Perhaps Wells Fargo should finish implementing their website first. They’re missing basic services like letting you make a wire transfer online. Our company is in the middle of switching banks because dealing with them is such a hassle.
The process for getting approved as a startup to even use CEO was convoluted, required multiple sign-offs for no reason, and we were denied twice. It took emailing someones boss off of LinkedIn to actually get in. And the best part is that CEO Portal is terribad. The RSA tokens they send you will often go "out-of-sync" and you're SOL until they FedEx you a new one. The features list is great but the struggle with actually using the tool makes it painful.
FWIW, we switched to Bank of America and can't complain. I can send wire transfers online without issue.
While I agree with your hesitancy, Daniel, I submitted this post because I’d seen two (but I was wrong – there were probably three: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845351) submissions on the front page in which Jacob has been accused of crimes (outside any legal system) and I believe letting readers get his side of the story is only fair at this point.
with this [0] notable comment "Now that Nick has written his story however, it goes back on the front page of HN and the comments here basically support it as totally credible. ... Don't get me wrong, I very very much think that Nick should write up his story and feelings. But I think a lot of people need to examine themselves closely for why they couldn't believe the women who shared their stories yesterday, but now can today."
Jake doesn't mention Nick Farr's accusation. I've been missing Nick the last years at C3 too. Now I know Nick's side of the story, I wonder how the CCC Vorstand [1] and Jake react to censoring the Lightning Talk?
> "But I think a lot of people need to examine themselves closely for why they couldn't believe the women who shared their stories yesterday, but now can today."
I think this shows how putting your reputation on the line when you accuse someone makes the accusation itself far more powerful and likely to believed; remember that no-one has yet publicly and non-anonymously(1) accused him of rape directly, but rather, have only said that others have accused him.
I hope that if these allegations are true, people in addition to Nick Farr will have the bravery to go public with them - that's what's needed to actually put a stop to abusers.
1) In this context, "non-anonymously" includes commonly used pseudonyms of course - the legal names of people aren't what's important, but rather the identities they commonly use.
> I think this shows how putting your reputation on the line when you accuse someone makes the accusation itself far more powerful and likely to believed
I agree, but that has to be balanced with the costs, and especially the costs to rape victims.
I will second the statement that Jacob is an able and skilled developer.
I have worked with him on projects long ago, however, so he can certainly have chosen where to focus his time and attention. Just because you don't see him code, don't assume he can't (replying to Grandparent of course)
I took a crack at creating a patch in the form of an extension since I’ve created some similar extensions before (Adblock Fast, Disconnect, Facebook Disconnect). The extension works by providing a small shim to override exploitable JS methods on the webpages you go to.
I’m unsure as to why the Product Hunt outrage in particular. Every major distribution platform (the press, social networks, app stores, even Hacker News) favors insiders. Has PH been presented as a solution to this problem? (I never thought so, but perhaps I haven’t been paying such close attention.)
At least that stuff is open though. It would probably be better for Product Hunt if they separated openly voted for stuff from the others similar to how Google separates paid and organic search.
Erm, are we talking here about the same disconnect which offers paid VPN services on iOS & Android and a free content blocking extension for Safari iOS?
Randomly, I met one of the founders of Intellectual Ventures today. I wasn’t sure if I was resolving the name right and, unfortunately in retrospect, I didn’t ask, ”Oh, the massive patent troll?”
“His limbs and head were stuffed in bags in the living room.
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“It remains unclear how the victim died.”
Here’s a more informative, earlier article: https://www.pulse.ng/news/ceo-of-gokada-fahim-saleh-found-de...