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Jackpocket | Systems Engineer | New York, NY | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Competitive Pay | https://jackpocket.com Jackpocket lets people play official state lottery games right on their …

Would be great if this were packaged as a Helm chart.

Just turned 33. Was a terrible High School student and a less than stellar college student. I have always been into computers minus a brief stint as a wannabee rockstar. Moved to N…

I recently did a Sidekiq background job in ruby passing messages to a python script using zeromq. It was a blast.

This sounds like a promising idea to me. Transparency into what data you're giving away and a monetary incentive is a win win IMO.

Wow Emacs really can do everything!

shit I need to do this ASAP!

Best moment: Tutorialize getting its first paying customer Learning: If you're going to use a technology like MongoDB make sure you're using it the way it was intended to be used.

and to help my dad clean up his ridiculous Rails 2 apps

Mine is to learn Haskell

Oops totally replied to the wrong comment! I agree!

I think Lenovo still makes quality products, I'm currently using their x220 (with Mint). I suppose it's possible that their newer models are worse, but I'll give them the benefit o…

We'd love to send you to the Play store, but unfortunately the Google Play store is very strict regarding gambling. Interestingly enough, the Apple store isn't as strict. Go figure…

I'll do my best to answer your question. We already have a couple hundred users who are quite comfortable trusting us with their lottery tickets, some have won, but clearly not the…

Many people wouldn't trust themselves with a piece of paper worth that much. At least with Jackpocket the evidence is digitized before the drawing. What's interesting is that curre…

Yes for right now we're only in NY. Would love to open it up in New Hampshire someday.

Totally should have mentioned this earlier. For now we're only going to be supporting NY lotteries, that's where our tickets are bought. In order to comply with current lottery rul…

FAQ isn't available quite yet, we'll be adding one soon. Jackpocket buys the lottery ticket on your behalf, and actually sends you a digital image of it. Your trust, and a whole bu…

Hey thanks for the comment! It is not a subscription delivery service as of yet. We first wanted to nail down the basics of allowing users to select their numbers and get their lot…

Hey HN CTO of Jackpocket here. This has been an incredibly fun project to build. If anyone has any technology questions, happy to answer them best I can.

I can totally sympathize with the way the author feels but at the same time I'm very aware of how much of à luxury it is to be a software engineer. especially nowadays with so many…

Finally a chance to learn Haskell and iOS development at the same time! Will I be able to do this all from a Linux machine or do I still need Apple hardware?

Interested to hear some opinions on the numbers in this infographic. I for one found them pretty shocking. Didn't realize Python was so popular.

Easel.io is a really beautiful looking product. I just played around with the demo tour and it worked pretty well though a little quirky. Are you using Tourist.js to implement the …