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inklesspen | 10 years ago | on: Amazon opens first bricks-and-mortar bookstore

The Barnes and Noble cafes aren't actually Starbucks; they serve Starbucks products (probably for historical reasons) but they have products Starbucks doesn't have, and they don't accept Starbucks gift cards.

inklesspen | 11 years ago | on: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

I keep my free Dropbox account, but I won't pay them any money while they have Rice on board. (I was a paid member of Loom, which they acquired. As a result of the acquisition I was to become a paid member of Dropbox's photo syncing service. Instead I demanded and got my money back.)

inklesspen | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

NYC: Front End (JS/CSS/HTML) and/or Python Engineers. Also, Test Engineers.

Axial enables small-to-medium-size companies to connect with advisors and sources of capital at a scale not possible in the offline world. We use Python, PostgreSQL, Backbone, and Angular.js. We have automated tests for many things.

We're located in the Flatiron district near Union Square. Well funded and growing fast.

Email me ([email protected]) with any questions or take a look at our careers page: http://www.axial.net/about/careers/

inklesspen | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you know when to quit your startup?

For me it was when I ran out of savings, sold all my stocks, ran out of that money, and still didn't have a shipped product. My cofounders are still going at it, and I wish them all the best, but we spent the critical months of our startup designing and redesigning a thing without ever getting user feedback.

For all the other folks out there at Google or other largish companies, who are considering quitting and forming a startup: Don't do it until you have at least once seen a project through from conception to launch.

inklesspen | 11 years ago | on: Workaholism in America Is Hurting the Economy

I recently joined a NYC company with "unlimited vacation days", and they do actually mean it. I mentioned this very trend when I was interviewing. They responded by saying they expect me to take AT LEAST three weeks of vacation a year.

Now, some of my coworkers are workaholics and won't take that much. But I have had success in just saying "I want to take these weeks off."

inklesspen | 11 years ago | on: Unicode in Python 3

If you want to work with bytes on stdin and stdout, Python 3 documents how to do that, at the same place it documents the stdin and stdout streams.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.stdin

All you have to do is use sys.stdin.buffer and sys.stdout.buffer; the caveat is that if sys.stdin has been replaced with a StringIO instance, this won't work. But in Armin's simple cat example, we can trivially make sure that won't happen.

I'd be a lot more willing to listen to this argument if it didn't overlook basic stuff like this.

inklesspen | 12 years ago | on: Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub

And if computer science were a field in which men have historically been underrepresented, with company after company having culture issues about "femprogramming culture", your Turing Initiative might have a reason to actually exist.

inklesspen | 12 years ago | on: Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

Since paying Dropbox is not an acceptable solution for me, I've asked Loom to refund the money I paid them (perhaps foolishly, I signed up for the $50-per-year plan and paid up front).

So far, they've refused: "Thanks for writing and we appreciate your position. Unfortunately, I am very sorry but I cannot offer you a refund at this time."

This is very disappointing.

inklesspen | 12 years ago | on: Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

Well, this is awfully disappointing. I'm in the process of migrating my stuff off of Dropbox due to the Dr. Rice issue (only problem is a lot of apps use it as their sole syncing service); I have no desire to move gigabytes of photos into Dropbox's control.

inklesspen | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)

SEEKING WORK - San Diego area, remote okay, short term projects preferred

I've been working with Python webapps (mainly Pyramid / Pylons) for the past several years. I'm also pretty good with Javascript and AngularJS.

My resume includes social networks, social gaming, and a stint at Google; I'm looking to pick up 10-15 hours a week in the near term to fill some gaps in my schedule. If you're interested in talking, email me at [email protected] and mention this post.

inklesspen | 12 years ago | on: TypeScript 0.9 released

There is Typescript language support for Emacs and Sublime Text, so there shouldn't really be a problem there; someone just has to do it.
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