Hacker News: RoyceFullerton

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Fog Creek’s Remote Work Policy"

RoyceFullerton — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 05:16:03 +0000

Because Reddit front page

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "India: the Story You Never Wanted to Hear"

RoyceFullerton — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:41:53 +0000

I lived in India for awhile and had female friends go though a bit of what is described in the story it brings back situations I was in and I empathize.

But why is this on the front page of Hacker News?

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Massive number of Yahoo email accounts compromised"

RoyceFullerton — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:40:52 +0000

I've gotten three of these in the last two days from three family members on different sides of the family who all use Yahoo. I thought the first two were just idiots, but after the third I started to wonder how widespread this was.

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Show HN: "Dropbox for Wi-Fi""

RoyceFullerton — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:09:42 +0000

Ouch: "Error establishing database connection"

Scramble to fix it before you drop off the front page!

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "John McAfee arrested in Guatemala"

RoyceFullerton — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:47:18 +0000

Vice footage of the detainment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWqiVhRa0xI

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Use Hulu, Netflix, Pandora and Rdio from any country"

RoyceFullerton — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:01:44 +0000

Is all traffic being routed through their proxy or just the bare minimum to start the stream on the various websites?

Basically: is all my chrome browser traffic going through their servers?

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "6-8 Weeks Until Bitcoin Debit/Credit Card, says BitInstant"

RoyceFullerton — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:14:43 +0000

I have lived outside of the US for 6 years and can hands down recommend Charles Schwab Bank. All ATM fees in the US and abroad are reimbursed and there are no foreign transaction fees. That shady private ATM in the bar charges $5 per transaction? You are totally insensitive to it.

When was the last time you walked into a bank with a checking account question? You are here on HN so I assume it is rarely or never

But...it's a debit account, so if you need a credit card this may not fit your use case.

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Start-Up Chile opens a new application process"

RoyceFullerton — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:07:47 +0000

I am from the US and I have not heard anyone paying taxes on the $40k as a US citizen. I can not say if this is the correct way to handle it or not. Since the money is split up between the team it is a bit complicated if you have more than one team member, but the money does get reimbursed to the head team member so if someone was responsible for paying taxes on it, it would be the head team member. All charges that you submit for reimbursement must be made from an account of a human team member on the contract or a Chilean company, and not from a US entity such as an LLC.

You can elect to draw a small salary from the grant money here in Chile (which most do) and you must register with the tax office here, but the salary is not high enough to require you to pay taxes here in Chile either.

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App"

RoyceFullerton — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:03:25 +0000

One reason:

"...performance of UIWebViews is less than in mobile Safari. This has a lot to do with the absence of the new Nitro JavaScript engine in UIWebViews, apparently for security reasons. I ran some tests on my iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1.1, the JavaScript benchmark Sunspider running in Mobile Safari was 3 x as fast as running in a native app with a UIWebView. Also, to communicate from the UIWebView to the native app, a JavaScript bridge is needed. This is tricky stuff, slow and not really thread safe."

http://blog.mobtest.com/2012/05/heres-why-the-facebook-ios-a...

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App"

RoyceFullerton — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:42:24 +0000

I think the bigger problem is still iOS's webview from within native apps, not that it has to pull most of the assets from the server. If you go to m.facebook.com in Safari it is much faster than using the native application and most of it is the same HTML5 code that is running within the webview of the native app. The twitter app is also painfully slow when clicking a link and it opens up the resulting page in a webview.

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "AirBnb's new site design"

RoyceFullerton — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:12:33 +0000

Next month's post: Wimdu's new site design http://wimdu.com

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Start-Up Chile opens a new application process"

RoyceFullerton — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:59:50 +0000

Great point. I initially thought I would float everything on my credit card until I got reimbursed. I found out it doesn't work like that unfortunately. You have to show that the credit card has been paid off for the transactions you are submitting.

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Start-Up Chile opens a new application process"

RoyceFullerton — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:30:06 +0000

Yes, they make it pretty clear that you should have $5k per person to get you on your feet. I took it pretty lightly but it ended up being quite accurate and we ran into some cashflow issues.

As for time on program overhead, minimum probably 2 days a month. Much more if you want to be more involved with the community. You are not forced to do much more than the reimbursement process and finding some ways to give back to the Chile. You could go to meetups and such 3-4 days a week if you wanted, a lot going on.

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Start-Up Chile opens a new application process"

RoyceFullerton — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:15:05 +0000

I'm currently down in Santiago and part of round 3. I'm happy to try to answer any questions anybody has about the program.

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Heroku is down"

RoyceFullerton — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:16:16 +0000

Confirmed. One of my apps is down. I hope they resolve it soon, but I don't pay anything at the moment so I am not too upset.

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Is Diaspora dead?"

RoyceFullerton — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:14:26 +0000

They got into the next round of YCombinator, so I'm sure we will see something soon.

http://allthingsd.com/20120511/diaspora-says-its-back-on-tra...

Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms [DOC]

RoyceFullerton — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:34:23 +0000

Article URL: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1239829_fyi-.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3638234

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by RoyceFullerton in "Wolfram Alpha now lets you spy on the flights overhead"

RoyceFullerton — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:59:31 +0000

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=flights+overhead

Wolfram Alpha now lets you spy on the flights overhead

RoyceFullerton — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:57:08 +0000

Article URL: http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/18/wolfram-alpha-flights-overhead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3253374

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Apple class action settlement: Get your reimbursement for frayed magsafe adapter