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Re:A Schools Chief So Charming That Los Angeles Overlooked His Red Flags
on Saturday March 07, 2026 @05:09PM (#47291916)
One Red Flag referenced here that I’ve seen in many districts is trading sponsorship for access. A company will sponsor an event put on by a public orgs sister non-profit. The non-profit gets paid. Money goes to public workers via the non-profit. And the sponsoring company gets a contract.
One public school system even set budgets of AI contracts based on what that they could juice from sponsorships.
The solution? Pay public employees more?
Re:WordPress Accessibility Team Meetings Suspended
on Monday October 14, 2024 @10:38AM (#41837968)
I’m part of the WordPress Accessibility team and I’m still working on accessibility today.
Re:Why LLMs will Never be able to perform Accessibility Code Review
on Thursday September 26, 2024 @07:57PM (#41664865)
This article largely came out of frustration with my peers investing lots of energy in developing LLM accessibility review. I spent a year doing it myself. Now I'm done. (Props to those we reference in the article.) My focus is now on quicker scalability for rules-based accessibility tests.
Re:How Chrome Accessibility Works
on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @01:40PM (#41382022)
LLM-generated descriptions miss lots of context. For instance, depending on the site and content, we might mention people's races or fashion. Other times we don't.
Re:Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility
on Monday March 18, 2024 @01:42PM (#39747474)
everyone should be taking this stuff seriously. EU's accessibility act is set to be implemented in 2025 and the US congress also has a bill in the works that mandates greater accessibility across all governments.
Ask HN: How can family and friends use a YC SAFE to invest in my company?
Family and friends want to invest in my company during a "love money" round. The family and friends are non-accredited investors under SEC rules. Can they still invest money with us using a YC SAFE? If the friend/family member can't use the YC SAFE themselves, how might I accept investment from them? Via a trust?
Re:Ask HN: Should I take a salary for my pre-revenue startup?
on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:22PM (#27465288)
We're pre-revenue. Our salaries would be covered by a few interested investors. Current thinking: Unless we get a strategic benefit from taking money from the investor, we shouldn't.
I'm really just curious if some data exists that shows startups that paid salaries survive longer than startups that don't.
Ask HN: Should I take a salary for my pre-revenue startup?
A friend said "no salary" startups succeed less than startups where founders take salary. I can't find any info to confirm / deny this.My case: My company has no revenue yet. I have enough savings to live comfortably for several years. Raising money takes time from developing the product and also means I give away equity. A salary would probably focus my attention more on the company, but...
Re:Ask HN: How can I have a positive impact on the world?
on Thursday March 25, 2021 @11:46AM (#26581709)
Create sustainable jobs people love to do.
Re:Ask HN: How much should I sell my Web Dev shop for?
on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:35PM (#26575060)
Ya. Totally. The good manager is my Plan B if I don't get an offer I want. We have loyal clients that most companies are hot for + a great workflow, so hopefully that translates into more than just a job..
Re:Ask HN: How much should I sell my Web Dev shop for?
on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:34PM (#26575043)
Super solid. We have a workflow that allows devs or designers with under 3 yrs of experience to develop sites that usually require pros with > 5 yrs. That means lower overhead of us and stronger profit.
We even have an app that generates our projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W79nqvCk6Q8
Re:Ask HN: How much should I sell my Web Dev shop for?
on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:29PM (#26574993)
Amazing. Thank you.
Re:Ask HN: How much should I sell my Web Dev shop for?
on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:04PM (#26558944)
cool. how does a business broker value a company? i default to transparency, so would just hack it myself if possible.
Ask HN: How much should I sell my Web Dev shop for?
$325k '20 income w/ $80k profit, $222k '19 income w/ $66k profit ... solid buildout workflow (2 wks buildout for most sites).I'm focusing on a product and now selling my Web Dev shop. Two Dev shops are interested in buying. What price should I sell at? What other factors should I think about?
Re:Ask HN: Why do you still use Wordpress in 2021?
on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:40PM (#26558589)
1. Popularity (40% of the internet use it)
2. It's not Drupal (Drupal 7 to 8 PTSD)
3. I love Open Source
4. It's familiar (10+ yrs WP development)
5. The Block Editor
Re:Flat Design vs. Traditional Design: Comparative Experimental Study ...
on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @06:51PM (#18803188)
“19 female and 1 male university students” participant is a laughable small sample group. How can any insight be drawn from that?
Re:‘Automation’ in Service Operations
on Sunday December 30, 2018 @11:30AM (#18789881)
In my experience, the best policy is just to ask engineers where they are spinning their wheels. Engineers know best where to automate. Relying on top down automation decisions inspires ineffective automation.
Re:Tesla Model 3 is the top selling American car in the USA
on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:44AM (#18174252)
Where are these numbers coming from? The publication only cites itself as a source.
Re:Show HN: Shaper – A simple GUI for building code templates
on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:49PM (#17708276)
A few months ago, I had to build themes for 20+ sites. The sites varied in features (some had slideshows, some had blogs, ..) I wanted to build the projects from boilerplate code that could adapt to the various features as needed, but no tool existed. I pulled in my brother, @ebertucc, and we created Shaper. Now I spend 1-2 minutes instead of 2-3 hours setting up code projects.
The app was built in a few months using Node, Vue and Electron. We're launching this Alpha version to see if Shaper is something we should develop beyond our immediate needs (a few lawyer friends are clamoring for Shaper to segment and generate contract documents).
Curious to hear what ya think!
Show HN: Shaper – A simple GUI for building code templates
Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:44AM (#17521622)
Blake is indeed great summer reading - a retreat from the rational mind. In that vein, my two summer picks are A.R. Ammons' "Still" and the fragments of Friedrich Holderlin translated by Michael Hoffman.