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by dotBen 6y ago
Simple - you give candidates assignments you've designed solely for interviewing. Ones that you clearly state up front are not real, not based around current project deliverables and commit that the code will ever be used in productio
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by dotBen 6y ago
If it's not off-topic, I'm curious to learn how other HN'ers have approached the planning/viability study of getting solar installed at their home. I want to see a spreadsheet to help me plan out energy use, peak need, w
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by dotBen 6y ago
Hey Paul, long time - I enjoyed working with you on OpenSocial stuff back in the day when I was at MySpace.
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by dotBen 6y ago
The ultimate instantiation of this concept is architect Gary Chang's childhood HK apartment that he transformed with this kind of concept throughout. This also pre-dates Ori, I believe as this is from 10-15 years ago. https:/&#x
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by dotBen 6y ago
Another direction to take this would be to include in a smart mirror https://www.howtogeek.com/414647/how-to-build-a-smart-mirror... https://www.electricmirror.com/smart-mirror-savvy/
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by dotBen 6y ago
yeah I guess I should have said 'hack'
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by dotBen 6y ago
that's right but the 'regular' one had 4. I've already seen a pro user (in music production) complain about this. But my point here is that the fact they are both the same supports the theory that the logic board is the
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by dotBen 6y ago
And this might be the old production trick where one part of the core fails QA and so they shut it out and make it a cheaper part. The GPU parts might be the tightest silicon and highest rate of failure so this approach reduces waste.
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by dotBen 6y ago
The MBP now only has 2 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports which would support this theory.
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Tell HN: Amazon recruiters scraping HN profiles
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by dotBen 6y ago
I have a vehement hatred for the whole Trump family but there's no evidence of illegal immigration and the rest of that is hearsay and doesn't belong on HN. Please provide references if you wish to make such statements.
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by dotBen 6y ago
I used to work at BBC and was part of the team that split the BBC News website up into UK and International (UKFS and IFS) and some of the early advertising additions. BBC Worldwide is an independent for-profit organization and, for the mos
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by dotBen 6y ago
Just another big F1 fan (I've watched every race since Mansell won the world championship). Thank you for helping keep the sport safe, both with Sensor Biometric and the medical car driving. I remember Martin Brundle doing a great piec
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by dotBen 6y ago
I've been in tech for 20 years from a software engineer through to founder, an executive and now a VC... I know the type of people who do this job and I don't think I'm suitably qualified. My time at the BBC showed that publi
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by dotBen 6y ago
The reality is that at £200k/y a suitably qualified person is taking a massive pay-cut compared to what they could make in the private sector and so would have to want to feel great deal of ideological or public service drive to take t
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by dotBen 6y ago
You have no legal business relationship with a service you've signed up for with no exchange of funds. Yeah, no. Peace out dude, I'm done here.
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by dotBen 6y ago
Only if it was willful. We've kind lost the point of the OP but the example was accidental miss-typing and in my hypothetical above I meant accidentally
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by dotBen 6y ago
Running a database business is especially hard - constant development is needed and so one time perpetual licenses don't really reflect the on-going costs (esp staff) that a database company has. Mix in the risk that your high value us
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by dotBen 6y ago
Sure it was. I create an account, accept the terms and condition and put in your email address, your phone number and your street address. It's still my account, I am the one that accepted the conditions (you would cry foul if you wer
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by dotBen 6y ago
Finance is totally relationship driven (and 'honor systems' isn't really a good example of it). My bank waives fees on everything because of my personal friendly relationship with my banker. They gave me preferred terms of m
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by dotBen 6y ago
They provided false credentials. The account is yours. IANAL but I don't think it works like that. Ownership is not the same as control.
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by dotBen 6y ago
This, one of the biggest blinkers technically-inclined founders have is that they forget or ignore that so much is relationship driven. Rules like Stripes (+ Wells Fargos) are not interpreted like code, everything is open to negotiation and
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by dotBen 6y ago
"I have no skin in this game" <golf clap>
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(VC here) the source used is is a really out of date list and also missing basic information you would need to properly build a VC targeting list (stage and sector being vital information missing). This is an interesting enough demo of web
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by dotBen 6y ago
While I support the sentiment, you know that's not how all advertising works? CPM ads mean the publisher makes money because you saw the ad, regardless of whether you clicked on it (CPC). Even if you never click an ad or buy anything
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by dotBen 6y ago
What's going on here is Ubiquiti want to sell you a hardware+software combination (Unifi-Protect) rather than provide a free software NVR (Unifi-Video) which could run via a container on 3rd party hardware/cloud/etc. This is
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by dotBen 6y ago
While I agree some of these plugins do start to feel hacky, WordPress Core has evolved quite a bit from being just a blog. Custom post types are not even new, but come to mind. I'm surprised to hear someone who has run a WP hosting com
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by dotBen 6y ago
Even if it's virtual, the wifi will still not be safe...
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by dotBen 6y ago
"planning to be profitable" in this situation means that the financials are losing less money each month and at an identifiable point in time breakeven and beyond will occur. It doesn't mean "at some point I intend to ch
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by dotBen 6y ago
Yes! Whatever happened to Dave Green?

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