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by gsylvie 7y ago
Little silly to say "I revoked $1M worth" since the price paid for each certificate includes unlimited renewals to fix problems like he identified. They are still worth $1M despite everything he did, they just have different priv
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Show HN: Control Freak for Bitbucket Server (git pre-receive hook)
1 points by gsylvie 7y ago|0 comments
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by gsylvie 9y ago
Unfortunately "How much do you currently have saved" does not take negative values, and so this is no use to me. Decent UI for a monthly + interest style calculator. I like it.
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by gsylvie 9y ago
This is becoming an issue of public financial safety: "The other day my barber asked me whether he should put all his money in Bitcoin." - Paul Krugman https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion&#x2F
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Some Lessons from a Failed Startup(medium.com)
2 points by gsylvie 9y ago|0 comments
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by gsylvie 9y ago
If you don't like the terms of the shareholders agreement, then you don't have to buy the (private equity) shares. But if you buy the shares and sign the agreement, I don't see why the directors should honour illegitimate sh
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by gsylvie 9y ago
Bitbucket Server is only $26,400 for the 1st year in your scenario. The 2nd and subsequent years are $13,200/year.
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by gsylvie 9y ago
He just got unlucky. It's always luck of the draw with job interviews. Just like those poker players that say they should have won the hand. I'd like to try this in an interview: how would you re-root a binary tree such that th
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Startups – The Essential to Do List(angelblog.net)
3 points by gsylvie 9y ago|0 comments
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by gsylvie 9y ago
I don't mind the promoted Triplebyte ad I see at the top of my reddit landing page. I'm subscribed to r/git and r/programming; I suspect it's coming from my r/programming subscription. My ad-blocker is enabled
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by gsylvie 9y ago
What are you advertising? I'm thinking of running ads there for my Bitbucket add-on.
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by gsylvie 9y ago
Exactly! Here's the BC, Canada website on exactly this (British Columbia Securities Commission): https://www.bcsc.bc.ca/For_Companies/Private_Placements/Priv...
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by gsylvie 9y ago
I'm a 30+ year old software-engineer in Vancouver, BC. And there's a housing bubble. My friends are mostly also senior developers / software architects / managers etc. Just get older. Then your friends will be richer.
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by gsylvie 9y ago
I think it's better to structure it as an equity investment, and to really make it clear to friends & family that they are buying a lottery ticket that will probably lose. Also, make sure the investors are people where you wouldn&#
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by gsylvie 9y ago
I would do a small friends & family round pre-revenue. E.g., 8 friends and family @ 12.5K each = 100K. I don't mind if my success makes my friends & family some money. But I'll sure feel bad if I take their money and los
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by gsylvie 9y ago
If you're already a grad student you can usually take any undergrad course at your institution for free. It will slow down your progress on your graduate degree, but you might as well do it right if it's what you really want.
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by gsylvie 9y ago
Hey, that's me! (Six figure income, stopped paying credit card bills.) Aside from the interest that continues to accumulate, you are absolutely correct: the debt does decrease: At the 7-month mark one of the credit card companies (I
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by gsylvie 9y ago
THIS: > "who is responsible for patching applications with no development team anymore?" Struts 2.2.3 (oldest vulnerable version) was released on May 7, 2011. Personally I find it easy to imagine an app depending on that, goin
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by gsylvie 9y ago
NVMe SSD's are 100x faster than 15k disks. How many shops run 100+ machine NoSQL instances?
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by gsylvie 9y ago
SSD's.
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by gsylvie 9y ago
Would you have represented your client for the litigation? (Or would your firm have?) I'm just curious to understand how your own incentives don't point you towards court. Are you in-house counsel? Are you a small shop with no l
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by gsylvie 9y ago
Do you have the insanity and the tenacity to un-rot the fish from the bottom up? > Corollary 1. Who can, and sometimes does, un-rot the fish from the bottom? An insane employee. http://yosefk.com/blog/people-can-read
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by gsylvie 9y ago
Do you report them to any credit agencies?
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by gsylvie 9y ago
Confront and address? You ain't gonna get your boss fired without a scratch. He's just bragging that he achieved a local maxima, and I think he's correct. Maybe during the exit interview he could have said, "oh by the
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by gsylvie 9y ago
Becoming managers to sooth their self-esteem issues. I don't mean this as a cynical joke at all. In my experience too few managers see the job as a job, and instead they see it as a power and status boost --- a way to be "winning
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by gsylvie 9y ago
It's a great list. And I love the little inspirational quotes above each section. I think the "common sense" items should stay, since what is common sense to one is not always common sense to another. But akin to what other
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by gsylvie 9y ago
If you effectively train 10% of the cohort, and some of that cohort find jobs, then several of those 10% would enthusiastically recommend you internally for any positions that come up in their companies.
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by gsylvie 9y ago
I think there's more algebra in frontend development. For example: CSS or SVG gradients, JavaScript animations and fades, the occasional clever data visualization. Heck, even the CSS box model? Backend or frontend, if you use any qua
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by gsylvie 9y ago
When did you last try Bitbucket? Bitbucket Cloud or Bitbucket Server (on-prem)? I write add-ons for Bitbucket Server. I'm curious to know what you find unusable about it.
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by gsylvie 9y ago
Oh you work at Atlassian! I wonder if the PR I recently had accepted into "Auto Unapprove Plugin" will affect you! (I get the sense Atlassian uses that add-on internally). https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/stas

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