randycupertino

It's 2016. Why isn't there free wifi on flights?? I mean, we don't have real hoverboards and we don't have flying cars. Can't we just have this one small, actually possible…

> they were very responsive at first but after the interview, went radio silent for a week. After promising a response in a day. This was particularly annoying since I told them I had a written off…

My friend works at Instacart, she says it totally sucks. Mainly because there's no guaranteed hourly pay and what she gets paid depends entirely on what the customers decide to give out as a tip…

Sorry here's another link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup... Second to last paragraph. As for the sex accusations, who know…

First of all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Contro... Also: > When intruders from the hacker group Anonymous gained access to thousands of emails stor…

They have one of the worst work/balances in the valley, fratty/kool aid culture, claim to be "making a difference" but really what they actually work on would be a major downside f…

That's surprising, as they're known for being incredibly shady and have a pretty bad rep. They might pay a lot, but it's because it's less desirable to work for the Evil Empire.

> "All content is SEO-friendly." I think that's the crux of it. When I'm feeling lazy and google a specific question, their results pop up first because someone has most likely…

It's not a pyramid scheme, it's a reverse funnel system ;)

Good. I hope he is successful in taking them down. I know too many people who've wasted $$ falling prey to these MLM scams. I know an emergency room physician who stopped working as an MD to se…

I've always thought the killer healthcare app would be some sort of way to automatically track calorie and nutritional macro intake without manual data entry. No idea how that would actually wor…

Yes and Feb is ripe for C level exec changes... they get through the holidays, use January to firm up their new plans and put their replacements into order and then boom- Feb let it hit the press.

Disability has increasingly become the new stopgap for welfare. Many rural and blue collar workers who can't find jobs are applying for and getting on disability. see: http://apps.npr…

Heh- just like Marissa Mayer's Yahoo layoff "joke" when she said there would be no layoffs that week. http://nypost.com/2016/01/18/marissa-mayers-job-safe…

Why don't they just make it optional? Also, why do they refuse to give users the one thing they want, an edit button? Seems so simple to me. What am I missing?

I'm not sure about the relevant law, but here is a bunch of articles about it: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/company-pay-employe... Interesting, this case wa…

Yes.

So there's the national do not call list which doesn't work that well, then each company has their own internal Do Not Call list. If you ask the person calling you to add them to their DNC …

You're confusing telemarketers with phone scammers. Phone scammers try to call you to install malware or steal you CC info, etc. Telemarketers call you to try and sell you something or get you …

The person you're actually speaking to has no control over actually calling you- they're just logged into their desk which their bosses at the company code up to an autodialer, so as soon as…

Exactly. There are TONS of new grad nurses out there who can't get jobs. Some of them go to medical call centers or outpatient clinics because they can't get any actual clinical or hospita…

They might actually start calling you more because the reps get incentivized by talk time, so getting a chance to chill and listen to music instead of actually having to talk to people and try to sell…

Some of them are paid/incentivized for their talk time, so the reps will be perfectly happy, in fact GLAD, to be put on endless hold, because they can mute their headset, kick back and talk to th…

Fun anecdote time Lenny and even this new Jolly Roger AI- it's not just the telemarketers who are being scammed, some of them are using Lenny to do the scamming to get around their employers rule…

I created a dummy linkedin profile exactly because of this. I kept getting notifications that an ex from 5 years ago was constantly looking at my profile. Linkedin is so scammy.

Dude, she hit me up on Angel List for a seed round for her new app, Lemonayder. The next waive of the web will be on demand Lemonaid delivery apps.

> where they can extrovert at each other all day This is hilarious and I am going to have to steal it! XD