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blahshaw··on Show HN: Effects of House and Senate Bill on California Residents
I guess just drag the bar around a lot and look at a few different states.
blahshaw··on Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
For a till tap, do deputies compel the business owners to open the till, or is there some kind of skeleton key that law enforcement use?
blahshaw··on The FastMail Security Mindset
How recently was this?
blahshaw··on Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers
And if I were in a position to angel invest?
blahshaw··on Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers
I think cyber security is going to be huge too, but not sure how to make a play on it, don't see any obvious winners in the security space. What approach do you take?
blahshaw··on iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking
You could use Guided Access to allow them to use the calculator without leaving the app.
blahshaw··on Why has regional income convergence in the U.S. declined? Housing costs
S&P 500 might have been a better return, but I can't borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars at < 5% interest invest in the stock market.

Also, do you think property taxes and maintenance expenses aren't passed on to renters in the form of higher rent?

blahshaw··on Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet
Is this what Google Photos uses for their unlimited "high quality" image storage?
blahshaw··on How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
I know the author probably didn't mean anything by it, but I dislike the implication that only a dude could bring ZFS to Linux.
blahshaw··on Ask HN: Do you make more than $200K? What did you have to do?
Probably don't even need to be senior for +$200k total comp at Big 4.
blahshaw··on Doomsday Prep for the Super-rich
I'm really curious what those guidelines are. I don't see them listed in that link.
blahshaw··on Ask HN: What sort of side-projects are useful for getting jobs?
This has been true in my experience. Interviewed at FB recently, they gave me a take-home project that we would go over together in the on-site interview. I spent a lot of effort on the project instead of typical white-board coding. I did great on the project but did so-so on the white-boarding. No offer.
blahshaw··on Dear Microsoft
It's only all-hands and agenda-less if you use it that way. My team spins up small, feature-specific rooms where only relevant people are present.
blahshaw··on Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?
I've definitely been interviewed, never hired though.
blahshaw··on Self-made millionaire: Don't put money in your 401(k)
What's wrong with a Roth IRA? You withdraw the principal penalty-free at any time, and you don't pay taxes on the growth in retirement. You don't even have to invest it in stocks if you're risk-averse.
blahshaw··on Self-made millionaire: Don't put money in your 401(k)
>It can lower you into another tax bracket.

You're aware the tax brackets are graduated right? Only amounts over the bracket are taxed at that year, not your entire income for that year.

blahshaw··on Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?
Target retirement date funds, a handful of individual stocks for entertainment purposes. I also have dabbled with Lending Club (annualized ROI went from 15% to less than 5% recently) and the money saved on interest in paying back my student loans early.
blahshaw··on PHP 7 deployment at Dailymotion
Just curious, is this documented publicly anywhere?
blahshaw··on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
Looks like the page is down. Is there an archived copy somewhere?
blahshaw··on Brutalism is Back
I'm amazed that's a hospital, I would have guessed it was a parking garage if you showed me that picture with no context.
blahshaw··on Fuck You Startup World
Serious question, what's wrong with deploying 100 times per day? I'll take that over one monstrous semi-weekly deploy.
blahshaw··on Space Requirements for Tree Traversal
It does seem like the author swapped those two.
blahshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Marin Software | San Francisco, CA | On-site | Full-time

Want to join the team of an acquired Y-Combinator ad-retargeting startup? The Perfect Audience (YC 11) team at Marin Software is hiring!

blambert @ marinsoftware.com

== Senior Full-Stack Engineer ==

We are a fast-growing programmatic advertising company working with hundreds of companies you know and thousands more. We've built a simple product that's loved by customers all over the planet. We're looking for a clever full-stack engineer to help us make it even better.

The perfect candidate to join our team would enjoy database design, application logic, and standards-based front ends. You will have a chance to explore cutting edge big data technologies in the context of a modern Rails web application.

This is a chance to work on every facet of a successful web app and grow your engineering skill set.

What we are looking for:

- 5+ years of engineering experience

- Experience with one or more of: Rails, Ruby, MongoDB, Hadoop

- Excellent at communicating and collaborating (ready to discuss features, bugs, architecture, etc.)

- Knowledge and interest around database technologies and Big Data

== Senior Java Engineer for Real-Time Bidding ==

We are a team of engineers focused on building a performant, self-service ad platform that enables small and medium sized businesses to drive more sales and conversions through retargeting lost visitors on Facebook and across the web.

We're looking for an experienced Java developer to hack on our massive real-time bidding system. Our bidders need to scale to handle response times in 10s of milliseconds. Our stack utilizes many Amazon Web Services including DynamoDB, Redshift, EC2, and others.

What we are looking for:

Ability to architect, develop, and test key infrastructure. Solid understanding of performance and design tradeoffs without compromising quality Experience scaling web apps and services, especially on a hosted platform Knowledge and interest around Database technologies and Big Data is a huge bonus 5+ years experience on a team in software development

blahshaw··on Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
I have no idea what Rational Atria ClearQuest but the name alone tells me it's awful.
blahshaw··on Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
Google Flights is simply a pretty UI around matrix.itasoftware.com, no?
blahshaw··on Why I finally ditched Jira
My team uses Trello for project management and I couldn't be happier with it. It's very simple by default but you can make complex cards/items if necessary.
blahshaw··on Pokémon Go loses its luster, sheds more than 10M users
Battery saver mode was added back in recently, FYI. Though it still seems buggy. The app occasionally fails to wake after raising your phone.
blahshaw··on Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
I don't know how much I would pay for this, but it would be more than zero dollars.
blahshaw··on How (Not) to Write an iOS SDK
>As such, it’s critical that you write your SDK in Objective-C so that the people that don’t ship Swift can actually use your SDK.

I'm not an iOS developer but aren't Swift and Objective C files interchangeable?

blahshaw··on A Hacker's Guide to Getting Old
Agreed. There isn't much actionable advice here.
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