jkahn

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by jkahn 4y ago
Really, this article is just a whinge. I'm an Australian. MyGov is fine, I interact with it as a citizen regularly. Government needs to outsource implementation of this kind of stuff because it's extremely hard to build software t
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by jkahn 5y ago
Fellow CEO here. I've tried a few things over the years and have now had an EA for at least 5 years so I think I've got a good grasp on what works and what doesn't. Many years ago, I tried a remote VA. I'm on my second i
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by jkahn 8y ago
My kids are 5 and 2. Nothing really seems to recharge the batteries. Aside from some chill time while they are in bed. It starts to get less intense closer to 3, but nowhere near what it’s like without kids. We went on a 5 day beach vacatio
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by jkahn 8y ago
I'm considering eye surgery. I'm mildly farsighted and have strong astigmatism, so I'm not suitable for LASIK and have been recommended Implantable Collamer Lenses (ICLs, sometimes known as contact lens implants). I'm ve
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by jkahn 8y ago
I don’t buy this. My toddler plays with my phone all the time and the most it’s been locked for is 5 minutes.
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by jkahn 10y ago
A few months ago I made a similar transition - to a Surface Pro 4. I'd been on Mac since 2009. Before that, Windows and Linux. I think you sum it up well - there are some rough edges in the Windows world, but there also are in the Mac
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by jkahn 10y ago
Don't write off Outlook without a second thought. It's big with loads of features, yes - but that's what's good about it. If all you need to do is plain text email, sure, Mutt is fine. If you deal with a large amount of
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by jkahn 10y ago
That's majorly overstating it. I disagree. It's interesting and relevant.
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by jkahn 10y ago
Bummer, can't order this from Australia. Really want to get one of these for some testing. Anyone with inside info as to when these will be available outside the USA?
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by jkahn 11y ago
This was probably downvoted as it didn't help OP, however, this is really good advice. I'm doing it now - 2FA is enabled for all my work stuff but I hadn't gotten around to enabling it on Amazon. Didn't know they had it.
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by jkahn 11y ago
I know nothing about fashion so take this with a grain of salt. Your products are definitely on the very high end of price when it comes to clothing. Do people buy expensive clothes from a brand they've never heard of online? Maybe you
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by jkahn 11y ago
That's theoretical, whereas government and corporations deal with realities. 100% capitalism isn't practical and is unfair (e.g, to the poor and sick). What is a fair way to divide costs for road usage: time of use, miles driven,
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by jkahn 11y ago
It's certainly not a level playing field when competing against a multinational like Apple. It's also hard for countries to enforce competition rules (e.g. Anti-dumping)..
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by jkahn 11y ago
You're not a fool, you're just not a multi-national with the ability to legally avoid/minimize tax.
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by jkahn 11y ago
Yes, agreed, which makes it much more likely that laws will get passed to collect this tax as it will probably have strong political and voter base support.
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by jkahn 11y ago
That's not what I mean. I'm talking about what the tax money collected gets spent on by government - roads, healthcare, infrastructure, aged pensions. If industry X was paying $100mm tax, and industry Y disrupts and replaces that,
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by jkahn 11y ago
They need to be a bit careful, because they risk causing much tighter tax regulation in EU. I think this is going to happen anyway, as it's not just Facebook. Governments see it as a reduction in tax, and it's politically safe f
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by jkahn 11y ago
Global companies offshoring profits and not paying enough tax (in the eyes of many countries) was a hot topic at the last G20 summit in Brisbane. This isn't limited to Facebook, as the article explains. The issue and background here is
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by jkahn 11y ago
When I tried that it crashed all the time. Huge pain to work with.
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by jkahn 12y ago
This. I subscribed to railscasts for the massive, incredibly useful catalogue. Not in particular for the new content every week. I'm also totally happy to continue to pay. I'm sure we're not in the minority.
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by jkahn 13y ago
Maybe there's something wrong with your MBP, because it works fine on mine.
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by jkahn 13y ago
What you're looking for mostly already exists: Active Directory. It's one of the best products to come out of Microsoft ever. I haven't seen anything in the open source world to rival it. Central auth, auto certificate deploy
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by jkahn 13y ago
Looks like a perfectly fair consulting rate for someone with the skill to be CIO of a large organization.
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by jkahn 13y ago
I've been watching AeroFS for quite a while. How does it compare to Citrix ShareFile? It sounds like they are both in the same problem space.
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by jkahn 13y ago
Please, please, please bring this to Australia for the Model S launch. I'm buying one on launch day if we have this option.
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by jkahn 14y ago
Thanks for the article. What do you use to measure your PostgreSQL performance? Do you use any visual dashboards to track down bottlenecks, etc?
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by jkahn 14y ago
Great comment. Funny and true. A CEO's job is also to clean up the metaphorical shit that gets dumped: I had one of those days today. Someone's got to do it.
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by jkahn 14y ago
Looks fantastic. I'm interested already and we don't have an immediate need for the API - but even the web UI looks great. Very little information on your site, though. Some questions strike me: - What path does the money take from the cust
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by jkahn 14y ago
It's not about a Facebook acquisition no longer being an exit, it's about an IPO no longer being an exit.
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by jkahn 14y ago
Google App Engine and others also offer similar PaaS offerings. Yes, they all have similar limitations (and benefits). Large companies I deal with don't rent physical machines, they buy them and then run a hypervisor platform across them to

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