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BACtrack | Senior Python Engineer | Full-time | San Francisco | https://www.BACtrack.com We make breathalyzers from the ground up. Everything from the hardware and firmware to the …

Grindr | Backend Engineers | Java/AWS | Full-Time | Remote You've probably heard about Grindr :) I'm hiring for several positions but the most critical ones today are Backend Engin…

> Case in point, when providing a search interface, only return as many results as you want to, not as many as you have. Do you have an example of this? Seems like a bad way to run…

Beautiful work and amazing photography! Interested in making things at Flickr? Drop me a line at eric at flickr.com :)

Haven't had any luck connecting either. It seems like I can only connect to the iPhone if I have Personal Hotspot turned on. Even when turning it on, Notifyr still doesn't find the…

I was but was also able to check out anyway. I emailed a screenshot to gumroad's support address.

You make a great point of: penny wise, pound foolish. At first, shopping for the day can be like that. However, buying things like spices, oils, rice, etc, in bulk that do not go b…

It's possible to eat out cheaply and healthy in SF but it requires years of practice (in my experience.) You'll eventually figure out where to go and what to get where based on the…

For years, I've been behind the 'stop at the grocery store every day on the way home' way of not wasting food. My wife and I have a routine that is IM around 4pm, decide on dinner,…

Someone signed up for their Wells Fargo account with my email address. For weeks, I tried to get in contact with Wells Fargo about the problem. I spent a lot of time on the phone w…

I made InstaKenny http://insta.ericwillis.com two nights ago as a joke. It was one of those ideas you get at midnight that seem like a good idea until it's 3am and you have to get …

I read HN for the comments. I read reddit for cat pictures. Often, the HN comments are more interesting and insightful than the article/link itself.

I'm doing the same in the next week :) Considering a dowry joke with her father... but maybe not since it could really wrong, really fast.

Oh, no, what I was saying is I don't want to do that. I would simply state that "Your account has $10" rather than masking it with credits.

I'm working on something that would take payments (via credit card) from within a desktop application. Is that weird? The purchase is for something physical that would be received …

We're totally committed to making the guides better! The more specific issues you can cite (formatting, the destinations you tried, etc) the better we can do to fix them. Do you kn…