mLewisLogic

As a parent, an Airbnb (or any vacation rental) is 100x better than a hotel. We've got 3 young kids, so multiple bedrooms, a kitchen, and a separate common space where adults can hang out after kids are down is absolutely crucial. The thought of cramming the whole fam into a hotel room, or having little kids sleeping in a separate room (and freaking out alone in the middle of the night) sounds like hell to me.

Hotels are fine for business travel for me, where I don't care much about the space and just need a clean, reliable place to sleep.

disclaimer: I used to work at Airbnb, so biased.

Too wide for me (makes side-by-side code windows less useful). Check out Iosevka SS14.

Or just continued growth without adding headcount.

It can store an integer value. Storing longer data requires partitioning it across multiple transactions.

The data files (data/LoanStats3a.csv) are missing.

Downloadable from Lending Club though: https://www.lendingclub.com/info/download-data.action

New logo, new fonts, new colors, new message. All apps and web properties skinned and released in unison.

Most of those are quite impractical for an urban environment.

The lack of acknowledgement to the researcher is pretty shitty. I'd expect it will really hurt Tinder's chance of their next vulnerability being responsibly disclosed.

Just installed it. It works great. As somebody that always has their phone in their pocket, this is perfect and more than worth the $4.

With sane defaults, bcrypted passwords are "worthless" in the hands of a casual attacker.

Somebody would have to REALLY want to access your account and have SIGNIFICANT financial/computational resources to crack it. And that only gives them one password. Significant and independent work is required for each individual password.

On the other hand, there's nothing stopping a developer from doing something really dumb like setting bcrypt iterations to 1.

Having a central load balancer is going to turn into a nightmare once you start managing a reasonable number of servers. Hardware goes bad (especially in the cloud), and having a single point of failure leaves you at it's mercy.

Ran a similar program last summer to great success.

Mentors:

Daniel Doubrovkine art.sy, Head of Engineering

Scott Carleton Artsicle, co-founder, CTO

Liz Crawford Birchbox, CTO

Pete Miron bitly, VP Engineering

Mike Lewis Fondu, co-founder, CTO

Harry Heymann foursquare, VP Engineering

Steve Jacobs Gilt Groupe, CIO

Gary Burns Meetup, CTO

Vanessa Hurst Girl Develop It!, co-founder

Dan Spinosa Shelby.tv, co-founder, CTO

Malcolm Ong Skillshare, co-founder, CTO

Kevin Owocki StepOut, co-founder, CTO

James Linder Tykoon, VP Engineering

Zach Smith Yipit, Tech Product Manager

So... I might be a bit biased (co-founder at Fondu http://fondu.com), but this really is a major problem.

Most restaurant owners we've talked to are afraid of Yelp and the power that it wields. From an investor standpoint it does a great job monetizing it's community. The problem is that Yelp essentially weights the scales, depending upon who is paying them ad money.

Whereas Google did a great job by separating church and state (search and ads), Yelp happily blends the two together. The end result is a little bit of fact and a little bit of fiction.

YMMV, but we think discovering through trusted friends rather than group averages is how the future looks.

If you don't like the import *, don't use it. Python supports it, so why shouldn't this library? (not that it's a great idea)

If you'd like to handle missing system executables, catch the exception. You should be writing in that style anyways.

Honestly, this cleans up a ton of system scripting code, making it way more readable/maintainable.

Maybe the code could be cleaned up, but this is the direction that Python should be heading. Abstract away the complications when possible, keep low-level stuff around for when it's absolutely needed.

Beautiful is better than ugly.

Mentors:

Andrew Kortina, Venmo (twitter.com/kortina)

Carter Cleveland, Art.sy (twitter.com/carterac)

Chris Maguire, Postling (twitter.com/revolvingdork)

Dana Spiegel, AxialMarket (twitter.com/danaspiegel)

Dmitri Tcherevik, MightyMeeting (twitter.com/cherevik)

Eliot Horowitz, 10gen (twitter.com/eliothorowitz)

Kevin Owocki, Ignighter (twitter.com/owocki)

Liz Crawford, Birchbox (twitter.com/liscrawford)

Mike Lewis, SpotOn (twitter.com/mlewislogic)

Naveen Selvadurai, foursquare (twitter.com/naveen)

Nick Ganju, ZocDoc (twitter.com/nganju)

Pete Miron, Knewton (twitter.com/petemiron)

Simon Murtha-Smith, Singly (twitter.com/smurthasmith)

Vanessa Hurst, Paperless Post (twitter.com/dbness)

The search for a co-founder has been on as a serious milestone for the last month. Solo is something I chose when I started because I didn't have a co, and didn't want to let that be a blocking issue. I'm fully aware what a great co could do for my biz.

If anybody knows of a rockstar Python dev in NYC, let me know.

Thanks to everyone giving me the "Just 2 months? That's nothing" comments.

I don't mean that facetiously. It's actually pretty inspiring that you guys made it through that honeymoon phase and into something real. Hopefully this venture will be around a year from now, and I'll be able to dish out the same kind of inspiration.

That sounds good man. Drop me an email.

I'd agree entirely on that sentiment. Just in the last month alone I can feel a lot changing in my mind regarding the whole thing.

I have a feeling that as it becomes more all-consuming that roller-coaster is going to come to bear in a stronger way. Once your ego becomes tied to the success of your venture, small fluctuations can have powerful mental impacts.

Wow, got mini-digged for a few minutes there. Damn shared hosting...

Disclaimer: This is going to sound like a sales pitch, but I don't have any affiliation with Kinesis.

I'm only 25, but I've dealt with tendinitis in both wrists since I was 18 (me and computers have a love/hate going on.) The only real downside to the Contour keyboard is the cost. Effin' $300? Are you kidding me? On the flip side, they're so good that I actually own 2 (1 for home, 1 for work). They're amazingly comfortable, and have become the only keyboard that I can use for more than 20 minutes. I have a single footswitch at work, and a triple at home. Honestly, I wish the triple at home was just a single, as I only use one switch on it. That switch is the shift key, and saves my hands lots of "acrobatics" and time, especially when coding (special characters). A hardward Dvorak mode is just icing on the cake.

On the flip side, for a $300 keyboard, their support department sucks. One of the keyboards was exhibiting some really funky behavior out of the box, and they made me pay return shipping on the faulty keyboard. Obnoxious given that you assume a premium product like that would just work, and if not then they don't stick you with the bill. That just sounds like sloppy management, but the product is excellent.

Pair it up with a Kensington Expert Mouse (actually a trackball) and I can work away for hours on end with far less of the pain and fatigue I used to deal with.