Jugurtha

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by Jugurtha 4y ago
You're doing this because you're working on toy projects with no real stakes. You overcomplicate because you can afford to. Establish a forcing function in the form of users. Onboard them and include a way for them to report bugs
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
Both work. It depends on the product and how complex its sale is. Is it high touch, low touch. The price point. The target audience, etc. They're also not mutually exclusive. Different objectives require different approaches.
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The site is strange. When I visit the first time on my signed in Chrome session, it displays "See How Users Are Experiencing Your Website" and then the text rapidly changes to "Your One Stop Web Optimization Platform". I
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
My answer on a similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29697834 Additional context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29698050
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Someone asked me at the end of the year if we'll have a performance review. My reaction was "why would I ever do that?". He said "for feedback and all..". I said "well, we've been doing that for years with
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
Something that fascinated me with Russians is how they go out of their way to get every bit of sunlight. I mean, they act like sunflowers, even standing to face the sun and open their arms on the beach, and orienting themselves towards it.
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Aren't you required to turn in your expired passport to get a new one, or report it as lost .
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I meant citizens of the other countries that don't have diplomatic relations trying to go to Israel. They only have one passport and would be in trouble if they visited as their passport would be stamped, thus the scheme of a separate
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Yes. Some do it in Marseille, France. Citizens of many countries would be in big trouble if they have a stamp from Israeli customs on their passports. Customs apparently issue a separate document not to put a stamp on the passport as a resu
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
It is unproductive when the message politely wrong - or wrongly polite. Example: "It's not you, it's us" when I know for a fact that it is a network error on my side because it's of my own doing..
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
Nestlé France's employees are mostly French, too, as is the case with most multinationals.
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
> Great pay increase, hiring manager seems great, in a city I really want to move to. What's there to disklike? You can join then use this to fast-track your career: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31710673 Yo
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Nitpicking: Nestlé is Swiss.
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> I delight in isochrone maps I almost orgasmed reading "isochrone maps". I wasn't aware of the "concept" but it's one of those things you go "of course it is".
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The people who worked with me slayed dragons and made me better in every way. I insist that if they ever want a reference, not that they need any, they just put me on the phone with a prospective employer and I'll tell them who the fuc
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
Chrome on Ubuntu and Android. I doubt this to be browser dependent as the preference should be stored server side.
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
I noticed they used to switch me back to "top tweets" after I had clicked on latest. It has happened several times. I'd click on "latest tweets" and it'd show the latest tweets for a while, then I'd visit
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
From: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scuttle > scuttle verb(1) 1: to cut a hole through the bottom, deck, or side of (a ship) specifically : to sink or attempt to sink by making holes through the bottom
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Here are some pieces that will help fast-track your career: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31710673
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“Nobody wants to work” through the years(twitter.com)
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What I used to do was to give the dev docs to non-developers (people who never wrote code before) and ask them to follow them. I'd just set up the console and let them take it from there. Shut up. Look at where they struggled and note
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
> a user would never buy it at this price. You don't know that yet. > Here are my options as I see them, if you feel there’s another route please don’t hesitate to add: - Leverage the expensive APIs until I raise enough money to
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
Can you be more specific. I suppose you're doing market research to find problems to build a product or service and fix underserved needs for a target audience. It'd pay if you chunk down. From your handle, I suppose you're A
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Who's the fucking code virgin who has established this policy? Have they ever written code, or read code for that matter? Do they claim they've written code before but it goes to another school?
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I wrote a mini-thread you might like: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965... I'll reproduce it here: 0. Form: 0.0. It pays to provide services through a company. Companies write large
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
Unplug: - Disconnect from the internet - Disconnect your laptop from the charger and try to ship whatever you're working on uniquely on the laptop's charge. These are artificial handicaps but when I do it, damn. You're lookin
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
One company I had applied to had a job post that was an empty page. I found that strange and, without thinking, I opened the browser console and the page source to see what's wrong. It was a reflex. There was text in the source saying:
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by Jugurtha 4y ago
> are you saying a small firm's staff took a vacation during tax season? thats very strange. The company is an LLC equivalent in Algeria. There's no tax season. Tax forms must be submitted and paid before the 20th of every mon
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> have you thought about trying local small accounting firms/law firms for your taxes as opposed to monolith "big 4?" Yes, and we did. On several instances, we had silly problems like the accountant going to vacation righ
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When I started handling a business, I had stumbled upon several problems dealing with our accounting firm (big 4). I caught several mistakes the people they assigned to our account made (such as including VAT in an six figure invoice that w

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