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motti | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?

Changing your password is the fastest way to ensure all authed sessions on any device is logged out. Google offers a "log out of any sessions" button somewhere in account settings, but most other services don't.

If your email account is compromised, any service that do password resets via email confirmation, are potentially compromised by whoever has access to your email via OAuth.

motti | 9 years ago | on: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

We at CopyCopy (a cross-platform cloud clipboard) solve this problem by only universally copying stuff that you copy twice.

So:

copy once -> not sent to cloud/devices

copy twice (or click floating button) -> sent to all your devices and cloud account

motti | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?

We (copycopy.com), do.

Atm we use a mix of QtQuick/QML and some widget code mainly when wrapping QtWebKit it for some parts of the app furniture that need it.

Although the guts of our app requires native code (for clipboard monitoring and websocket message receiving), were considering ditching much of the UI in favour of a webapp.

motti | 10 years ago | on: What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ from Autism After Magnetic Stimulation

My mother published a fairly seminal paper on the topic [1] 18 years ago which concludes that emotional awareness (specifically, the "Theory of Mind"[2]) can be learned by people with Autism.

At the time this was against prevailing wisdom but AFAIK is now considered accepted wisdom.

[1] https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?cluster=165456960940191... [2] https://www.autism.com/understanding_theoryofmind

motti | 10 years ago | on: Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit

It does. Dependant changes/commits can be pushed at once, and if they are submitted out of order, they will be queued until the dependant changes are submitted/merged. In recent gertit releases, you can even submit (merge) all changes in a particular topic at once.

motti | 10 years ago | on: Never buy Epson printers

The Brother color lasers also are happy to print without color toner cartridges present.

By contrast, HP's cheaper color lasers require the cartridges to be present, and if they run out and are left in the machine, they cause banding over your printouts. This is due to their integrated drums wearing out, so you have to replace the color toners even if they're not being used (or hack around with transferring chips onto less-used old cartridges, even black ones so they're seen as colour ones).

motti | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)

CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | UX/Graphics Designer and/or Frontend Coder

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup currently launching a consumer productivity app.

The ideal candidate would be comfortable:

• Mocking up beautiful compelling usable designs

• Undertaking user research both with on-site interviews and via data-driven analytics

• Have experience in user research for deciding good UX based on actual data.

• Have a ability to dream up good UX and get in the minds of users

• Not afraid to do frontend coding to create engaging interactive design for our webapp.

Brownie points if:

• Your a great graphics designer who can draw up custom illustrations

• You're not afraid to create rich properties for native UI platforms like Android, iOS or Qt QML.

• You're comfortable with Git and other such geekery

Prefer on-site in our London office but may consider remote applications for the right candidate as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone.

Terms negotiable: long-term contract or employment.

Just email a CV to [email protected]

motti | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research?

Try CopyCopy. We do bookmarking and article saving but more broadly let you keep anything for later just by copying it (using normal copy and paste). So we handle not just web articles, but any information that's copyable in any app! See https://www.copycopy.com/

If our homepage isn't clear enough, check out https://www.copycopy.com/product (excuse the unfinished wording on that page as it's not live yet).

You can go to https://www.copycopy.com/account and turn on experimental features which will enable tags (called "labels"). From our webapp https://www.copycopy.com/clips you can search clips, or filter them by label.

Oh, and we're quietly releasing our Mac OSX app tomorrow.

motti | 10 years ago | on: 10M events a month, free

OTOH if you can afford the time and resources, then human customer support is an excellent source of user research. If you record these customer queries you can discover what's the next bit of functionality that your users want, that your competitors don't provide. You also discover which existing functionality isn't explained well enough.

You can use the normal self-service helpdesk methods to filter out the newbie questions.

motti | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | Marketer/Growth Hacker

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup on the cusp of launching a groundbreaking consumer productivity app.

We require someone to help us get many many users to try out our service!

The ideal candidate would:

• Know the correct channels for marketing our product.

• Have good writing and communication skills.

• Be prepared to get hands-on posting on all relevant marketing channels and pushing our product.

• Have been involved in a tech product launch.

Brownie points if:

• You've worked in advertising to some extent.

• You've done some really cool "growth hacking" in past.

• You've got some coding or design ability.

Remote applications are fine as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone but we're very happy to have you on-site in our London office. Will consider shorter term or longer-term contract or employment for the right candidate.

Just email a CV to [email protected]

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