jakemcgraw

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by jakemcgraw 11mo ago
If we repeal ACA, we'll need to force insurers to take on patients with preexisting conditions. We can't ice out 38% of Americans[0] from coverage. [0]: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-brie
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by jakemcgraw 3y ago
Depending on the number of trips per day, this has the potential to greatly reduce summertime traffic from tristate region to Cape Cod / Nantucket / Martha's Vineyard / LI North Shore / Montauk.
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by jakemcgraw 3y ago
I grew up outside of one of the most violent cities in New York State[1]. My high school was right in the middle of Newburgh, NY, and being a teenager, I spent a lot of time driving around the downtown area at night. There were a handful of
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by jakemcgraw 4y ago
I wonder how much more effective this would be if the prompt wasn't "this was generated by AI." It would be really interesting if someone with a popular podcast injected an AI conversation into their feed and didn't tell
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by jakemcgraw 4y ago
We’re (Harness Wealth) are always looking for developers with knowledge of US tax code hmu jake@harnesswealth.com
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by jakemcgraw 4y ago
Great write up about a critical part of most interview processes without a chance to practice if you’ve never worked at an org that regularly implement complex systems.
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by jakemcgraw 5y ago
Hello HN, I'm head of engineering at Harness Wealth. Yesterday we launched our suite of financial planning tools for startup employees. We set out to answer the question: "How will my life change when my startup exits?" It’s
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Financial Planning Tools for Startup Employees(harnesswealth.com)
5 points by jakemcgraw 5y ago|1 comments
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by jakemcgraw 5y ago
One of the first 300 users, SO was revolutionary when launched, I followed their development via Codinghorror and Joelonsoftware blogs (probably in an RSS feed). I've since moved into management and away from day to day coding, so I us
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by jakemcgraw 6y ago
The expectation that Subscriptions/Billing would be free forever is silly. The product offering is significantly more complex than the base Stripe offering. Additionally, the proposed rate of 0.5% is 1/10th what other repeatable b
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by jakemcgraw 6y ago
Just kicked the tires on Optimizely for a site with less than a million MAU. They wanted $50K upfront for one year. No monthly or quarterly billing available. Went with Google Optimize instead, works fine for free. In the face of that, very
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by jakemcgraw 6y ago
I was responsible for administrating an ADT security system for a Los Angeles-based startup (too many hats). Dealing with ADT was an absolute nightmare. Their support agents knew nothing about our configuration. ADT support technicians coul
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by jakemcgraw 7y ago
was hoping John Graham-Cumming would be in here to give us the behind scenes :(
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by jakemcgraw 7y ago
excellent andromeda strain reference
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by jakemcgraw 8y ago
The Block Crypto, Inc. | Head of Frontend Engineering | REMOTE | $100k-$130k + SIZABLE equity. The Block ( https://www.theblockcrypto.com ) is a VC-funded news media organization focussed on the world of cryptocurrencies and block
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Apple, the FBI, and Security(stratechery.com)
3 points by jakemcgraw 11y ago|0 comments
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PHP7 – 100% perf improvement, supports existing apps(talks.php.net)
6 points by jakemcgraw 12y ago|1 comments
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by jakemcgraw 12y ago
Just donated, and you should too! https://gnupg.org/cgi-bin/procdonate.cgi
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by jakemcgraw 12y ago
I recently used iron.io to process around 750K images (generating pHashes for duplicate detection). The service is fantastic.
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Women 'Complain A Lot, Interrupt,' Developer Says At Conference(npr.org)
2 points by jakemcgraw 12y ago|1 comments
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by jakemcgraw 13y ago
Anyone else having their office ISP connection totally destroyed by 100+ Dropbox clients attempting Monday morning sync? We have a balanced, 300Mbs connection for about 160 users, and our network becomes unreliable during 5 minute bursts th
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by jakemcgraw 13y ago
Post-social network it's no surprise that people fall into these traps. Don't invest in what you don't understand.
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by jakemcgraw 13y ago
For anyone that hasn't experienced it first hand: "programmer" + "IT/computer guy" is a recipe for professional failure. The demands are so different and balancing them is impossible. You can be an IT person or
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by jakemcgraw 13y ago
Refinery29 -- New York, NY. Fulltime. Refinery29 is the cornerstone of fashion, beauty, and shopping for a new generation. In an industry dominated by traditional print publications with lackluster digital offerings, R29 has broken away and
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by jakemcgraw 13y ago
If you want to see what this would look like if it was a real business, checkout http://www.dotgo.com and http://dotgo.com/Support/Documentation/ . DOTGO solves the problem of service discoverability by mapping domain names to shortcodes
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by jakemcgraw 14y ago
spin up more servers brother!
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by jakemcgraw 14y ago
New York, NY, Refinery29 Refinery29 is a fashion content platform with a large, primarily female, user base. All members of our engineering team are heavily focused on delivering the best experience possible for our users. Traffic, revenue
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by jakemcgraw 14y ago
Excellent job... I think a second article in which you give specific examples of how Context-aware caching would work for a simple application would be helpful. Maybe a group chat service would be a great example. Also, adding HTTP requests
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by jakemcgraw 14y ago
New York, NY, Refinery29 Senior Software Engineer / API Platform We’re looking for an experienced developer who’s seen it all and is ready to try their hand at improving our web application stack and provide tooling support for our growing
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by jakemcgraw 14y ago
total subconscience slip

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