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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 t…

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. Mos…

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)... platf…

Very interesting, how did you figure out carrots were the issue?

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 productivi…

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 hostin…

tldr; former Apple employee claims that Apple snooped on his privacy to collect evidence for a lawsuit, using screenshots from the supposedly end-to-end encrypted Messages messagin…

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.

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 part…

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 yo…

What are his responsibilities as your manager?

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 healthcar…

Yes, if someone has a home remedy that gets great results, why switch to a substance from someone in a lab coat?

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 o…

Very cool - Airbnb feels like it got overrun by professional property managers, cool to see a more personal alternative with a genuine community.

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…

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/submarin…

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?

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 inf…

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. Toda…

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 fo…

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 resu…

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 tim…

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 governmen…