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by timv 10y ago
Can you imagine a headline "City ruined by becoming too bicycle-friendly?" It just doesn't happen. It's pretty close to that in Sydney. Conservative media voices are fairly unanimous in their derision of Sydney City Co
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by timv 11y ago
How far would the YCF get you? From you comments, it sounds like your immediate areas to look into are: - Options for getting FDA approval - Licensing vs self-Manufacturing - Determine whether catheters are the right launch product - Gettin
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by timv 11y ago
> If one day I tell you I'm going to stop doing this, but you're welcome to pick up the slack, am I truly being unreasonable? Well, if you (dishonestly) tell the customers that the shuttle is stopping because the coffee shop
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by timv 11y ago
> I apologize for any misunderstanding our communications today have caused I'm not so sure there is a misunderstanding. The facts seem relatively clear: - You want services to implement your proprietary API so that IFTTT integrat
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by timv 11y ago
> Isn't much of the legal stuff just a way to cover their tails? Sure, but most of it puts your tail on the line instead. They've decided that they somehow have enough power to make you do their job, and make sure you do it i
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by timv 11y ago
Zapier has a published zap (I hate that name...) that supposedly does just that: https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/39/share-new-blog-posts-to-y... I offer no personal endorsement, and have no idea whether it
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by timv 11y ago
One of his stated reasons for selling BCC was to fund the development phase of Starfighter. One possible interpretation of that statement is that he had inadequate savings and was struggling with money. I think there are other equally val
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by timv 11y ago
[Not the OP] I can't say whether it's FireBase or Algolia that's at fault, but my HN search results are definitely wrong. It look like it doesn't have anything from the past year? But maybe there are other issues too.
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by timv 11y ago
A few of the examples I saw were for people working in consultancies. It's in the consultancy's interests to charge you out as a "senior", so they tend to push you up quite quickly. But then when people leave the consult
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by timv 11y ago
Yeah, I said the same thing. But at least I ended up with some interesting stories to tell when I interviewed for my next job. Seriously, you're putting a lot of faith in people who have every reason to screw you over. Even if they see
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by timv 11y ago
I've had good success when we introduce the conversation with "We're going to ask a bunch of questions across a variety of problem domains. We don't expect anyone to be strong in all these areas, but we want to get a fe
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by timv 11y ago
That was my experience as well. If you want to pay your team well, the best option is to bring people in at the highest number you can justify. Raises were always harder to arrange, but it was a lot easier when we had evidence that new hire
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by timv 11y ago
The OP said Getting hired away from your current company is the _only_ way to get a fair raise (emphasis mine) A single counter example is sufficient evidence to disprove such a universal claim.
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by timv 11y ago
> I don't see any problem with this, as an interviewer. The issue for the interviewer is missing out on good potential hires because your selection process is biased against people with little free time. I have a family and I&#x27
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by timv 11y ago
Yet the FBI's official plan is to get Apple to assign a few developers to put together a custom version of iOS that they trust will overcome all risk of erasing the device. Is there a reason we should have confidence in software engine
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by timv 11y ago
But once they're all robots they can communicate far more efficiently than a hand wave, and can actually agree on a fairly complex plan (to take over the world)
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by timv 11y ago
Not the parent poster, but I also worked in the tech space of outdoor advertising. The camera based systems I saw used facial detection. The vendors were very keen to refer to "detection" not "recognition" since they (
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by timv 11y ago
The proposals I've see have always had the initial scrypt be done on the server. The DOS risk on registration can be mitigated more easily than the login one. e.g. Rate limiting new registrations will often be more palatable than limit
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by timv 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11117222
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by timv 11y ago
> scrypt(password,salt,work_factor) on the server is plenty hard to attack For a large enough work_factor. In practice "large enough" is usually interpreted to mean "something that seems safe without being so large that I
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by timv 11y ago
Note: I'm not endorsing the client-side scrypt/bcrypt approach, but I do think it's interesting . I'm going to refer to bcrypt because that's what your comment used, but the parent post used scrypt. > Are you
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by timv 11y ago
Has the "macro" hurt anybody yet? The employees who used it and then signed a false declaration are at risk of jail. That was their choice, but they were seemingly under pressure from their CEO, so it seems fairly evident (to me
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by timv 11y ago
I'll leave aside the question as to whether individuals faking their 52 hours is "ethically or morally wrong". For Zenefits/Parker to facilitate and encourage their staff to do it is most certainly ethically wrong . T
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by timv 11y ago
I have a small storage unit at a local suburban self storage facility. Often when I go there I'm the only customer there, and I've never seen more than 3 other customers present at the same time. The office is almost continuously
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by timv 11y ago
That's certainly possible, but if so then it's a pretty sad indictment. If it takes 29 days just to get approval to say you're going to work on the problem, imagine how long it will take to actually get something done.
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by timv 11y ago
Github has been aware of the gripes for a long time. The "Dear GitHub" letter came after many months of trying to get GitHub to respond through other channels. The "6 months" timer doesn't reset every time you ask.
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by timv 11y ago
It's no just "free users" that can suffer from this. A company I worked for has outsources some payments infrastructure to a third party. That third party had put in a very aggressive bid in order to win our business. We were
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by timv 11y ago
You're questioning the reality, when all of this is about perception. The board needed to hold someone responsible for this mess in order to satisfy the regulators that they're taking the problem seriously, and things are differen
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by timv 11y ago
In my experience (7 years of NSW State Emergency Service) (a) People are very often on the trail. An initial report of "lost" typically means "didn't report in on time". Many times that means that they're just
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by timv 11y ago
I previous worked for an EdTech startup that didn't go through an accelerator (but did have some great advisors) While it won't necessarily be the right fit for every company, I definitely see the value in having an education spec

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