. There are local meetups, some small, some mid sized. Monktoberfest just drew quite the crowd. As the other commenter said, there ain't much for investment though, and the companies are a mix of web boutiques, large companies (Unum, Idexx, etc), and a startup here or there. I work remotely, which gives me the benefits of being in Portland while making a NYC salary, but even when I was working for a Portland firm I was still making a good wage.

justinsteeleon 37signals Works Remotely [video]

I'm both - so I pre ordered the book a month ago.

justinsteeleon Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?

Do you have a source? From conversations in my tech groups, it seems people are moving away from Rackspace. Not to AWS specifically. Either way, I wouldn't have made the statement originally as I don't have any proof and I'm curious if they both released active customer #s that I missed?