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kookiekrak··on Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees
pay adjustments have already been known for over a year, its not some secret. its to -15% to places like hawaii, -10% to miami, -5% to seattle/LA, or 0% to nyc

its based on cost of acquisition of labor in the region, not cost of living as you can see from hawaii

kookiekrak··on Coinbase rethinking its approach to compensation
They have some of the worst offers for a company of their size.

They rely on your "passion" for crypto to underpay and hire naive engineers.

kookiekrak··on Why some tech workers are turning down jobs at TikTok
You should take a look at https://www.levels.fyi/ to recalibrate your pay bands
kookiekrak··on Show HN: How to work with APIs
This is great and super informational, thanks for sharing!

Basics like this should be part of every introductory CS course.

kookiekrak··on Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company
Instagram hasn't copied from Snapchat in a very long time. Have you used Snapchat recently? The UX is completely different and awful now.

Instagram is innovating with new features like Video Calling and Live Video that Snapchat lacks.

kookiekrak··on BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON
TRON is a dpos blockchain with a port of the ethereum virtual machine. Not sure where you get the IPFS part from.
kookiekrak··on Lessons from Interviewing 400 Engineers Over Three Startups
Facebook's guidelines were 25% confidence they could pass an onsite and they would be given one.

I'd personally rather give the candidate AND the company a chance at hiring a potential candidate than missing out on one. The longterm impact on your company is huge.

kookiekrak··on BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron
Tron VM has a beta release out, but it's not a priority currently.

They're working on building and stabilizing the blockchain first. Dapp partnerships are coming but you cant have people commit to building on a nonexistant blockchain ;)

kookiekrak··on Someone is making money with my CV, while I cannot
Looks like op submitted GDPR data requests to recruiting agencies that were sending him job request.

He previously signed up for some job listing sites like Jobsite/Dice/Monster/Indeed or any of the trash job listing sites.

There was a term in their TOS that allowed them to sell his CV as part of a batch to recruiting firms to contact him which he didn't see.

Hence the outrage.

kookiekrak··on Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day
Congrats to OpenSea! https://opensea.io/

They're one of the best crypto asset exchanges around.

Crypto Racing League is excited to finish integration with them soon! http://cryptoracingleague.io/

kookiekrak··on Ask HN: Should I provide salary history after an accepted offer?
I went through this when I received an offer to join a BigCo.

During the background check provided by the 3rd party, I actually filled in my STARTING, not FINAL salary for some of the previous companies that I worked for.

This actually came up in the final report as mismatches in my history since they actually do call up each company you provide information for, but nothing ever came of it.

I suggest that you not lie on a background check. The company will not renege on an already agreed on salary nor does a BigCo care how much they're paying you.

What they're looking for is honesty and that there are no glaring red flags in your personality or history.

kookiekrak··on PSA: Don't force quit apps on iOS
Force quitting prevents the app from waking in the background due to geo location updates, push etc.

Personally I prefer to force quit because it improves my battery life by reducing background updates on apps I'm not using.

kookiekrak··on Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
tinypng is actually based on pngquant + more optimizations not in pngquant
kookiekrak··on California has legalized recreational marijuana
I believe you're mistaken.

The initiative passed and will become law on November 9, 2016.

Recreational marijuana shops would open no earlier than January 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Use_of_Marijuana_Act

kookiekrak··on Hacking inclusion by customizing a Slack bot
I would argue that this article may actually harm your efforts at attracting better candidates.

The slackbot responses are equivalent to public shaming for using a widely accepted gender neutral phrase to address a group of people.

This makes 18F seem like a highly PC environment to work in.

kookiekrak··on CodePush by Microsoft
there's also a cool company called Primer that does the same for mobile onboarding screens on iOS

https://goprimer.com

kookiekrak··on Designing a Mobile App for Maximum Growth
awesome article. really nice to see a guide on how to build effective onboarding from an experts view
kookiekrak··on How to Design a Mobile App for Maximum Growth
awesome article. really nice to see a guide on how to build effective onboarding from an experts view
kookiekrak··on Google Cloud Shell
slightly unrelated, is there any way you guys could add the ability to create multiple instances with the same settings using the web interface?

I'm able to do it on aws but with google cloud I have to either run the command line or manually start every instance

kookiekrak··on Across the USA by Train for Just $213
not by him. he plagiarized it
kookiekrak··on Show HN: Coffee Test – Quality, on-demand in-person user testing of your app
please fix your meta tags. you copy pasted from your hirelarge.com

and slack thinks that coffeetest.io and hirelarge.com are the same site

kookiekrak··on “I'm wiping this repository away”
It exists. I just got one today about a work at home job...
kookiekrak··on Show HN: Bitterness – Personalized Pranks Delivered
also how do i get to your normal gifts or are the bitterness ones all that you're running now

edit nvm i saw your reply below. i think i ordered a product? is there a confirmation somewhere?

edit edit i got the email awesome! you guys should do some sort of order history list in the app

kookiekrak··on Show HN: Bitterness – Personalized Pranks Delivered
april fools! check your hawaii image
kookiekrak··on Redesigning the traditional Chinese shoulder pole
These designs seem to be missing a big factor which is the cost and effort necessary to build one of these shoulder poles.

They're targeting the extremely poor demographic and any design that requires complicated construction would be impossible to build.

kookiekrak··on Show HN: I made an app to send silly anonymous cat facts to your friends (iOS)
click this to install: http://getapp.in/mP7F

so i can track the source :)

kookiekrak··on Show HN: I made an app to send silly anonymous cat facts to your friends (iOS)
free pics for now
kookiekrak··on Show HN: I made an app to send silly anonymous cat facts to your friends (iOS)
It polls:

http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/ - for facts

http://thecatapi.com/ - for tumblr photos

Uses:

twilio - for sms sends

Feedback appreciated and I'll answer any questions!

kookiekrak··on Self-filling water bottle turns humidity into drinking water for cyclists
until you realize that the drag created by the larger device actually costs more in energy to create the water than other sources.

im curious if this device on your bike would cause you to burn more water than what it produces

kookiekrak··on Amazon Fire TV Stick
Can you mirror a laptop to the tv using this?
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