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by chmac 5y ago
Can you share any info on how you set this up? I also have more faith in Apple's privacy policies than I do in Google / Amazon, so this could be an interesting option. Any idea if it works on an apple watch?
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by chmac 5y ago
This is freakin EPIC. A hat that captures audio and then decides whether or not to relay it to the physical Alexa / Google / etc speaker. I struggle to believe it'd be super reliable, but the concept is ultra cool!
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by chmac 5y ago
According to this[1] post, that might not always be the case. I also have this assumption about alexa devices, and I haven't seen any other evidence to say that voice recognition can happen locally. Personally, I find the claim in the
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by chmac 6y ago
AFAIK, the thing that sets Gatsby apart is the integration of the built static site and React to do pre-fetching. The output from Gatsby is not just HTML, it's HTML + React javascript, with data loaded from JSON files. That means that
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by chmac 12y ago
Could it also discourage potential purchasers in the event of an exit? Instead of buying shares from a company in a known jurisdiction, they'd be buying shares from a foreign jurisdiction. Might complicate the legal work, and so on. Th
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by chmac 12y ago
In Germany there's a very simple structure that's commonplace where a UG (a sort of German Ltd) owns shares in a GmbH (a real German Ltd). In that scenario, if both are incorporated at the same time, there's only tax of aroun
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by chmac 12y ago
Thanks. This might be the most compelling argument I've heard so far, that any thought on the topic simply distracts from building something people want.
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by chmac 12y ago
Interesting reading, thanks for the link. Who'd have known that HMRC used such elaborate language! :-) In this case I'm imagining only holding shares offshore, not paying dividends, etc. So not sure if that article applies fully.
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Ask HN: Does it make sense to hold my shares in an offshore company?
5 points by chmac 12y ago|10 comments
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by chmac 18y ago
I think you make a great point ibsulon. If you did take the decision to close down the site, the least you could do is signpost users to somewhere else where they could continue to communicate. As far as I'm aware, during the CouchSurfing c
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by chmac 18y ago
For a smaller database, dmpayton's suggestion is spot on. Simply cron schedule a mysqldump and then push that offsite. Here's a few example code snippets I use: /usr/bin/mysqldump -u dbusername -pdbpassword --skip-lock-tables database_name
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by chmac 18y ago
Running mysqldump on a database the size of CouchSurfing's is a real problem. It's a resource hog. To properly back up a consistent data image you need to use locking, which prevents writes to your database while the backup is running. That
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by chmac 18y ago
CouchSurfing International Inc was registered as a non-profit and is now a charity. Knowing a bit about it (having been a volunteer for the org) I think the crash was extremely badly handled. For better or worse, many people were relying on
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by chmac 19y ago
Now that would be awesome. Even better if you could configure your own search engine. I use scroogle, but site:currentsite.com still works... A quick hunt[1] didn't throw up anything for me... [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/s
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by chmac 19y ago
The subject is a little misleading, it's not a resume nor related to employment, but it is a good history of breaking encryption.
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by chmac 19y ago
Great article, some good links, and a damned eye opener. I need to start salting my passwords...
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by chmac 19y ago
Congrats on the job, what does PG's work mean? Is PG a person?
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by chmac 19y ago
I'd suggest you go focused rather than shotgun. Who are your target customers? What other sites are they using? Are you a cross between eBay and Facebook? Who are the biggest bloggers out there on those topics? Target those people, like a l
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by chmac 19y ago
I get it, you can click the teeny weeny up arrow next to the item and that votes it up! Ok, simple.
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by chmac 19y ago
For example, this item has 24 points, but the user is brand new and has only posted 1 item which has no comments. Where does that karma come from? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785
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by chmac 19y ago
How does one vote? I can't see anything about voting or about downvoting. Is it based on some external voting?
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by chmac 19y ago
Absolutely, open plan offices are a nightmare. I haven't yet figured out how to balance it out though. Social contact is important, interacting with other team members, etc. Maybe longer lunch breaks, or social meeting or something. Being i
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by chmac 19y ago
I agree that a lot of people want to work more, but I think that's part of the problem. I think people need to be encouraged to work less, to take more time off. I believe the best employers encourage their staff to get out into the world
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Offer staff more time off instead of more money?(callum-macdonald.com)
1 points by chmac 19y ago|6 comments
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How does karma work?
4 points by chmac 19y ago|4 comments
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by chmac 19y ago
In my view, it's a pretty useless list, it contains a total of 10 links, 4 of which are NYC specific.
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by chmac 19y ago
Not sure what the point is, but it sure looks pretty!
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by chmac 19y ago
That's what I call service, if only I had a Blackberry... :)
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by chmac 19y ago
That is FANTASTIC. I've officially just wasted 20 minutes of my life. I'm definitely going to twitter that site... :)
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by chmac 19y ago
This only applies if you leave your profile public to anyone. Otherwise, they'd have to friend request you first! It's the same as publishing anything publicly, people can run background checks on you and find it. That's life. As an employe

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