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ryen··on Why Some Bankers Are Leaving Finance for Fintech Startups
There is a big difference between working in finance (broker, trader, banker, whatever) and building and selling a technology product in an industry you understand best.

Makes more sense than him developing a healthcare app.

ryen··on Show HN: A histogram of salaries given to H1B workers in the software industry
The link shows h1bdata.info as a source, which uses data from here: http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#d...
ryen··on MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
EDIT: (this was 2 years ago)
ryen··on MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
I have a 2010 MBP that experienced system restarts from a Apple-known video issue and they fixed it out of warranty (required complete motherboard replacement). They should extend this to the 2010 models as well.
ryen··on Pets Allowed: Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn’t be?
Are you referring to service dogs that help the blind? Or those that offer emotional support? Clearly there is a difference in training.
ryen··on Ask HN: Techniques for surviving a job you loathe?
Like others have said, use your time to learn new things at work.

And I agree your company likely has no grounds to your IP but what might give them some ground is if you're either caught working on your project at work or if your performance slips to the point they think you have somehow used your time for other means.

ryen··on When a Cartoonist Landed in L.A. County Jail, She Drew What She Saw
If you don't make it to the last page of the 6-page clickthru, there's a link to her Kickstarter campaign for her side animation project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/341471863/the-circus
ryen··on Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft
Maybe they misspelled "bald"
ryen··on I'm a woman CEO and it doesn't change anything
He's referring to the fact that women can't re-produce after a certain age. Also, the risk for complications at later-ages is a factor.
ryen··on Why We Use OCaml
> But there is a strong community behind OCaml. A lot of undergraduate programs use a dialect of ML for their core classes

I don't understand your response. Are you saying the OCaml community primarily consists of undergraduates?

> While most OCaml implementations have poor standard libraries

That right there should tell you something.

ryen··on Ask HN: What did I do so wrong in this coding interview
>Run sudo chmod -R 777 app/storage.

Certainly opening up write access to everyone isn't going to win you any points.

ryen··on Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care
Do you have a source for these numbers? $100/hr is highly suspect for "students that graduated last year and were helping out as teachers".
ryen··on Striking Back At Recruiter Spam
"This call is being recorded for quality purposes and may be used for marketing or other purposes at our discretion."
ryen··on Striking Back At Recruiter Spam
You obviously don't have a lot of experience working with recruiters. They know exactly what they're doing and know which things they do are scummy. Their tactic is to fish for as many people in an organization until somebody bites.

I think the idea is great - it needs to be extended to other, configurable, phone numbers. There should also be a version for recruiters calling potential candidates.

ryen··on Show HN: Amazon Instant, weekend project
Cool project. Don't force images to a set width/height. You're skewing them. Try using max-width & max-height
ryen··on Inflated Tech Valuations Bloat The Entire Economy
Sure, its mostly opinion. But the paragraph starting with "Facebook’s two-year chart shows that..." has substance.
ryen··on Ask HN: Interviewing, what did I do wrong?
He said he was "invited back" for the last interview. Its highly unlikely (and downright stupid) of them to invite someone back without first making a preliminary decision whether its worth their time (and his) to do so.
ryen··on Ask HN: CTO wants me to leave
> apart from my time, and opportunity cost I invested all my personal wealth.

You can try to negotiate a settlement (still consult a personal lawyer) of retaining some of your money put in (maybe after they receive investment) as well as an additional accelerated vesting of a small part of your remaining unvested shares. You still have some rights to make a big stink about all of this, but I wouldn't advise trying to stay on. You may end up with nothing and have burnt some bridges with the CEO and future investors.

ryen··on Automate your Ad Analytics Spreadsheets
There is demand for this. However any reasonably large site is using way more than just these ad networks to power these sites. They would want to hook into several of the bigger ad exchanges (who in turn hook into hundreds of ad servers, networks, DSPs, etc) to get their data.
ryen··on Show HN: My Desk Chair
For other readers, thats the Ikea POÄNG chair

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/series/07472/

ryen··on New Jersey Votes to Block Tesla’s Direct Sales
Next up: New Jersey prevents people from pumping their own gas. Oh wait...
ryen··on Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.
Has Microsoft, Nokia, etc considered some kind of app api bridge or outright code converter tool for Android/Java apps into their own native SDKs?

Seems that if a lack of apps is your main problem then easing the time to port an app to your ecosystem should be a high priority. Sure you'd have to re-implement some proprietary api features, but they likely already have equivalents in the Windows phone SDK (location services, in-app purchasing, etc).

ryen··on Intro for iPhone – No Longer Supported
>Stop the spam

So its not ok for LinkedIn to spam you but its ok for you to spam all your contacts with a mass holiday greeting to "stay in touch"? Ok.

ryen··on Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings
Well sure. But when you start using services that require some kind of G+ opt-in then all of a sudden my Google account has a presence in Google Plus land - which is something I may not want my employees to have associated with their Google Apps accounts.
ryen··on One-Ring Phone Scam on the Rise
What a coincidence, just received a one-ring call from a Grenada number (473 area code) a few minutes ago.
ryen··on Bitcoin now accepted at productivity tool Toodledo
Of course, its cheap advertising...
ryen··on Timothy Hart, Rest in Peace
The fact that he has books with his name on it should help.
ryen··on OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on
I think OpenBSD should reach out directly to manufacturers of the many hardware platforms they support (HP, SPARC (now Oracle), etc) and ask for donations. Of course, only the companies that are still in business.
ryen··on If you move your mouse continually the query may not fail. Do not stop moving
Whats crazy is Microsoft believing this is an acceptable solution rather than fixing/patching it.
ryen··on How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
Have you tried their multiple profiles feature? https://movies.netflix.com/EditProfiles
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