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by MattyMc 4y ago
Fair point, and thanks :) The way I think of it is more of taking advantage of an arbitrage (~20% discount on season tickets to face value). Instead of selling all the tickets to earn ~$2k each year, we kept and used the tickets to our bene
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by MattyMc 4y ago
For sure. Generally, the electron app would pull face value prices and availability from [baseballteam].com, current resale prices from hubstub.com (<- changing name) and stick them into a mini database (object store). From there, I coul
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by MattyMc 4y ago
If your goal is to generate money, an analytical approach (like a spreadsheet) makes sense. I choose my side projects more emotionally; generally based on things I'm excited about, think will be fun to make, or involve things I'm
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by MattyMc 4y ago
I staked $15k, bought season tickets for my favourite baseball team, wrote an electron app to auto-price and market those tickets under face value. We ended up going to 6-7 games for free, sat in MUCH better seats than we ever could have af
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by MattyMc 4y ago
One could say that :)
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by MattyMc 4y ago
Google search: '[topic] awesome'. For example, 'react awesome' or 'web dev awesome'. Next, look for a github repo. You can also add "site:github.com" to your search, such as, "image editing aweso
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by MattyMc 4y ago
Canada is a regarded as a first world country. No, OP is not talking about schools in "poor emerging economies." OP is talking about their experience doing a CS degree in Kenya. The COMMENTER (telomero22) is generalizing this to b
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by MattyMc 4y ago
> Yes, that is mostly because your education happened in a 3rd world country I couldn't disagree more with this sentiment. I live in Canada and by way of both running a tech company and working with colleges/universities here I
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by MattyMc 4y ago
Many people in the comments seem to confuse what it means to be a co-founder, have ownership of a company, and have control over that company's direction. - If a founder sets up a company with other people, they are both a founder and
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by MattyMc 4y ago
> When I asked my co-founder for rights to use the existing code in my new venture, he refused, citing concerns over sharing IP. OP seems to imply that their co-founder intends to use much of the existing code base they've developed
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by MattyMc 4y ago
Using Jordan Peterson as your example professor, and the default demo on your landing page, is a bold choice lol.
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by MattyMc 4y ago
Thanks for that feedback, you're absolutely right. I'll do that.
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by MattyMc 4y ago
It's great you disclosed this information, and you wrote an excellent article imo. I hope it's fair to say that you work for a direct competitor to Heroku, and that the intention of the article is to share how you've learned
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by MattyMc 4y ago
> What real math is involved in predicting the stock market? I have a MSC in Statistics, studied quantitative finance. Generally I'd agree with you. For general investing there's often little math involved other than some simpl
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by MattyMc 4y ago
Conventional wisdom is that the most common places to find cofounders are at school or from working at other startups. I didn't study comp sci in school, so most of my tech connections came from my decision to leave the education secto
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by MattyMc 5y ago
Great quarter for a great company. I want to hear about R2 on the earnings call. It's such an important part of their future, IMHO.
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by MattyMc 5y ago
Their cash or cash equivalents is $1,821.8 million. Net loss was $77.5 for the quarter. Without any changes, they could keep this up for about 6 years. However, Cloudflare has 79.2% gross margin, indicating that delivering their services is
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by MattyMc 5y ago
I sometimes read articles like, "why I left Google," or "why I left Facebook," and they're mostly a teardown of the company. This article is generally positive. The author liked the people, had a positive sentiment
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by MattyMc 5y ago
A bunch of "myths" without any helpful advice for folks with back pain. In short, stretching won't help, lying in bed won't help, daily workouts won't (necessarily) help, yoga/pilates won't help, etc. Supe
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by MattyMc 5y ago
Yup this will attract the right people.
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by MattyMc 5y ago
Fabulous idea. I've taken numerous courses through Udemy, currently taking one to upskill in React, and I've found a big gap to be the lack of interactive exercises (where the real learning takes place). I'll definitely have
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by MattyMc 5y ago
I've received lots of similar gatekeeping advice: "If you haven't done ____ you're not ready for ____." Very happy I didn't listen to any of it.
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by MattyMc 5y ago
> How should I decide which path to take? I've been in exactly this place (big salary in big tech, started my own company). I find that these types of decisions are complex, I don't think I could capture everything in a comment
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by MattyMc 5y ago
Bad cert. great website.
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by MattyMc 5y ago
My Bose QC35 headphones II were a big upgrade to my setup. Super comfortable, great battery life, great sound quality.
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by MattyMc 5y ago
> Companies actually like job hoppers I would encourage you to rethink this idea.
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by MattyMc 5y ago
I recently moved to Postmark. It’s been an extremely positive experience. They’re a small, dedicated team with amazing support.
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by MattyMc 5y ago
It may also be helpful to share some details on effective ways to be curious. I’m a curious person too, but in the early days I just didn’t know where to start. My advice: - There is no defined learning path yet (to my knowledge). - Start
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by MattyMc 6y ago
Me: Rails + Bootstrap + Heroku with as little JS as possible.
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by MattyMc 6y ago
This article is a bad look for GitLab.

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