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by sebleon 4y ago
It's a matter of time before smart folks in South Asia and Easter Europe move to Latin America to get higher salaries as they get into more US-friendly timezones. That being said there's a lot of amazing developers in India that a
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by sebleon 4y ago
Yeah you don't really need a middle man to "take care of payroll." Most developers in Latam prefer to be contractors on paper, and have a direct relationship with the employer. Most agencies take a 30-50% cut of what employer
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by sebleon 4y ago
Dude - it's way better for companies to hire developers directly, no need for a middle man like Astro that's charging 15% (eg. 15% of $80k/yr = $12k/yr in middle man fees)... platforms like letsdeel.com or remote.com cha
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by sebleon 4y ago
Very interesting, how did you figure out carrots were the issue?
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by sebleon 6y ago
For a second, I thought this title claimed that stack overflow reduces the need for software engineers by 15%. Now I’m curious what the actual number might be, given the productivity boost that it provides...
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by sebleon 7y ago
To be clear, it sounds like MoPub/Grindr/OKCupid aren't selling people's data. Instead, they reveal personal information (for free?) to hundreds of advertising networks when hosting auctions for ad inventory. That would
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Ask HN: Does the Nuvia Lawsuit show Apple has backdoors in its messaging app?
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by sebleon 8y ago
This is a really interesting concept. While this initial prototype is rudimentary, I agree with them in this important shift to building cameras "good enough" for machine-usage.
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by sebleon 8y ago
The Big Co interview process is a binary classifier (hire/no hire). It's actually reasonable to tune it to minimize false-positives, since a bad hire can be disastrous for all parties involved - imagine an employer changing their
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by sebleon 8y ago
A closer analogy for a remedy to an illness would be: Whenever your yard gets overrun with bears, putting a rock on the porch makes them go away for an unknown reason. Don’t let yourself be limited by science, which is bounded by human inte
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by sebleon 8y ago
What are his responsibilities as your manager?
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by sebleon 8y ago
Fair - correlation does not mean causation. That being said, countless experiments show placebo can have empirical results; even the simple belief in a remedy can improve healthcare outcomes.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Yes, if someone has a home remedy that gets great results, why switch to a substance from someone in a lab coat?
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by sebleon 8y ago
Installs is a vanity metric, the more interesting metric in consumer social is retention numbers like d30, d60, and beyond. If they're able to keep users onboard for long periods of time, TikTok becomes a threat to incumbents.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Very cool - Airbnb feels like it got overrun by professional property managers, cool to see a more personal alternative with a genuine community.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Indeed, the US presidential election is a joke on various levels. 1. The president is not picked based on the people’s vote. The US is a republic, not a democracy, where government officials cast the deciding votes. 2. The voting infrastruc
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by sebleon 8y ago
Ha, I wonder what PR firm Stripe hired to get this story published. This piece is less subtle than the "The Suit is Back!" of yesteryear. [1] [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by sebleon 8y ago
Congrats, this post made the front page, seems like you don’t need our advice! As the tables turn, did you have your friends upvote this or something?
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by sebleon 8y ago
This is a lot like consumer cryptography - yes, technical exploits are a problem, but they're overshadowed by social engineering. In the case of US elections - even with secure infrastructure, the election will be determined by billion
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by sebleon 8y ago
While Stripe is extremely developer-friendly, the alternatives aren’t that bad. They’re annoying to set up, but certainly not prohibitive to a determined founder starting out. Today, options like Braintree are comparable in terms of dev-f
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by sebleon 8y ago
There's a few reasonable reasons why FB should allow gender-specific job ad campaigns: - Employers will likely see better ROI on their ad-spend by creating separate ad campaigns for every gender, with copy/creatives optimized for
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by sebleon 8y ago
Ha, likely there's a similarly sinister list of reasons not to do business with the United States. A quick glance at US foreign policy should suffice, or even just the actions resulting from Kissinger's direction.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Very interesting - the few times I've had a cigarette, I've definitely noticed a sense of clarity in thinking and alertness. For non-smokers, showers seem to be one of the rare times where one is left alone with ones thoughts to e
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by sebleon 8y ago
I'm surprised more countries don't block Google and Facebook. These two sites are extremely powerful in their ability to shape public opinion, hard to imagine why so many governments are letting American corporations shape citizen
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by sebleon 8y ago
Ha, venture math is pretty hilarious. VCs basically need to give back their investors a 300% return in 10 years to make up for the risk they handle. Eg. For a $40M fund that's trying to grow to $120M, $1M here and there doesn't re
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by sebleon 8y ago
Right on, mentality likely shifted along the way. And yes, everyone makes mistakes, but author shows great character in making things right later on.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Ah, to clarify: Buffer threw the seed investors under the bus when they inked a deal with the Series A investors. However, kudos to the founders for fixing this mistake later on. While their intentions at Series A were questionable (raising
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by sebleon 8y ago
> $2.5m of $3.5m was for founders and early team [of Series A money] Terms: > Series A class of shares included a protective provision which meant that Buffer was unable to offer liquidity for other shareholders > a return of 9 per
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by sebleon 8y ago
Ah, I meant 'good' relative to options in the developing world. Getting +20Mb/s for under 0.1-5% of your annual income puts you way ahead of most people on Earth. But yes, I'm sure there's cities out there with more
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by sebleon 8y ago
Cool initiative based on positive ideals. From a practical perspective, NYC citizens have a number of good options for internet access; however, perhaps learnings from this community project can be brought to more needy areas outside the US

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