hughstephens

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by hughstephens 7y ago
It's hard to say – most Instagram influencers provide a public contact email +/- phone number for "business enquiries". Could be that the data that is listed was previously on the profile but not currently (or matched
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by hughstephens 7y ago
Lengthy conversation about this from the original article when TechCrunch broke this[0] a couple of days ago. Suggest reading/commenting there than this clickbaity rewrite HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by hughstephens 7y ago
While interesting and worthy of debate, the title makes it feel a lot more general than reality (this is a study of Kickstarter companies, so goes with the huge sample bias of “stuff that gets put on Kickstarter”). As a solo founder, I thin
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Citrix informed by FBI of security breach of their internal corporate network(theregister.co.uk)
8 points by hughstephens 8y ago|0 comments
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by hughstephens 8y ago
NodeJS / React / Angular Fullstack Javascript Engineer | Sked Social | REMOTE | Full stack or Front end | Fulltime Sked Social helps customers improve their visual marketing on social media. Our customers range from small business
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by hughstephens 8y ago
Sked Social | REMOTE | Full stack or Front end | Fulltime Sked Social helps customers improve their visual marketing on social media. Our customers range from small businesses to global media, fashion and retail brands – and everything inbe
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by hughstephens 9y ago
suggestion: surround yourself with people who constantly challenge you to do better. Everyone has times that they feel are "lost" but the time you need to remind yourself of is the moment that you realised you weren't doing w
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Cloud Leak: How a Verizon Partner Exposed Millions of Customer Accounts(upguard.com)
1 points by hughstephens 9y ago|0 comments
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by hughstephens 9y ago
+1. I've participated as an angel in a few AU rounds with SAFEs and SAFE-like instruments rather than priced rounds.
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by hughstephens 9y ago
I have been pondering something like this for ages, as most solutions seem to be insanely expensive. Found this though recently fwiw http://activereports.grapecity.com/server/
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by hughstephens 9y ago
Schedugram | Product Manager / biz analyst | Melbourne, Australia | REMOTE http://schedugr.am/ Help us create tools that our customers want to use. We are a growing SaaS company that helps our customers schedule conten
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by hughstephens 10y ago
Drop me an email if it's something you're curious to work on - this is an idea I've been planning to have a crack at eventually…
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by hughstephens 11y ago
Dialogue Group | Melbourne Australia | REMOTE OK Web design / UX front-end Designer and NodeJS / MEAN engineer We build products that solve wicked problems – simple solutions to complex issues. We're looking to gr
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by hughstephens 11y ago
apologies, my fault.
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by hughstephens 11y ago
who knows – in many ways it's even better if it's satire, because it's just believable enough.
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“Stop reverse engineering our code”(blogs.oracle.com)
613 points by hughstephens 11y ago|344 comments
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by hughstephens 11y ago
this is excellent, hadn't seen it before! thx
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by hughstephens 11y ago
maybe true – but if a server gets no requests, does it really exist? or would the inter-machine chatter continue ad infinitum? would they run out of IPs or successfully transition to IPv6? So many questions.
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by hughstephens 11y ago
Next update is live 2:38 AM PDT We continue to execute on our recovery plan and have taken multiple steps to reduce latencies and error rates for Amazon S3 in US-STANDARD. Customers may continue to experience elevated latencies a
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by hughstephens 11y ago
haha if two hours is nothing to you, that's pretty lucky. We work 24x7 (global customers, yes US is a bit busier but not by a lot) and we're an Australian company, so not a whole lot of fun.
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by hughstephens 11y ago
It only goes red when a nuclear event occurs, obliterating most of humanity and only the machines remain.
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Chrome is the new Internet Explorer(medium.com)
4 points by hughstephens 11y ago|0 comments
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by hughstephens 11y ago
Better than what? Many of the other alternatives didn't have quite the same "iOS style" friendliness (a lot haven't had a whole lot of work done to them of late), and didn't submit as a unicode character (designed t
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by hughstephens 11y ago
Yeah that one is hard to fix. We use the minEmoji set which will replace the unicode chars with SVG or inline image – that's why we folded it into our code – that way it shows up on desktops without an extension in Chrome (in particula
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by hughstephens 11y ago
Feel free to ask any questions (improvement suggestions (or even better pull reqs) are welcome!) - we just pulled this out of our existing app Schedugram as a friend asked to use it so I figured why not? Essentially it's a jQuery depen
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Show HN: Emojiboard, a JavaScript keyboard for web forms(github.com)
4 points by hughstephens 11y ago|5 comments
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by hughstephens 11y ago
no email address in your profile :(
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by hughstephens 11y ago
Currently hiring someone JS wise, to work remote. I don't care where you are, I care if you can deliver (i.e. frequent internet outages that mean you can't fork/commit changes = dealbreaker). My team is 99% remote, almost all
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by hughstephens 11y ago
+1. Saw this earlier, thought "looks good, I should use it for a project", then read license and went "hahahahhaha no chance, not using a normal/standard licence is way too high risk for me, no matter the project".
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by hughstephens 11y ago
As someone hiring some people* remote, your rate is at the way way top end of the scale. Even for people with core experience in Node (where I'm hiring). I get what you're saying, but as an employer, the "non negotiable"

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