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New comment by justinsteele in "Cities with High Salary to Cost of Living Ratios for Software Developers"

justinsteele — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:26:30 +0000

It's unlikely that it is inaccurate by that much. The company would not want to show higher salaries either (resentment).

You are probably underpaid.

New comment by justinsteele in "Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us"

justinsteele — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:36:49 +0000

To further the analogy.. as soon as the fruit on the low hanging branches becomes bad enough to justify the additional effort of climbing the tree for the better fruit, people will do it.

Your argument makes it sound like you're saying no hard problems are being worked on currently, which is simply not true.

New comment by justinsteele in "Tesla Motors Announces a New Home Battery"

justinsteele — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:32:19 +0000

The "grid" doesn't yet exist in certain plots of land. One may want to build a house in the woods, but not pay the costs to get electric/water/sewage run to the property from whatever main road is closest.

New comment by justinsteele in "Dementia 'linked' to common over-the-counter drugs"

justinsteele — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:45:40 +0000

And given how that worked for cultures before the modern age, I'll stick to those who choose to study medicine. Not those who simply prescribe whatever they felt worked once, for a reason unknown to them.

Show HN: CoverageTrends – Graph code coverage over time (SimpleCov + CircleCI)

justinsteele — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 03:30:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/justinsteele/coveragetrends

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8884110

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by justinsteele in "Facebook’s First Female Engineer Speaks Out on Tech’s Gender Gap"

justinsteele — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:27:28 +0000

Equal in value does not imply equal in thought, experience, or skill. I think that is the major flaw in your argument and why you are misconstruing breaking down barriers for women as "sexist".

New comment by justinsteele in "Ask HN: How to price yourself?"

justinsteele — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:53:43 +0000

$45 is absolutely not the top range. A previous startup paid more than that to our overseas developers. It is definitely lower than a US contractor rate, but not by that level.

New comment by justinsteele in "New York Police Officers to Begin Wearing Body Cameras in Pilot Program"

justinsteele — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 23:53:03 +0000

As a white male, I disagree with your belief that race has little to do with police interactions.

http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data

There is much, much more data as well. It's rather frightening that it has taken this long for us to do anything about it.

New comment by justinsteele in "High-achieving men and women are described differently in reviews"

justinsteele — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 21:55:51 +0000

It's possible, but the likelihood is so low some might wonder why you're bringing that possibility up rather than discuss the much more likely alternative and how we can fix it.

Also; "I asked men and women in tech if they would be willing to share their reviews for a study and didn’t stipulate anything else."

New comment by justinsteele in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)"

justinsteele — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:25:50 +0000

Location: Portland, Maine

Remote: Yes, but I do prefer to see coworkers face to face occasionally

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, AWS, Jenkins, RSpec, Capybara, nginx, passenger, redis, mongodb, Java, celery, and much more.

Resume: http://justinrsteele.com/docs/resume.pdf

Email: justin.steele@gmail.com

New comment by justinsteele in "The voodoo of lobster economics"

justinsteele — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 02:40:13 +0000

That's the silliest argument I've heard in the past 30 minutes or so (that's saying something online!)

I loved the taste of lobster as a child. Feed me caviar then, and I'd be completely grossed out.

New comment by justinsteele in "Ask HN: What would attract you to a job in flyover country?"

justinsteele — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:55:38 +0000

Why not hire remote?

New comment by justinsteele in "3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?"

justinsteele — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:27:09 +0000

Did you read the article? There is no irony here, she immediately points out her lack of understanding of fundamental accessibility principles. That is why she wrote about how we as an industry allow that to happen (senior engineers who know nothing about catering to disability).

New comment by justinsteele in "Firebug 2.0"

justinsteele — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:39:13 +0000

Most developers I've met have both installed, and wouldn't think twice if you said "I'm better with Firebug, do you mind if we switch browsers?"

New comment by justinsteele in "Why Your “Team” Page Should Actually Be About Your Team"

justinsteele — Fri, 16 May 2014 18:27:04 +0000

When deciding whether to partner with an organization, I view their team page. You are not only excluding potential coworkers via certain choices.

New comment by justinsteele in "It's just wood"

justinsteele — Thu, 08 May 2014 21:50:13 +0000

In the beginning it's tough to determine what is worth contracting out and what is not. After you spend some time experimenting (and often having it all come out in the wash as you saw), you can gain a better sense of when to call in an "expert" and what to DIY.

New comment by justinsteele in "How to be an open source gardener"

justinsteele — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:11:58 +0000

Maybe they could get free conference passes, or an invitation to a company gathering if they are in the area.

New comment by justinsteele in "My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job"

justinsteele — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:10:59 +0000

"Mundane" cycling daily is all that it takes to get the majority of health benefits. No reason to downplay what he's doing.

New comment by justinsteele in "Help fund Rails Girls Summer of Code 2014 "

justinsteele — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:00:55 +0000

We can all simply "make an effort not to let it happen" in 2014? Shucks, I wish we had thought of this earlier! Such an easy solution.

New comment by justinsteele in "Why We Cancelled Our Kickstarter And Funded It Ourselves"

justinsteele — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:16:55 +0000

You're addressing something avenger123 never asked. They are asking HOW the process happens, considering removing the binding is the most efficient way to accurately scan them as far as we are aware.