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Can we get following information from founder or does anyone know ?
1. When perfectaudience was started ?
2. How much revenue it had at the time of selling ?
3. What was rough ( though not exact ) percentage of company holding by owners at the time of selling ?
4. What software technologies they used for this platform ?
Just an FYI : Don't click finish button at the end. This is very sneaky technique to gauge personal information about you. Though it is not asking your name it will calculate fingerprint / signature of your info ( based on IP + traffic analysis + many other techniques ).
If you look at the form after you calculate personal information worth, that data is transmitted to "
http://emailthis.t.ft.com/form"
I don't want to say FT are bad guys but its good practice not to share any information that would give chance to uniquely identify you.
This is how profiling and targeting works ( source : I work for one of the two largest data broker )
Posted by
skkbits on Friday May 09, 2014 @04:23PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Recently I was looking for a domain name for generic english word. No surprise that it wasn't available and almost every reasonable typing/sounding variant was taken and parked for ads.
What can we ( We as in people of each country) and ICANN do to reduce this situation ?
This will be one step closer towards reducing spam and noise. What do you think ?
Posted by
skkbits on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @09:43PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am seeing so many apps and games making replicas to gain momentum. All they do is just change name. Why Apple and Google allow this ? Doesn't it degrade quality of App store or Play store ?
While working for my previous employer I always ended up working more hours when I worked from home. I just don't know why ? In office, I at least get up for lunch, coffee but when worked from home I developed habit of working while having lunch and not putting away laptop.
I guess it requires a lot of discipline to work from home and manage yourself as if its actual office.
Posted by
skkbits on Monday May 05, 2014 @10:03PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am wondering what could be possible reasons to reject job offers from these tech giants ? Anyone did so ? Why did you reject the offer ?
Posted by
skkbits on Saturday May 03, 2014 @04:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.
How do you keep off from getting tired ? What you do for relaxation ?
The company I work is around for 40+ years now. There are some folks as "Programmer Analyst", "Software Engineer", "Sr. Engineer" for 20+ years now.
I have asked many of them why you didn't move up the ladder and report to someone junior ( or H1B in his early 30's). Most of the time answer I got it, they love what they do. They love having opportunity to program , provide logical + thoughtful solutions.
Of course, when new management comes in and there are times to make decision to layoff, these people become victim due to range of salary they have reached, age, skillset. This is very unfortunate but true.
I would not completely write off what author is saying but I believe it depends on individual prospective. Of course, money is important factor but if you are getting a job 8 am to 5pm + raising your family/kids comfortably + spending time with family and yet have good balance when you retire then being programmer is quite good deal actually.
>Also, it is very difficult to go from becoming IT manager to
IT director or higher, especially in bigger companies.
This is so much true.
>Opportunity to become VP, or even director is not all that common.
Completely agree. You hit nail on the head.
Posted by
skkbits on Monday April 28, 2014 @11:33AM
from the americansabroad.org dept.
http://americansabroad.org/issues/fatca/fatca-bad-america-why-it-should-be-repealed/
What impact does it have for americans/GC holders having assets in foreign counties ?
Though I am replying late I would like to thank all for answering.
Posted by
skkbits on Sunday April 27, 2014 @07:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am seeing salaries listed on glassdoor.com and found that they are outdated for most of the companies. This post to get first hand knowledge from fellow hackers about market condition, demand and supply. You can choose to be anonymous if wish not to disclose any specific details identifying you. Thanks you for answering.
Honest question: Who gets the settlement ? Anyone who worked for defendants between certain years ? How do they determine 60K employees ? What if someone has left the industry altogether or in an unfortunate case, is no more ?
Can someone shed light on this area ?
Larry is truly amazing and no question about that. To me though, this comes as less surprise. His contributions can certainly be attributed to few not so well known facts.
1. Highly educated parents. His father has Ph.D. and is considered pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence ( source : wikipedia)
2. Mother : Comp. Science professor
3. His brother Carl Page Jr. sold company called eGroups to Yahoo!.
So when you consider all this facts together, with kind of upbringing he had it less surprise that he followed the suit and created search engine. I bet this sort of environment must have played crucial role when he went for VC capital.
If you have read crossing the chasm it talks about how a company with few hundered people can go mainstream. Larry leveraged all his background, upbringing and knowledge he had to create one of great software product.
Is that "tata" from India ? How do they play role here ?
Posted by
skkbits on Monday April 21, 2014 @04:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Mates ,
As a H1B employee in US, I always had second though about whether or not to contribute to 401(k). On one side there is some extra compensation but on other side there is huge penalty if I withdraw early. Given the wait for green card for folks from India and China its psuedo-same-employer-lockdown situation. So considering time value of money and given the inflation rate does it make...
This post deserves more upvotes. You are right on spot , Sir.
I earn moderate income and nothing from Airbnb but if we are really talking about shortening income gap there has to be check at some level. Right now, with AirBnB model , there is no way to guarantee that this actually helps needy than those who own more than one house/apartment homes. There are chances of ( or infact already happening ?) system abuse where people buy houses solely to list it on Airbnb. I would wholeheartedly expect cities to chip in at this point and make adjustment to tax code to heavily tax those , who solely buy to list houses on Airbnb.