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by powvans 9y ago
I wondered the same thing when I saw this. I've been working in enterprise SaaS startups for the last 5-ish years and my experience has been similar. Even when we had solid growth numbers, every single sale is a long fought battle. I&#
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by powvans 9y ago
I seem to remember that one of my buddies who had the Kinesis used a vertical trackball mouse. It was definitely a trackball and the ball was very large, maybe a little larger than a golf ball. I can't seem to find anything about verti
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by powvans 9y ago
I love seeing this. I worked in the university computing department in college and this sort of thing wasn't an uncommon sight under the desks. People also had all manner of exotic keyboards. The most elite setup, as I recall, was the
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by powvans 9y ago
I doubt the average Geek Squad customer pays any attention to this. The average customer also knows that they don’t have child porn on their computer and thus, in their minds, have nothing to fear. The example in the story sounds like the d
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by powvans 9y ago
If you discover child porn in the course of repairing someone’s computer, you should report it. The problem is getting paid to actively search for it. That sets up some perverse incentives. While it’s unlikely that an enterprising Geek Squa
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by powvans 9y ago
I got my law degree at Costco. This is the umpteenth thread where commenters are complaining about the sad state of Amazon’s retail. I hear a constant stream of complaints about counterfeit goods, fake reviews, less than great pricing, and
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by powvans 9y ago
I don't think it matters to the principle, but rather to the practicality. It's now practical to aggregate massive amounts of data and create a privacy concern that's unlikely to have existed in the world of offline records.
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by powvans 9y ago
Dear diary, today I had a discussion on HN with tajen. Will HN support erasing your comment history if you ask?
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by powvans 9y ago
I don't think you can escape it by simply throwing up a firewall to try to block EU users. It seems that you're just inextricably pulled into this as soon as you record any data about an EU citizen. Unfortunately you can't kn
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by powvans 9y ago
It looks like the maximum fine is 4% of annual revenue... seems like the regulation has no teeth if you have no revenue. IANAL and could be totally wrong. To your point about small companies, I agree, it feels onerous. What irks me about th
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by powvans 9y ago
I worked for an online retailer a long long time ago and this would have been nice to have at our packstations. The tech at each station consisted of a Linux desktop, a barcode scanner, a printer, and a scale. The commerce platform was web
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by powvans 9y ago
Specifically they will value the cash flows that the business produces. Is there a Godwin's law for crypto in HN discussions?
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by powvans 9y ago
There are many such jobs available. We discuss this in detail at my weekend seminars, which you may attend for the low low price of $20k. Seriously though, I think I might know of some semi-retired lawyers who make that sort of money, but t
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by powvans 9y ago
As an extrovert, my experience is that I pick up on another people's emotions and that colors my mood. If everyone is sort of uncomfortable and struggling through and eyeing the door, then I pick up on that and it saps my energy. If I
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by powvans 9y ago
It's a pretty terrible reading experience on desktop too. It goes away if you are a logged in user. Clearly Medium is trying to drive users to signup/signin and it worked in my case.
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by powvans 9y ago
It's possible to do it with a prepared statement. I just did this a couple of weeks ago and it worked nicely. Inspired by this Stack Overflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12004603/mysql-pivot-ro
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by powvans 9y ago
What's so infuriating about this is that it seems like they go out of their way to make the back of the phone slippery. The metal back of the iPhone 6 and 6s is like teflon and the glass on the X is almost as slippery. Why? I have an o
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by powvans 9y ago
This is a really great insight. It certainly bolsters the argument that these are dead in jobs. As in, the professional social graph literally dead ends. On the other hand, I know a couple of people who started driving for Lyft recently to
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by powvans 9y ago
And they should think about a hefty rent hike when it's time to sign the next lease. From the GP's comment it sounds like they left money on the table.
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by powvans 9y ago
Exactly. You could buy assets that produce things people need or you could buy a random string of numbers and letters. Obviously we are in a post scarcity world and therefore producing something of value is really a net negative. All hail t
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by powvans 9y ago
These incentives are often transferable tax credits. It isn’t unusual for a company to have little or no tax liability in the state offering the incentive. There are markets where the tax credits are sold to companies that do have tax liabi
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by powvans 9y ago
This is a great analysis. The lack of trust as a feature in cryptocurrency is really a bug in society. Bitcoin rose out of the previous financial collapse by appealing to people who have lost trust in institutions. The problem with building
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by powvans 9y ago
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. Pointing out the difference between productive and non-productive assets is exactly what is needed at the moment. Everyone is talking about what if scenarios where huge offshore money or
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by powvans 9y ago
These countries may not be okay with losing their top talent. It's an interesting viewpoint on economic competition though. It absolutely is in the best interest of the US to "brain drain" other countries. Note that this isn&
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by powvans 9y ago
Another thing that is often forgotten is that everyone has different opportunities in the market for jobs. Two people may contribute equally to a project, but one of those people might be paid more because the company had to outbid a compet
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by powvans 9y ago
I hear what you are saying, but I feel like I see the opposite in marketing campaigns. There are instances where companies play to their strengths. An example would be Verizon touting the quality of the network. I could be wrong, but I&#x27
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by powvans 9y ago
I've seen huge battery life gains by enabling location services only when absolutely necessary. I can't make it through the day on a single charge if location services are enabled. I've seen the battery go from 85% to 15% in
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by powvans 9y ago
I 100% agree with you. It's so much better and faster that it's almost confusing. The chip reader POS devices almost all make it seem as though an error has occurred when the transaction succeeds. When the Apple Pay transaction
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by powvans 9y ago
It was not very long ago that we got facts that we agreed upon from relatively centralized media. This is no longer the case. When you cannot agree about the facts, you have little basis for discussion and productive disagreement about the
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by powvans 9y ago
Site appears to be hosted in AWS. Lots of free SSL goodness to be had from Amazon as well.

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