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by haploid 16y ago
This is very likely a function of recruiters dealing with HR departments or hiring managers who are merely trying to fill a seat with a warm body. Market dynamics work to the extent that the incentive structure is aligned with the "correct
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by haploid 16y ago
I am, along with my cofounder and a dozen employees. It's been 5 years though, so I'm not sure one could easily qualify us as a startup any longer.
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by haploid 16y ago
Optimizing workflow does make money.
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by haploid 16y ago
Not linkable evidence, no, although Verisign has their own collection of user stories claiming huge conversion increases in their marketing literature. We have done A/B testing on Verisign seals vs no seals vs generic "Secure Site" seals we
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by haploid 16y ago
It has nothing to do with browser support, although that has been an issue in the past. It has everything to do with Aunt Millie "feeling secure" when she sees the Verisign Secure Seal moreso than, say, the Godaddy Badge. It's all about th
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by haploid 16y ago
Verisign. They are probably the most expensive CA available, but they are absolutely worth it if you ever intend to provide secure user sessions to the proverbial Aunt Millie. Their identification verification process is fully automated no
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by haploid 16y ago
It also doesn't hurt that every user's repositories are "backed up" to localhost. Sounds like the biggest impact was on non-github-users trying to read source or documentation on other people's projects moreso than actual users.
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by haploid 16y ago
This is going to sound strange to those of us who lived through the dot com boom of the late 1990s: Aeron Chairs. Yes, they're expensive. Yes, they are emblematic of startup excess. But the productivity improvements from having your entir
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by haploid 16y ago
This. The later you come into a given project, the less equity you would be justifiably entitled to. As to the original question, if you are starting from zero and you want a means of avoiding critical shareholder deadlocks, you can split
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by haploid 16y ago
I believe the point of interest is that the CEO of the largest tech company in the United States( by market capitalization, anyway )personally reads developer email and replies by phone call. As CEO behavior goes, this is not typical; even
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by haploid 16y ago
"Good" is subjective. I've had a 1GB accelerator with them basically forever. Here are a few points. 1. Their pricing is absurdly high, as cloud providers go. They are roughly double for equivalent* offerings. * = "equivalent" is tough
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by haploid 16y ago
Why would anyone using a demo page be under the illusion that they would be able to save their data? To wit: It's a demo page. I agree with the above sentiment that not offering a means of trying the product out before registering is a blo
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by haploid 16y ago
> Ask yourself: say you see 2 applicants, one who currently has a job, and one who hasn't for several months. Which one will you most probably want to hire? The one who hasn't, obviously. (S)he's had several months to develop undirecte
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by haploid 16y ago
"ecommerce" is a fairly broad term. If you're referring specifically to web retail, I can make a few comments here. First, the problems to be solved in web retail aren't particularly "hard" in comparison to the kind of problems being solve