How could a bank transfer be less safe? I don't know the US system but if I give out my bank account number the only thing someone can use it for is to send money to me.
On the other hand if someone malicious gets my credit card number they can use it to buy stuff and I have to go through a lot of trouble to get a new card.
It's somewhat the opposite in the US. With your bank routing and account number someone can make out bad checks or EFT pull from your account. Halting or reversing this can be quite difficult and in some cases it isn't possible to get your money back.
With credit cards the liability is on the merchant that accepts the card to verify that the person presenting the card is authorized to use it. Card issuers will reverse charges and leave the merchant out the money in the event of fraud.
Except when not. When I was interviewing they didn't make me sign one. They rejected me for the original position, but later occasionally called me with some alternate options. These calls usually went like:
- We would be interested in having you at/as ... but before the specifics, you signed an NDA, right?
Even if it's just a quick-and-dirty list, or an appstore link, it would make a huge difference if the applicants had at least some idea about you.
Btw, for what timeframe are you looking for people? I don't think many people would want to live there for years. It would be fun for a few months, but I assume you wouldn't want to hire anyone not willing to commit for more.
Yeah, more information is coming. It'll be ready for the HN Who's Hiring thread in a few days -- I just saw this story pop up so I figured I'd link it in here too even though most of the site is still a placeholder.
Oh, and we're open to negotiation on timeframes -- though we wouldn't be looking to accept less than six months, ideally at least 12.
When google rolled out their images search, I thought similar simplistic sites would stop using pictures obviously stolen from the internet to use them as fake customers, but apparently not.
I don't think it makes any sense to follow any community-agreed guidelines until Notch finalizes his design.
Do you plan to make a short description of what exactly it took to create the backend?
I thought this would be an excellent excuse to learn about llvm, so been reading about its internals the past few days, and even though I realized that starting with MSP430 this would be relatively simple for someone who knows llvm, I am apparently too late to the party :) Nonetheless I would be interested in some overview.
In this case it does, but very often doesn't. It seems to me that this happens mostly with rapidly changing websites, as if the cache showed a somewhat later state than when it was indexed.
This is the exact same app from a different developer, who claims that the other one is a copy-cat and a scam. (leaving out the small detail that his own app is a scam as well)
On the other hand if someone malicious gets my credit card number they can use it to buy stuff and I have to go through a lot of trouble to get a new card.