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by saturdayplace 4y ago
Edgio | Software Engineer | Remote Edgio was recently formed via the acquisition of Yahoo Edgecast by Limelight Networks. I am the hiring manager for a pair of roles working on the company's video streaming platform, called Uplynk. Thi
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by saturdayplace 5y ago
I was so enamored of the Twitter responses to the HBO intern's test email, that I decided to build a site that could collect and curate these kinds of "I also made a professional mistake, it's OK" stories. Mine is the fi
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Show HN: Dear Intern(dearintern.net)
34 points by saturdayplace 5y ago|7 comments
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What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M(blog.ghost.org)
645 points by saturdayplace 8y ago|173 comments
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by saturdayplace 10y ago
Eh, iono. There are plenty of places with tech work outside of the bay area. And having a proven "works well remotely" on the resume seems likely to help find _other_ remote gigs down the road.
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by saturdayplace 10y ago
The issue I've read about (I'm not a security practitioner, more like a hobbyist) is that the sheer mass of bogus bounty submissions take valuable time to evaluate. If you start up a bug bounty program, you're essentially sig
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by saturdayplace 10y ago
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
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by saturdayplace 10y ago
I assume that someone who's configuring their router will also be configuring their children's devices in such a way that the children won't have permissions to make those changes.
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by saturdayplace 10y ago
OpenDNS is handy. You 1/ Sign up for an account 2/ Configure your home's router to use their DNS servers 3/ Install an agent on a machine in your home's network, authenticate it with your account credentials. When y
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by saturdayplace 10y ago
In case anyone in the thread above didn't know, there is a different set of stockfighter challenges to play that involves writing code that accesses a REST API that be more aligned with Susie's interests in that case.
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by saturdayplace 10y ago
I am under the impression (mistaken? please correct me if I'm wrong) that patio11 and tptacek met here, and have since founded starfighters.io
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by saturdayplace 10y ago
My feeling, (like Colin's, I think) is that even if the announcement could have been clearer on this point, it implies that votes & comments wouldn't be the only deciding factors.
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by saturdayplace 10y ago
His actual response when a YC partner sincerely offered to work with Pinboard: > I feel like after seven years, I have a pretty good sense of what bookmarking/archiving needs people have, but am at the limits of what I can persona
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
So I googled A/B testing vs Multi-Armed Bandit, and ran into an article that's a useful and informative response to the OP: https://vwo.com/blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/ edit: Ah, 'ReadingInBed
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
This is a good idea, if you remember to always tell the same lie. Being required to remember which website I told which lie to can only lead to trouble.
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
https://weworkremotely.com/ is a job board specifically for positions that are remote.
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Blitztek: reversible USB cables(blitztek.com)
3 points by saturdayplace 11y ago|0 comments
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
Moved and seconded
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
Definitely +1 on both of these. They're fantastic.
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
The claim that companies hire to prevent competition seems extraordinary. As posited here it's really nothing more than speculation.
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
Seems like a useful exercise.
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
I've heard Patrick make that very assertion.
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
I'm like 99% certain it's in reference to the movie "The Last Starfighter"[0] where the protagonist, an avid player of an arcade game with the same title, finds himself recruited into an alien space fleet based on his st
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Be Coachable(sockpuppet.org)
2 points by saturdayplace 11y ago|0 comments
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Amazon suffers potential password leak(bgr.com)
16 points by saturdayplace 11y ago|0 comments
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TIFU by using Math.random()(medium.com)
1 points by saturdayplace 11y ago|0 comments
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
Hold the phone. You're hoping to write the bootstrapped SaaS playbook? I know it'd be wrong (and futile) of me to ask you to put off Starfighter to write it, but I'll drop my email (again) into whatever form you'd put up
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
Like with this post, the monthly "Who's Hiring" threads also have many listings where the HN user says "Remote Available," but when browsing to the linked jobs listing, all the positions list a specific geographic l
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
I think this proposal is a brilliant move for Burger King from a PR perspective. Puts the ball firmly in McDonald's court. Now both brands get a goodwill boost for going through with it, but if McDonald's passes they end up look
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by saturdayplace 11y ago
This is what happened in my last negotiation, where $X was a 30%-ish raise. They didn't bat an eye, and made an offer of exactly $X. I asked them, "Could we make that $(X + .06*X) and they did. Negotiate.

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