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I had this. The first attempt to fix was to ship a replacement rubber earpiece, which didn't work. Ultimately they replaced the entire earbud.

Keeping up with the Joneses. I think it’s good to have opinions on the new hot thing.

I just remade my personal site after a 6 year break.

It took me 4 hours to redo a static HTML and CSS mockup, learning a bunch of great new things about CSS Grid and Vars... then another week to convert that static into a Gatsby static-generator site.

It's sort of insane how over engineered we've gone on this stuff. HTML and CSS are pretty great tools for a blog. We can skip the React, GraphQL, etc.

I learned this from the GE repair guy who came out to repair my broken down 2yr old dishwasher. He also said: "Never buy anything from GE." Then he plugged an ethernet cable into my fridge and updated the firmware. Mind blown.

Well that explains why their money-down price jumped from $500 to $5000 within the last couple of weeks.

If you can recognize art then you can recognize posters/ads. That would remove the need for any QR code or machine readable printable element.

Terrible weather and infrastructure? You haven't been to SF recently then.

I'm going to go all Australasian Coffee Snob here: They may well be correct for Berkeley, but they've got a large barrier to acceptance outside of the US.

When did we decide architecture diagrams were isometric?

I've been noodling on this product idea for about 6 months now, but never gotten around to building it. Drat, but congrats on doing it.

One killer feature I would propose is to help candidates weigh up multiple offers; salary, equity, commute time, enjoyment, advancement, etc.

You've described pretty much every country's immigration requirements, not just NZ. I've lived in NZ, the UK, and the US. Every one will ask for proof of health (TB, HIV, etc) and if you're attempting to gain a Visa attached to a GF then you have to prove it is bonafide, often with letters, shared bills/expenses, etc. That's nothing to get upset about.

$3,000 sounds almost reasonable for property taxes. $30,000 sounds like daylight robbery.

I have worked in tech for 15 years, around the world, an have never met this mythical "tech bro".

And the subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/mapswithoutnewzealand/

Isn't this every city, everywhere?

As a founder in the UK I was using Xero and a London based virtual-CFO about 8 years ago, and it was an absolute life saver not having to deal with the cruft. The accountants did the books for most of the good startups in London at the time, so had a good range of experiences from funding to tax credits. Of course, they did this without raising $15M :)

Interesting to see how this seems to be a "new" thing even now in the US market.

[Disclosure: I am an ex-Xero employee]

There's probably a few titles for it: but people who build experiences which grow sign ups and engagement.

Pinterest is always looking for great people! I'm always on the hunt for engineers with experience in "Growth".

Pinterest | React engineer, web engineer, ML, everything | San Francisco | Onsite, Visa | Fulltime | https://careers.pinterest.com/careers

I'm a relatively recent hire, but loving it. Come work with us on an awesome product.

Having lived in both for a few years each I can definitely say that SF is cheaper, at least on a per-sqft basis. You also earn twice as much in SF (plus the equity lottery).

That all said: SF certainly ain't no London. I'd still pick London any day of the week.

Ditto – I think even on a like-for-like comparison housing in SF (I just moved to Alameda) is cheaper than back in Auckland/Wellington. Wages are certainly higher anyhow.

You would find that NZ has a very user-friendly tax system. For the most part there is no need for a tax return for a private citizen in FTE.

We'll do an honesty box.

Yes, it's anywhere outside of strong US ties. In New Zealand you'll get chased down the street by the honest waiter telling you that you've forgotten your change.

To give more context for non-Kiwi's: New Zealanders have traditionally valued houses above all else, treating them as their retirement plans. We don't have capital gains tax or stamp duty, so house flipping has been a valuable side-business for many.

There's a handy iOS app at least but only does on the go stuff which makes good use of your smart phone

All looking pretty good for cloud accounting products like Xero.com - the desktop is dead!

Why don't you just wire it up to the Xero API instead of the bank accounts?

It's the acceptable-because-it's-male-and-white version of "blond bimbo"

Well isn't the game now that their preferences mean they get their guaranteed returns even if an IPO bombs well below the private valuation?