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lenzm··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
All Campus | React Developer & Back-end (Python) Developer | Chicago, IL | On-site | Full-time

We're a small growing, company serving colleges and universities. We're branching out from our marketing services and building a new SaaS product. The hard part is done, we have clients itching to try it out, now all we have to do is build it. We currently have an incomplete alpha-quality product that we're testing internally.

Our stack is AWS / Postgres / Python / Flask / React / Redux

We are located in the Loop and were recently name one of Crain's best places to work.

https://www.allcampus.com/careers/open-positions/react-devel...

https://www.allcampus.com/careers/open-positions/back-end-de...

lenzm··on Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law
Yeah, I'm skeptical of the EU's ability to enforce their laws on someone outside of the EU (citizen or not) with a business outside of the EU.
lenzm··on Ikea founder leaves fortune to no one, structures it to ensure it lasts forever
It's not wasting money - his business benefited from having an educated, healthy, safe workforce; from having roads to deliver products and customers to stores; and from a justice system to enforce laws and protect all of that property. He was just greedy and didn't want to pay his fair share.
lenzm··on Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties
Because advertising funds the internet, including the Mozilla Foundation.
lenzm··on Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers
No, the medallion owners just lived in deluxe apartments in the sky.
lenzm··on Forging a Swiss Lens: How Zurich's tech scene changed my view of SV
Tech and software tend to be more dominated by large players though because of economies of scale - launching new companies in every country would be wildly expensive and inefficient compared to AirBnB's trivial costs for adding a new country.
lenzm··on Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share
It's hard for any large organization to be nimble and quickly change direction, eg. the government, military, unions, religions.

If anything, stock options incentivize longer term thinking. Instead of quarter to quarter goals, stock options reward goals years in the future.

lenzm··on Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser
You could use add-ons to manage optional functionality a la Atom. Users can enable and disable add-ons to customize their browser and some come enabled by default. If you were migrating to this method of customization it would absolutely make sense to push an enabled add-on that replaces functionality you took out of the main app.
lenzm··on “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”
You're looking for Parkinson's Law. From wikipedia:

  Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It is also sometimes applied to the growth of the bureaucratic apparatus in an organization.
He goes on to write about organization inefficiency, how adding more and more people make committees useless.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Parkinson%27s_law

http://sas2.elte.hu/tg/ptorv/Parkinson-s-Law.pdf

lenzm··on Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
Did that cover room and board?
lenzm··on The future of MDN: a focus on web docs
If your new search engine became popular, the incentive to spam Wikipedia would be enormous again. 10 years ago, Wikipedia decided to nofollow all links because of the spam for Google relevance:

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/all-wikipedia-links-are-...

lenzm··on Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
I think the real problem is that vim is the default editor or people are writing tutorials and using vim. Asking vim devs to break the whole raison d'etre (modality) is kind of ridiculous.
lenzm··on U.S. Startups Fail to Attract Expected Crowd of Small Investors
You aren't describing venture capital. By definition, venture capital is high risk and therefore must potentially have crazy big returns.
lenzm··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)
All Campus | Software Engineers | Chicago, IL | Onsite | Full-Time | http://www.allcampus.com/

We are hiring to build a tech product based on our experience doing marketing and recruitment for our higher ed clients. We have open positions listed for a front-end and a back-end engineers but full-stack engineers are welcome; we are more interested in finding smart, curious, motivated people than filling specific roles.

Our back-end is built on Python and Postgres. Our front-end stack is still TBD, we're looking for someone experienced to help us make that decision and build it from the ground up.

The interview process is an inital phone screening followed by an onsite/video interview.

Full job descriptions are here:

- http://www.allcampus.com/careers/open-positions/back-end-dev...

- http://www.allcampus.com/careers/open-positions/front-end-de...

Email careers@allcampus.com with your resume to apply.

lenzm··on I Joined Airbnb at 52, Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and Tech Industry
The 40 hour work week was introduced because workers demanded it (in the US I'm not sure about other countries). The first strike in North America was workers demanding a shorter work day.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/1835_Philadelphia_general_strike

lenzm··on Amex, Challenged by Chase, Is Losing the Snob War
I think you can do a little better if you replace your Freedom Unlimited with a Capital One Venture card and get 2x on everything else.
lenzm··on An Alternative Approach to Rate Limiting
Shadow ban for everyone that exceeded the rate limit or just the one attacker? As others have said that's shitty for legitimate users that go over the rate limit.
lenzm··on [dead]
Crackpot.

So many things wrong with this.

First of all, debt isn't evil.

Interest only compounds if you pay less than the interest every month. Most mortgages require you to pay all of the interest and pay down the principal every month. The extreme is interest-only mortgages, but even then the interest isn't compounding.

Most people cannot and should not build their own house: "then save up enough money to build a house with your two bare hands and some help"

Present value of future payments is LESS than the nominal value.

This person links constantly to the NY Times tool but doesn't seem to have studied it.

lenzm··on Unlearning descriptive statistics
It's a better than 50% chance - if the sample size is odd, you always get a real observation; if the sample size is even, you may still get a real observation (if the two median observations are equal).
lenzm··on Valve Bans Game Publisher After It Sues Players That Gave It Bad Steam Reviews
Digital Suicide
lenzm··on The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010)
It is still done today. Prescription opiods are loaded with acetaminophen that will make you far sicker sooner than the opiods will.
lenzm··on The Idiomatic Way to Merge Dictionaries in Python
Seriously?! Just use solution 2, god forbid you have two lines of code to be clear and accurate:

    >>> context = defaults.copy()
    >>> context.update(user)
lenzm··on Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet
It's not even close to free. It's X% cheaper where X is the tax rate the company is paying.

eg.

$10,000 in gross profit - 20% in taxes = $8,000 net profit

$10,000 in gross profit - $1,000 rent = $9,000 - %20 taxes = $7,200 net profit

The net rent was $800 instead of $1,000 but not free.

lenzm··on Why You Have to Wear a Seat Belt, but Can Drive a Motorcycle
My guess is that higher average speeds are the confounding factor and that the speed people drive is mostly independent of the speed limit.
lenzm··on In Praise of CSV
It doesn't solve the problem, as there can be tabs in the data just like there can be commas. Tabs may be less common but it's still fundamentally the same.
lenzm··on Advertising, Bundling, Community and Criticism
"Ad Network partners like Google" but not Google because they don't allow that on their network. If they were sincere, they could switch to more reputable ad networks.
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