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by hopeless 12y ago
Honestly, I'd scrap everything up to $29/mth and change the pricing basis from MB and number of queries (people who use spreadsheets have no real understanding of this) to number of spreadsheets. I remember working for Deutsche Ba
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by hopeless 12y ago
I worked 20-25hrs / weeks for about 2 years as a consultant but then, probably against my better judgement, joined a company in March doing the standard 37+hrs. I'm unhappy, unfocused and RescueTime tells me that my efficiency has
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by hopeless 12y ago
Wow! That's a huge leap forward. I can look seriously at RethinkDB again for a new project. Is there a public roadmap where I could have seen that coming?
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by hopeless 12y ago
I've looked into RethinkDB and I really like it but… you have to migrate your data between each 1.x -> 1.y release which might be trivial early on but impossible at a larger scale :-/ http://rethinkdb.com/stabil
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by hopeless 12y ago
Whilst most of the larger EU countries have some civil spying program, the UK operates on a much wider scale throughout the world. It is also particularly concerning for me in Ireland as a large portion of Irish internet traffic must flow t
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by hopeless 12y ago
I could easily see the EU strengthening our data protection laws in the next few years to take us in this direction. In light of the NSA scandals there's probably a strong justification for this… except that the UK is a bigger danger t
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by hopeless 12y ago
That's really neat. My daughter is hedgehog-obsessed and we were watching videos from hedgehog owners: their nocturnal running was a common surprise (and annoyance if they were in a bedroom!)
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by hopeless 12y ago
Dash is great and a big shout-out to the developer (@kapeli) who is really responsive to support requests. I found that the backbone docset was actually using the Edge version not the latest stable release. He had it fixed in a few hours.
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by hopeless 12y ago
What licence is the HN content made available under? I'm trying to find some T & C's that I might have agreed to but I haven't them yet. I don't think you can assume that comments made here are free to copy, reuse, m
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by hopeless 12y ago
Yes, yes, all these one-liner http server are great… but you're missing the point Knod allows you to POST JSON data to a URL which it stores in a file so you can GET the same data back. If you're prototyping a one page JS app in,
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by hopeless 12y ago
I was only introduced to Burp at Scot Ruby conf last week as a tool for web security testing. If Proxy.app is targeting the same domain, it seems to provide none of the tools that Burp does. Burp was a pain to setup (OS X makes installing a
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by hopeless 12y ago
What?! I actually thought this was a little side project by Honeybadger(.io). Poor form. Added: using the same orange helped the deception.
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by hopeless 12y ago
That is illegal — and it's why photographers need to get model releases
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by hopeless 13y ago
For reference, here's the official press release: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2f... yes, the headline is "Net neutrality: Industry MEPs want stricter rules against blocking riv
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by hopeless 13y ago
DRM is not my preferred solution but it's really the only solution that our profession has offered the content creators^ as a means of protecting their property. Perhaps it's time for us to invent a solution that satisfies the
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by hopeless 13y ago
This has always bothered me since my early twenties: my Dad was a programmer into his 50's (albeit, as a manager too) but he'd actually risen to those rank from an engineering apprentice so it's a bit different. For me, the
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by hopeless 13y ago
I can't have been the only one to view the $1000 (or whatever it was) in stock options as a blatant bribe. It was pretty clear that the 2015 roadmap was going to sacrifice staff (or bonuses, or conditions, etc) in order to meet its tar
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by hopeless 13y ago
Also, the outcome when reviewing a goal doesn't have to be a binary achieved/failed. You could have something like failed/nearly-met/met/exceeded/wildly-exceeded
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by hopeless 13y ago
And setting vague goals which may, or may not, have been achieved is better for the employee or the company?! But you're right to an extent, and I skipped over it. There's a class of things (call them skills, behaviours or compete
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by hopeless 13y ago
The headline is a little misleading: they got rid of annual performance reviews in favour of more frequent performance discussions. I'm working for a startup building a performance plan/review SaaS app and we've always trie
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by hopeless 13y ago
Since the title asks, I manage my sales leads with http://www.onepagecrm.com/ because it's simple, I can CC email conversations, make notes etc and it basically does the job a small business needs done (in my case, con
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by hopeless 13y ago
> Edit: Also, where's Ember Data? I'd like to hear about this too. When I tinkered with Ember (v1.0) Ember Data seems to cause most of my problems. I still like Ember but it made me wary and I'd probably avoid Ember Data i
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by hopeless 13y ago
the same is true of bad customers and clients
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by hopeless 13y ago
I've made the same argument before: Fear the power closest to you. I have little to fear from the US or China spying on me because they have (realistically, discounting e.g. Seal Team Six) much less control over me than the Irish gover
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by hopeless 13y ago
Yep, totally agree. There's almost no interaction between the big tech multi-nationals and local tech scene. This is mostly because the large "tech" companies mostly employ finance, sales, support and logistical staff in Irel
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by hopeless 13y ago
Wow. So privileged are you to live in a country where you have a choice of banks that provide API access. FWIW, I'd prefer to have automated transaction importing but since I don't, this service actually appeals to me more than
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by hopeless 13y ago
Better advice would be better to find out where your customers are and go there. So, yeah, go ahead and post to HN but only if your target market is actually on HN otherwise you'll get a lot of tyre-kickers and no actual customers. A
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by hopeless 13y ago
I wish you the best of luck. I went into my PhD with totally the wrong reasoning and eventually left after 3 years. All I can say is: the PhD is about the process not the end results ; and it's a qualification to conduct research an
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by hopeless 13y ago
Care to provide some of that "current evidence"? Genuine question because the only papers I've come across show sitting to be pretty terrible
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by hopeless 13y ago
I really like the service but PLEASE please do not strip all metadata out of photos uploaded by your users. Stripping out the EXIF/IPTC copyright information creates an orphan work (no apparent creator), makes it harder to track down

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