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by tlogan 5y ago
I love this - I have my internet, mobile, Amazon prime, Netflix. etc. setup via CC and this really helps. Saves a lot of time. I see that HN readership do not like this but I think this is common for young adults. The point is that after so
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by tlogan 5y ago
Pressure from government(s). We are just one stupid terrorist attack to make this framework acts as a dragnet for catching “terrorists” and “terrorist sympathizers”.
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by tlogan 5y ago
Exactly. And do not sign up for online services you are using personaly with work email.
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by tlogan 5y ago
So Apple is not required by law to do this. So why they are doin this?
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by tlogan 5y ago
I have to say that I’m just sad about this. I was really convinced that Apple really believed in privacy and they will never do this (having a framework which can scan your device content). But maybe they already had it and this was like: “
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by tlogan 5y ago
I get it: we will do all kinds of moral gymnastics to keep Saudis (and others with oil) happy.
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by tlogan 5y ago
> women and girls have > vanished literally overnight. This is not a very intellectually honest comment. What about Saudi Arabia? What about women and girls there? Why raise issue about women rights in Afghanistan but be silent about
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by tlogan 5y ago
I guess I have much broader definition of sales and hiring. So I think we are saying the same. Selling includes includes finding market, indetifing right people to sell to, product market fit, should we sell X or Y, etc. But the goal is to
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by tlogan 5y ago
No - sales is much more than just nice storytelling. Much much more.
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by tlogan 5y ago
Kind true. There are only two jobs of the CEO: hire and sell. Sure hiring and selling need some storytelling but that is just a very small part. There are things like integrity, vision, etc. So I agree but I’m concern that focusing solely o
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by tlogan 5y ago
The word fascism lost its original meaning. Not it just means “nazi” - or something bad. Not that fascist were good but they were different kind of bad than nazis.
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by tlogan 5y ago
They will use that money to destroy the company (try to make it “Facebook like”, Twitter, etc.). That what is going to happen.
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by tlogan 5y ago
This is 100% true - but that is their business model. And I cannot call it age discrimination since they are VC not an employer. Older founders are more likely to make a profitable business (lifestyle business) but less likely to create a u
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by tlogan 5y ago
Oh well… it always starts with “protect the children”. Then “protect us from terrorists”, then “terrorist sympathizers“, … And I bet that Saudis and other oppressive regimes will use this to detect other “crimes”.
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by tlogan 5y ago
I do not think that it is up to Google or CloudFlare to police the internet. If a site is doing something illegal then report it to appropriate gov agency. If gov agency does not anything then get involved into political process to fix that
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by tlogan 5y ago
This is exactly the problem: it is impossible to measure how much advertising helps. And maybe there are some measurements but they are not known. You might be right or you might be wrong. For example, I do not see Tesla commercials on TV
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by tlogan 5y ago
Customer? How one can be a customer when it does not pay? What a strange world we live in…
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by tlogan 5y ago
All SaaS run into similar issues (unlimited storage, unlimited sharing, “unlimited sms”, etc.) There are two approaches: - charge by usage (premium is not unlimited and then charge for extra) - just ban abusers You need both. Because abuser
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by tlogan 5y ago
It is ok that phones and tablets are “consume-only” devices. Like for games, watch video, etc. This just opens opportunity for “makers” devices (you can do something uniq) and companies. Ie some cheap phones with OS targeting market in Afri
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by tlogan 5y ago
And I would also suggest to change website name. safeapps.io is similar to safe.apps.mil. Also safeapps.io does not convey what the app is actually doing. Maybe Open-source-money-manager.com, yet-another-money-manager.com,... Because this a
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by tlogan 5y ago
I think there is one more factor. Due to polarized state of our politics religion is used as “rally flag” or a way to show “family values”. On both sides.
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by tlogan 5y ago
That is one of the factors. The other factor can be that the least religious countries are the most homogeneous (with some exceptions).
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by tlogan 5y ago
I bet this FOCUS list is used by managers to prevent good engineers moving to a different team. Also my experience tells me that all these mega corps have very similar culture.
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by tlogan 5y ago
I worked as a manager in a mega-corp. One of tricks I was told by other managers is to put your best employees on the ‘focus’ list (grade 3) so they cannot leave for a better position/team in the company. But they would get bonuses bec
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by tlogan 5y ago
The worst kind of ‘minor features’ are the one which make your service more confusing and harder to use. Yeah, that can be just one check box - but that check box might cause a lot of confusion.
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by tlogan 5y ago
Not really: but majority of spammers think that they are doing marketing.
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by tlogan 5y ago
This is not for “marketing emails”. This is for spammers.
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by tlogan 5y ago
> but what about everyone else? Vote.
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by tlogan 5y ago
Sadly this is standard for certain set of services and websites. I think some of these widgets similar to intercom do this. In short, I assume that the sales team is just following industry practices for that vertical / type of the sit
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by tlogan 5y ago
There is saying in Balkan countries: (my translation) “who knows knows, who does not know then it is 500 deutsche marks (dinars, etc.)”.

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