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Post by vidarh »

purple-again wrote: post #152
organsnyder wrote: post #130

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Hard to tell without context, but that first example could easily be a positive: not only is extending grace to employees ethically a good thing to do, but it can also lead to increased productivity in the long run. Of course, if the employee was completely MIA for an extended period of time and no effort was made to contact them, that's neither ethical nor productive.

Seems highly probable HR knew what was going on and was okay with it. Child died recently. Only one driving father to chemo appointments. Etc. not the kind of thing they would give any other employees a heads up on. It would be very strange if they had no idea and didn’t care that an employee wasn’t showing up. That kind of culture would get swamped fast.

Yahoo was good at handling these types of things, but they were also good at keeping line management updated.

I did have someone in my team at Yahoo I had to go to HR to get approval for special considerations due to a family member with cancer, and it was approved literally in minutes.

But it's also well known that they were for a while very lax about handling unauthorised absence.

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Post by oblio »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #323
oblio wrote: post #58

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The all-mighty account creation hurdle will kill all such initiatives. And to fix this, you'd need buy-in from major tech companies. All of which don't want to solve this problem.

> The all-mighty account creation hurdle will kill all such initiatives. I don't understand why people consider this to be such a barrier. In an era where we have browsers that suggest secure passwords, store and fill credentials, and sync credentials between devices... why do we still think of registration as an impossible ask for the average user?

Because the numbers back it up. People flock to Facebook (1 account for many things), Google (1 account for many things), Amazon (1 account for many things), Apple (1 account for many things), Reddit (1 account for many things). Blogs are dying, forums are moribund, small online stores are dying.

HNers discussing about Facebook/Google logins in their apps regularly mention that more than half their users use those options, instead of creating an account using their email.

Just go ask a bunch of your non-techie acquaintances if they use those web browser features you mention.

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Post by Chirael »

masukomi wrote: post #277
crazygringo wrote: post #258

Not to rain on the parade, but serious question: are bookmarks actually useful anymore? It's funny, I'm trying to remember when I simply stopped using bookmarks. 5 years ago, maybe? 10? I'm not entirely sure. I used to have elaborate folder hierachies of bookmarks in my browser. But at some point, I realized anytime I needed something, it was faster to just type a keyword or two in the address bar. Either it was ther…

I currently have 13,229 bookmarks in Pinboard.in. They are all cross referenced with multiple useful tags and I add maybe 3+ every day. Google is a poor substitute because it gives me pages of results for what I need and they may or may not be any good. I may have to search again. I may have to click through 4 or five pages before i find one that's useful even though i've been to a useful one before. Searching in my…

Yeah, active Pinboard user as well, coming from del.icio.us a number of years ago. Have 35,549 bookmarks in Pinboard as of right now, will almost certainly be a bit higher by the end of the day. Definitely a personal knowledge repository. I can't tell you how many times I'll be talking to someone and say, "You know, I read an article about that a few months back... let me send you the link" - really useful. I also like when I save a really good link and see that others have linked it too, and then I can explore what else those folks have bookmarked with that same tag; it's a great way to find other high-quality pages. Kind of "social bookmarking" :)

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Post by semireg »

hckr_news wrote: post #316
semireg wrote: post #299

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The tooling has become insanely good, so long as you trust the shoulders of the giants you’re standing on. For example, a month ago the Electron team introduced a bug that made my Microsoft Store app think it was outside the store. The users of my app were not happy - so I looked into how I could test the app “in the store” as a beta ... it’s basically an exercise in frustration. Package flights are a joke, build num…

That's pretty cool, very niche yet still an interesting concept. You should try to get on the indie hackers podcast. How's the income stream on this sort of business? And it sounds like its a 1 man/woman operation where you do handle everything from support to marketing?

I'm ramen profitable at this point. Sales are increasing each month. And yes, one person operation. There are only a few players in this market, and their solutions cost upwards of $500 per license, plus yearly support/maintenance. Right now I'm selling licenses for $47.99 one-time. In other words, there is some room to increase the price of my product, or move to a different monetization strategy. The low price today helps me get users/feedback.

I'll sell my 1000th license sometime before the end of the year. There's a lot of interesting roads to take... for example, I could become more serious about selling a bundled solution where I'm the only label printer distributor to own their own inexpensive software. Or maybe move to cloud? Or a portion of the functionality to the cloud. Or start targeting mobile/tablet more seriously. I don't know, yet... the future seems bright.

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Post by joshu »

aws_ls wrote: post #319
joshu wrote: post #294

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good thread. i like the guy explaining to me that i am wrong about what happened.

Yes, I noticed that, as well :) So what do you think, does del.ico.us can have a second run under Pinboard creator?

I think that the size and activity of it made for the vibrancy however that size also is antagonistic to his goals, which is to charge for it.

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Post by 1337shadow »

dhosek wrote: post #266
mercer wrote: post #141

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> In some ways Mark Zuckerberg was cut from the old cloth. The original Facebook was in many ways amazing, quickly evolving, and so open. Everything took a turn for the worse with advertising. At the same time, for me, Facebook was the first example of the internet becoming more samey, centralized and where its users became more consumers of a platform instead of individual creators. When I first got to use Facebook…

That customizability on MySpace was a security nightmare. My wife was the head of the security team back in the day and a lot of what they did to secure the site was duct tape and baling wire. It was kind of entertaining to log onto the hacker forums and see commentary on my wife's work for the day.

Would it be easier nowadays with CORS and CSP ?

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Post by mostlysimilar »

oblio wrote: post #332
mostlysimilar wrote: post #323

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> The all-mighty account creation hurdle will kill all such initiatives. I don't understand why people consider this to be such a barrier. In an era where we have browsers that suggest secure passwords, store and fill credentials, and sync credentials between devices... why do we still think of registration as an impossible ask for the average user?

Because the numbers back it up. People flock to Facebook (1 account for many things), Google (1 account for many things), Amazon (1 account for many things), Apple (1 account for many things), Reddit (1 account for many things). Blogs are dying, forums are moribund, small online stores are dying. HNers discussing about Facebook/Google logins in their apps regularly mention that more than half their users use those op…

Sorry, I don't think I communicated my point properly. I agree with you that the average user doesn't want to deal with separate credentials. What I mean to say is: why is this the case?

If a signup page auto-fills with your email, name, and suggested secure password, and then your browser stores and syncs that information, that's basically as frictionless as clicking a "Sign In With Google" button.

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Post by giantrobot »

CarelessExpert wrote: post #254
conjectures wrote: post #60

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This made me nostalgic for RSS. Is anyone reviving that in a nice way?

Wanna know how I landed on this post? RSS. What I can't figure out is why there's a persistent myth that RSS has somehow vanished from the internet...

Everyone removed the orange "XML" and blue "RSS" images from their sites and people assume RSS was removed as well. The link tags to the feeds still exist so feed readers and browsers can still easily find them.

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Post by jonny_eh »

1337shadow wrote: post #336
dhosek wrote: post #266

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That customizability on MySpace was a security nightmare. My wife was the head of the security team back in the day and a lot of what they did to secure the site was duct tape and baling wire. It was kind of entertaining to log onto the hacker forums and see commentary on my wife's work for the day.

Would it be easier nowadays with CORS and CSP ?

I imagine so!
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