remyp

Yep. Try sending an email using Yesware to Gmail.

That's about 1% of the work. Email is old, arcane at times, and has a ton of interoperability and vendor-specific nonsense. Add in the fact that it _cannot_ go down for enterprise and that you have to do all of this at huge scale and it turns in to a pretty tough problem to solve.

I'm still bound by various paperwork that (probably) prevents me from disclosing that, but if you root around on the company site you can find a few relevant patents with details.

I've always been a fan of upfront pricing, but I don't work there anymore. As near as I can tell not having publicly available pricing seems pretty common for enterprise software.

In addition to the above, many tracking services log your location and some even measure how long you read the message for. They can also make a good guess at whether you forwarded the message to someone else.

Even if you turn off images it's not always good enough: some trackers try to load any external resource they can, like sounds and fonts.

Not only are tracking pixels an invasion of privacy, they've held up in court as proof of receipt.

I helped build a product that blocks them at the enterprise level without affecting the presentation of the message or requiring end user effort: https://messagecontrol.com

Personally I've always been as upfront as possible with candidates about the state of things. I've never had a new employee join and be surprised with what they found, and I've never showed a candidate code prior to hiring them.

Sure, there may be very few companies in the world where there is 'secret sauce', but the problem is that they all _think_ they have it. If my GC says I can't share IP without paperwork signed then I can't share it - the reason is not relevant unless I have the power or influence in the organization to change the policy. I'm not getting fired over it and (at least at previous companies) I'd get laughed out of the room for even asking.

I'm an engineer myself. This isn't some kind of game I'm playing to pull one over on poor hapless souls - we can argue what ought to be until the cows come home but the reality is that the vast majority of hiring managers have their hands tied by company policy.

I absolutely agree that this is the employee equivalent of "jumping through hoops".

With that said, for the companies I've hired for in the past someone who sees the state of unit testing as a dealbreaker would likely be a bad fit. If they're hiring it might be because the company needs more hands to help make the tests better!

This feels a little hostile, but I don't consider this outcome a bad thing. Everyone wants to avoid a bad fit - my intention was simply to help people fully understand how they may be perceived.

Like I said, I see why people ask for it. If the benefit to you of getting that information is worth the risk of potentially making a bad impression then go for it.

I’m always surprised when candidates ask for this. I can see why they would want to, but it presents problems for the company:

Employees always sign stuff to protect the IP. I’d have to go get paperwork from the company attorney to cover non-employees before I can show them anything.

Can they really learn anything about the codebase in the limited interview time we have? They’re not getting repo access.

Why is the candidate asking this question in the first place? It makes me wonder if they’re inflexible or unwilling to be pragmatic about imperfect code. If they have a track record of leaving companies because the code isn’t up to their puritanical standards then it’s a hard pass.

“Is there anything I didn’t ask that you wish I had?”

I recognize that I’m not perfect at interviewing and want to give people the opportunity to brag about themselves and express something I might have missed.

Static HTML. The last thing I need is to worry about keeping blog software up to date so it doesn’t get hacked.

I built Kismet (https://findkismet.com) and don't have nearly as much time to spend on it as I'd like.

I would consider selling, but only to someone who wants to continue supporting it for the long term. I'd love a collaborator if anybody is interested!

I work solo on my latest side project, but if I were recruiting others I would think of my side project as a mini nonprofit. How do nonprofits recruit talent despite the (usually) bad pay?

It could be that the utility of working for an organization whose mission they are passionate about outweighs the money they "lose", or it could be something else, but it's a good place to start.

I built a side project ( https://findkismet.com ) and my cofounder found it. He reached out and a lot (a LOT) of conversations later we decided to build a company together.

Finding a cofounder is like love: it often happens when you're not looking for it. The best thing you can do to improve your odds is continue to improve yourself and put yourself out there.

No. Scrolling down the page should not make my 2018 i7 MacBook Pro spin up its fans.

Read your agreement again, carefully - maybe you got lucky and cashless exercise is available to you.

A different (possibly oversimplified) way of thinking about it: the people paying you that rate are only doing so because they're getting a return on that money.

If you can find a way to do what they do (run a successful business) then you would get higher returns being a labor buyer rather than a seller.

Whether those potential returns _adjusted for risk_ are worth it is up to you.

Technology is not the only “moat” there is. A photo sharing app is ultimately CRUD but it’s pretty hard to take down Instagram.

SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote within US (NOT negotiable)

* C# .NET full stack developers

* AWS devops generalists

Ongoing staff-augmentation placement, usually with larger companies.

For details on currently available opportunities and questions, please email me@jeremyphelps.com and include resume, LinkedIn, etc.

The conventional wisdom around here is that you can't beat the market, it's efficient, all information is already incorporated, you should buy index funds, etc.

This is good advice for the vast majority of people. It's possible to beat the market, but you're unlikely to do so unless you're backed by significant capital and it's what you do for a living (see: Rennaisance, Two Sigma, Citadel, etc).

Ask yourself this: if you had the hottest of hot stock knowledge (and could legally trade on it), what would you do? Keep quiet and buy the stock yourself before word gets out, or sell the advice to a newsletter audience?

It's also brutal if you use a well-known VPN service.

Yeah, I mean, fine. Chicago's corrupt, I guess, but I've lived there 10 years and it's not like the alderman is shaking me down for protection money or whatever. Every city has advantages and disadvantages.

I'd defy you to show me another actual city (def: "owning a car is optional") in the US where my money goes anywhere near as far despite the high taxes and corruption. Do that and I'll move, but until then I'm going to sit tight and enjoy my deep dish pizza.

I do this 100% manually with the help of a CPA. It's far too important to trust some app to handle for me.

How else will they know you’re looking? Most people want to help if they can, and if they can’t they’ll politely say no or simply not respond.

Not all networking happens in person. Send emails to former colleagues and let them know you're looking for business. Ask around in online communities. Reply to strangers' tweets. Just keep talking to people.

I made a little app to help HN users network with each other. I can't promise you'll find what you're looking for, but it's free: https://findkismet.com

Depends on the service. Google allows us to invalidate the token when we're done, rendering it useless, so we do. You'll notice that if you run the stats tool again you'll have to re-authorize it for Google.

Microsoft does not, so it will remain valid. We don't store it or log it anywhere, and the system that retrieves and processes data is not publicly accessible.

This is a really good idea we hadn't thought of yet, thank you! We'd even be able to use the exact same logic to do the calculations...

This is something we've heard from a lot of people, and we account for it. Meetings that only include yourself aren't counted in the stats.