rileywatkins

It’s a fun thought experiment, but I tend to revert to the simpler explanation:

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.

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...

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.

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...

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: riley@rileywatkins.com

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!

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.

You can try http://codereview.stackexchange.com/.

Ratchet.io works well for this. http://ratchet.io/

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.)

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.

Well, you know what they say about headlines and questions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...

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 riley@instaedu.com if you have any questions. To apply, send your resume, GitHub profile, blog, and/or any projects that you're proud of to jobs@instaedu.com. If you're awesome, we want to hear from you!

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.

InstaEDU — Software Engineers — San Francisco, CA

InstaEDU is an on-demand video tutoring marketplace. We're making personal study help accessible and affordable for everyone.

We just raised a $1.1M seed round (http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/30/instaedu/) and 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/Django, JavaScript, and MySQL. We also use a number of 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:

* Extremely strong Python programming skills

* Proficient with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

* Passion for InstaEDU’s product and mission

* BA/BS degree with a strong academic record (or equivalent work experience)

Send your resume, GitHub profile, blog, and/or any projects that you're proud of to jobs@instaedu.com. If you're awesome, we want to hear from you!

SEEKING WORK - Portland/Remote

I do web development with Python (Django and Flask), PHP, SQL, JavaScript (and jQuery), HTML, CSS, and some ColdFusion and AS3/Flex.

I'm open to part-time, full-time, and freelance.

email: riley at rileywatkins dot com

http://github.com/rwatkins

SEEKING WORK - Portland/Remote

I do web development with Python (Django and Flask), PHP, ColdFusion (and CFWheels), SQL, JavaScript (and jQuery), HTML, CSS, some Flex and AS3, etc.

I'm open to part-time, full-time, and freelance.

email: riley at rileywatkins dot com

http://github.com/rwatkins

Kyle gave a response to this question two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3211965

Was just checking out apartmentlist.com for the first time:

"We need you to connect with Facebook so we can work our magic."

Why in the world...?

SEEKING WORK - Portland/Remote

I do web development with Python (Django and Flask), PHP, ColdFusion (and CFWheels), SQL, JavaScript (and jQuery), HTML, CSS, some Flex and AS3, etc.

I'm open to part-time, full-time, and freelance.

http://github.com/rwatkins

email: riley at rileywatkins dot com

I use Clickpass on the login page, but I would be okay with getting rid of it if I was able to migrate my account from OpenID to HN.

I noticed this earlier, but it seems he doesn't actually run the http://diveintohtml5.com, according to a whois search. As macrael pointed out, the rest of the .org variants are gone.

See romanvbabenko's fork: https://gist.github.com/3136dbab372c54258973

Because of this "duplicate tab" functionality, you can click the link to open in the current tab, then middle-mouse click the back button to open the previous page in a new tab (complete with the full history). You end up with your new page and the previous page open in separate tabs with the same history. (Still, not as clean as it could be.)

(I'm curious why you would take a job in game development if you weren't into games in the first place. Or maybe you didn't know you'd be working on games before you accepted the job. I'm not sure.)

You can't guarantee that every task you'll be given throughout your career is something you would prefer to do. That's part of what school is about: you're assigned a wide range of projects that are designed to grow you in ways you wouldn't have chosen otherwise. Maybe you'll like them, maybe you won't. The fact is, you can always find something to learn from your current situation.

Don't underestimate the value of finishing a project, either. Even if it's not your cup of tea right now, there's something to be said for sticking it out.

Sometimes it's okay to leave where you are to find something you might like better, but that isn't _always_ the best answer.

There's a nifty tool called IETester which allows you to render a page in every version of IE simultaneously. It works pretty well.

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Was I the only one who seriously expected a generator that appended "-ify" to the end of the word?

I do like this, though. I'll be using it in the future. Good job.

I don't have too much of a preference between Git and Mercurial, but the lack of even a single free private repository on Githib makes BitBucket a more favorable option for my numerous casual projects.