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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Based on when this product was created, I can almost guarantee they are just manually scraping LinkedIn (plus a few other places - Facebook, twitter, Bloomberg, maybe even Pitchbook). There are custom Google search portals you can use to se
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Because capital investment funded companies have very different goals than a traditional business. A traditional business has cash flow as it's number one priority. A young capital investment based company has market share and growth a
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Ah, my apologies. I misunderstood that and thank you for clarifying. I absolutely agree. I hope we, in the US, come to a point where we treat personal info in a similar way. Best regards from across the pond.
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
As someone who has worked with a couple data aggregation startups, I find it surprising I am unaware of the laws that classify it as private info(or even the legal definition of what "private info" is). With that said, I am certai
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
In the US it is actually a big deal because data is not a "creative work" so it is not covered by copyright protection. Because of this, black market re-sellers can operate with relative impunity. Most data brokers have a TOS that
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
That is only valid when the plan of bankruptcy was to avoid liquidation. This buyout became a veiled liquidation in the late 00s early 10s[1]. They need to prop up Sears and K-Mart stores long enough to pay leases to support Seritage Growth
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
But if Cleveland cannot keep real estate prices stable, with a rapidly declinig population, how in the world could anyone realistically expect a place like Portland, Seattle or the Bay Area to? Local policy does not appear to be able to eve
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I see all the issues out on the west coast. But then why are real estate prices in places like Buffalo, Cleveland or Pittsburgh also rising significantly faster than inflation? Why are places where the population is declining seeing an incr
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Top teir schools are full of PEDs at this point. I think software developers might be less aware of how much more effective a drug like Adderall is when you pair it with and antidepressant. Even just caffeine. Removes the main problems of s
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Its almost as if both approaches have positives and negatives. Some of which are more important depending on your project and organization. I'd be more interested to read about a project or company that failed due to making one choice
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
And anecdotely, IQ style testing has been by far the most determinant data point for successful software developer hires in my experience. I'm almost at the point where I might start to believe it is more important than domain knowledg
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Sometimes I look back and wonder if this last 30+ years of PE firms consolidating and eating up all of these mid sized companies is actually the reason things haved trended towards very large corporations. As opposed to economies of scale e
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
If anyone has ever lived by the mantra "The worst that can happen is that they will say no.", this is what happens to a culture as a whole as more and more people behave that way.
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I love to joke that cloud functions are just PHP shared hosts that support node, go, etc as opposed to PHP, Perl etc. It is a bit of an exaggeration, of course, but fun to joke about. I agree completely. The tranactional nature of that shar
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Revoking a bearer token is trivial and in all likelihood, revoking tokens is a very infrequent event. In most cases it is such a rare event that you can usually commit your blacklist to source code. If not a service to validate tokens again
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
It's not. Robocalls are one of those things that really upsets a small subset of people either because they are overly sensitive to robocalls or that they are a member of that unlucky subset that does receive a very high amount. Like m
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
People are not hired for roles when a company can afford to. People are hired for roles when company cannot afford not to.
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Also, grocery stores tend to be closer than other retail stores. At an average of 2.14 miles from the the average US consumer[1], added to the fact that most US consumers that would pay extra for the use of a delivery service own a car, are
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
It was. The idea that the only reason the US extended the copyright term was because of Disney and Mickey Mouse is one of those clever, edutainment, Ted Talks kind of factoids. It is fun to write about and bring up in threads like this, but
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Cryptocoin speculation will likely be remembered closer to beanie babies or baseball cards as opposed to the dot com bubble etc. This was just the first time we saw this happen globally and with digital goods. Which, possibly coincidentally
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I think that is the reality people are coming to about most plastics. While metal, glass, and paper are quite recyclable, plastic is not nearly as recyclable as the general public is led to believe. The pragmatic reality is that most plast
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
In reality design for the web and phone applications ends up being largely about typography. So a good foundations book on typography like "Designing with Type" or any other of the usual suspects is a good start. That said, some a
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
These are great points and I wanted to add a couple more I've found over the years. Software development often has an almost infinite number of ways to accomplish the same task. Maintainability is as much, if not more, about correctly
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I'll try to explain the perspective some people have, including myself, about tools like Jira. I do not believe that what Jira attempts to accomplish is possible. Organizations tend to utilize Jira to automate project management. I se
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I would be careful with some of the responses here. Over my career I've found that a significant subset of developers struggle with unfamiliar codebases. Sometimes this has to do with their experience being mostly with greenfield proje
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
SUVs have moved into the role of the default family car. We are seeing a reduction in people without children owning cars. Trucks are preferred in more rural areas. Therefore, this appears to be the effect of less new automobile purchases b
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I think you might be confusing rental property that is unrented vs property that is not in the market but not physically occupied. "about 30 percent of the more than 5,000 apartments are routinely vacant for more than 10 months a year&
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
There was a study which I cannot locate right now which discussed that one of the substantial impacts of a Walmart moving into a town was that all the "community leadership" type jobs left. Things like accountants and office admin
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
It does appear to also be a problem in Tokyo [1] Houston's economy is still recovering from a natural disaster [2] Are we sure this is not simply the product of a global shift towards populations migrating to urban centers? And maybe w
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
If it is bad policy, then can someone help explain why unaffordable housing is currently a world-wide issue?

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