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dboyd

Joined 18 years ago

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I'm Darren Boyd.

My startup work began in 1993, and my career has been largely Internet related development, including these products and companies...

  http://yourlink.ca/

  http://sendables.jibjab.com/everyday_fun/category/starring_you

  http://msnack.com/ (that company didn't work out to well, that site might be gone)

  http://repairpal.com/

  http://www.zendesk.com/

  http://www.realgravity.com/

  https://www.lendeavor.com/
Other person info...

  https://ruby.social/@craftiness
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Comment · 3 years ago
Leach fields are not uncommon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_drain_field
Comment · 7 years ago
Lendeavor | San Francisco, Columbus, Remote | Full-time | https://www.lendeavor.com/

Lendeavor is a FinTech company operating in the healthcare space, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a satellite office in Columbus, Ohio. We're a team of hard-working, values-first individuals with diverse backgrounds in finance, technology, credit, education, and law.

We're changing the way private healthcare practices access critical business financing. We believe that healthcare practices form the cornerstone of American communities, and that practitioners' ability to serve their communities depends largely on access to a wide array of financial services. We've built a platform that makes it easy for the country's 350,000 dental, veterinary, optometric, and medical practice owners to obtain low-cost financing to buy, expand, and equip their practices.

Open Positions...

  - Executive Assistant (San Francisco, CA)
  - Office Manager (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior Back-End Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior Front-End Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Vice President of Engineering (San Francisco, CA)
  - Director of Human Resources (San Francisco, CA)
  - Product Designer (San Francsico, CA)
  - Sales Development Representative (San Francisco, CA)
  - Vice President of Sales (San Francisco, CA)
  - and many more...
More details: https://www.lendeavor.com/careers
Comment · 7 years ago
Lendeavor | San Francisco | Full-time | https://www.lendeavor.com/

Lendeavor is a FinTech company operating in the healthcare space, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a satellite office in Columbus, Ohio. We're a team of hard-working, values-first individuals with diverse backgrounds in finance, technology, credit, education, and law.

We're changing the way private healthcare practices access critical business financing. We believe that healthcare practices form the cornerstone of American communities, and that practitioners' ability to serve their communities depends largely on access to a wide array of financial services. We've built a platform that makes it easy for the country's 350,000 dental, veterinary, optometric, and medical practice owners to obtain low-cost financing to buy, expand, and equip their practices.

Open Positions...

  - Senior back-end software engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior front-end software engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Lead Product Designer (San Francsico, CA)
  - Credit Officer (Columbus, OH)
  - Member Success Specialist (Columbus, OH)
  - Loan Funding Coordinator (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior Accountant (San Francisco, CA)
  - HR Director (San Francisco, CA)
More details: https://www.lendeavor.com/careers
Comment · 8 years ago
Lendeavor | San Francisco | Full-time, REMOTE | https://www.lendeavor.com/

Lendeavor is a technology-enabled lender to healthcare practices. Practitioners — primarily dentists, veterinarians, and optometrists — use Lendeavor’s online platform to seamlessly start, acquire, expand, or equip their practices.

Practice owners are some of our economy’s most highly educated and hardest-working entrepreneurs — yet starting, buying, or expanding a practice takes too long and costs too much. We’re here to change that.

We’ve built software that takes complicated transactions — like buying your first practice — and makes them simple. As a result, our members spend less time applying for credit, and we spend less time processing it. This efficiency drives faster funding and lower rates. Going forward, we’re ruthlessly focused on simplicity, customer experience, and efficiency.

Current Stack: Rails, Postgres, Heroku

Open Positions...

  - Product Manager
  - Experienced developers (especially backend)
  - More developers
More Details: https://www.lendeavor.com/careers
Comment · 9 years ago
My favourite one that I use as a cliche from time-to-time is...

> The average European lifespan has more than doubled since Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco to the continent.

Comment · 10 years ago
That is in the lama book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001322.do).

> Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.

edit: formatting

Comment · 10 years ago
It would screw up high-noon for a lot of people. However, getting the US down to two time zones would be much less problematic, and achieve most of the benefits you'd see from one time zone...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/daylight...

Comment · 11 years ago
Looks great. Your formatting on the result page is messed up in my browser (chrome on osx). You can see a screen shot here...

https://annotate.driftt.com/view?i=99nffsejxeiittq%2F2015-08...

Comment · 11 years ago
San Francisco, CA REMOTE

Lendeavor helps people get small business loans. Since the beginning of 2014, we've helped bakers, consultants, builders, sneakerheads, doctors, and brewers get the money they need to grow their businesses. We've curated the alternative lending market, gathering the best options into an easy to use platform where borrowers can compare their financing options side by side.

We are hiring are second, third and fourth engineer(s). Come join a small and exciting team! We're looking for strong developers that have experience with Ruby and Rails and/or Javascript (ideally with experience in a JS framework like Ember or Angular).

https://www.lendeavor.com/careers

Comment · 11 years ago
That's less than 1% over one week. The APR would closer to 15-20% (depending on salary, pay frequency, etc.).
Comment · 11 years ago
This was my first thought as well. Why is it that people have no issue with your laptop vendor "claiming ownership" of your laptop, but are so alarmed when the same principle is applied to a larger machine?

Yes, I realize that this is not an entirely fair comparison. However, the parallels between this article and the "war on general purpose computing" seem relevant...

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

Comment · 11 years ago
3/7 == 0.42857
Comment · 12 years ago
As well as readability (mentioned above), I find Evernote's Clearly to be a great extension for reading anything on the web (medium.com tends to be notorious to read)...

https://evernote.com/clearly/

Note that you don't need a evernote account to use this (I don't, and it just works).

Comment · 12 years ago
I have the same issues. I do have Disconnect running, which blocks about 30-40 third-party requests made from your site. It looks like errors from mixpanel are breaking the rest of your app.

I do allow same-party interaction and cookies. (i.e., anything from montagebook will work.)

You may want to set your third-party analytics services to be asynchronous, so they aren't a single point of failure for your entire application.

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