RowanH

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by RowanH 2y ago
Kiwi checking in - was a thing here as well. Blows my mind what we all do now would have been absolute voodoo magic by comparison. If we had gone back in a time machine and shown HDR 4k video upload, available to stream all around the world
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by RowanH 2y ago
You're welcome ! Best wishes for your business :)
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by RowanH 2y ago
> My wife and I have a profitable business here in SF that would be perfect as a startup Keep doing what you're doing. Being VC funded shouldn't be the holy grail - the holy grail is having a business you enjoy doing, that&#x27
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by RowanH 2y ago
This is starting to happen in New Zealand - either increased rates or simply no coverage. For different reasons - flood & slip events. Re-insurance rates have gone through the roof through 3-4 weather events over the past 2 years. No si
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by RowanH 2y ago
I think this line is (a) most accurate and (b) rings true to your list "as is always the case with earthquakes, everyone will just have to wait and see what happens" Oh well, off to watch a B-Grade disaster movie then ..
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by RowanH 2y ago
While (I don't even need to read it) yes it's more than likely clickbait, but having any car where the backup mechanical door releases in all seats of the car aren't blindingly obvious is an incredibly stupid design decision.
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by RowanH 2y ago
I can totally see some uninformed staff member contributing what they're paying for things, and landing their employer in deep, deep, trouble with their suppliers. I've found in competitive price analysis there's some compani
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by RowanH 2y ago
This. Imagine my suprise growing up on NZ Marmite, to open a jar of British Marmite and go 'wtf is that slightly gooey stuff'. There's 3 very distinct camps in NZ. Love Marmite - what's wrong with you Vegemite people L
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by RowanH 3y ago
The 'American Dream' is very similar in a lot of the OECD nations. NZ'er checking in. Late 40's - a good portion/most of my peer group bought houses in their mid 20's to 30's. Now the same age range can&#x
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by RowanH 3y ago
I guess there's degrees of lock-in. I.e. using some parts of AWS you know push comes to shove you could write a different alternative/use a different library. It's a bunch of building blocks. There's various alternatives
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by RowanH 3y ago
Christchurch quake had 10's of thousands of aftershocks. A few people I know were rattled to the point they were shell shocked and just had to leave town - every tremor triggering off "could this be it" all over again.
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by RowanH 3y ago
There's actually some interesting visuals that illustrate this showing the difference in ground velocity between the two earthquakes : 2010 Quake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5m5PZ5p8E 2011 Quake: https:/
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by RowanH 3y ago
The VPN (much like Meta's) is doing some root cert trickery to filter content that is deemed inappropriate or potentially inappropriate. This appeared to be controlled by a Company A in another country that undoubtedly contracted to Y
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by RowanH 3y ago
It's not corporate level it was/is religious group level (of which this particular org I'm guessing largely employed staff from that religion). They are well known within our country to be quite insular. It certainly seemed f
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by RowanH 3y ago
So this one time, I had a bug report at a client site. The business was largely a member of _______ religion. Our images wouldn't load in the app, but did on the website. How odd I thought, that doesn't make sense! Luckily I was a
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by RowanH 3y ago
Yes and no. We have a lot of temp workers (students/under 30's) who come for the adventure, get sick of living in a van and going home again after their working holiday is done. Some other people are willing to justify it (eg comi
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by RowanH 3y ago
catch 22 - if the housing market drops significantly, the country will be very close to going bankrupt, so all they can do is let air out as slowly as humanly possible. A full on crash would be ugly. No matter what part of society you live
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by RowanH 3y ago
Kiwi checking in ... crossing fingers we're not about to enter the crash stage, but certainly the contrast in the past 2-3 years from property just flying out the door (low interest rates) to now (high-ish interest rates, lots of low r
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by RowanH 3y ago
I bet the Apple apps have much, much, better background activity/services support. Doing "background" uploads is nothing short of painful compared to Android. While we never want to compete with core Apple apps, we're co
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by RowanH 3y ago
Exactly - you can have thoughts all day long. Everyone can dream up ideas. Hell, world peace tomorrow is a great one. Executing them on the otherhand, that's hard, and well - it's is the only thing that matters.
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by RowanH 3y ago
It's just what are the odds of 10% of a billion vs 100% of a million. Without any statistics at all to back this comment, I bet there are a magnitures more software companies out there that have made people 100% of a million, vs 10% of
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by RowanH 3y ago
New Zealand is going bananas, we had a series of weather events that massively drew down on insurance, 6-18months later everyone's getting whacked with big increases. Furthermore insurance companies are starting to take the position of
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by RowanH 3y ago
In NZ - ditto growing up had the milk delivery service. Now it was a long distance memory until we moved to a smaller town/city. To our surprise one of the independent milk companies had a delivery service and up until a few months ago
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by RowanH 3y ago
Went to Bali many years ago. GoJek App - you could get almost anything done on it. Order in food, get your medicines, go book a taxi - you name it, it did it. The convenience was fantastic. While everyone was all up in arms about Uber, thi
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by RowanH 3y ago
Rookie move having the cat on the desk while ssh'd into prod...
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by RowanH 3y ago
I provide software to car restoration industry. Absolutely this … modern cars are becoming paperweights much quicker than their previous generations. Now are they safer/quieter/more efficient, absolutely ! Are they in landfill les
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by RowanH 3y ago
While not open source have a look at dhtlmx gantt, after starting to integrate it you’ll come to realise the sheer amount of work to get a Gantt chart working how you mostly expect it to. There’s just so many little features that you need t
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by RowanH 3y ago
It really depends on a bunch of factors, if you've capped out your total addressable market, and/or there's no fat to cut out of the business (i.e. potential is limited) lots of competitors etc, then a low valuation is reason
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by RowanH 3y ago
Yeah so in an ERP platform, you (well the client) needs to pay for a feature they want to be built ontop of the platform. It may have additional tables/data structures added into the ERP system or outside of it. Sure an ERP might have
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by RowanH 3y ago
The problems with ERP is (1) in order to be a big player you have to cater for so many use cases it starts becoming a glorified development tool without any room for providing actual ROI to the vertical that wants to buy it. (2) it's v

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