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Financeit | Software Developer, Frontend Developer, Product Manager, UX Designer | Toronto, ON, Canada | ONSITE | Full-time Financeit is one of Canada's leading fintechs. We're pri…

We were doing our MX record migrations today (Sunday maintenance) from financeit.ca to financeit.io Try again?

Rails is a nice to have, but it's not a pre-requisite for the QA position.

Financeit - Toronto, Ontario, http://www.financeit.ca (soon to be financeit.io) Financeit connects merchants with lenders allowing the merchants to offer financing options to their…

If you're reading this Ryan: <3

Actually, your idea of racism is precisely inverted. Racism isn't just about calling people names and hurting their feelings, racism also includes a systemic exclusion of a group. …

If you don't have diversity as one of your goals (either from the start or tacked on at the end) you are part of the system that perpetuates racism, whether you like it or not. 201…

>> we're not our mind Okay, what does this mean?

How many people install software on their microwaves?

Now I remember why I have a rule of not commenting on Hacker News anymore. Because a meaningless counter is decremented?

Okay, maybe I jumped the gun a bit. I'm not sure why you're repeating the "that's all women can do" part. I don't think that's the specific complaint. Perhaps you can tell me why h…

And why would putting women in an ad be any different? I mentioned Indian because I am of that descent, but that your mind jumped to "illegal" is something you need to examine abou…

"Perhaps I'm not in the best position to be commenting on this" Yeah, perhaps not. Try replacing "Women" with "children" or "Indian people" and reread that. Does that feel right? N…

> To which, I add: The sulky, bratty Rails had a fourth thing it made fun of the Java old folks for: A culture built around the premise that the most important thing is to preventi…

The title reads like a title one would expect from the future.

So is it unhackerlike to be politically charged?

Because it was asked: I downloaded it for free. No guilt was felt.

It does add something to the discussion, and rather succinctly at that. It shows the type of dissent/criticisms new ideas hear. Some of these retorts did seem very reasonable back …

Ah, I knew that pg was. Don't get me wrong, I think what you guys are doing is great. But just by the pattern and placement they seem like testimonials, when they were not said in …

Perhaps it's just me, but it seems like the quotations from Fred Wilson, pg, and Douglas Rushkoff are made in direct support of codeyear/codecademy. The placement makes it seem (to…

What makes swearing any more offensive than say, not wearing a tie at some conference? Is there anything inherent in the tie and words or is there a cultural attachment to these th…

Wouldn't the regex for "mac" also match "macintosh" and "imac" and inflate the numbers?