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.
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.
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.
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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.
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 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] or Twitter: @jakemcgraw if you're interested or have any questions.
[0]: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...