The manual footer years are helpful; I see them as an indicator of when they were last updated.
Agreed. As a recruiter, it's a useful signal:
If the company hasn't updated it within 2 weeks of the new year, I add it to my priority target list.
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HeyTomesei commented on LegalEagle is suing Honey [video] youtube.com/watch?v=4H4sS... · Posted by u/bryant
Do we know if Honey has been sketchy from the start or if it started after they were acquired by PayPal in 2020?
Yeah, it had a sketchy reputation before the acquisition - here's a 2019 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589352
HeyTomesei commented on LegalEagle is suing Honey [video] youtube.com/watch?v=4H4sS... · Posted by u/bryant
Ryan Hudson, the founder of Honey, launched a new company that's already under scrutiny for similar practices:
Pie.org (despite being for-profit).
Founded in March 2024, it already hit 1M downloads and has 20+ employees/10+ Engineers.
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Looks nice, but I'm lost. What do the colors represent? What do the axes #s represent?
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Gift link to read for free:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/technology/dan-price-grav...
HeyTomesei commented on UCLA professor says he's homeless due to low pay kron4.com/news/california... · Posted by u/iancmceachern
What a bogus piece. He's not a Professor --- he's an entry-level Lecturer (started career there a year ago).
HeyTomesei commented on Who died and left the US $7B? sherwood.news/power/who-d... · Posted by u/jsnell
A fascinating reddit post was mentioned here about a month ago - about the mildly famous (if a little macabre) 'Buy, Borrow, Die' cycle used by the obscenely-wealthy to - multi-generationally - avoid tax obligations.
https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comments/1f26...
HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41408772
I began my career doing this (Deloitte Tax's Private Client Group).
Yes, it is truly fascinating.
The ethical standards of everyone involved with Honey/Pie are deplorable and they should be outcast from the software industry.
Sadly, Ryan Hudson knows how to play the game and Pie (with its charming .org domain) is on a roll --- already hit 1M downloads just 9 months after its launch and grown to 10+ Engineers/20+ employees.
Shameless.
On the bright side, LegalEagle also called out Pie in the video. Hopefully that'll help shine a light on them.