AstroChimpHam

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by AstroChimpHam 6y ago
Engineer turned B2B founder here. I've sold to a lot of large $100M+/year businesses at this point, so feel decently qualified to answer this question. The top three things that helped me: 1. Listen to yourself pitch. Ask people y
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Machine Learning and Vodka(youtube.com)
9 points by AstroChimpHam 6y ago|0 comments
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by AstroChimpHam 7y ago
I don't know why more people don't say this. I agree 1000%. This should absolutely be the case. Why should anyone have a lower probability of winning a lawsuit just because they're poor?
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by AstroChimpHam 7y ago
Posting about how they're going to take over delivery while being investigated for antitrust stuff is an interesting choice.
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by AstroChimpHam 7y ago
Save money. Get a job that pays as much as possible, even if it has shitty clauses around side projects, and just save as much money as you can. When you have 1-2 years of nest egg saved up (might be eating ramen, etc), then quit and go wor
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by AstroChimpHam 7y ago
This already happened on healthcare. He already has a healthcare initiative: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/dr-atul-gawande-to-lead-buff... . The thing to bear in mind with this is they're all constantly
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by AstroChimpHam 7y ago
Snarky comments aside, Zuckerberg built a massive ads business from scratch, not previously knowing anything about ads. He built a massive social network from scratch, not knowing anything previously about social. Bezos built the biggest e-
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by AstroChimpHam 7y ago
I've had this thought before, but always come back to what happens after they hit that limit?
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by AstroChimpHam 7y ago
> but, he asked, why should they be treated as sagacious experts when they come from a completely different arena Because they have a history of getting impressive shit done. Not complained about, but actually done. And they have the wil
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by AstroChimpHam 8y ago
This is a really fair question. Amazon doesn't do it well, but just about no one currently does it better. It's like looking at Yahoo or AltaVista before Google came out and saying they're plenty successful without having inc
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by AstroChimpHam 8y ago
Founder here. It's a probabilistic problem from the perspective of solving personalization. If you tend to want something different after trying the same thing a bunch of times, the algorithm should learn that as well-- that's als
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Site Search Could Kill Amazon(mytotalretail.com)
28 points by AstroChimpHam 8y ago|27 comments
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by AstroChimpHam 8y ago
The author focuses on the generalists who did great things, but ignores the specialists who do important work, and speaks nothing of the many jack-of-all-trades who can’t find a job because their knowledge isn’t deep enough in any valuable
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Optimizing trie-based spelling correction algorithms at Constructor.io(blog.constructor.io)
24 points by AstroChimpHam 9y ago|7 comments
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by AstroChimpHam 9y ago
What does this do that Percona's pt-online-schema-change tool doesn't do?
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by AstroChimpHam 9y ago
sure :)
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by AstroChimpHam 9y ago
People downvoted you because you're saying they want Uber to burn due to sensationalism and not because it's a genuinely bad company. It sounds condescending and probably pissed people off.
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by AstroChimpHam 10y ago
I have a number of acquaintances in the situation where they tried to go out and raise a proper Bay Area seed of $1-1.5m, got told they needed more traction, and wound up giving up part of the way through, stopping the round at ~$300k and c
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by AstroChimpHam 10y ago
Cython looks like typed Python. Crystal looks like typed Ruby. Both are compiled, and both are not quite as fast as C, but much faster than the language they're based off of. The point of both is to be able to write something that look
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by AstroChimpHam 10y ago
So, this is like Ruby's answer to cython?
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Why a major home builder is giving up on San Francisco(marketwatch.com)
2 points by AstroChimpHam 11y ago|0 comments
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
She's a great writer, but wow is she wrong about everything. In her head, the market decides Candy Crush is $7b because a few VCs decided so. That's not how this works. The market is willing to pay $7b for Candy Crush because mill
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
PG started off talking about the fragmentation in politics, and I wish he would have wrapped that back in at the end. It feels to me like the two party system in the US is dying now as the oligopolistic system of just a few big companies be
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
I'm a long time Python user and I still tend to go for 2.7 over 3. When writing packages, I'll add support for 3 as an afterthought, but that's it. The main reason for this and the main reason I prefer Python to other languag
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
When did I say it's OK to take advantage of anyone? Of course it's not. All I said is I'm willing to take a $10k-$20k pay cut to work at a start-up I find fulfilling instead of going to work at Google. Why do you think this t
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
Those investors are trusting you with a lot of money. They put in seed money these days at $5m-$10m pre-money valuation. If any of my employees come in asking to trade $50k-$100k of salary for an extra percent of the company during the fi
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
No idea where you got that many-most figure. I hang out with a lot of founders. Don't know any except for repeat founders who get founded pre-product. Not saying it doesn't happen, but it's rare, and finding that Angel to fun
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
Agree they deserve a good part of it. My qualm is mostly around what "good" is. Employee #50 making $350k off a success doesn't feel like like a tragedy to me. If employee #5 made that at Box, I'd be upset too. I disagre
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
I'm a former employee and now a founder. As an employee I always had a paycheck and could easily leave any time I wanted. As a founder, I spent a year with no salary, paying for servers out of pocket, and stuck with the company because
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
There's no problem either way. If you want that big paycheck, enjoy ad tech or high-frequency trading. I'm not judging you. But if you come into a start-up, both the founder and the employee should be clear that more money can be

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