arihelgason
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Comment · 10 years ago
I'm surprised there's no mention of his first 100 days pledge to "announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership" - something that the EFF has been lobbying for.
Comment · 12 years ago
Any word on when browsers other than Safari will be supporting push notifications?
Comment · 13 years ago
This also applies to professional growth. People often have a hard time receiving negative feedback because they experience it as an attack on their identity/ego rather than as an opportunity to learn.
The ability to take feedback constructively is probably one of the most important traits to hire for.
Comment · 14 years ago
This rings true with my experience.
I met a senior NHS physician who built a very useful and simple mobile information service to improve access to certain services. My understanding was that he funded it himself with help from sponsors and had to do it entirely outside the NHS system.
It probably cost 1/10th of what it would have cost if it had been done through the NHS.
Not to mention that NHS computers are still running IE6 and heavily locked down, making it a poor development environment. Tim Kelsey can encourage NHS staff to code, but the infrastructure to do anything meaningful with that inside the system isn't there.
This is the service: http://sxt.org.uk
Comment · 14 years ago
Good point. And if you sign up to Coinbase anonymously and acquire BTC reasonably anonymously any data that gets subpoenaed is worthless.
Comment · 14 years ago
BTC transactions are all public in the blockchain so they're not as anonymous as many think.
But as for preventing your identity from being linked to your BTC wallet? There's probably no way to prevent that if the service provider is under US jurisdiction.
Comment · 14 years ago
Do you want people who bullshit with little or no relevant data or people who will admit when they don't know something and try to figure it out?
I'd say the latter.
It's frustrating to work with people who pretend they know more than they do rather than asking for help.
Comment · 14 years ago
A comparable project, the Leisure Suit Larry remake, also had a $500,000 cut-off. It ended up raising over $650,000 so it doesn't look far-fetched.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-le...
Comment · 14 years ago
You're forgetting software sales (ColorSchemer), t-shirt sales and fabric printing.