My reaction entirely. I wouldn't want to build my business up on these types of customers, because as quick as they left X and came to you, they'll leave you as well. Not to say that you shouldn't do your best to make…
I completely agree here. I genuinely feel bad for those who do work hard and try their best. But that is not the case for most of the people I personally know. I really get tired of hearing people complain about low…
I second (third?) the fact that I'm so thankful for these packages and contributors. Reading this article puts into perspective the amount of alignment within the community that it takes to be able to depend on external…
This. It took me a minute to find the collapse link, but once I found it... What a time to be alive.
Voted up. Saw the "unvote", didn't click it. I believe Hacker News has tested the functionality. I'll leave the upvote. Here's to you splawn.
I agree with you that Lawyers and Doctors have to deal with moral issues, but some programmers have to deal with this as well. In the past, I've worked at companies that built software for check cashing/payday loans…
This was my thought as well. I'm not even sure how to judge this article. It seems very misinformed with making assumptions without any supporting evidence on how we get there. It's true that automation would bring in…
So, I left a couple months before the final audit before going to public launch. As far as I know, they were going to have to change a good bit of stuff focused around the taking out loans. The sole investor cut his…
I worked with a company a few years back that did this exact thing, although we couldn't get past regulations and ended up shutting down. http://finovate.com/videos/finovatefall-2011-tandem/
I don't think I necessarily agree with any of this. First: If you're hiring for a remote position, I think hiring people who "want" to be remote is obvious. Second: Hiring remote doesn't mean that you have to "embrace…
My reaction entirely. I wouldn't want to build my business up on these types of customers, because as quick as they left X and came to you, they'll leave you as well. Not to say that you shouldn't do your best to make…
I completely agree here. I genuinely feel bad for those who do work hard and try their best. But that is not the case for most of the people I personally know. I really get tired of hearing people complain about low…
I second (third?) the fact that I'm so thankful for these packages and contributors. Reading this article puts into perspective the amount of alignment within the community that it takes to be able to depend on external…
This. It took me a minute to find the collapse link, but once I found it... What a time to be alive.
Voted up. Saw the "unvote", didn't click it. I believe Hacker News has tested the functionality. I'll leave the upvote. Here's to you splawn.
I agree with you that Lawyers and Doctors have to deal with moral issues, but some programmers have to deal with this as well. In the past, I've worked at companies that built software for check cashing/payday loans…
This was my thought as well. I'm not even sure how to judge this article. It seems very misinformed with making assumptions without any supporting evidence on how we get there. It's true that automation would bring in…
So, I left a couple months before the final audit before going to public launch. As far as I know, they were going to have to change a good bit of stuff focused around the taking out loans. The sole investor cut his…
I worked with a company a few years back that did this exact thing, although we couldn't get past regulations and ended up shutting down. http://finovate.com/videos/finovatefall-2011-tandem/
I don't think I necessarily agree with any of this. First: If you're hiring for a remote position, I think hiring people who "want" to be remote is obvious. Second: Hiring remote doesn't mean that you have to "embrace…