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timhaines

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Cofounder of Percy.io http://twitter.com/timhaines
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timhaines··on How I Run a Company with ADHD
"I got my homework done that day according to schedule!" :)
timhaines··on A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet
How commonly do you see each of the voting/veto rights you listed negotiated? What are some others that may be listed that you'd deem inappropriate?
timhaines··on What Happens When a Founder Is Fully Vested?
It's a helpful thing to put in place if you have more than one founder. It makes it clear to everyone ahead of time what happens if one of the founders leaves.
timhaines··on New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses
Lol, that's BS. It's very difficult, and impossible for many people to immigrate to the US.
timhaines··on Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors
Going by Nylas' blog post last month, they say new development of the Nylas mail client is sunset, and the team was reallocated to the API product, which is doing better commercially? https://www.nylas.com/blog/sunsetting-nylas-mail-development
timhaines··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
Percy (https://percy.io) | San Francisco ONSITE | Full stack engineer

Percy's hiring the 2nd engineer to join the team -- work directly with the founders, have a large impact, and help set the culture from the start.

Percy's on a mission to eliminate manual QA review of web applications. We do this by integrating with test suites and component viewers, capturing snapshots, sending them to our browser rendering farm, and then automating the visual review process when the UI has changed.

Our customers include Google, Mozilla, Ubuntu, the New York Times, Basecamp, and Stitch Fix. We're growing strongly each month, as more engineering teams learn about Percy and adopt it to manage their own visual UI reviews.

If you have at least a couple of years working in a web stack, feel welcome to apply. You can find our job on Angellist, or email me directly tim@percy.io

timhaines··on GitHub announcements: Marketplace, Apps and GraphQL API
GitHub Apps (was called Integrations until today) allows for 'per repository' configuration. We use it at Percy.io and it works pretty well. It has some other parts that need smoothing (like a non-admin going through the flow), but GitHub's been improving it. :) I like it a lot.
timhaines··on Ask HN: US Visa for foreign founders after first seed
You're allowed to say no to your investors. In this case it sounds like you probably should.

$100k isn't giving you much runway in SV. You won't be able to hire anyone, and would soon be out of cash and have to leave (you'll save a portion of your cash for that right?).

If there's something you really want to move to SV for, come for 2 months, stay in an airbnb, and do what you need to do. If you need to and can, raise more money (investors or revenue) if you're set on moving here.

timhaines··on The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix (2015)
This post is 13 months old btw.
timhaines··on Want to spell check? Read the fine print
The Plugin Author is a Principal PM on Visual Studio..
timhaines··on Want to spell check? Read the fine print
There's a PM at Microsoft called Sean McBreen who works with Visual Studio. Probably the same guy. He's posted his email address publicly before - smcbreen@microsoft.com (i.e. here https://github.com/Armitxes/VSCode_SQF/issues/2 )
timhaines··on Tay – Microsoft A.I. chatbot
It appears to have a massive elevation on Twitter's normal tweeting rate limit.
timhaines··on Squire: FastMail’s rich text editor
I went looking for where their docs talk about handling attachments, and couldn't find it. Can you point me in the right direction?
timhaines··on Random Tweet: See one random tweet at a time
Only took about 10 clicks before it came up with some porn pics.
timhaines··on Show HN: Respondly – Team Inbox for Email and Twitter. Our new MeteorJS App
For reference, the deleted comment above mine had asked if all of the companies listed in 'used and loved by' were legit (fair skepticism I reckon). After I answered they deleted their comment.
timhaines··on Show HN: Respondly – Team Inbox for Email and Twitter. Our new MeteorJS App
Yep, they're all using it often, and they all gave their permission for us to list them there.

Pocket's Support person: https://twitter.com/saysjustin/status/456165953718341632

Stripe's Twitter support person: https://twitter.com/kitchenettekat/status/456150203066617857

And you can look at the via tag on the reply tweets sent from @tweetbot and @npmjs_support to see that they're using it.

timhaines··on Show HN: Respondly – Team Inbox for Email and Twitter. Our new MeteorJS App
Thanks for the kind words. We really should get a technical blog going - we've learnt a lot about MeteorJS over the last year.
timhaines··on Show HN: An HN-Style Site for Integrated Circuits Folks
Nice use of Telesc.pe: http://telesc.pe/
timhaines··on Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner
Anyone can write at Medium. You can open an account there yourself.
timhaines··on Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner
No, Naoki isn't a writer at thenextweb.com. The may have republished his own blog post from medium.
timhaines··on How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
He tweeted pretty heavily previously. Was one of the small team who made @echofon. He'd reduced his tweeting, but was still using the account in other ways.
timhaines··on How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
Have just been talking with him. He first asked Twitter for it back on the 20th of Jan. 8 days ago.
timhaines··on Send money with Gmail
It's true! I was skeptical so I just called it and got a human after 1 button push and a 10 second wait.
timhaines··on Ask HN: Google workers, sister is visiting S.J. Can she tour the Googleplex?
When I visited, the Android statues were cool, the conference bikes were unique, and the size of the campus (coming from NZ where 100 people is a big business) was mind blowing. Plus, it's Google! It had lost it's sparkle by the third visit, but just being there is a novelty the first time.
timhaines··on Updating Rails
My app breaks going from 3.2.8 to 3.2.9. I haven't had time to fix it yet, so I've just applied the workaround for now too.
timhaines··on What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
Twitter would blacklist the IP(s).
timhaines··on Tell HN: CTO of Twitpic, in SF 11/9 to 11/18, want to meet up?
How about we meet up for a naked run?
timhaines··on Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
I thought you'd done a good job on Fruiji - I like the YAS factor.

Are you TwentyPeople? It give the impression you have a bunch of staff, but in fact it's just one person?

timhaines··on It's About The Hashbangs
I think the post is relavant (today) considering Dan (the author) was instrumental in removing the hashbangs. Twitter's Engineering Blog Post from today: http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/05/improving-performance...
timhaines··on Migrating From MongoDB To Riak At Bump
Ha. I've had and have plenty of data problems. After 2 days of making adjustments as per Basho's suggestions to try and improve the write throughput, I moved on. You seem to be making a lot of judgments and assumptions about that decision based on very little information. I guess this is troll food.
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