mstroeck

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Comment · 7 years ago

I was the lead dev for Vienna for several years, and it still feels great to see a shout-out like this. Glad you enjoy it :-)

Comment · 8 years ago

It is not generally true that physicians will treat people with somatic diseases well (or at all) if they personally believe symptoms are actually caused by psychological issues.

This is an unproductive, even dangerous thing to tell sufferers.

Comment · 8 years ago

jessriedel, the consensus is that this is a physiological disease with an unknown mechanism. That's why it's an area of active research.

I don't know where you get the idea that the null hypothesis for the cause of any set of symptoms not explained by known biomarkers needs to be "psychosomatic disorder". That's not even wrong - it makes no sense.

Comment · 8 years ago

The issue here is that you did some "brief googling" (your words) on a complicated, confusing, cutting-edge area of clinical research, and now feel competent to state your completely uninformed "null-hypothesis"...

Here's some basic information:

https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/index.html

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-announces-...

http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2015/ME-CFS/MEC...

Comment · 8 years ago

I'm not sure what you mean by "position statement by an encompassing field."?

Comment · 8 years ago

ME/CFS is an under-researched, multi-system disease that affects people in a multitude of ways and is very hard to diagnose. There are no accepted bio-markers yet. There are, however, many well-respected researchers in the field, and more are beginning to enter it from all kinds of disciplines. Basically none of them think this is a psychosomatic illness. This is a good place to start for getting an overview of interesting current research: https://www.omf.ngo/the-end-mecfs-project-2/

Comment · 8 years ago

Only on the very surface. Sleep apnea is relatively easy to test for. ME/CFS sufferers experience a kind of fatigue that is distinctly different from that caused by sleep deprivation. Look up PEM / PENE:

https://solvecfs.org/deciphering-post-exertional-malaise/

Comment · 9 years ago

Co-founder of Gustav here. Thanks for the kind words :-) The 3% is of course a blended rate. There are positions/sectors where that would never fly, but others where 5% is feasible. Also we cover the full spectrum of what staffing agencies typically offer, including permanent placement type transactions. For those, our take-rate is closer to 20%.

Here's more info on the pricing: https://hellogustav.com/recruiters-and-staffing-agencies

Comment · 12 years ago

Probably not. The event is off the record and will heavily feature group mentor session. You can still apply, however!

Comment · 12 years ago

Both are a great choice, both are easy enough to travel to. It's awesome that this is happening. Berlin would draw more people from Eastern Europe, IMHO.

Here in Vienna, we'll have an event with quite a few YC alumni on May 29: http://foundertalks.org

We do not have the means yet to make it free, however. We basically started this a few weeks ago, because we felt that something like startup school is missing in Central Europe. I guess you must have felt the same :-)

EDIT:

P.S.: After our event, I'd be happy to give you some feedback regarding what kind of questions/interestes/etc. European founders voice in such a setting. It's an awesome experiment, I'm really looking forward to it.

Comment · 12 years ago

Love it! Much better than the default, especially in Chrome.

Comment · 13 years ago

You might have noticed (from her screenshots) that she is using Mac OS X.

Simply gaining physical access to the machine should ABSOLUTELY NOT enable an attacker to extract practically all web passwords in something like 15 seconds, without any special tools.

Are you completely ignorant of how the OS X Keychain works and should be implemented application-side, or are you just willfully ignoring it?

Comment · 13 years ago

I'm the project lead for Vienna, the open source RSS client for the Mac. We support Google Reader, and we want to support this:

https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss/issues/160

If you're a Cocoa developer, feel free to jump right in. If you're going to implement the server side, shoot me a note @mstroeck (app.net preferred).

Comment · 13 years ago

I had no clue what the hell you want me to do :-) Seriously, this needs two or three lines of good explanatory copy.