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by kami8845 14y ago
No worries antoko. We're not really banging up on you, just pissed off at heroku :) Their wording was good, better than usual when companies fuck up. But they're deeply embedded in the startup community so good PR with us is expected, betra
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by kami8845 14y ago
The fact that the people in that room couldn't (who certainly know of any single time a wall street bank has gone to trial in the past years) and that Warren is so sure of her position is enough evidence for me personally
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by kami8845 14y ago
Yeah, it's still not impressive. The only thing that I'd say is impressive in response to the situation would be: "Hi, CEO of Heroku here. Sorry. We've been misleading customers and only telling the truth when pressed-hard for years. We've
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by kami8845 14y ago
No this is not impressive. This is them fucking up and misleading customers for 3 years, enjoying a great reputation and now FINALLY getting called out for their BS. They're about to lose that great reputation that they've spent the past ye
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by kami8845 14y ago
What I personally find most annoying are the people complaining about the people complaining about the title changes.
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by kami8845 14y ago
The story of the plane servicer who never mis-serviced a plane again after almost killing the pilot he worked for is cute, but screwing up big-time doesn't turn a (presumably) sloppy engineer into one that never messes up again.
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by kami8845 14y ago
because HN's markup is stupid
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by kami8845 14y ago
Yup I specifically mentioned that this was only an issue with older kernels. Regarding the keyboard I'd happily take a 10th gen (or however many iterations Lenovo/IBM has done on their keyboards) over their 1st gen chiclet-style. Might be j
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by kami8845 14y ago
Because they make 100k straight out of college.
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by kami8845 14y ago
Happy to help. Yeah I saw Xinerama. In the end that might've worked, but I wasn't sure how well this worked in practice during everyday work and whether there'd be driver issues with the external USB graphics card. I also heard about some i
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by kami8845 14y ago
Thanks. Always happy to help. That was the result of 3 days full-time (~16 hours / day) research, so it was good sharing instead of letting it rot among my "Sent items". I'm actually starting at my new job today (in 11 hours). So the jury i
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by kami8845 14y ago
>Toughbook It's tough alright. http://www.panasonic.com/business-solutions/marketing-materi... No wonder they managed to fit a really good keyboard into a huge chassis like that.
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by kami8845 14y ago
I picked a new machine for my job a couple of days ago, so this is still fresh on my mind. Keep in mind that this is from the perspective of the UK (US is generally MUCH cheaper, oftentimes machines cost 50% of what they do here). ---------
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by kami8845 14y ago
>What I would definitely NOT do is pull out my rolodex and "contact every colleague I have client-side and agency-side" (this must be hundreds if not thousands of people) meh. In almost certain likelihood the guy didn't do that. It woul
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by kami8845 14y ago
You know, you could've just told us instead of making us look it up :) >The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius." These three Latin words mean "Swifter, Higher, Stronger."
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by kami8845 14y ago
>Not using Gzip is obviously a big part of his marketing plan. I think this is the only time I would use the words "FTFY" on HN, but I do think it's obvious, that with kim's bragging about bandwidth usage, gzip has been disabled intenti
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by kami8845 14y ago
I don't think what I've laid out is unrealistic. I'm young that's true. Though I still hope that in 20 years I have a job that I love and want to spend a lot of time at. I might also have other things I want to spend time on, but I don't wa
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by kami8845 14y ago
You're ignoring a powerful aspect here: Founders are cash-poor, but equity-rich (almost infinitely so). I don't know whether you have enough money to cover your costs (I assume so, you sound quite successful), but I think it would be intere
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by kami8845 14y ago
Quite a sad reality you live in. Apparently a world where the main criterion for a job is to maximize money output while minimizing time commitment. Money doesn't motivate me. I thought it would. Made a bunch of money (much more than me or
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by kami8845 14y ago
Thank you for the good luck wishes. >Work your network/connections That's exactly the issue. I didn't have that. At all. Before that I just hacked on stuff because I thought it was fun / interesting. I also came from a tiny country with
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by kami8845 14y ago
Yes, I agree that freelancing can be fascinating work. I mainly wrote from my own perspective (and since HN was once called "Startup News", I imagine also from that of others), where I do not have the right credentials or connections to get
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by kami8845 14y ago
blah blah blah. Same contracting comparison that gets thrown into seemingly every thread. As an employee you get work guaranteed, as a freelancer you have to work for every hour of work twice (once to get it, once to actually do it). You al
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by kami8845 14y ago
>I have yet to meet a retailer that we can't hit at least 15 - 25% improvement in sales by testing and fixing their checkout. >make a major impact on the GDP I agree on the percentages (I'm myself a big advocate for A/B testing), bu
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by kami8845 14y ago
I don't understand. They bought Lala. The sought-after employees left even after being offered a $80M golden leash. They were bought again with Color. What stops these employees from leaving again, with a much less lucrative golden leash th
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by kami8845 14y ago
>I've also received a $110k offer from a well-known company and $165k from another early stage. It seems the 165k one wasn't. Which is understandable. If they were a great opportunity for you, they wouldn't have to reach that deep into
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by kami8845 14y ago
and cars cause accidents. the future is coming, better embrace it.
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by kami8845 14y ago
Very interesting. Can you expand on that? I actually got out of the CPA industry around April 2012, when it stilled seemed to go well (though not as well as in the days of ringtone offers / acai and so forth)
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by kami8845 14y ago
Trick question: why is it bad to preface trick questions by "trick question:"?
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by kami8845 14y ago
meh. That's just circumventing bureaucracy. Actually having the technical chops to be involved in such a notable standards process is far more impressive. Especially at 14.
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by kami8845 14y ago
Me neither, but most people who run Rails apps that are somewhat significant probably do.

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