robinjfisher

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by robinjfisher 3y ago
Yep. Went to find a YT video and came back to find Paul was dead. Couldn't bring myself to start again.
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by robinjfisher 3y ago
"A" UK campaign. Lots of coverage around the time of the Queen's death and unsurprisingly in the news now given the coronation. Little to no media coverage at any other time and has very little public support albeit growing s
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by robinjfisher 5y ago
I don't think the article is sarcastic given the nature of their app. Where does one draw the line though? ESG[1] is becoming increasingly important to investors and I already see financial institutions instituting controls in their ap
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by robinjfisher 5y ago
I am just waiting to hear back from a customer on a support ticket request where functionality in my app is not working as expected. They sent me a screenshot of what should be a form in a modal but the modal has failed to load so it has lo
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by robinjfisher 5y ago
I'll link up Stripe's docs for SCA[1] as they have been very helpful for me in getting Leavetrack[2] set up for SCA. PSD2 is the Second Payment Services Directive from the EU. A directive is required to be implemented in national
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by robinjfisher 5y ago
Quite - the criminal justice system is woefully underfunded and COVID has only exacerbated the problem. The means testing leaves many people facing no choice but to plead guilty or risk bankruptcy. This book is a chilling insight into the s
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by robinjfisher 5y ago
I've made this point on LinkedIn and I'll make it here - bad software did not send postal workers to jail. Read the judgment: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Hamilton... The
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by robinjfisher 5y ago
> but in the UK these people would have been unable to get a public defender Absolutely not the case. If one cannot afford a solicitor one will be appointed.
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by robinjfisher 5y ago
The answer to this question is that senior executives within the Post Office knew that Horizon had faults and deliberately withheld the information when prosecuting the sub-postmasters. This is a fundamental breach of the prosecutor's
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by robinjfisher 5y ago
> "In the UK and the EU, the GDPR requires organisations to inform recipients of the pixels, and in most cases to obtain consent for them. It’s not enough to just have a privacy policy somewhere that details this." No it doesn&
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by robinjfisher 6y ago
This was explained on the feed. It's from a lower-res safety camera mainly used for object avoidance on the ground. High definition images will be available later.
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by robinjfisher 8y ago
I'm surprised that the guide doesn't address automated decision making about users. In my day job, we are using a scheduling platform for short-notice, short-term work e.g. social care. A job is loaded on the sytem and pushed to x
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
I've just skimmed a few pages of the site and frankly I'm amazed that they do not have 1) a video of an ex-offender talking about the the opportunity afforded by an employer using the service and 2) a video of the HR Director of C
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
I take the point but by their own admission, resume acceptance is at 50% when it could be at 80% so on that score they are failing to convince the client of the benefit of that diversity. If I am a hiring manager and I am rejecting 1/2
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
I'm not familiar with the video and will check it out when I'm at home. If I was to say more on 10 BY 10 it's that I don't see the differentiator. Plenty of search firms are staffed by people with domain knowledge and th
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
As I'm in the industry, my thoughts on some of the recruitment-related companies: 10 BY 10 - I don't get it. Their website says they are a contingency search firm with a value prop of having resumes filtered by people with domain
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
If I'd known that... Didn't occur to me to even ask :)
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
Of course. Started as a side project, part of learning to code. Had my mom's company as first subscriber and then periodically people would find me and sign up. They were paying £13/month and it dropped into the bank account - nic
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
I'm just beginning to push my product (it's been around for 6 years) and have certainly noticed the customer requests increasing. I agree with a lot of the advice here and in particular I've just started building out the know
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
So much this. When I started Leavetrack[1] in 2011, it was so difficult to get setup for recurring payments. I was using Chargify to handle the recurring payments/credit card storage, a company in New Zealand (I am in the UK) to handle
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
Thanks. Not quite enough for full-time and to be honest I've not invested the time or money in acquisition of customers. Looking to change that this year. Have tried Google ads previously with not much success so looking to target some
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
You might be surprised. It's fairly trivial to find out where I work during the day but we are representative of the recruitment industry and so much effort is put into attracting and sourcing candidates (generally via expensive job bo
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
Focus on retention. My app[1] is sticky in that once you're set up it's a bit of hassle to leave and even then you'd only likely do it at one point during the year. This makes long-term retention fairly easy and worth some up
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
Have you done any formal ROI on the move to Chargebee? I moved from Chargify to Stripe about a year ago (to save on cost) and the biggest challenge was getting customers to re-enter their card details for Stripe. I offered a coupon for 50%
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
The example given in the article is a pay-to-subscribe mailing list run on Mailchimp where you can use an API call to add the paying user to the list.
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
This is in effect the jobs to be done framework. Is your product solving a functional, emotional or social need? One could argue that motorbikes all fulfil a functional need but only some brands fulfil that emotional or social need. I don&#
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
They don't make any money at the moment. To date, the application is free and they have declined to include advertising in it.
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by robinjfisher 9y ago
The key is being able to respond promptly and being committed to the answer one has given which aligns with the point you raise on timeliness. There are two discourtesies: 1) Not providing a committed answer until the last minute; and 2) Re
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by robinjfisher 10y ago
My concern is how little this prepares people for life in the real world. How well prepared will those students be when they enter a workplace for the first time and have to handle disagreements? EDIT: deleted "bigger". It's
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by robinjfisher 13y ago
Yep. Not what I submitted it with. If they're not using email addresses to identify people you might know then what are they using?

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