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by rutthenut 6y ago
Seems there is exactly the same sort of discussion on another HN thread about poor recommendations from YouTube, also leading into a spiralling decline to more and more rubbish
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by rutthenut 6y ago
That's tough. I think they will need to realise that the commitment to having seed funding and a co-founder are not the same as a lifestyle business - especially when they do not have funds of their own to fall back on and revenue is n
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Well that's the situation the co-founder is creating by making these unreasonable demands...
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Definitely do not sell / give away that shareholding. It may well become 40$ of nothing, but it could also become 3% of nothing or almost-nothing, and the co-founder will have been paying himself a return when the company gets revenue.
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Sod's law means that the window is often behind the desk, making video pics a silhouette, and the light that does come from the monitor can give some ghastly hues to your skin tone!
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Amazing arrogance - so powerful and they will do whatever they like to keep and extend their position (hmm, trumpy behaviour) >>A Google spokesperson said such agreements over antitrust threats are extremely common. Sure they are, whe
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Nothing 'definite' about those statements, they are just opinions, as we all have. I'd say FB is worst because of their reuse and reselling of personal data, their deliberate designs of making their service more and more inva
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Interesting comments so far, mostly showing how the options have not paid off. Not surprising really, when you consider the likelihood of so many startups reaching a high valuation, and of those that do not having dilution to make the early
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by rutthenut 6y ago
The 1% options would be one percent of shareholdings at the time the option was offered. With more shares created/sold later, the dilution means when the options mature, they will be less than 1% of the total company shareholding, or v
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Your points about why this is bad are entirely correct. But founders with shareholding may (do) work with later investors to their joint benefit, screwing over other early shareholders or investors. With VC money holding shares already, tha
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by rutthenut 6y ago
It isn't illegal everywhere. Acceleration is a big part of the enjoyment of fast cars. That's not usually illegal. Also, having better acceleration can help reduce the 'time exposed to danger' when overtaking, which may
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Photos service down too (UK)
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Wow, this Debian hack really makes life difficult for end users :( > We actually print a warning about this when starting the software (along the lines of "Warning, B is missing, some things may not work as expected"), which th
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Have also encountered founders that know the difference, but lie about things by using 'weasel words' that are chosen to suit their audience, who may not be so knowledgeable :(
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Sounds awful - I think this was one of the highest-rated 'niggles' of laptop design in one of the review sites, a really poor perspective looking up at people. Or if the laptop is on a stand, possibly just showing the top of your
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by rutthenut 6y ago
I also think that many founders aren't trying to always 'build a major company' but instead want to 'do their own thing' and earn a living without being entirely beholden to corporate types. Don't think that th
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Also "I couldn't give a monkey's", though don't think that is CRS, but definitely slang I am used to (and use)
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by rutthenut 6y ago
I wouldn't think of that as the 'most widely known', tbh
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Agreed. I read the article after seeing some of the discussion comments here, then thought "is that it"? Claims about empathy, little else, other than the generalisation - which I think most of us agree with - that a lot of softwa
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by rutthenut 6y ago
I think your statements are the nub of the issue - as a developer, the view is of how the software is designed and operates internally. Users don't (normally) have that same view. This is why 'Use Cases' and/or 'Use
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by rutthenut 6y ago
I think this appears to be 'blaming' the engineers, pointing to a lack of patience and so on. The parent idea seems closer, techies get used to working with technology-led tools and solutions, so rarely (less often) get exposed to
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Validating on upload is sensible and should be done anyway. However, left-padding is not always going to work, it depends on the data. Common problems I see are with phone numbers. UK mobiles begin 07nnn. Excel kindly drops the leading zero
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by rutthenut 6y ago
If you 'solved for Excel', it will be broken for the other applications that may want to use data from those Excel-specific CSV files, which is generally why CSV was chosen in the first place.
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Interesting to see just how many responses to this real-world problem are suggesting that people rewrite CSV files to work with Excel. They clearly do not understand system integration and the use of CSV text files for data interchange betw
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Agree with the problem reported here - the fact that Excel will drop leading zeroes and will turn phone numbers into Exponential format causes many live issues where customers use Excel to work on 'CSV' files :(
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by rutthenut 6y ago
I'm a bit confused on your comments here. You state "I often do intermediary commits that don't compile ... to make sure that I don't lose the code" And follow that with "I want every commit to compile and be t
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Can still hate them for playing the game, if that involves disdain for ethical principles one actually believes in
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by rutthenut 6y ago
The description says those legs do not do that and don't touch the floor (well, not all of them)
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Going way back in time, well before www and soap, I recall having to develop an application that would talk to another system using serial comms, effectively pretending to be a VT52-type terminal. Had to send commands, verify responses, sen
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by rutthenut 6y ago
Yep, we've had exactly this issue with the web portal on one of our applications. A customer used some 'quick and dirty' convenience tool that used web scraping to invoke the portal application pages, and wrapped that up with

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