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by robinjfisher 13y ago
From their Mission and Core Values: We operate on the basis of responsiveness, openness, honesty and trust with our members, business partners, employees and stockholders. I won't quote other parts of it as it would simply hammer hom
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by robinjfisher 13y ago
I'm not sure how anybody other than LinkedIn knows what they report but in any event I never said they did. This practice leads registered users to attempt to connect with people who are not using LinkedIn. In effect, LinkedIn uses it
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by robinjfisher 13y ago
The irony wasn't missed. It was just the first place that sprung to mind to write at length on the topic.
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by robinjfisher 13y ago
Completely agree. I don't actually remember doing it and it's certainly something I do not do any more. I wasn't quite so security-conscious a few years ago.
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by robinjfisher 13y ago
I tend to keep abreast of tech-related news and had not seen anything outlining this sort of behaviour. For me, the fact that they so blatantly suggest that people have a LinkedIn account when they don't is appalling. As I noted in my
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LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already(plus.google.com)
320 points by robinjfisher 13y ago|177 comments
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by robinjfisher 13y ago
My name has a 50.444139% chance of being female. In the present case, the API is, unfortunately, incorrect.
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by robinjfisher 13y ago
Must try harder - I thought 9247 was a good score. I didn't Google though so maybe that counts for something. http://www.geoguessr.com?s=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6OTI0NywidmVyc...
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by robinjfisher 14y ago
I agree. I got to the first "stupid cow" and stopped reading. The writer lost any empathy I had for them at that point. The response to any form of discrimination or harassment is not name-calling.
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by robinjfisher 14y ago
Or are the companies that would employ her in the future the sort of companies who would have known what happened anyway?
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by robinjfisher 14y ago
This story is an embarrassment for everyone involved except perhaps the 2 guys who started the whole thing. * Adria Richards had a number of options starting with explaining to them that the jokes made her feel uncomfortable to reporting th
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by robinjfisher 14y ago
Just an FYI, your layout has about 10% white space on the right hand side when viewed on iPad mini. Caused by the card fan lower down the page.
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by robinjfisher 14y ago
I'd be interested to know about the distinction between US and UK copyright here. In the UK, copyright will only vest in something if it is an "original work"[1]. Taking LayerVault's claim, there are only so many ways one can represent a "s
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Photographer sues fan site over 4 user-uploaded photos(petapixel.com)
1 points by robinjfisher 14y ago|0 comments
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by robinjfisher 14y ago
The original statement is generally correct. Employee handbooks don't have contractual status (i.e. they can be amended at the company's discretion) but do have legal status insofar as employee's will be expected and, in most cases be co
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by robinjfisher 14y ago
Agreed. Over the last year, Apple's share price has swung widely from $363.32 to $705.07. Surely a more accurate statement would be that the share price has increased dramatically. Swung widely implies ups and downs. The current dip is
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by robinjfisher 14y ago
You can search across all sports - just don't select one. Choose a from date and to date and search. Agree with the rest of your comments. The "currently unavailable" and "these are not currently on sale" are particularly disappointing.
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by robinjfisher 14y ago
Agreed. At the moment, I'm frequently seeing ads for Chargify (already a customer) and Indochino (I buy suits infrequently and have in fact just bought from them). My main issue with Amazon is it recommending items connected to presents I b
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by robinjfisher 14y ago
> Until I started at Upworthy, I didn’t appreciate how nearly everyone is on Facebook. Normal people. I wouldn't call it nearly everyone when there are 7 billion people in the world and only 1 billion of those are on Facebook.
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Ask HN: Is this idea worth my time?
1 points by robinjfisher 14y ago|1 comments
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by robinjfisher 15y ago
The marketing page really needs to be changed to make it clear that it doesn't automatically gather email addresses. I can see the benefits of the pitch that people only need to text the codeword but you could presumably extend the service
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by robinjfisher 15y ago
Looks interesting. I can certainly see the benefits for conference organisers. I also think it might be popular for restaurants/bars who normally obtain business cards (to add to mailing list) for entry into monthly prize draws. How are you
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by robinjfisher 15y ago
I think your first paragraph nails it: the posts fit the guidelines and were on the whole relatively interesting and a sufficient amount of people thought so for the posts to reach the front page. Skimming their archives, they were't post
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by robinjfisher 15y ago
I just felt that the answer dodged the question. Your response to me answers the question i.e. you don't know if you will improve Classic. By saying the majority of design and development efforts will be focused on Next and then saying tha
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by robinjfisher 15y ago
For a company that goes on about transparency and clear speaking etc., the answer to the second question you've quoted is appalling. It doesn't answer the question at all. It should be: Will you continue to improve Classic? No. We will fix
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by robinjfisher 15y ago
This is a great idea too. One of the UK providers does a good job of this using technology they call FastDraft. Plugs in to Companies House to get company data for the parties to the agreement; allows you to specify how you want non-compete
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by robinjfisher 15y ago
Love it! As a lawyer (UK based if you're thinking of expansion!), I think it's a great idea. I've been mulling over something similar for in-house teams but based on precedent clauses rather than entire documents.
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by robinjfisher 15y ago
Didn't even cross my mind to post it on the application's blog! Thanks for your comments. It's been such a push to launch that I can now start focusing on tweaking the product; internationalisation etc. Edge cases are a pain. I'm having som
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What I learned when building Leavetrack(plus.google.com)
17 points by robinjfisher 15y ago|2 comments
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by robinjfisher 15y ago
Can we also add to the list, "The removal of your email address may take up to 7 days". Unless you store your marketing lists on paper in your bank's vault, there is no reason it should take this long to remove me. I don't care if you're us

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