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Comment #20969502
Little silly to say "I revoked $1M worth" since the price paid for each certificate includes unlimited renewals to fix problems like he identified. They are still worth $1M despite…
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Show HN: Control Freak for Bitbucket Server (git pre-receive hook)
Here it is: http://bit-booster.com/hook/docs/ It's a free Bitbucket plugin. Well, freemium-ish. It requires you have Bitbucket Server running, which is perhaps not the easiest thin…
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Comment #16529844
Unfortunately "How much do you currently have saved" does not take negative values, and so this is no use to me. Decent UI for a monthly + interest style calculator. I like it.
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Comment #16267995
This is becoming an issue of public financial safety: "The other day my barber asked me whether he should put all his money in Bitcoin." - Paul Krugman https://www.nytimes.com/2018…
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Comment #16208655
If you don't like the terms of the shareholders agreement, then you don't have to buy the (private equity) shares. But if you buy the shares and sign the agreement, I don't see why…
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Comment #16055129
Bitbucket Server is only $26,400 for the 1st year in your scenario. The 2nd and subsequent years are $13,200/year.
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Comment #15983013
He just got unlucky. It's always luck of the draw with job interviews. Just like those poker players that say they should have won the hand. I'd like to try this in an interview: h…
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Comment #15798827
I don't mind the promoted Triplebyte ad I see at the top of my reddit landing page. I'm subscribed to r/git and r/programming; I suspect it's coming from my r/programming subscript…
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Comment #15798765
What are you advertising? I'm thinking of running ads there for my Bitbucket add-on.
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Comment #15745276
Exactly! Here's the BC, Canada website on exactly this (British Columbia Securities Commission): https://www.bcsc.bc.ca/For_Companies/Private_Placements/Priv...
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Comment #15745077
I'm a 30+ year old software-engineer in Vancouver, BC. And there's a housing bubble. My friends are mostly also senior developers / software architects / managers etc. Just get old…
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Comment #15743936
I think it's better to structure it as an equity investment, and to really make it clear to friends & family that they are buying a lottery ticket that will probably lose. Also, ma…
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Comment #15742328
I would do a small friends & family round pre-revenue. E.g., 8 friends and family @ 12.5K each = 100K. I don't mind if my success makes my friends & family some money. But I'll sur…
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Comment #15684081
If you're already a grad student you can usually take any undergrad course at your institution for free. It will slow down your progress on your graduate degree, but you might as w…
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Comment #15681568
Hey, that's me! (Six figure income, stopped paying credit card bills.) Aside from the interest that continues to accumulate, you are absolutely correct: the debt does decrease: At …
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Comment #15397790
THIS: > "who is responsible for patching applications with no development team anymore?" Struts 2.2.3 (oldest vulnerable version) was released on May 7, 2011. Personally I find it …
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Comment #15336009
NVMe SSD's are 100x faster than 15k disks. How many shops run 100+ machine NoSQL instances?
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Comment #15335930
SSD's.
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Comment #15165859
Would you have represented your client for the litigation? (Or would your firm have?) I'm just curious to understand how your own incentives don't point you towards court. Are you …
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Comment #15130079
Do you have the insanity and the tenacity to un-rot the fish from the bottom up? > Corollary 1. Who can, and sometimes does, un-rot the fish from the bottom? An insane employee. ht…
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Comment #15112983
Do you report them to any credit agencies?
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Comment #15051811
Confront and address? You ain't gonna get your boss fired without a scratch. He's just bragging that he achieved a local maxima, and I think he's correct. Maybe during the exit int…
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Comment #15038351
Becoming managers to sooth their self-esteem issues. I don't mean this as a cynical joke at all. In my experience too few managers see the job as a job, and instead they see it as …