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I was cruising LinkedIn this afternoon trying to find the name of someone I interviewed about a decade ago. Of course, he's moved across the country and now works at Microsoft. Which put a thought into my head: A lot of…

HN certainly feels a little sluggish today. As a result of the reddit blackout, I imagine traffic has spiked. Can you provide any insights?

Many tech companies are tightening their belts and focusing on the bottom line. They're going to be ditching projects that are huge opportunities because either they're not viable yet or they don't fit the companies'…

I think this a symptom of the team being mostly remote, but it's very difficult to keep meetings on track without feeling like a bit of an ass. Does your team have this issue? How has your remote team solved this issue?

This thread, a repost, has nine points in 2 hours, and a single comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331697 There are a half dozen Elon/Twitter posts on new with more comments and upvotes. Not a single one is…

It looks like Google has rolled out a very anti-user update to Analytics. We have a report on traffic by URL broken out by query string that we use weekly. Right now that report is unusable, and if I try and query I can…

Salary has been my #1 focus for the last few years. I've done well for myself, but now I'm looking at what I want to accomplish outside of making money. I'm a software generalist, with people + technical skills. My…

It seems that so so many tools can't properly handle a good work breakdown structure - you can break your tasks down, but some arbitrary level of work (usually first or second tier tasks) is the atomic unit of work for…

If you'd like, I can write up the JS. It would be a nice feature to have. When visiting new-ish threads I like to read everything, but if I'm revisiting something later I like to skip around and the scrolling…

After looking at a few solutions for web log analytics, I'm not closer to choosing a solution than I was a few days ago. I've looked at Webalizer, OWA, and Piwik but none of them really offer a logfile integration the…

I'm looking to move in the next 12 months, and Philadelphia and the greater region has been shortlisted (wife has family there) as one of the potential locations to move. Does Philadelphia have a good startup ecosystem,…

My company is looking to start gathering feedback from our clients on certain customer service criteria. The plan is to send out a survey each month to some percentage of the customers that have had support calls in the…

I've been looking at both WePay and Stripe lately. WePay is cheaper up to a break even point of $50, where Stripe becomes cheaper. Stripe seems to have better APIs but WePay is obviously the cheaper option. What…