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by zacwitte 12y ago
HandUp - http://handup.org - San Francisco === Senior Full Stack Engineer === We’re looking to hire a second engineer to join our team of five working to fight homelessness and urban poverty. As an experienced generalist you wil
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by zacwitte 12y ago
HandUp - https://handup.org - San Francisco === Senior Product Designer === HandUp is looking for a senior product designer who is excited about leading the future of direct charitable giving in the US. The product design lead
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by zacwitte 12y ago
==Full Stack Engineer== We’re looking to hire a second engineer to join our team of five working to fight homelessness and urban poverty. As an experienced generalist you will be responsible for working with our designer to bring product fe
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by zacwitte 12y ago
HandUp is crowdfunding for homeless people and neighbors in need. Through our web and SMS platform, the community can donate directly to specific homeless and at-risk HandUp members. Members use their HandUp credits for basic needs like foo
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by zacwitte 12y ago
Kinda cool that Chrome added pointer lock, but the responsiveness of moving the cursor around the screen is pretty shit. Maybe it's mac mouse acceleration's fault?
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Give Bitcoins to homeless people and see what happens(handup.us)
26 points by zacwitte 12y ago|3 comments
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by zacwitte 13y ago
Can't be opened because it's from an unidentified developer https://www.dropbox.com/s/7mnb2gng6a66b9y/Screenshot%202013-...
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by zacwitte 13y ago
This is nice, but can you add the machine name (ie. c1.xlarge) and add costs scenarios for reserved instances?
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Daring to reimagine the panhandling economy(medium.com)
14 points by zacwitte 13y ago|2 comments
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by zacwitte 14y ago
The world where loser pays is not so perfect. If I as an independent inventor sue apple for infringing on my patent and they win simply because they have unlimited legal war chest, then I would get stuck with millions of dollars worth of le
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Benchmark Comparison of Python Hashing Functions(zacwitte.com)
10 points by zacwitte 14y ago|3 comments
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by zacwitte 14y ago
As with most things I don't think there is a black or white answer to this. I think it's OK to have some features that are unavailable if tastefully done, but it will make your product have an unfinished look to it.
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At PubNub we ride dinosaurs and fight zombies with lasers(pubnub.com)
7 points by zacwitte 14y ago|4 comments
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by zacwitte 14y ago
Yeah the apple maps were disappointing but the apology letter yields to the masses. It doesn't show leadership. Always look forward.
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268x Query Performance Increase for MongoDB with Fractal Tree Indexes | Tokutek(tokutek.com)
2 points by zacwitte 14y ago|0 comments
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by zacwitte 14y ago
=Full Stack Software Developer= Interested in working on huge multiplayer real-time systems? We're PubNub, the real-time engine in the cloud that developers use to build massively scalable real-time apps. We've got hundreds of customers, an
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by zacwitte 14y ago
=Real-Time Engine Software Developer= Want to work on challenging, core technology with a smart team for a well-funded company in San Francisco? We're PubNub, the real-time engine in the cloud that developers use to build massively scalable
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by zacwitte 14y ago
smart
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by zacwitte 15y ago
Good points. In an ideal world, the principal problem you describe should be dealt with by free market forces. I choose the apartment based on cost and quality. If the landlord uses low-quality materials or doesn't maintain the property I'm
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Arguments Against Owning a Home and Specialization of Labor(zacwitte.com)
2 points by zacwitte 15y ago|3 comments
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PubNub raises $4.5M to bring real-time messaging to apps(gigaom.com)
13 points by zacwitte 15y ago|0 comments
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by zacwitte 15y ago
I have to disagree with most of this except the data problem. Building out a cloud database and API specific for storing and querying geo data is not enough of a value proposition. It's just not that hard of a problem to roll your own, whic
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How-to Set Up Ubuntu w/ MongoDB Replica Sets on Amazon EC2(zacwitte.com)
3 points by zacwitte 15y ago|0 comments
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How to run an HTTPS server with cherrypy in 20 lines of python(zacwitte.com)
4 points by zacwitte 15y ago|0 comments
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Inspiring hacks for social good(zacwitte.com)
2 points by zacwitte 15y ago|0 comments
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A False Sense of Security with Test-driven Development(zacwitte.com)
1 points by zacwitte 16y ago|0 comments
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Democracy 2.0 with Micro-voting(zacwitte.com)
1 points by zacwitte 16y ago|0 comments
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by zacwitte 16y ago
I enjoy C because I like strongly typed languages, explicit code as apposed to ambiguous typeless languages. I haven't, however, found many companies hiring C programmers. I've been working for web startups in San Francisco for a while and
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Getting a Wikipedia Summary paragraph Using the MediaWiki API(zacwitte.com)
1 points by zacwitte 16y ago|0 comments
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A continuous, blocking python interface for streaming Flickr photos(zacwitte.com)
1 points by zacwitte 16y ago|0 comments

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