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While I haven't researched this a ton, I've heard conflicting opinions about whether or not you must have a vacation policy in your handbook. This may also be a state-by-state requirement meaning TriNet optimizes for the blanket, you must have one, stance. Does anyone have a citation proving this one way or another?

Another less likely employer benefit to be considered is that in roughly half of that U.S. states, employers must pay out accrued vacation time if there is a policy in place.

An example from California's vacation faq (http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_vacation.htm):

"For example, an employee who is entitled to three weeks of annual vacation (15 work days entitlement per year x 8 hours/day = 120 hours vacation entitlement per year) who quits on August 7, 2002 (the 219th day of the year) without having taken any vacation in 2002, who has no vacation carry-over from prior years, and whose final rate of pay is $13.00 per hour, would be entitled to $936.00 vacation pay upon separation"

downvote, really?

Repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4440198

I didn't think reposts were possible?

Thanks for point that out -- I probably would have just assumed it was legal. Would be helpful to see a breakdown of all states it's illegal in under the Legality section of the Kickstarter. Seems like a great way to get around while traveling so I'd want to make sure it's useable in most states (or at least the ones you frequent most).

Author here. Thanks for posting this, @philfreo :)

Would love to hear feedback on the project!

It's also good practice to disallow all public traffic to your db instances on your firewall. AWS's security groups make this really easy to manage.

Since you store the Google auth_token couldn't anyone with access to the database also gain access to sessions?

A great product that is already generating revenue. A market that we can address. A sales cycle that is reasonable. Ping Steli at ElasticSales dot con for more info!

All our sales reps are highly technical and just amazing startup hustlers. A lot of our success is also due to technology. Ping Steli at ElasticSales dot com and he'll give you the details.

Love it! Lol ;)

What does this output?

curl --silent https://elasticsales.com | grep retargeter

We got lucky and it was available:) Thx!

It's normal to take a livable salary. For the founders I've spoken to in the Bay Area the range is somewhere between 40-60k/year. The variance depends on your expense policy and how you've setup your work environment. For example if you expense all meals, coffee, and you live and work out of an apartment, it's easy to get by on less than 40k which can take care of things like car payments, student loans, etc.

I've seen slab allocation schemes (not sure if that's a standard term for it) work in scenarios like inverted indicies where you want to keep your datum key size small (32 vs 64bit).

The intuition is that you don't need granular memory addressing for storing large chunks. You only need to have addressability at the min(sizeof(doc)) level. So you can usually store the key in a 32bit int or less.

More detail can be found here: https://gist.github.com/1947190

Scraping is probably the best short-term answer right now. Curious if any other early stage companies have taken this internal because it's such a pain.

The first thing that came to my mind was non software related companies that have large manufacturing/operational overhead to launch a product. It's possible, with a small sample like this, to have only surveyed hardware companies -- which would definitely skew things quite a bit.

s3 is the new geocities:P

Nice. Rock on, guys!

Exactly right. And yes, we're hoping for that too:)

We're connecting with banks based on popularity with end consumers. It's our goal to make SwipeGood accessible to everyone in the future.

Our view is that in order to move quickly and enact as much change as possible, we need to be structured as a for-profit (C-Corp).

Since we're not charging charitable organizations, the 5% is used by us to cover the cost of operating our business. If you think about it in that context, it's not very high:)

We're definitely looking at internationalizing the product in the future, but right now we're focused on the U.S. market.

It passed the "my parents understood it test":) Great vid!

Understandable. But frankly, if you've ever seen how banks operate their technical infrastructure you'd want to store all your money in a matress. I'm confident Facebook has much smarter people working to make sure their products are secure.

You can opt to create a swipegood.com account instead of connecting via facebook.

I can't express how awesome this is...I was literally thinking about how great it would be to gmail in vim the other day. rad++

this song should definitely be called "i love the funk".

The main advantage here is that it should be easier to learn and use. The disadvantage is that the simplicity comes with a price -- it isn't as customizable as the automake. But the intention isn't to replace a system like that, just make it easier for projects to get up and running quickly.

Do you use automake for all of your projects or just the larger scale ones?