Hacker News: liberatus

1997.chat – AIM is back in time for quarantine

liberatus — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:48:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.1997.chat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627976

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by liberatus in "Ask HN: Where is the money?"

liberatus — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:48:49 +0000

Understand the business goals. Understand the _customer's_ goals.

Bring better ideas to the table on how to achieve them using your understanding of what is the ideal mix of easy/hard and long-term/short-term.

Track your efforts against the bottom line financials. Earn the raise you seek.

New comment by liberatus in "I wish mum's phone was never invented"

liberatus — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:12:41 +0000

Perfect time to quote one of my two 'must have parenting books', The Collapse of Parenting.

"To become a better parent, one must become a better person."

New comment by liberatus in "Proxy, a new JavaScript ES6 feature"

liberatus — Fri, 18 May 2018 13:21:04 +0000

Big win for JavaScript DSL composers. Reminds me of method_missing and other sharp knives in ruby.

Kickstarter Fully Funded: Konnected.io – Open Source Home Security Platform

liberatus — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:35:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nateclark/konnected-alarm-panel-revive-your-wired-alarm-syst

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15697226

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by liberatus in "Amazon Chime"

liberatus — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:38:26 +0000

I don't believe claims of perfection were made. Merely claims of a standard of excellence.

Trump Wants to Keep Parts of ACA: Pre-Existing Conditions and Coverage to Age 27

liberatus — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 21:37:49 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-willing-to-keep-parts-of-health-law-1478895339

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934634

Points: 10

# Comments: 9

Why I Trained Myself Not to Be a ‘Woman in Tech’

liberatus — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 02:20:12 +0000

Article URL: https://open.buffer.com/talking-about-diversity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452194

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by liberatus in "My Biggest Regret as a Programmer"

liberatus — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 17:19:20 +0000

So you're an IC suffering under "incompetent management". Yeah sometimes you just can't work around this, but often times you can learn to sell your ideas better to those specific people. Maybe they don't jive with your delivery. Change it.

If you speak the language of revenue, you can rationalize almost anything that will grow it responsibly.

If the language of revenue and various delivery tactics still don't convince your management, then it's time to leave.

I too struggle with focusing on the negative sometimes, so I constantly encourage myself (and the author and others who are feeling similarly) to redouble efforts to optimistically communicate in the language of revenue.

New comment by liberatus in "Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but..."

liberatus — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:41:13 +0000

Doesn't understand bayesian logic! Doesn't understand risk management!

New comment by liberatus in "CloudKit JS"

liberatus — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 05:25:40 +0000

From the flash message on: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...

"Apple is supplying this information to help you plan for the adoption of the technologies and programming interfaces described herein for use on Apple-branded products. "

'for use on Apple-branded products.'

New comment by liberatus in "Amazon RDS Adds Postgres to SLA"

liberatus — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:33:02 +0000

Maybe now Heroku will cut their hosted PG prices down a bit.

Amazon RDS Adds Postgres to SLA

liberatus — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:32:13 +0000

Article URL: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/rds-postgres-sla/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8048475

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

How I Became the First Hire at Hired

liberatus — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:50:12 +0000

Article URL: http://winfred.nadeau.io/2014/04/25/how-i-became-the-first-hire-at-hired/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7648668

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Beat the Series A Crunch, Sell Your Team on DeveloperAuction

liberatus — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:16:31 +0000

Article URL: http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/19/developerauction-teams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6073013

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

DeveloperAuction Expanding to Designers, Offering Free Intern Placement

liberatus — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:50:39 +0000

Article URL: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/05/developer-auction-begins-offering-free-intern-placement-tests-expanding-to-designers-as-it-pushes-to-change-recruiting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826809

Points: 20

# Comments: 5

New comment by liberatus in "College was my biggest mistake (2012)"

liberatus — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:26:54 +0000

That's a new definition of "engineer" for me. Didn't realize that having a degree was a prerequisite of the title, like getting a PhD gives you "Dr."

New comment by liberatus in "Developer Auction out of beta; accepting developers from all backgrounds in US"

liberatus — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:43:38 +0000

Actually, DeveloperAuction is moving into other cities soon enough. After speaking with the team a bit, I got the impression that they see Silicon Valley as the testbed so they can perfect the process before taking it more universal.

I'm not really sure why this is so hard to see, the auction model is so weird, of course it'll take some time to figure out the kinks before "going global".

New comment by liberatus in "A letter to my daughter, Augusta, in ruby"

liberatus — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:22:35 +0000

Yeah but the maintenance overhead on such complexity... Just wait till the teenage years!

Nah, given the design decisions inspiring this codebase, I don't have any reason to believe your daughter will have any challenge extending and reusing its functionality once she's grown up. ;-)

New comment by liberatus in "Show HN: Our alternative to recruiter spam"

liberatus — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:35:15 +0000

Our solution to recruiter spam:

Become a recruiter.

I'm sorry but how is your business model any different from that of a recruiter? (Other than claims of human or AI filtered quality.)

I just don't see how you will not run into the exact same problems that existing recruiters run into.

What makes you different than a normal recruiter building profiles of companies and employers and soliciting both? This just looks very familiar, abeit drop dead gorgeous. :-)

I guess if good design and AI are enough to solve the recruiter problem, then count me in, it's just not clear to me how you are really different from your landing page. (Other than of course it is beautiful, seriously fantastic work.)