seanmccann

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by seanmccann 8mo ago
They've built one of the most successful products in the last decade. It has significantly changed jobs like software engineering in the span of 9 months.
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by seanmccann 8mo ago
As Claude Code (and Opus) improves, Greptile is finding fewer issues in my code reviews.
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by seanmccann 6y ago
Before Stripe and Braintree, requiring a reserve was common for a lot of merchant accounts to manage risk for new companies with no history. Sometimes they'd require an up-front reserve payment or accrual reserve (like 10% until desir
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by seanmccann 6y ago
To provide a convenience to customers that didn't bring a reusable bag and don't want to spend a few bucks on a bag they'll never use again and has an environmental impact 1-2 orders of magnitude worse than a single use paper
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by seanmccann 6y ago
Which is funny because at most Canadian grocery stores they don't even offer or have paper bags. At least in Alberta.
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by seanmccann 6y ago
My hometown. From what I heard, an engineer wanted to move home and started a small remote office there. I think the office is moving to Edmonton.
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by seanmccann 7y ago
I called Comcast and had 2 options. Pay $50/month for unlimited or pay $25/mo for unlimited, but I would have to forgo using my own modem/router and use theirs. Decided to just pay the $50, but we'll see what happens. I
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by seanmccann 7y ago
We hit 7% earlier today. If we hit 7% again today, nothing will happen. If we hit 13% we hit L2.
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by seanmccann 7y ago
You're absolutely right. Background checks for employment purposes are covered under FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) and a myriad of other laws at various levels. Complying with these laws is not trivial, but the onus is on the employ
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by seanmccann 7y ago
Thanks for explaining this more eloquently than I was able to. I did a poor job of highlighting that I was mostly referring to to these out-patient drugs. For example there is a drug you can take before chemo that reduces the side effects,
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by seanmccann 7y ago
Perhaps my error was in saying that the specific conditions that the OP listed would result in financial ruin. My experience is anecdotal from close relatives in Alberta having severe diseases early in life. Their drugs and "required c
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by seanmccann 7y ago
As far as I understand — without private insurance in Canada, somebody with few resources in Canada is at risk of financial ruin from any of the health conditions you mentioned. For older Canadians, a pre-existing condition may not be cover
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by seanmccann 7y ago
I had wondered why most recent Ruby releases were on Christmas Day and recently found out why. The Ruby creator Matz is religious (LDS), and he considers it a Christmas gift to the community. I thought that was really cool.
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by seanmccann 7y ago
> The company said Monday that “a small percentage of roles may move from San Francisco to Westlake over time, either through relocation or attrition. The vast majority of San Francisco-based roles, however, are not anticipated to be imp
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by seanmccann 7y ago
First Republic and Schwab are common choices in SF that have good features/perks.
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by seanmccann 7y ago
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco / Denver | ONSITE | Senior Software Engineers For the unfamiliar, Checkr's a 5 year old company, redefining the way background checks are run today and how they influence the job market of the futur
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by seanmccann 7y ago
https://www.statuspage.io as it says in the footer.
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by seanmccann 7y ago
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Senior Software Engineers For the unfamiliar, Checkr's a 5 year old company, redefining the way background checks are run today and how they influence the job market of the future. From th
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by seanmccann 8y ago
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Senior Software Engineers For the unfamiliar, Checkr's a four year old company, redefining the way background checks are run today and how they influence the job market of the future. From
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by seanmccann 8y ago
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Senior Software Engineers For the unfamiliar, Checkr's a four year old company, redefining the way background checks are run today and how they influence the job market of the future. From
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by seanmccann 8y ago
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Senior Software Engineers For the unfamiliar, Checkr's a four year old company, redefining the way background checks are run today and how they influence the job market of the future. From
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by seanmccann 8y ago
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Senior Software Engineers For the unfamiliar, Checkr's a four year old company, redefining the way background checks are run today and how they influence the job market of the future. From
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by seanmccann 8y ago
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Senior Software Engineers For the unfamiliar, Checkr's a four year old company, redefining the way background checks are run today and how they influence the job market of the future. From
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by seanmccann 8y ago
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Senior Software Engineers For the unfamiliar, Checkr's a four year old company, redefining the way background checks are run today and how they influence the job market of the future. From
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by seanmccann 8y ago
Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Senior Software Engineers For the unfamiliar, Checkr's a four year old company, redefining the way background checks are run today and how they influence the job market of the future. From
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by seanmccann 8y ago
I just did this yesterday and it verified my credit card billing with either my previous or new address. Probably not that hard to pass that with a prepaid card.
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by seanmccann 8y ago
You do have to file 2 tax returns and suffer double taxation for your Canadian corporation. The benefit of a LLC is that it's pass through and reported on your personal tax return. It can minimize tax prep and taxes (YMMV).
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by seanmccann 9y ago
I believe capital gains are not taxed in PR to incentivize new investment from the US. There are a handful of other tax incentives too.
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by seanmccann 9y ago
This is anecdotal but my family operated a store in a rural vacation area and over half of our customers used cash. In the 2000s, we'd have to drive the cash 30+ minutes to the bank, twice weekly to mitigate the risk of a robbery. We s
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by seanmccann 9y ago
In about 2014 I noticed that the logged in API request, on Uber's website, included full driver info nested under the ride JSON object. It included the drivers full address, license, phone numbers, etc. They patched it a few months lat

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