GFischer

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by GFischer 9y ago
See Coase's Theory of the Firm. Technology is changing the equation by removing transaction costs, and you see more freelancers and self-employed and Uber drivers. I agree that the current framework makes freelancers and self-employed
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by GFischer 9y ago
Waiting a month is normal in some countries, like mine - Uruguay - if you want a particular make, color or optionals it's worse (they ship it via container from wherever it's produced and takes months). In Argentina there was a ti
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by GFischer 9y ago
I worked in insurance that kind of increases do work (for the insurer), but we did it in the "boiling the frog slowly" way so there was no 40% trigger to wake you up. We had little churn, if you stayed a customer after a slight ri
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by GFischer 9y ago
Unfortunately it does work. I worked in insurance, and you definitely got the short end of the stick if you were a loyal customer. New customers got all sorts of incentives. So, perversely, the system encouraged to switch providers every ye
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by GFischer 9y ago
Most people on HN were wondering why the sensors didn't catch the pedestrian, now we have a possible reason: "In scaling back to a single lidar on the Volvo, Uber introduced a blind zone around the perimeter of the SUV that canno
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by GFischer 9y ago
Unfortunately more countries are copying it - my country, Uruguay, just adopted it, and it is awful.
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by GFischer 9y ago
I think they only fund companies at the idea stage if a partner is enamored with it and/or the founding team is amazing. Otherwise they'll glimpse at your submission, see no traction and dismiss you. I was very disappointed when m
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by GFischer 9y ago
Insecure managers are a plague and I'm very glad I'm no longer working under one. "A real leader is thrilled when team members achieve great things. A mere manager is threatened."
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by GFischer 9y ago
You're right - FoxPro was a great concept, maybe not that much in execution.
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by GFischer 9y ago
And FoxPro was great, so if Airtable is Web 2.0 FoxPro they might be onto something :)
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by GFischer 9y ago
I don't think being older has anything to do. My uncle learnt Swedish at 60, my girlfriend is learning English at 40, and I'd love to learn a 4th language. What fades after your 20s is the available time - I see a lot of retired p
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by GFischer 9y ago
They clarified that this is part of their system. It's the best single system labelled "SV1" in Table 2 in our research paper. Results are pretty good but definitely not human quality yet.
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by GFischer 9y ago
We have those as national identity cards in my country (by the same company that makes a lot of national IDs): https://www.gemalto.com/govt/customer-cases/uruguay-eid
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by GFischer 9y ago
Absolutely agree with "STOP building things and START TALKING TO CUSTOMERS."
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by GFischer 9y ago
My mom has started several businesses (short attention span!) and so I've tried Unbounce, Squarespace, GoDaddy pages, various WordPress hosts (HostGator and BlueHost and others)... This one looks like it's going for the Squarespac
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by GFischer 9y ago
I am really sorry, it was a great offer to legitimate startups, but it was abused by illegitimate requests. They should have partnered more aggressively with universities and startup accelerators - at the end of the program you had to reque
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Leading French TV Group demonstrates the lack of value of its own content(diffractionanalysis.com)
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by GFischer 9y ago
I am a South American in a member country of Mercosur, while I'm not happy with Facebook et al doing every tax evasion trick in the book, it doesn't mean that what Mercosur countries do isn't populist... (see: Brazil randomly
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by GFischer 9y ago
I wonder how much prodding will they take until they take measures.. if EU successfully does this, you bet that the regressive South American countries will try to ape it. OTOH they can probably take a 2% tax hit. Edit: I was thinking in te
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by GFischer 9y ago
Sometimes people go on a rant and are shadowbanned, but are otherwise reasonable.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Really interesting product.. I always thought that more work was needed in backends querying time ranges.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Indeed, after a point, working is not motivated by wealth - I know several cases of people that are wealthy and don't NEED to work, but they're in high-power positions and they don't want to leave that. One of them was the pr
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by GFischer 9y ago
You can sometimes get a raise in the same company, but it is usually harder.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Well, here in Uruguay, eviction is also awful, so tenants are required to pay for "rent insurance", which is awful if you're a diligent rent-payer (as it's an extra month's rent every year), but it's great for
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by GFischer 9y ago
An insider did tell, trust Hacker News :) - Steve Goldsmith himself. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16424942
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by GFischer 9y ago
Thank you, indeed you are :) . Good luck ! Maybe you can convince the higher ups at my office that Microsoft Teams is an inferior product :) (we're already invested with Jira and Confluence so it's not a stretch...) Would have bee
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by GFischer 9y ago
Any sources on that? I'm pretty sure it's a heavy re-architecting at the very least, but if it's the same team and lead, have they gone entirely from scratch or repurposed some of Hipchat's code? (just questioning) Not c
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by GFischer 9y ago
They're trying to say it's not while also saying it's an "upgrade". I guess it is a new major release of HipChat (with re-architecting) and re-branding. Same lead (Steve Goldsmith). Unless an insider tells, we won&#
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by GFischer 9y ago
Well, there a lot of specialized consultancies that pay well but with a high barrier of entry (I don't think you'll become a, say, Guidewire consultant overnight, or replace with whatever specialized field you know). If you mean w
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by GFischer 9y ago
Well, they apparently did go a long part of the way to an MVP...

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