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Leach fields are not uncommon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_drain_field

Lendeavor | San Francisco, Columbus, Remote | Full-time | https://www.lendeavor.com/

Lendeavor is a FinTech company operating in the healthcare space, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a satellite office in Columbus, Ohio. We're a team of hard-working, values-first individuals with diverse backgrounds in finance, technology, credit, education, and law.

We're changing the way private healthcare practices access critical business financing. We believe that healthcare practices form the cornerstone of American communities, and that practitioners' ability to serve their communities depends largely on access to a wide array of financial services. We've built a platform that makes it easy for the country's 350,000 dental, veterinary, optometric, and medical practice owners to obtain low-cost financing to buy, expand, and equip their practices.

Open Positions...

  - Executive Assistant (San Francisco, CA)
  - Office Manager (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior Back-End Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior Front-End Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Vice President of Engineering (San Francisco, CA)
  - Director of Human Resources (San Francisco, CA)
  - Product Designer (San Francsico, CA)
  - Sales Development Representative (San Francisco, CA)
  - Vice President of Sales (San Francisco, CA)
  - and many more...

Lendeavor | San Francisco | Full-time | https://www.lendeavor.com/

Lendeavor is a FinTech company operating in the healthcare space, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a satellite office in Columbus, Ohio. We're a team of hard-working, values-first individuals with diverse backgrounds in finance, technology, credit, education, and law.

We're changing the way private healthcare practices access critical business financing. We believe that healthcare practices form the cornerstone of American communities, and that practitioners' ability to serve their communities depends largely on access to a wide array of financial services. We've built a platform that makes it easy for the country's 350,000 dental, veterinary, optometric, and medical practice owners to obtain low-cost financing to buy, expand, and equip their practices.

Open Positions...

  - Senior back-end software engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior front-end software engineer (San Francisco, CA)
  - Lead Product Designer (San Francsico, CA)
  - Credit Officer (Columbus, OH)
  - Member Success Specialist (Columbus, OH)
  - Loan Funding Coordinator (San Francisco, CA)
  - Senior Accountant (San Francisco, CA)
  - HR Director (San Francisco, CA)

Lendeavor | San Francisco | Full-time, REMOTE | https://www.lendeavor.com/

Lendeavor is a technology-enabled lender to healthcare practices. Practitioners — primarily dentists, veterinarians, and optometrists — use Lendeavor’s online platform to seamlessly start, acquire, expand, or equip their practices.

Practice owners are some of our economy’s most highly educated and hardest-working entrepreneurs — yet starting, buying, or expanding a practice takes too long and costs too much. We’re here to change that.

We’ve built software that takes complicated transactions — like buying your first practice — and makes them simple. As a result, our members spend less time applying for credit, and we spend less time processing it. This efficiency drives faster funding and lower rates. Going forward, we’re ruthlessly focused on simplicity, customer experience, and efficiency.

Current Stack: Rails, Postgres, Heroku

Open Positions...

  - Product Manager
  - Experienced developers (especially backend)
  - More developers

My favourite one that I use as a cliche from time-to-time is...

The average European lifespan has more than doubled since Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco to the continent.

That is in the lama book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001322.do).

Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.

edit: formatting

It would screw up high-noon for a lot of people. However, getting the US down to two time zones would be much less problematic, and achieve most of the benefits you'd see from one time zone...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/daylight...

Looks great. Your formatting on the result page is messed up in my browser (chrome on osx). You can see a screen shot here...

https://annotate.driftt.com/view?i=99nffsejxeiittq%2F2015-08...

San Francisco, CA REMOTE

Lendeavor helps people get small business loans. Since the beginning of 2014, we've helped bakers, consultants, builders, sneakerheads, doctors, and brewers get the money they need to grow their businesses. We've curated the alternative lending market, gathering the best options into an easy to use platform where borrowers can compare their financing options side by side.

We are hiring are second, third and fourth engineer(s). Come join a small and exciting team! We're looking for strong developers that have experience with Ruby and Rails and/or Javascript (ideally with experience in a JS framework like Ember or Angular).

https://www.lendeavor.com/careers

That's less than 1% over one week. The APR would closer to 15-20% (depending on salary, pay frequency, etc.).

This was my first thought as well. Why is it that people have no issue with your laptop vendor "claiming ownership" of your laptop, but are so alarmed when the same principle is applied to a larger machine?

Yes, I realize that this is not an entirely fair comparison. However, the parallels between this article and the "war on general purpose computing" seem relevant...

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

3/7 == 0.42857

As well as readability (mentioned above), I find Evernote's Clearly to be a great extension for reading anything on the web (medium.com tends to be notorious to read)...

https://evernote.com/clearly/

Note that you don't need a evernote account to use this (I don't, and it just works).

I have the same issues. I do have Disconnect running, which blocks about 30-40 third-party requests made from your site. It looks like errors from mixpanel are breaking the rest of your app.

I do allow same-party interaction and cookies. (i.e., anything from montagebook will work.)

You may want to set your third-party analytics services to be asynchronous, so they aren't a single point of failure for your entire application.

This desk doesn't look like it does very low. When I do sit, I like my desk to be almost on my lap, so that my arms hang straight down, and my elbows are very close to 90 degrees. I find this very comfortable. However, it means the desk itself has to go fairly low (mine is at 26.5 inches or 670mm right now).

Point is ... if you get a standing desk, make sure it works when sitting just as well as when standing. Check the 'lowest height' and compare it to what you use.

EDIT: I am impressed with the removal of the stabilizer between the legs. That's a great feature.

Just started using OpenStreetMap on the weekend. I found Mapbox[1] to be very easy to get started with. Their plans also seem to specifically benefit the 'small user' (I.e., free developer account). At the same time I have to assume they serve big customers well too, since Foursquare is listed as a customer.

I'm no OpenStreetMap expert (yet), so maybe a CloudMade Mapbox comparison isn't entirely fair.

[1] https://www.mapbox.com/

Exactly the same...

I was hired by my college to build a grade management system in my second-to-last year there. I was in a hurry due to a lunch meeting with other IT staff at the University, forgot to add the where clause, and suddenly every single student was a Computational-Science major (mine).

Funny part of the story was that the moment it happened I uttered "oh shit." My boss, who sat beside me, said "what'd you do?", and about 15 IT staff from other departments walked into the office to go out for lunch. I'm sure I was an interesting shade of red.

I had to explain what I did in front of all these people. My boss laughed out loud, brought the system offline, and simply said: "well, after lunch we get to test our backup process." We went for lunch.

Two valuable lessons I learned...

People make mistakes, that isn't a problem, it's how they respond that's important.

Don't try and solve hard problems when emotions are running high. If shit is going down in production, the most important thing to do is to breathe, and get a glass of water. That little bit of time helps a lot.

Hat-tip to roadie. I am absolutely amazed at how well it works, and how much work it removes in producing HTML emails.

Related post from a couple days ago (re: Valve's SteamOS)...

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745386

Sony may have lost between $4 and $6 billion on PlayStation 3.

I tried to create an account the other day and they explicitly required a mobile phone number they could send an SMS too.

I suspect that different people see different behavior.

even more offensively intrusive than Facebook

Not sure if that statement is specifically related to your wife having to "provide a phone number", but... Facebook does the same thing.

I thought so too. My meager spanish translated the domain name into "mansauce.com", which really doesn't sound that appealing 8).

Rails 4.0.0 was released 129 days earlier, on June 25...

  http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/6/25/Rails-4-0-final/

Tried to signup for facebook several times today and it kept asking for my phone number. I wonder if teens are less willing to go through that hassle.

Compare that to twitter's new onboarding experience, which is (arguably) very well done.

That article would make a great TED talk. Has pretty much the exact right levels of focus, clarity and eloquence.

Second, no one has 20 years of relevant experience.

I worked at my first Internet startup in 1993.

Sadly, the web archive only tracks it back to '97... http://web.archive.org/web/19970429192003/http://www.link.ca...

I started in ops, installing things like web and email servers. My first application was doing email parsing.

Oddly, today (literally), I'm writing code to do email parsing.

I've seen some atrocious code from people switching from older workhorse languages to more modern ones, it's not pretty

I've seen atrocious code too. Young, old, legacy, greenfield ... none of these things have anything to do with code quality.

Very good points.

The original article seems to group all open office plans into a single category, as if they were all alike.

I've worked in two notable different open office plans. One was at around 400 square feet per person. In this one, the only people with an office were those that dealt with sensitive documents that had to be in a filing cabinet (in this case that was one person, the accountant, who did payroll).

I've also worked in an open office where the "senior" staff had offices with windows looking into the cubicle area. The open area was around 150 square feet per person. While sitting at my desk, the back of my chair was about 4 feet from the person behind me.

These two experiences were drastically different in productivity and focus. To say open offices don't work, because most of them don't work is like saying startups don't work because most of them fail.

The problem isn't with the idea, it's with the execution.

When the state of the art is the Sony Walkman...

The author either wasn't around in the 90s, or thinks Apple invented the MP3 player.

The first MP3 player appeared 4 years before the iPod. In the U.S., the Diamond Rio was fairly well known, at least in tech circles (i.e., people who knew what an mp3 was).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player

I've always assumed Apple gained an immense advantage in MP3 players by not being first to market.

I agree. For example, I always thought Yahoo had the best sports site out there. Information, easy to find, without distractions.

It looks like I'm not alone...

https://yahoo.uservoice.com/forums/207810

Create a public advocate to argue in front of the secret court...

If your 'court' needs a public advocate, then the lack of a public advocate is not the problem. The idea of a "secret court" is contradictory to the idea of "a court."

Create a website detailing what the NSA does–and does not–collect on Americans and foreigners

Why not just make the 'secret' court not secret?