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by patmcc 12y ago
Your app description is highly misleading - the first three lines strongly give the impression it works. Even your "disclaimer" says "do not rely on it" rather than "this is complete bullshit". Worst case this
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by patmcc 12y ago
>>Presumably company-paid travel leads to better tips. Companies I've worked for have mandated the tip size (15% both places) that they'll allow for reimbursed travel, although I'm not sure how universal that is.
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by patmcc 12y ago
I wouldn't worry about it - if someone you interviewed with was staunchly anti-bitcoin, you could certainly claim you did it as you found it an interesting technical problem rather than being a "true believer". But I suspect
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by patmcc 12y ago
Offtopic but I'm curious - how do you parse "he jumped off of the dock"? To me that would say he was on the dock and jumped off it (into water or whatever), so equivalent to "he jumped off the dock". I would parse i
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by patmcc 12y ago
Give two or three weeks once the move is set in stone (so ~6 months from now). Explain your reasoning, and be open to the possibility that they will offer you the option to work remotely if you're good.
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by patmcc 12y ago
Right, but if private companies had to pay for parental leave directly rather than through taxes, they would have a huge incentive to avoid hiring people who wanted to start families. Taxes are the right way to pay for this, just like mos
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by patmcc 12y ago
>What is illegal about them shutting off the internet and then posing as repair men? Is there actually a law against that? What do you think would happen if you tried that on the home (or office) of a law enforcement officer? I think you
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by patmcc 12y ago
Are you sure there's nothing objectionable in your (rare) comments or submissions? It seems unlikely a moderator would bother to hellban you for not commenting often; why would they go to the trouble?
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by patmcc 12y ago
You're blaming the wrong people - assuming those are good and valid features (and they are for some users), what do you expect Paypal to do? They can't send you a stripped down app with only some permissions but give me one where
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by patmcc 12y ago
Two things jumped out at me when I initially saw your kickstarter (prior to this HN post): 1) $16 for a year of app access is a lot. We could argue about whether that should be a lot or not, but in the current market it really is. 2) Timing
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by patmcc 12y ago
I was willing to download it, but the first line "Note: Works only with iPhone and iPad. Does not work with iPod Touch" prevented me. I have a modern iPod touch (same generation as iPhone 5). Why won't your app work on it?
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by patmcc 12y ago
I think it depends - would your friend message the prospects on okcupid/POF, or tell her client "here are some great profiles, you should message these people"? Those are very different; I suspect dating sites would have a pr
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by patmcc 12y ago
>>If Demand Media decide to sell it later to say a competitor of mine, I'm out of luck now aren't I? That depends - are they really a competitor in the same industry, and their use of your trademark leads to confusion in the
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by patmcc 12y ago
I can't speak to the rest, but I still have free Google Apps for my personal domain. They're no longer offering it for new customers, but those who signed up when it was free still have it.
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by patmcc 12y ago
It's crazy how simple this is: be able to say "I'll take care of that" and then follow through. At every workplace in every industry there are people that can be trusted to actually do things out people that can't;
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by patmcc 12y ago
If that was the table and you were the defence, wouldn't you strongly prefer the Over 50k person?
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by patmcc 12y ago
Medicare and Medicaid should be eliminated in favour of some kind of universal healthcare, period. Basic income shouldn't come into the discussion.
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by patmcc 12y ago
>>>It's all, "screw you, you're paying for it". No, it's "we're all paying for it". I'm in a high enough tax bracket that I wouldn't benefit (financially) from a basic income, and n
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by patmcc 12y ago
Some credit unions have a lower monthly price - Vancity in BC, for example, has a USD business account for $3/month, waived if the balance is over $1500. https://www.vancity.com/BusinessBanking/AccountsAndServices&
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by patmcc 12y ago
The marketing copy is puzzling to me. Two things it highlights are what I would consider standard and required features for any text editor; the ability to work offline and the ability to save and edit text files. If your text editor can&#x
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by patmcc 12y ago
Serious question to you - if the idea is 0% and the v1.0 is 5%, what's the other 95%?
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by patmcc 12y ago
Looks neat - are you at all worried about legal issues with the name? HP owns a product with the exact same name ( http://www.autonomy.com/products/teamsite ), and although it's in an utterly unrelated area, it stil
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by patmcc 12y ago
>>The only people I know who use anything on the desktop beyond their browser are software engineers, PC gamers, and people who use niche software, all with a quite-above-average level of computer-savviness. Walk through an office bui
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by patmcc 12y ago
>>>objects that like a hostile ship are dark, drifting, and small Dark on the visible light spectrum, sure. But if you have active engines or live crew (or both), you will be much warmer than space-at-large. Asteroids are tricky
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by patmcc 12y ago
Allowing deletion of comments (especially en masse) can completely ruin a thread by rendering it incomprehensible. The combined value everyone else gets from posts not being deleted is probably greater than the benefit you would get if it w
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by patmcc 12y ago
Sent! (Just a heads up, email takes a few clicks from your profile).
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by patmcc 12y ago
Sent you one as I have a couple.
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by patmcc 12y ago
In Canada, "engineer" is a very specific title that refers to someone who is licensed as a professional engineer, including all the degree requirements, testing, vetting, etc. that go along with that. It's quite similar to &q
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by patmcc 12y ago
>>>Why on earth would we think these government run hospitals would work? Because lots of nations have successful government-run hospitals?
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by patmcc 12y ago
It's not completely backwards, and I'm glad they're reasonably upfront about it. I think given their business, I'd prefer a range or histogram - "uptime was between 96.4% and 99.99% depending on the customer" o

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