MaknMoreGtnLess

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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> I have no idea what we’re going to do with the upcoming manifest schism OK - is this issue then that the upcoming Chrome manifest changes break Chrome's compatibility with the standard or these were features that were never part o
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> I believe this thread was created to shill simplelogin.io I hope they keep their opensource project alive and have it continue to be self hostable. I use them to subscribe to newsletters so self hosting is very important (I am not send
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> My company's main products are browser extensions How well does the "WebExtensions API cross-browser technology" [0] work to build ONE code base and have to work well across Google Chrome, Firefox or even Safari? [0] ht
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
Happy to expand on this, but unless, the founders fit the exact beachead market the MVP is testing to help solve problems of, finding alternative ways to discover the beachead market than through an MVP, is a way more effective way to learn
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Ask HN: Is an MVP the first thing a startup should build?
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> I then have to go out of way my to prove to this person the code is doing what is expected/asked, either in long winded responses on the PR, or sometimes as far as pulling them into a video call to screen share and live debug the
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
The JVM is a blackbox that fails in terrifying ways at the worst time possible. You won't know this until you take your service to production and expose it to real life traffic. Now days, unless there's an absolute non-alternative
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> I'm interested in frugal computing, and I want my software to run smoothly on a Raspberry Pi if at all possible. So I do have some demand for a native program or, rather, set of programs. I understand. My point is that it's l
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
It seems to me that majority of users don't want to deal with a native application - specially one that: 1. They would have to install, maintain, backup and configure themselves 2. Has a reasonable web application, that, as a major per
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> I personally see a minimum of three jobs, done well, at 30 hours a week. Concur! It isn't that enough people arn't wildly smart enough/don't have the mental capacity to be a full-stack developer AND a penetration te
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> I didn't know we were this rare, but it's nice to hear. I don't think you're drawing the right conclusion. It isn't that enough people arn't wildy smart enough/don't have the mental capacity to b
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> HR is complaining about not being able to hire people Perhaps HR was complaining about not being able to hire those people for the $50k/yr + unlimited PTO budget that they have? because I can bet that if HR was willing to pay $500
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> was the best paid developer in the company with a very competitive rate OK, so did they die or move on to a better paying opportunity?
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
I was trying to use Dendron but it struggles with text files larger than a few hundred KBs and my text files can often go into 10s of MBs. Plus I like to use ASCIIDoc instead of MD. I won't ever use proprietary tools, specially those I
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
Unless it's a well defined technical solution or a very deep and narrow (well defined) topic, I've always found "the answer" to be spread across multiple webpages/sites/sources. To tackle this: 1. I have a coar
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> we had a team mate in the past who did exactly this Did they die or move on to a better paying opportunity?
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> something we've needed since the 1970s, but everyone dismissed as too complex, slow, or unnecessary What are some scenarios where Capability Based Security might be thought of as unnecessary (but isn't/wasn't)?
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
The first question to ask yourself is whether you want to be an: 1. Entrepreneur, or 2. Investor
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> For engineering, for example, big company employees drastically underestimate how much they rely on homegrown tooling. Are you in engineering yourself? I can assure you that people in sales, marketing etc also drastically underestimate
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> The point is to find a startup that has proven potential, not a total dud If you can do this, you can quit your job and start a extremely well paying job consulting for VCs
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
big tech will always be a safer bet all risks considered The question you need to answer is, for YOU right now: 1. Are the things you want to learn best served by a big tech co? 2. Or an unproven startup?
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> JSON schema and protobuf didn't feel elegant and were too verbose so I thought why not GraphQL 2 questions: 1. Are there tools out there that can translate between GraphQL schema, JSON schema and protobuf? 2. How would you version
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
"advice" that's root to why majority of startups fail: 1. Build a MVP trusting your "gut instincts" 2. Buy traffic slapping your MVP on anyone who types in keywords that you think people type when looking for your p
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> We are glad we did so otherwise we'd have ended up spending our time & money on developing something which would've turned out to be totally useless! The exact specifics of this would be far more valuable than a more gene
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> Anyone has experience with working with such a system? Yes, I have been using this system for over a decade and it's extremely capital efficient. > but the manager in me feels that this is a naive approach What risks do you see
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> If you were making a tiny social network site, what stack would you use? A stack that's already proven to work, that someone else runs for me at as much little cost to me as possible while I collect the metrics I need to decide if
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by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
> How would you make a decision in this case? I would interview potential customers and ask if the problem your idea solves, is a problem they resonate with. Then you ask them how badly they would like to solve the problem. Once you find