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I hate it when companies declare victory when there is still a fire around them.

It's only $200 from me for the remainder of the year but you're not getting it anymore OpenAI. Voting with my wallet tonight. Really sad, I've followed OpenAI for years, way before ChatGPT. It's just too hard to true up my values with how they've behaved recently. This sucks. Goodnight everyone.

SQL has always been my favorite "loaded gun" api. If you have a control plane of RLS + role based auth and you've got a data dictionary it is trivial to get to a data explorer chat interaction with an LLM doing the heavy lifting.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt here obviously, I know they're in an all out war with the contact database industry. Going from websoup to agents dialing out to rent-a-human services requires different tactics.

I remember Merlin Mann, of "Inbox Zero" fame, coming to Twitter to talk about improving meetings around 2010. His list was a superset of this and forever shaped my approach to meetings. The change management part of fixing this behavior is a much heavier lift than you might expect. These are behaviors that are engrained well before the current environment.

RxRevu | Engineering & Product Roles | Full-Time | Remote (USA)

Hello, I’m Gabe, the CTO of RxRevu. It is no secret how busted the healthcare system is in the US. We’ve spent the past two years focused on making drug prices transparent for physicians and their patients. In thousands of hospitals and clinics across the US today, you can ask your doctor, “how much will that medication cost me?” and they’ll finally be able to give you an accurate answer.

We’re now building additional products that can also reduce the friction people encounter when accessing care. If working with mission-focused technologists on products that make a material difference for millions of people in the US sounds exciting, then we should probably talk!

https://rxrevu.com/join-us/

RxRevu | Engineering, DevOps, Data Science, Product | Remote (US Based) | Full-time | https://rxrevu.com

RxRevu is a well-funded digital healthcare startup that offers tools and content for healthcare providers to understand the cost of care for their patients. We've been growing like crazy over the past year, we're in over 300 hospitals with hundreds of thousands of doctors performing millions of price transparency transactions per month.

This is a particularly hard problem in the US Health system and we have great momentum. If you like solving difficult problems that translate to a material improvement in someone's quality of life, e.g. access to a medication they wouldn't otherwise be able to afford, then we should probably talk.

We're cloud centric and use ruby on rails and more recently kotlin for transactional services, and python for data pipeline and other data intense systems. We've been fully distributed since the pandemic struck, most of us were based in the Denver area, but as we've grown in the past half-year we're now open to candidates anywhere inside the USA.

Please check out our careers page as we have many roles currently open! https://rxrevu.com/join-us/

RxRevu | Engineering, DevOps, Data Science, UX/UI, Product | Remote (US Based) | Full-time | https://rxrevu.com

RxRevu is a well-funded digital healthcare startup that offers tools and content for healthcare providers to understand the cost of care for their patients. We've been growing like crazy over the past year and we're now in over 300 hospitals, with hundreds of thousands of doctors performing millions of price transparency transactions per month.

This is a particularly hard problem in the US Health system and we have great momentum so far. If you like solving difficult problems that translate into a material improvement in someone's quality of life, e.g. access to a medication they wouldn't have otherwise had, then we should probably talk.

We're cloud centric and use ruby on rails for transactional services, python for data pipeline and other data intense systems. We've been fully distributed since the pandemic struck, most of us were based in the Denver area, but as we've grown in the past half-year we're now open to candidates anywhere inside the USA.

Please check out our careers page as we have many roles currently open! https://rxrevu.com/join-us/

I can confirm this goes beyond the founding team, I've sold shares as a part of raising capital at the last two places I've been employed. I was an early hire at both and held the CTO title. Series C in 2014 and most recently series B at the start of 2018. I also seek out opportunities to unload my equity in the secondary market, but I'm usually taking a haircut there vs the premium investors that are looking for a bigger share will pay during a capital event.

I'm a bird in hand guy when it comes to equity at the fast-growing private companies I tend to be attracted to. I'm almost certain I'd feel differently if I had a larger stake or founder-level attachment to what was being built.

Google seems to acknowledge the reports now. https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

Havenly (https://havenly.com) | Software Engineers and DevOps | Denver, CO and REMOTE | Full-time

Havenly provides interior design services, all online, at an extremely accessible price point. For a flat fee starting from $79, we set you up with your own personal interior designer, matched exclusively to your style, who works with you virtually to decorate your room. You can purchase any of the products your designer suggests for you through us, all in one place, at the best price. We deliver your room to your door.

We are a personalization layer over the furniture e-commerce experience. We take the customer's style and inspiration data to help designers design the space, and we continue to provide customized suggestions for products to spruce up their space. We're the easiest way to decorate your home.

This is an exciting time at Havenly, our tech team is growing rapidly and I'm looking to augment the team with senior technologists who have been successful in scaling consumer products! I'm looking for full-stack engineers, engineers passionate about managing reasonably large amounts of heterogeneous ecomm data (10M+ SKUs from 400+ retailers) and systems engineers who like their infrastructure as code.

I'm looking for people who want to make a big impact in an environment free of BS and focused on outcomes. Good fits in the product development team tend to crave ownership over their area of the product and prefer not to just be told what code to write. Productive cross function collaboration with product, design, marketing, and business operations should be something that excites you. We do not shy away from our desire to set a very high bar when it comes to who we hire onto our team.

Stack: AWS, PHP, React, iOS/Swift

If this sounds interesting to you, please introduce yourself: [email protected]

This is called Medical Loss Ratio (MLR), the thinking was to limit healthcare companies from charging exorbitant rates for "profit" and not care. It got strange though because "cost of care" also included wellness programs. So what do you think these insurance companies do coming into the year end when they are under their estimates for care? A) Refund premium dollars to their members, HA! or B) Spend millions of dollars in the last days of the year building step counting programs and other half-baked wellness efforts

Healthcare in America is terminally ill. In it's current form, commercial insurance, like Aetna in this article, are rewarded for pumping up the total cost of care as big as possible while keeping their members just healthy enough to dump off at the doorstep of medicaid when they're old enough to qualify for it.

I'm genuinely curious if my perception that the Ruby community has more drama than other communities is actually true.

AWS is doing a great job producing more and more sticky features.

I love this advice. Here is a blog post that I keep coming back to regarding this.

http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

Havenly | Denver, CO | Front end Developer, Product Designer | Full Time | ONSITE

Havenly is an innovative online interior design studio that makes beautiful décor convenient and accessible for clients. We operate a private marketplace of interior designers and facilitate an engaging design process which leads to a highly personalized ecommerce experience.

Our recently released iOS app was rated #1 in "New Apps We Love" in the App Store, which was a fun thing to be a part of!

We're looking for front end developers and product designers to join our team to bring the delight of a beautifully designed room to Havenly customers. Front end developers should have experience building delightful and responsive experiences in React/Redux. Product designers should have a full range of skills from product design, interaction design, to visual design.

If you'd like to know more about our open roles and introduce yourself, head over to https://havenly.com/careers

Havenly | Denver, CO | Onsite | havenly.com

Front-end software engineer - react/redux/webpack

Havenly, Inc. is a funded and fast growing consumer services startup, located in the heart of Denver. We are revolutionizing the home design market by providing a delightful design experience for everyone who is considering making a change to their home.

We're looking for engineers with working experience with react who want to collaborate in a small, fast moving cross-functional group to build delightful user experiences.

Contact me at [email protected]

I got a death threat while working at Microsoft around 2003. Someone managed to hit the lottery on our phone tree and find me, a lowly software development engineer on Windows CE. This person was _very_ angry and was trying to open a PDF on their new Dell computer. I let them know they needed a PDF reader and I recommended Adobe's product. The person was now confused on top of angry and I was running out of patience after about 15 minutes in a circular discussion. I tried to wrap up the conversation by telling him to try support and gave him that phone number. He snapped and told me he was going to come hunt me and my family down and kill us. I hung up the phone at that point. I really didn't take him seriously, I hadn't given him any identifiable info other than I was an engineer on CE and he just sounded like a very angry person.

I called security and let them know what happened anyway. My office was invaded in about 15 minutes by 3 security folks and a Microsoft investigator. The best part was how big my coworkers eyes would get when they walked by my office and saw me surrounded by security being questioned. That afternoon the investigator followed up and asked if I was still doing ok and let me know the person was calling in from I think Kansas or some other place half way across the country. I told him I didn't feel like it was really a credible threat and that was the last I heard about the whole thing from security.

Havenly - Denver, CO - http://www.havenly.com

Havenly is an innovative online interior design studio that makes beautiful décor convenient and accessible for clients. The Havenly process starts with a style profile that matches clients with their ideal interior designer. A personal designer then works with Havenly clients (via a phone call or online questionnaire) to create stunning room concepts along with a shopping list of items for a low $199 per room fee.

Our software stack is lovingly built with: Linux, Docker, PHP, MySQL, and [TBD javascript framework, currently just jQuery].

We're a fun group with a unique culture (I'm currently the only male employee and I'm crossing my fingers I can find some male software engineers).

We're currently looking for: software engineers who are passionate about building a beautiful product that delights your users.

WellTok, based in downtown Denver, is hiring experienced full stack Ruby on Rails engineers to work on a real problem that will require innovation: fix healthcare. You will have the opportunity to directly affect many peoples’ lives in positive ways. Welltok’s pioneering Social Health Management solution CaféWell makes it fun and more rewarding to get and stay healthy through incentives; social networking; advice from experts, peers and veteran professional athletes; fun health challenges with family members and co-workers; and reliable health and fitness information.

We are a well-funded, rapidly growing, early stage company still building out the core-engineering group in which you will have a real impact. We are not looking for someone who just follows orders and writes code, we want someone who is passionate about collaboration and influencing features in our products. We believe our small cross-functional teams working in short iterations with direct involvement with the business are major ingredients to our proven value.

You are able to design and build solutions at multiple levels of the technology stack. You will be supported by a strong engineering team that will push you to become better at your craft.

Qualifications

• You are proficient working with Ruby on Rails; we’re currently on 3.2.x and we like CoffeeScript and Haml.

• You are passionate about testing your code, not only to catch bugs but as a process that produces better design; we like rspec.

• Proven experience developing web-based applications which are used by real people right now.

• You have a solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals and distributed, scalable systems.

• You know the operating systems (*nix) you use to develop and run your code on intimately.

• You are able to identify and solve problems related to the development and production operating systems your code runs on; we use AWS for most of our infrastructure needs.

• You are personable and enjoy working and socializing with colleagues. You work well in a team and enhance the performance of other engineers by sharing and educating them on the areas you have the greatest expertise in.

Benefits

We respect you more than to try to lure you in with promises of MacBooks, snacks, or any of that junk (don’t worry you will get a MacBook and snacks). We will pay you what you could get elsewhere and then make joining us an easy decision with a generous, well-defined bonus program. On top of this we offer the kinds of benefits that help us hire and keep the best people, like: Health/Dental/Vision Insurance, 401k, etc.

Interested?

Introduce yourself (resume, websites, github profile, etc.) to [email protected]. If we’re interested you’ll hear back from us within 48 hours.

WellTok is hiring. We're located in lower downtown Denver, just a few blocks from Coors field. We'll do relocation if you're not living around here. If you're interested in helping to solve some pretty important problems that can make you feel really good about the work you're doing, like helping folks get healthier or managing their chronic conditions, in a HUGE space (15% of the US GDP!), we would probably be a good fit.

Rails - We're looking for a seasoned full-stack engineer with experience building distributed systems and has spent some time with Rails. This person will be our seed engineer for this new chapter of growth that Welltok is starting - be our core systems team's coefficient!

JS - We're looking for someone who has a real interest in javascript in the browser. You should have some full-stack experience, but you've narrowed your focus a little bit towards the top of the stack. You should be familiar with the frameworks that bring structure and organization to applications (backbone.js, angularjs, ember, etc). You'll be using our Rails apps for your data needs so you should have familiarity with Rails.

Feel free to contact me directly with questions.

Darn, someone in the comments section of the post beat me to the best zinger of all. Please see Joel's 2001 post titled "Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You."[1]

"When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all."

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." --Steinbeck

Steve McConnell revisited this subject recently: http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2011/01/22...

I think about myth #1 when this subject comes up - "Part of the issue is that I’m underpaid a little; a bigger part of the issue is the other guy is overpaid a lot."

Edit: Just saw there was a discussion on this article about 90 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131550