nemesisj

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by nemesisj 10y ago
Data centres aren't the same thing as "the available consumer internet" but yes, I take your point. That said, if there's any country that could find a practical compromise on that front, it would be the UAE, and they&#
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by nemesisj 10y ago
Dubai. Yes, not actually in Africa, but much closer to the area and relatively stable. Also, there's plenty of activity going on in the Middle East that would justify this (I think).
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by nemesisj 10y ago
Spoken like someone who rarely crossed borders in the 90s. I spent significant time crossing borders in the 80s and 90s and it never took much time. This was primarily between PR China and the USA so not your friendliest border but also inv
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by nemesisj 10y ago
It's great to see Uber come out so publically against this travesty of a Presidential executive order. It's a despicable act and all Americans should be ashamed of what's happening. That said, it's interesting to see a c
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by nemesisj 10y ago
I've been a Google Voice user for 6-7 years. It became more important to me 5 years ago when I moved to the UK and ported my mobile number to GV. It's not been very pretty. We were thrown a lifeline with the Google Hangouts app t
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by nemesisj 10y ago
Well, my company Administrate is hiring in Edinburgh and we are still a fairly early stage (~50 people) startup. We pay pretty well. Check out www.getadministrate.com
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by nemesisj 10y ago
This reminds me of when my consulting company was looking for cheap servers back in 2004 to host client projects. We found an eBay listing for about 80 machines (if memory serves) that were being sold off at a pretty good price and had real
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by nemesisj 10y ago
My company (Administrate - http://www.getadministrate.com ) went to a 4 day, 32 hour week (but paid for 5) a little over a year ago. It's been a huge success, and we haven't seen any drop in productivity. We have had
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by nemesisj 10y ago
Administrate ( http://www.getadministrate.com ) - Edinburgh, United Kingdom We're one of the fastest growing tech companies in Scotland, and we're adding to our engineering team like crazy! We provide an EdTech solution
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Startups, Take the Pledge for Your Community(peebs.org)
1 points by nemesisj 11y ago|0 comments
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by nemesisj 11y ago
To be honest, I was more impressed with their mission statement of "By 2020, no person will be killed or seriously injured by a Volvo". What an incredible goal! I hope they can achieve it.
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This Scottish Startup just raised $2.5mil and moved everyone to a 4 day work week(techcrunch.com)
4 points by nemesisj 11y ago|0 comments
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by nemesisj 11y ago
"but in my experience in the US, taxis have always provided a vastly inferior experience to something like Uber " Agreed. But also, taxis in the US have always provided a vastly inferior experience to taxis in other countries.
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by nemesisj 11y ago
"tall guy" is a qualitative statement, not quantitative. I'm 6'4". My knees always touch the seat in front of me - reclining helps me angle my legs a bit more so I have a few more positions for my legs, particularly
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by nemesisj 12y ago
I'm an American, running a startup in Scotland, funded by a Scottish angel syndicate, which functions in many ways like a "mini VC". There is intense, constant griping both in Scotland and in the broader UK about the funding
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by nemesisj 12y ago
The Tor project is really important, and I'm really glad the EFF supports it. It's come a long way in the last 10 years too. For about a year I ran a fairly high traffic couple of exit nodes (circa 2004) and it was a really scary
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by nemesisj 12y ago
Do you know if they offer 2 factor authentication? I've been so annoyed with Dropbox support for the past 2 months I'm actively looking for a replacement, but it needs to have 2 factor auth.
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by nemesisj 12y ago
Cool, thanks! I'll have a look at that. Does the kivent.org stuff support Tiled?
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by nemesisj 12y ago
Anyone tried Kivy for game development? I'm interested in brushing up my Python and was thinking about making a game that could be OpenGL accelerated, and it seemed like a good match.
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by nemesisj 12y ago
I've used taxis in four major USA metro areas fairly extensively: Chicago, San Francisco, NYC, and South Florida (Ft. Lauderdale / Miami). NYC is mostly OK, although drivers are sometimes hard to understand. Chicago was a step be
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by nemesisj 12y ago
The difference between the Google scenario and Amazon is that from what I can see, Amazon makes money on almost all of the products it's rolling out vs. Google not really directly making money out of most of its products.
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by nemesisj 12y ago
Using HTTPS will let you know if the website you're visited is being messed with by a company, country, or regionally controlled firewall or content filter. If someone operating one of these filters took issue with your site, they cou
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by nemesisj 12y ago
Same. They rapidly went from one of my favourite companies in the world (they were unbelievable in the late nineties into the early 2000s) to a total farce. Today we still use them as a secondary, mainly b/c we're working on oth
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by nemesisj 12y ago
Yeah, we're definitely sending almost exactly the opposite message that we intended, on a slide that had a lot of verbal context put around it. I just updated it to make it more clear and remove the quote. No point to it that can&#x27
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by nemesisj 12y ago
After seeing how this is being misinterpreted (there was quite a bit of verbal context around this) we've decided to just remove it. Definitely don't want to send the wrong message or perception!
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by nemesisj 12y ago
Hmm, we're not going to kill your application on this alone, but we are going to ask you about it, and talk in depth about how you're going to manage whatever it is. Many people underestimate how hard working in a startup is vs.
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by nemesisj 12y ago
I think reliability is different than promptness. If someone says they'll get back to us on a certain day, we take note of that, and if it doesn't happen without a reason given, that's a concern. We wouldn't want to tr
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by nemesisj 12y ago
Yeah, was wondering in retrospect if that would be a bit bizarre without the context of the talk. Essentially, we were saying that this idea of making sure we're not hiring people who are undergoing lots of change in other areas of lif
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by nemesisj 12y ago
We don't have any data on the blinded vs. non-blinded looking at CVs, other than the anecdotal (and deeply embarrassing) realization that in the past there may have been instances where we were favoring "normal" names or beco
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by nemesisj 12y ago
Heh, sorry if that wasn't clear. Our team (through working at various other organisations) has hired more than 150 people over the last 10 years.

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