kevinconroy

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by kevinconroy 12y ago
+1 again. Followed simple setup at our startup. Worked for ~6 years. We've been growing and scaling the backend architecture as the user needs have grown. We're now at the blended #6. Very glad we waited to optimize until business
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by kevinconroy 12y ago
Most big companies have a policy that any thing created on their computers is their property. Similarly, any information created on systems that they are paying for is theirs. If you were creating business value in the bathroom, then they m
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
For another data point, I'm 31, have a BS and BA, married, two kids, and have been at my current employer for 7 years, although my job has shifted gears every few years (programming > team lead > executive). Out of college I thou
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
I work with donation processing. We found the same response from the banks, so we've started trying to look up the identify theft victims in the white pages and calling them. Sadly, we only get a 20% hit rate for working phone numbers
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
Highly recommended.
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
If you are handling the card number on your own servers (e.g. not using an iframe which you can't modify), then it's just lazy programming. There's no spec that says you cannot modify poor user input to strip characters. Sour
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
I don't have published version of data, but I can confirm from running a checkout flow that's processed $100M that fewer fields = more conversions. If you light up the logo people understand it when done properly. It helps that mo
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
No, there are no such provisions. The card companies have their own fraud prevention/detection departments which mine transactions and look for abnormal behavior. If they spot something out of the ordinary (big purchase, foreign purcha
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
They do better than that - if you get high spam complaints on your email (>2% approx. equals high), your account will be locked. Even if you've been a paying customer for months. If you go >1% they'll put you on double secre
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
I've meet the folks at GiveDirectly and think they are doing great work. That being said, effectiveness of dollars spent is just one measure of a non-profit. It's similar to asking what's the best food. Each person has their
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
+1. Why money and not stuff? There are literally hundreds of articles on this topic, but here's one from a professor of public health specific to Typhoon Haiyan relief: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politi
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
You might like: http://www.givewell.org/ http://www.greatnonprofits.org/ http://www.charitynavigator.org/ Disclosure: I work for http://www.globalgiving.org which helps grassroo
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
I can't speak for the Red Cross, but donations made after a disaster are used to provide relief. It's true that if you give $100 now, it's impossible to instantly turn that into food for those in need, but it will let non-pro
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/super-typhoon-haiyan-re... GlobalGiving.org's Super Typhoon Haiyan Relief Fund is raising funds to support immediate relief and long term recovery efforts. Donations made to th
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
The danger with this hard data approach, though, is that you can end up with good engineers who hate to play the numbers game and bad engineers who realize they just need to hit average numbers to save their ass. And clueless HR departments
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
Font renders differently on iPad (monospaced) vs Mac Book (your screenshot) for me.
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
Think of it this way: they aren't trying to offend you - they're trying to show you that they're keeping all the other idiots who can't do FizzBuzz from joining the team. FizzBuzz is a necessary but not sufficient standa
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
Generally I agree, but I've asked FizzBuzz to mid-to-senior level folks who just can't get it. There are plenty of less qualified programmers who got into entry level positions and have held onto jobs long enough that they are now
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
"Are federal workers eligible for unemployment benefits? Yes. Federal employees who are laid off, including those furloughed this week, are eligible to receive unemployment benefits. In general, for workers to be eligible they must hav
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
Or if you bring your family, friends, or co-workers with you.
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
"Maybe most people aren't heartless bastards who just want a free burrito!" No, most people got a free burrito and ordered a soda and/or chips with it. And that, my friends, is Step 3: Profit!
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
Seem like too many rules for you? Use this as a reminder about why it's important to ask probing questions whenever you interview for a job. Find out what the culture is like and if it is a good fit for you. I know several developers w
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Ask HN: Professional/Leadership Development Without Buzzwords?
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
Auto-Favorite Tweets to Trigger Automated Emails to Thousands of Twitter Users and Hope Lots of them Follow You
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
Good, but if you really want fast performance, I'd suggest that you further cache those numbers in a local database and hardcode them into the page. If using Jekyll (or your favorite static site generator), you can have it go pull up-t
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
A: I don't know and neither does Business Week
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
Does this mean we'll finally block these kinds of submissions?!
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
Or "Most Computer Users Don't Care What's Cool, Just What Works"
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
A quick Google search turned up some PDF-to-epub converters. YMMV. I can send you the Word document that I used for this if it's helpful.
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by kevinconroy 13y ago
So happy to see Kathy blogging again! She's always been my favorite tech-UX blogger. For anyone interested in her prior blog, Creating Passionate Users, I coped with her absence from the blogosphere by curating an e-book with all of my

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