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by pea 12y ago
Hey, pretty sure I did reply to your message, I just checked and the last email I got back from you was presumably sent in error, and we didn't see the preceding message. I'll follow up again now and happy to hear from any scala &
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by pea 12y ago
Kivo (YC S13) - London We're building Github for documents and have started by creating the best way to annotate and share presentations. We're a team of three based in Soho, London. You'll be technical hire #2 and have a hug
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Hacker in London? Kivo (YC S13) is making early developer hires
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by pea 12y ago
We are hiring scala devs at Kivo in London. Ping me leo@kivo.com
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by pea 13y ago
God we went down a rabbit hole trying to get omaha working last year. It is seriously complex. It's much-needed though, as Windows Installers are perhaps the most fucked things in existence. I am perhaps more excited for Github's
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by pea 13y ago
I did EF in 2012 and we are hiring Angular and Scala (Play/Slick/Akka) developers actually ;). Ping me leo@kivo.com
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by pea 13y ago
From what I can see there, that is a general windows overlay and not an intergration into Office, which would be much more ugly and afaik would not leak outside the window. So I guess it goes a bit like: DB watch files, find pid of process
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by pea 13y ago
The Guardian has a great approach to tech; they've done some really cool stuff with Scala / Play and released some great code.
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by pea 13y ago
Yeah but blackhats ala lod / h0no / el8 routinely released exploits that were leaked or stolen. They just hated full-disclosure with a passion as they saw it as too corporate.
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by pea 13y ago
We have been based and fundraised in SV and LDN and my experiences are the following: Hiring: * Engineers in the UK are amazing, and you can hire from mainland Europe, which is also very good. * Retention rates are higher. * Salaries are l
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by pea 13y ago
UK has incredible tax regulations for investing in startups. Through SEIS you can write off 105% of losses and pay essentially no tax on profits.
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by pea 13y ago
COM hates MTA threading, most of the Office object model actually insists on STA single-threads sitting in the main UI thread to even work (i.e. you cannot use BackgroundWorker() )! Some guy @ MS even released this byzantine code to deal wi
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by pea 13y ago
That's actually what we are doing @ Kivo.com :p
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by pea 13y ago
Not to mention the REMOVING of windows installer from VS 2012 and replacing it with a PoS limited InstallShield ;)
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by pea 13y ago
Yeah that would totally make sense. There is quite a lot to work with in the OpenXML library (as PP documents are essentially just XML in a zip file). If you could segregate regions of a slide and delegate ownership that could be a reality;
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by pea 13y ago
Hey 6thSigma! I'm Leo, CTO @ Kivo: There are two things you'd merge: changes to the whole presentation (i.e. new slides), and multiple changes to the same slide. In the first instance, we slot together the slides and alert the use
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by pea 13y ago
hey ludoo - cheers for the reply; my name is Leo and I'm CTO @ kivo. Re for a version for writers, would this entail MS Word? We are planning to ship our Word version in the near future and it would be great to get your feedback on wha
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by pea 13y ago
hey derek, Leo here -- I'm CTO at kivo. So, although the PowerPoint COM API is super old and buggy, the OpenXML standard which has been around since Office 2007 is actually pretty advanced. This means that you can realistically diff tw
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by pea 13y ago
> Office already has features to track and merge different copies of documents together Only for MS Word I'm afraid.. :( (unless you want to buy a sharepoint deployment for the other products, and that versioning stuff is REALLY clu
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by pea 13y ago
Hasan-Dan-Sabah's assassins were crazy: there was instances of them lying undercover for literally decades before their kill. Interesting the '53 date too for the CIA as they intervened in Persia against Mossaddegh (but preferred
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by pea 13y ago
Completely and utterly irrelevant, but for some reason I assumed it was this guy: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
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by pea 14y ago
Wow that Fravia link brings me back a few years
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by pea 14y ago
Might be noted that the hacking community is not a particular fan of Mitnick --> http://static.tor.hu/zero-for-owned/zfo5.txt Ctrl-F "Mitnick"