uvince | 9 years ago | on: Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO
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uvince | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Employee creates IP outside 9-5 unrelated to job. Does employer own it?
Rule when I was at Yahoo! "not on company time, not on company equipment" but you also may want to check that inventions agreement you signed when you started employment. Those tend to be pretty all-encompassing.
uvince | 9 years ago | on: The web sucks if you have a slow connection
Regardless of connection speed it also sucks if you try using LinkedIN's new website. Nothin' but progress bars.
uvince | 9 years ago | on: Peter Thiel is hiring a personal assistant
I hear Bane is a shoe-in for this one.
uvince | 9 years ago | on: The first web site
Woah, this is a great deal snazzier than the first US WWW site. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/firstpages.sht...
uvince | 9 years ago | on: How an icebox saves our startup
Requires a bit of discipline to monthly "review the whole icebox and choose a month’s worth of activities from the best items in there" but is really the right way to go.
Similarly, in Agile if you're backlog is ranked going into planning then you'll always be pulling from the "best" or "most productive" stories and ideas, not just the new tickets.
uvince | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your personal top 2017 stock pics?
I think the market will go up and to the right, just not in a straight line.
Not exactly a stock, but consider placing some of your portfolio in a bet on volatility. https://sixfigureinvesting.com/2010/01/how-to-go-long-on-the...
uvince | 9 years ago | on: Martin Shkreli harasses Teen Vogue writer, has Twitter account suspended
He's a creepy guy, and a total business jerk but I'm not sure what he did wrong in this case."How is this allowed @jack." ??? Do you mean, how can someone be allowed to create a collage and post them to social media? There are apps for that. And if you're a public figure you should expect this to happen to you, too.
Would she have complained if Channing Tatum or Aziz Ansari did it? And would twitter and Dorsey have cared?
uvince | 9 years ago | on: Gates Foundation to Invest Up to $140M in HIV Prevention Device
A device for this exists already. Is he going to invest all that money in Durex or Trojan?
uvince | 9 years ago | on: Product Managers, What Is It You Do Again?
I figured HN was as good of a place as any to start this discussion and seed topics. What is it you think Product Managers do? What have you observed that you hate/love/try to ignore?
uvince | 9 years ago | on: What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
"on a Saturday IIRC, she responded to someone on d-r. This sent shockwaves throughout the upper echelons, and soon senior management were clamoring to get on d-r."
So, basically Marissa ruined devel-random, too? Nice. Is there anything Marissa can't do?
uvince | 10 years ago | on: ADP intentionally broke its Zenefits integration
Appropriately ADP responds with a PDF: www.adp.com/zenefits/downloads/The-Facts-About-ADP-and-Zenefits.pdf
uvince | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Interesting WebRTC projects to work on?
Fountain https://www.fountain.com/ is one of the more compelling uses of WebRTC I've seen. You can get help from experts on a variety of topics with audio, video, etc. https://www.fountain.com/experts this should give you plenty of ideas.
uvince | 12 years ago | on: Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins
I'd like to try hellowallet, too. Thanks!
uvince | 12 years ago | on: Mint now lets users keep track of their Bitcoins
Need all that? You might like to try Quicken.
uvince | 12 years ago | on: Manager.io – Free accounting software for small businesses
How is this different from OFX? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Financial_Exchange
uvince | 13 years ago | on: Hand-to-mouth living from a credit card company perspective
Thanks jerf, I have no idea why this made the front page. Clearly I have a lot to learn.
uvince | 13 years ago | on: Hand-to-mouth living from a credit card company perspective
I apologize for being dense, but what data exactly is the OP crunching here?
uvince | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Beautiful real-time dashboards with FnordMetric
Very pretty. I like how you can host it/hack it. I will definitely give it a try. We have a 70" I try and display real-time metrics on, and praise from customers, winning A/B tests, etc.
For a hosted alternative, I've been using https://www.leftronic.com/ for a project at work and have been really impressed with their built-in widgets and their support is A+. When I had trouble uploading spreadsheets of data they fixed me right up.
uvince | 13 years ago | on: Tell HN: We'll write your lifecycle emails for you if you sign up for Userfox
"This is a limited time offer, we're not Color or anything. But hopefully it'll whip Hacker News into a frenzy."
I see what you did there.
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"Dropbox is the fastest SaaS company to reach $1 billion in revenue run rate" - given that, I don't care if they are profitable or not. They got to $1B faster than Salesforce, as long as they keep this up they'll be just fine.