miker64
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6 years ago
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on: Show HN: An app to help overwhelmed PMs never miss an important request
on the third party front, it's _you_ who is the third party. My security team would have kittens if I were to link slack/email/anything to ya'll. I think that's what's at issue, not whether you then pass data outward (which, to be clear, would also be unacceptable)
miker64
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6 years ago
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on: Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box
This starts to explain why any vinyl records I order from the UK/Europe come in a package that is insufficient to protect the record. And US orders come wrapped in layers of cardboard to protect from the USPS throwers.
miker64
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7 years ago
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on: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
Integrating the _backend_ but from the user perspective they remain three distinct brands.
miker64
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7 years ago
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on: Some young people are buying houses with friends
I grew up in a big suburban house because my parents bought a house with a friend. She and her son took the downstairs bedrooms, we had the upstairs rooms. It was more house and in a nicer area than either could have afforded, and meant all the kids went to nicer schools. Built in shared parenting support, communal (but not hippy-ish) dinners.
We moved in in the mid 80s, and in the early 2000s after all the kids had moved out my parents sold their half to the co-owner. Everyone's still friends.
miker64
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7 years ago
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on: We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts
Ads can (and already are) stitched into podcasts based on download location. GeoIP isn't perfect, but it's enough to do location aware advertising in the same vein as terrestrial radio..
miker64
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7 years ago
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on: FuckJerry’s Success Is Instagram’s Failure
Instagram's lack of a re-post feature is specifically because their platform was meant for original works, not memes or reposts.
It's dismaying that they aren't standing behind that.
miker64
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7 years ago
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on: The Dangers of Elite Projection (2017)
The article uses transit as an
example, as that is the area of expertise of the author. It is tangential at best to the idea of 'elite projection,' and yet it is far easier to make arguments about transit than to consider whether we are looking at problems from an 'elitist' POV.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
miker64
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7 years ago
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on: Federal judge finds state law governing who is an engineer violates free speech
I think you underestimate the knowledge and training to do dental work safely.
miker64
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7 years ago
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on: Federal judge finds state law governing who is an engineer violates free speech
Yes, an overly broad law about the use of the title "engineer," the outcome of this will be laws updated to use the term "professional engineer" and the scope refocused on commercial context. (as in: You can't claim to be a structural engineer to get a gig...)
miker64
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7 years ago
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on: A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
24 pickups per day.
miker64
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7 years ago
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on: A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
Last 7 days:
Instagram 5h 32m (insta has a 2 hour custom limit set)
twofold 2h 55m (tetris-ish puzzle game)
unread 2h 38m (feed reader)
maps 1h 59m
twitter 1h 15m
Safari 1h 13m
Spotify 1h 5m
and then it drops off into under 10 minutes on various reference apps.
miker64
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8 years ago
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on: Silicon Graphics, Craig Wright, and the Untold Story
'Teaching a class at' and 'receiving a degree from' an institution are two very different things. Not sure what these links are trying to prove or disprove?
miker64
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12 years ago
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on: San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
I loved living in San Mateo. I've lived all over the Bay Area, and that still rates as my favorite. It's a reasonable drive to both SF and the South Bay (and not painful to get to the ocean in Santa Cruz either), the downtown is walkable, and moderately interesting. There's not lots of options for things, but the options are generally decent.
There is zero reason to live in San Francisco, I don't really understand why people are so hung up on it. Live nearby, but not in. You reap all the benefits of the City, without the negatives. Nobody is shitting on your doorstep in San Mateo...
miker64
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13 years ago
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on: Those with $120K+ salaries... what do you do?
I work in operations. In the Bay Area.
In a year or two, I'll be moving my family to the Nashville area, while retaining my Bay Area job, and it's pay scale.
One day I'll sleep again.
miker64
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13 years ago
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on: Founders: You don't own your employees
this. one million times. What I do off the clock is of no import to my employer unless it is materially impacting my work on the clock.
If you can't trust your employees then you need to review your hiring practices, and your leadership ability. That's your failure, not theirs. Own it, and deal with it.
miker64
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13 years ago
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on: Google Reader shutting down
Yeah, I'm far more worried about the fact that pretty much all the iOS rss readers use Google Reader as a backend.
I'm going to be fubar for keeping different apps across devices all in sync...
miker64
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13 years ago
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on: Show HN: HN Frontpage Minus Techmeme
I think you answered the 'why privacy' question right there.
miker64
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13 years ago
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on: Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
If you intend to monetize, perhaps it might be best not to do it in a way that alienates or upsets your user base. That's the take away we should be looking at. Not that Ads are bad, not that monetization is bad, but:
If you want a service to grow and to be profitable you need to be aware of how your shift from growing the user base to monetizing the user base doesn't lose the user base.
miker64
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13 years ago
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on: Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups
We have a paid for google apps for business account. Every time I've called for support (email from a particular domain never getting to us, emails to a particular domain never getting to them, queries about outages) I've gotten a very pleasant voice who tells me in no uncertain terms that nothing is wrong, everything is okay, and could I please just f*ck on off and be a happy cog now. So, the service is weak to nonexistent, but at least the people on the phone are apologetic and nice.
miker64
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13 years ago
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on: Core Values
"You are an adult. You will manage your own machine and tools." seems to be almost directly in opposition to "You will not dig ditches here, and we will not ask you to do so."
I'm not sure that's inherently a bad thing though. It quietly pushes towards a follow the standard (hopefully automated) system setup, but feel free to drift from that where it doesn't work for you.
