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CamatHN··on Fallout style RPG made in Excel
Reminds me of when I was younger and creating games in whatever tools I could get my hands on. Made some hover-mouse maze games in PowerPoint
CamatHN··on An Open Letter to Warner Bros CEO About Layoffs and Donuts-
yeah perhaps I worded this wrong.

I don't believe its the right system and the way it should be done but thats how accountability is viewed within the current system (which I think should change).

CamatHN··on An Open Letter to Warner Bros CEO About Layoffs and Donuts-
The top has to have the ability and leeway for things to go wrong so that they can take risks. To make sure they take the right risks they are stakeing a % of their pay if its in options or bonuses as well as in their reputation.
CamatHN··on Microsoft Flow
You might be right in the certain situations but this is an open tool with a wide array of possible uses for people. Such a pessimistic approach doesn't allow for any exploration when think about its potential uses.
CamatHN··on Dropbox Project Infinite
My original thought was, so its a network drive huh? But when you think about the fact that everyone has 128GB Surfaces they take everywhere remotely this is really powerful and I can image a lot easier to administer. Love how they have integrated and just added a simple icon. Well done Dropbox
CamatHN··on MacBook gets a Skylake speed boost, 8GB of memory, longer battery life
You can pretty much guarantee their web browsing wouldn't be very intensive. Probably flicking around some lightweight pages on the Apple site.
CamatHN··on Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam
Thats the thing, HT or Gamma without the co-operation of international law enforcement presumably would have a very hard time finding these people in a legal manner. So whats going on up there.
CamatHN··on Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam
Who exactly would be trying to track him down?

Is there some global force that would be active on him?

CamatHN··on Kite – Programming Copilot
Assuming you use all of the 512GB, if I wasn't needing to use the 10GB free then the 10GB costs $100.
CamatHN··on Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Privacy Activists Wasn't Told About Tor
prosecutors have a duty to 'justice' not simply to deliver the strongest result against the defendant. This is why they have to disclose information that suggests innocence.
CamatHN··on Microsoft won't stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents
As long as litigation is of a positive net present value (i.e. expected return is positive) then they have a duty to their shareholders to undertake it. It's just the way of the world, its not like the CEO is taking into account this when thinking of 'the way microsoft should be' its just the state of tech innovation at the moment.
CamatHN··on Ask HN: Terminated two weeks before vesting cliff – thoughts?
This plainly is not true. Ignore this comment OP.
CamatHN··on How Badoo Saved $1M Switching to PHP7
I am going to disclose for you that you work for Cloudways.
CamatHN··on Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors
i.e. you go into a car park and upon buying the ticket they make you sign it because on the ticket they have written 'We are not responsible if your car or anything within it gets stolen or damaged.'

This term is onerous and as such needs to be agreed to which the signature does.

CamatHN··on Apple users targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaign
From the article: To check whether you have the malware installed:

Using “Activity Monitor” preinstalled in OS X, check whether any process named “kernel_service” is running. If so, double check the process, choose the “Open Files and Ports” and check whether there is a file name like “/Users//Library/kernel_service”. If so, the process is KeRanger’s main process. We suggest terminating it with “Quit -> Force Quit”

CamatHN··on Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors
In the UK at least, receipts often are contracts and often have one or two terms on them. The singing is to prove you acknowledge the contract.
CamatHN··on Valuing high-tech companies
Thanks for the comment. Though I am wondering, as a consulting firm not a finance firm, why does McKinsey model and value companies? Are they brought into double check?
CamatHN··on How to Value a SaaS Business
Great article but I disagree with his multiples.

On average for Fortune500 companies the standard multiple is around 15 times earnings. x20 or so times for Technology. Granted these likely are the dominant player and are much more stable but Saas companies have growth potential that likely exceed such companies.

I think the 4x earnings upper limit is extremely low, especially as there is likely a reason they are trying to buy you out, not just from keeping it relatively stagnant in terms of development and collecting profits. I think at a minimum x10 earnings for a substantial Saas would be the low bar estimation by me.

Lets be reasonable, otherwise you would just hire someone to maintain and just cash in if we are talking about a company like this article is talking about.

CamatHN··on Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive
Usually startups, defined roughly as young companies with extremely high growth creating something new, to start off with are running at a negative cash flow to sustain their growth or development and plan to capitalise on the position later.

These companies would struggle to operate with positive cashflows as their products/services and growth hasn't matured to allow for it yet. Perhaps they are building their product and/or are still in the early stages of iterating on their idea. Just because they have a decent business doesn't mean straight away they can consolidate right away on their business in terms of running a profit.

A lot of decent future businesses could die if startups are forced to consolidate. However in instances this may be a wake up call to keep them accountable to the financials of their business.

CamatHN··on Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?
Relating to this, does anyone know any good Android apps that record such data?
CamatHN··on Introducing Bootstrap Studio
I have enjoyed layoutit.com for simple free wireframing.

You can define your layout pretty quickly if you have ever made a bootstrap layout before.

I know there are other alternatives as well but does anyone have any significant experience with this?Is this a lot better, is this the best one out there?

CamatHN··on Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley
This is a ridiculous comment. Certain ways of behaviour, certain nuances, cannot accurately or reliably be picked up through reading online, only through interactions.
CamatHN··on Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages
Thats another thing to configure and worry about though, especially if its just for open source side projects which can be hard to justify spending $ on.

Thats another service you have to monitor to see if its continuing, another service to be hacked, another account user/pass to have.

CamatHN··on Ousted Founder of Men’s Wearhouse Watches His Old Company Struggle
Spare us he was just pointing out marincounty's mistake really.
CamatHN··on Ousted Founder of Men’s Wearhouse Watches His Old Company Struggle
Make sure its 100% wool for starters. Don't get ripped off by the plastic stuff.

Get a 100% wool suit that you think feels quality. Make sure it fits you, the take it to a tailor to get it fitted.

CamatHN··on Test-Driven Development is Stupid
Comments are easy to miss though. We arnt perfect about going through our code and testing gives us objective measures.
CamatHN··on Can Airlines Make Money?
You would first have to build a suitable dual prop for long flights which costs hundreds of billions of dollars (boeing doesnt sell dual props I dont think for big commercial flights). Thats assuming you can get it working and fits with all the safety requirements and what not.

As such perhaps only for short distance flights? i.e. 3 hours.

Dual props are also a lot slower.

CamatHN··on Startup Playbook
At the same time though if a business is doing $3m profit a year between two people earning $1.5m a year each, calling it "Bootstrapped" is underplaying its success a little.
CamatHN··on Static Website Generators Are the Next Big Thing
To an extent I agree I think we are just getting better at recognizing the security and performance optimizations that are staring us in the face when content doesn't change rather than having complex websites completely static as static site gens do. I think we will see an increase in static elements mixed with dynamic elements in a more comprehensive way.

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I host 10s of more or less static sites (Contact forms being the most dynamic elements) which are generated on the spot from one PHP (laravel) installation.

Anyone know the best way to cache the html/css statically to serve?

CamatHN··on Firms help websites evade ad blockers
But is the an 'OBLIGATION' for them to serve you content? As such if they want to serve content with ads they have that right. You always have the choice whether you want to view their content, with ads and all. You dont have a right to their content.
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