davidfischer

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Lessons from and for Hiring Managers(blog.readthedocs.com)
2 points by davidfischer 8y ago|0 comments
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by davidfischer 8y ago
A couple things to add: - The #2 source of candidates was almost universally meetups in my customer development interviews. Meeting people in person works! You don't have to be a referral although it does help. - It's pretty easy
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by davidfischer 8y ago
Sorry to bum you out. That's not my goal. As one becomes more senior the hiring manager expects a candidate to do their due diligence and ask some questions beforehand rather than hopping right into the application process. For a ref
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by davidfischer 8y ago
While the definition of senior engineer is a bit squishy, I agree completely that as some one gets more senior they increasingly choose the company rather than the other way around. I'm soft-launching a product to help companies recrui
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by davidfischer 8y ago
- Medium ( https://medium.com/.well-known/dnt-policy.txt ) - EFF ( https://www.eff.org/.well-known/dnt-policy.txt ) - Read the Docs ( https://readthedocs.org/.well-known/dnt-policy
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by davidfischer 8y ago
> I'm sorry, but this is crap. I agree with your sentiment that on by default should be the standard. However, it isn't. The standard is specific and it says it should be off by default. The standard was designed to be complete
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by davidfischer 8y ago
This is because on by default is against the standard. The only real standard around DNT is the Tracking Preference Expression[1] which says how to declare you comply with DNT without saying what compliance means. It isn't exactly a pr
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by davidfischer 8y ago
While I can't speak for Hacker News as a whole and I'm going to talk about clicks and not purchases strictly, I am willing to talk about developers more generally who frequently say things like "advertising doesn't work
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by davidfischer 8y ago
This was huge news in San Diego in 2012 when it was revealed. The worst of these types of deals are now outlawed as of 2013. http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/02/local/la-me-ln-schoo...
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by davidfischer 8y ago
For the purpose of the GDPR, an IP is PII. However, one can get rough location using an anonymized version of an IP address (say one that has zeroed out the last octet or two). From Recital 26 ( https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals&
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by davidfischer 8y ago
> The tax system will always reward home ownership. By time you are on your third house you will be paying cash, so even mortgage issues will go away. I don't know anyone on their third property who has a huge mortgage...maybe a sma
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by davidfischer 8y ago
This is not unique to San Francisco. https://www.10news.com/news/team-10/team-10-man-with-extensi... > Partin's bus ticket cost $261.50. The receipt, dated February 2, 2015, is stamped with the name of a N
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by davidfischer 8y ago
> And for anyone that wants to run ads : just serve them locally in a sufficient format and you'll slip through blocks. I thought so too. Once you reach a certain size, even 1st party ads get blocked.
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by davidfischer 8y ago
I ran Privacy Badger for a while. It is very good for finding out who is setting 3rd party cookies or using alternatives to cookies (eg. localstorage with unique identifiers). Rather than using a list, my understanding is it uses heuristics
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by davidfischer 8y ago
> Before I wrote this post, I wasn't aware that eyeo served ads directly, which is what prompted me to write it. I think they floated this idea but ended up nixing it after users weren't happy. I run ABP with "acceptable a
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Ads and ad blocking at Read the Docs(blog.readthedocs.com)
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by davidfischer 9y ago
True.
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by davidfischer 9y ago
For the record, Atheros is a subsidiary of Qualcomm. Edit: wrong preposition
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by davidfischer 10y ago
Commercial property -- to which I'm including multi-family residential for this post -- is almost definitely the bigger problem. The reason arises from the fact that these properties very rarely trigger a reassessment of property taxes
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by davidfischer 12y ago
TapHunter - San Diego, CA TapHunter helps people find their favorite craft beer, spirits and cocktails while helping bars and restaurants streamline their operations and market the great beverages they serve. We are looking to add a junior
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by davidfischer 12y ago
Titanium isn't horribly slow, but it isn't some cross-platform panacea either. Building an app that supports iOS and Android well is still a big task. You don't just build one app and get the second platform for free. Lots of
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by davidfischer 13y ago
My GitHub data challenge entry was along a similar vein. The data is stale now, but it does break it down by project and language which can form some interesting hotspots. The globe is a really nice touch and you did a good job on canonical
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Open source contributions by location(davidfischer.github.io)
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by davidfischer 14y ago
I realize this response is a bit late. However, it's worth mentioning that there's been quite a bit of movement here from the Python community in the past two weeks. No doubt this is a response to what happened with Ruby. A proper cert for
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by davidfischer 14y ago
While I can't completely rule it out since I have no inside knowledge, this sounds like a terrible move. T-Mobile is in a commodity business and they aren't particularly successful at it. While the author tries to make the argument that Goo
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by davidfischer 14y ago
Goldsberry was great at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference[1]. The charts really highlight a player's strengths and weaknesses. A quick look at Ray Allen's chart (in Goldsberry's conference paper) shows how much better he is when he
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by davidfischer 16y ago
This was one of my favorite briefings at Blackhat.