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I'm one of the engineers working on fixing healthcare.gov with a whole bunch of other Silicon Valley engineers. See relevant Time article and Hacker News discussion a couple of wee…

Healthcare.gov I'm part of a small team that's been working on healthcare.gov for the last few months alongside a bunch of other Google, Facebook, and Y Combinator alums. We'll alw…

Ridejoy (YC S11). San Francisco, CA. Full time. Full stack engineer to help lay the foundation of our engineering team. Interested in getting in on the ground floor of fundamentall…

Ridejoy (YC S11). San Francisco, CA. Full time. Engineer number one. Interested in getting in on the ground floor of fundamentally changing the way people travel or, as one of our …

Ridejoy (YC S11). San Francisco, CA. Full time. Lead designer and engineer number one. Interested in fundamentally changing the way people travel or, as one of our users said, "res…

Thanks! The site was built with Ruby 1.9.2 + Rails 3.1 (+ SASS and Coffeescript), jQuery (+ UI), and PostgreSQL on top of Heroku (Cedar Stack + Unicorn + Memcached) using Facebook …

We're also always looking for suggestions on how we can make the experience safer and better for our users. Let us know what else we should do!

Loved the quote from Evan Beard: "Remember that your mind is a fortress of impenetrable happiness." Common words of wisdom that never seem to be taken to heart nearly enough. Remin…

Indeed: "The third reason we took Sequoia’s money, specifically Sequoia and not another VC, was we deal with a lot of these different API providers. It’s very important to us to ma…

Very, very cool. The fact I'm instantly down my CC info and $60 on three purchases is some incredibly convincing concept validation for myself, but the potential here, both in term…

For most people, there is a lot more than just a degree to seek out in college. I'm no big fan of Facebook whoring myself, but while it obviously doesn't replace stimulating conver…

Although I think everyone should keep a healthy sense of skepticism toward Tim Ferris since he is above all a brilliant self promoter, I must say I was impressed by his command of …

Warning: The game is potentially seizure inducing.

I for one would like to see some proof on that matter, not that I neccesarily disbelieve that statement, but it is an interesting dynamic. Obviously more educated people may stray …

I don't understand what everyone's so surprised about. Myspace makes nearly $1 billion in revenue, and Facebook is larger, has better technology, has a more affluent audience, of w…

An oldie but a great speech (old HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=211832 ). For anyone who's interested, here are some other extraordinary commencement speec…

> I only wish that you hadn’t implied inethical motives with words like “extortion,” “mafia shakedown,” etc. The fact is, many people hear those words and nothing else, and it comp…

What I don't understand is why your interest in the company isn't mentioned at all on this "advice" page.

> Highly doubt I’ll ever do something like this but if I do… Well, you saw it here first. Um, no sir. http://juicycampus.com/ has been around for awhile, and I'm sure other incarna…

There's no one 'proper' way to conduct meetings, it depends on your team and situation. You'd probably be good to ask your (conveniently small) team about the issue, they'll be abl…

Fun game, but it's missing the huge boss battles that made Smash TV so awesome (Seriously, if you want to up your conversion rates on purchases, make that last room in Episode 4 an…

If for some reason it isn't immediately obvious to you yet, the answer to your question is "Post this question on Hacker News."

Adventure time! > Do you actually want to work in a large dev team? -- Yes >> Why ? --- Want to gain knowledge about 'working in a large dev team' >>> Why? ---- Because... it might…