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klinskyc

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Founder of Healthie - https://gethealthie.com New York City/Philly Dev.

cavan at gethealthie dot com

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klinskyc··on The dark side of entrepreneurship
Was anyone else offput that a piece about depression is content marketing?
klinskyc··on Realtime Data Processing at Facebook
and Puma is a rails server
klinskyc··on Why you should aim for 100 rejections a year
Well, as long as the actual relationship was fun and the mutual relationship expectations were in the same ball park, I don't think there's anything unethical.

I guess it'd be weird if the sole purpose was for relationship skills, but I think there's a large middle ground

klinskyc··on Ways to maximize your cognitive potential
While I completely agree about awareness being a form of intelligence, professional athletes (for the most part) are really on a different plane when it comes to physical metrics. An average person will never be able to attain a 4.4 40 for instance.
klinskyc··on Curtsy (YC S16) lets women borrow dresses from their neighbors
What happened to Sara? She's mentioned as a founder initially and then nowhere else.
klinskyc··on Wells Fargo's Bid to Vanquish Screen Scraping
Thought that the article was going to go in a totally different direction before reading it. Instead of solely trying to block screenscrapers, Wells Fargo is actually providing a better alternative. If only everything worked that way
klinskyc··on "I know how to program, but I don't know what to program"
Out of curiosity, any reason why you don't want to learn programming?
klinskyc··on College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not Campus (2014)
Hate to say it, but you are making this a political platform
klinskyc··on What fucking programming language should I use?
Off topic from the article, I don't understand the purpose of using profanity and then censoring it. Writing things like F!@K just seems like a weird middle ground that loses the intensity of cursing and the professionalism of not cursing.
klinskyc··on How old are you based on your reactions?
True on my end also. Dropped 100 ms just from shrinking my window size.
klinskyc··on Credit cards used on cvsphoto.com may have been compromised
plaintextoffenders.com itself works on reports. My extension uses an api (https://8ack.de/plato/info/). The extension regularly caches the list of offenders and checks your current url against the list locally, so neither I nor the api creators can see your browsing history.
klinskyc··on Credit cards used on cvsphoto.com may have been compromised
Hey, I'm actually the creator of the plugin. I'm amazed to see a picture of it on HN. Thanks for using it and let me know if you have any questions. If anyone else wants to use it, it's called Plain Text Offenders Alert and available in the chrome web store.
klinskyc··on Ask HN: Does disrupt mean unnerve established player, so player must buy you?
No. Uber is "disrupting" the taxi industry, but has no intention of being bought out.
klinskyc··on Larry Ellison Is Spending a Fortune to Save American Tennis
It could be playful ribbing, but if not that's incredibly assholeish.
klinskyc··on When You Should Quit a Startup Job
This is good general advice for any job. It's not healthy to work at any company where you don't like your superiors, company culture, and the work itself.
klinskyc··on Drop-In Coworking Spaces in Tokyo
Drop In should probably be Drop-In. After reading the title, I though there was a fall in the number of coworking spaces in Tokyo, which is the exact opposite of the article.
klinskyc··on Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming
CostCo is a literal example of your analogy. You need to buy a membership to be able to purchase anything.
klinskyc··on Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?
As a lot of people have already commented on your website, I'm going to focus on the resume you have to download (which I assume is the one you submit to potential jobs).

First, it's incredibly confusing. You have useless information and the relevant information is spread out into a dozen boxes.

1. You don't need to list that you're a male. (I'd also argue you don't need your d.o.b)

2. You don't need the professional area. If you're submitting the resume, the employer already knows what sector you're in. If someone stumbles across the resume, your experience and skills should make it clear what you can do. The box takes up space and it typecasts you.

3. If they see your resume, you're definitely looking for a job. You don't need a whole box to say it.

4. Don't put a salary requirement. Forgetting some people's taboo about explicitly discussing salary, it can only hurt you. Why would any one pay you 80k if you're telling them that they can pay you 60k.

5. The timeline is useless. First, it stops you from providing extra context (I have no idea what Sherman Curl LLC is.) Second, it highlights the 3.5 year gap between Massage Therapist and the rest of your work. It's better to elaborate on a few relevant jobs then to list every thing you've ever done.

6. You don't use the legend on the bottom of the timeline, it just tells me you used resumup. I'm beating a dead horse, but your website should have the visual resume, not the downloadable pdf. Your downloaded resume should just be your relevant information.

7. You say you have a diploma but you do not say what you got it in or where it's from. That whole box is useless.

8. Hobbies in general are extraneous, yours are especially since none of them are close to notable or unique (although they're a lot of fun.) I also have no idea what electronic hobbies are.

9. The language box has nothing in it.

10. Personality traits aren't binary and, as an employer, I'd probably want to make those judgements myself. Your skills and experience are more important.

11. The skills graphs are confusing. I don't want to spend time trying to understand things that could be put in a list format. Finally, you don't fill all of the form boxes in the skill chart.

12. Your url is your resume, which has the same information I'm looking at. I normally would reccomend linking to your homepage, but since you're doing multi-level-marketing on it, I'm not sure where you want the link to point, maybe github.

I think this is harsher then I intended, but it's important for your first impression (your resume) to be a good one.

TL:DR: Your downloadable resume, even more then your digital one, should strictly be relevant information about your name, email, skills and experience.

klinskyc··on Parts of Heroku are down
"We have completed the maintenance work. API functionality has been restored, and builds are resuming. We're continuing to monitor the affected systems." - Heroku Status

Builds are back up for me after a few hours of downtime.

klinskyc··on Children of parents in technical jobs at higher risk for autism
Couldn't a partial explanation for this be that those in higher paying jobs (i.e engineering) are more likely to take their children to specialists to be diagnosed?
klinskyc··on Led by Stanford’s 5%, Top Colleges’ Acceptance Rates Hit New Low
Colleges actually accept larger numbers than they can have in a class (i.e 1,800 for a 1,000 person class). Students will get in off the waitlist, but I don't think that affects the overall admission percentages
klinskyc··on Consumer Safety Notice for Nest Protect: Smoke and CO Alarm
I'm really wondering what unique circumstances could cause this. Flapping your arms out of fear when you see a fire?
klinskyc··on Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud
Bootstrapping means that you created your company without taking in any outside investors (from the idiom pull yourself up by your bootstraps). VC means you took venture capital money.

A successful bootstraped company generally starts smaller and grows slower than a successful vc-funded company but the founders get to keep all of the ownership. With the advent of cloud computing its getting cheaper and cheaper to bootstrap and it's making bootstrapping much more of a viable and attractive option.

klinskyc··on Introduction to Public Speaking
Two recommendations if you want to learn more,

How to Win Friends and Influence People http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...

and Romancing the Room http://www.amazon.com/Romancing-Room-Engage-Audience-Success....

Both of these definitely helped a lot with my public speaking.

klinskyc··on Salesforce Buys ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion
It's awkwardly worded but they meant that the salesforce stockprice ( not exact targets) is down 2% to its (at the time current) stock price of 40.16. As you can see from this link, http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRM. Its now down to around 39.56, a 3.59% decrease.
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