rileywatkins
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I believe zacharycohn meant "regressive" as in "imposes a harsher burden on lower-income households than on households with higher incomes."[0] In this sense, Washington state does have a regressive tax system, in part thanks to 0% income tax and higher than average sales tax.
[0] https://www.thebalance.com/regressive-tax-definition-history...
Comment · 7 years ago
What a milestone! This was the most impressive work in open source decision-making that I have ever followed (in my limited experience). People have contributed thousands of comments discussing this for over a year. It has even caused the team to rethink how discussions like this should be guided in the future beyond comments on GitHub issues. I cannot imagine how difficult it has been to manage it all, and I applaud and thank the Rust team for their hard work in fielding comments, weighing trade-offs, and ultimately making a decision in order to move the project forward.
Comment · 11 years ago
Hacker News Highlights[0] is something I didn't even know I needed. There's some great content to be found here (including some insightful comments), but the sheer volume of content means I'm probably missing out on most of it.
[0] http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2015/11/hacker-news-hi...
Comment · 11 years ago
Location: Portland, OR
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL at work. Clojure, Haskell, and many others in off hours.
Résumé/CV: Send me an email
Email: [email protected]
I spent the last 3 years at InstaEDU, an online tutoring marketplace, where I joined as engineer #1 and built the prototype myself. We were acquired for $30 million last summer. Now I'm moving to Portland and looking for something new!
Comment · 12 years ago
Typically, it's expected that as a company raises more money, it will probably create more shares in the process. Even though your percentage of equity goes down, over time the company should be worth more money (hopefully).
0.2% of an $80M company is better than 1% of a $1M company.
Comment · 13 years ago
You can try http://codereview.stackexchange.com/.
Comment · 14 years ago
Ratchet.io works well for this. http://ratchet.io/
Comment · 14 years ago
When I consider what my own answer to that question might be, I think the "doing what I love: computers" answer is a given. It's completely obvious to me that I'll still be doing what I love in 5 years. I usually take the question to mean, "Where do you expect to progress to in 5 years?"
Surely I'll still be doing what I love, but I hope I grow to take on more responsibility. If I'm not growing in my ability, then I might just be a bad programmer, and I probably don't love it anyway.
If I answer with "perhaps leading my own team", does that mean I don't love computers? (Nope.)
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm a bit late to the party, but I love http://www.youneedabudget.com. I've been using it religiously for over two years.
Comment · 14 years ago
Well, you know what they say about headlines and questions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...
Comment · 14 years ago
San Francisco, CA — Software Engineers
InstaEDU (http://instaedu.com)
InstaEDU is an on-demand video tutoring marketplace. We're making personal study help accessible and affordable for everyone.
We're looking for ambitious full-stack engineers who love working on a wide variety of challenges to join our team. As we transition from prototype to a global web application, we need new teammates to help develop key features, scale our infrastructure, and take an algorithmic approach to improving product effectiveness. This is a unique opportunity to play a major role on a small team and help millions of students get personal academic attention.
Our tech stack includes Python, JavaScript, and MySQL. We also use a few third-party APIs such as TokBox, Facebook Chat, and Firebase.
Benefits:
* Small team where everyone has a major impact
* Competitive salary with great equity compensation
* Casual, open office environment
* Medical, dental and vision insurance
* Downtown San Francisco location close to awesome food and easy transit
Requirements:
* Proficiency with Python, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
* Passion for InstaEDU’s product and mission
* BA/BS degree with a strong academic record (or equivalent work experience)
Feel free to ping me at [email protected] if you have any questions. To apply, send your resume, GitHub profile, blog, and/or any projects that you're proud of to [email protected]. If you're awesome, we want to hear from you!
Comment · 14 years ago
I've only been following Alex since he left Twitter, but [Bank]Simple always struck me as exactly the kind of dream company I'd want to be at (never really considered myself good enough to pursue it though).
Given his previous posts regarding how much he likes Portland compared to San Francisco, I'm a little bit surprised to see him moving back to the Bay Area. Regardless, I'm excited to see what he does next and I wish him the best of luck.
They’re cutting off third party apps to increase their control over the user experience, to show more ads.
The relationship with OpenAI might also be a thing, but I think it’s the ad numbers they need to juice for their IPO.