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Good point. This is why a healthy and educated populace is bad for the economy.

Merica!

Very nice! However, the demo and site seems a tad slow. Probably too much HN traffic :)

"I'm in a very remote place, so options are limited."

This is the challenge. If you had other options then you can genuinely use them as a negotiating tactic. E.g. "I'd love to stay here. The team and culture is great. But I am also curious about company X and they're offering me 20% more..."

Can you explore working remotely for someone else, perhaps as a lead engineer?

I agree. The author brings this to light as well and warns about the implications of changing what is considered "truthy" in x.

"Their speculative approach was essentially unheard-of locally, but the two believed that if they built the office space, tenants would come."

That's awesome; "built it and they will come" - an approach I have recently overcome the fear of, due to them never coming on a couple projects I learned from.

I appreciate how they disliked borrowing in the early stages, too.

An amazing man and a testament to the power of curiosity.

Very cool. A website to find the missing ingredient. I can see using this for two of the three irons I have in the fire. The third one I was fortunate to find my complementary opposites at a Christmas party.

Great idea and thanks

Python/Django and Ruby/Rails are both clean frameworks and have fantastic communities. When I did the "Hello world" on both I was drawn to Python/Django. When it comes to moving away from the framework I tend to like Python more than Ruby. But it's just personal preference.

Thanks autokad. base698 has the right interpretation: My response was the smarmy answer I have given in interview situations where I just felt rebellious against the energy of interviewer combined with the test questions. I actually agree with base698. An understanding of the basics is required. And the companies I've coded for - for long periods of time, and loved working at - figured out I knew the basics based on our conversations alone. I hire people without testing. It has not backfired yet. I have also tested others in the past, had people pass the test, only come on board to be dangerous to production environments.

That is awesome. I like; "That problem has been solved so I'd Google it". Your answer is faster.

I always interview the company interviewing me. The closer I've mimicked Peter Gibbons from Office Space the quicker the job offer arrived, provided I passed their tech tests.

Super clean, Super cool, super intuitive.

Thanks!

I agree technology will save us from the mad max scenario that we repeatedly have read about over the last 5 years. However, it will be interesting to see how the "Technocracy" plays out.

First define what "good programmer" means to you. Good programmer could mean having the skills to lead and code a functioning start up venture that can scale. For others "good programmer" could mean being an amazing architect - building products that are complex, yet in simple concise code and in a way that is easy to extend down the road. Yet for another person it can mean becoming a great hacker. What does "good programmer" mean to you?

Great write up. I look forward to when she is recharged and build the next great thing.

Awesome Pianoputer chops! And educational Python write up. Thanks!

"Unlike a lot of other startups that give options to their employees, we’d given them actual shares."

Nicely done and congrats.

Start with a niche group and personally reach out to them with an amazing product. For example, Facebook was for Harvard Students only. Airbnb started getting hosts and guests in only New York. Ben Silbermann of Pinterest began by recruiting users manually by literally walking into cafes in Palo Alto and asking random people to try out Pinterest while he gathered feedback over their shoulders.

Thanks for the write up. It's the perfect time for me to be reminded about starting simple and changing the architecture as needed. I have prematurely optimized on one project in the past. It was painful. And after all that pain the mythical millions of unique visits never arrived.

I get way more recruiter spams for Python jobs these days than I did just two years ago.

Interesting, I am drawing a blank when a subscriber will want to purchase two subscriptions on the same website... ? Is he or she purchasing the additional subscription for someone else?

Cool thanks for clarifying

Wasn't Braintree owned by Wells Fargo, the worst bank ever? Yet Braintree itself was still awesome during that time. Let's hope that awesomeness continues under Paypal.

The acquisition won't hurt Stripe. It does sound like a solid move for Paypal if they don't mess Braintree up. Both Stripe and Braintree are good.