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by _ah 8y ago
I've mostly given up on product research and now just use Wirecutter.
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by _ah 8y ago
What is the value of the resource you're providing with each signup? Running a regex is only worth it if you're offering value that you have to pay for, like a free tshirt or some paid compute credits. And even then, it's onl
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by _ah 8y ago
Travel. Then travel more. I was very financially disciplined in my 20s, but I now wish I had saved a little less and experienced more. Now that I have a family and obligations, it's much harder to go explore.
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I've lived/worked in Seattle for 15 years. It's a nice place. There are interesting things that happen here. I really like the sun though, so the 9 months of gray and dark are hard. I often fantasize about leaving, but I thin
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by _ah 8y ago
I HATE clever names. Clever names are fun. They tickle that little corner of the developer brain that delights in obscure trivia, and makes everyone smile and nod and pat themselves on the back as they celebrate their cleverness. Fast-forwa
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by _ah 8y ago
Raising children is like investing heavily in a 401k or other savings vehicle. The cost is VERY high! But the payoff can be much higher.
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Don't take him in. People grow, and you can encourage/assist, but each person ultimately has to choose for themself. If he needed to get out from his abuser he could presumably do it on his own, with varying levels of difficulty &
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by _ah 8y ago
I think it's more subtle than that. Needing less stuff gives freedom. Renting stuff instead gives less freedom... you have many of the same expenses as ownership, but if you ever stop paying your useful stuff disappears. Owned obje
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That's the point... I don't use any. Google just runs its OCR magic on uploaded docs and makes them searchable.
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A full-duplex scanner is worth the investment. I've configured mine so that it automatically drops the file on a network share for storage. Receipts I ignore (the credit card transaction is caught by my online budgeting service). Rando
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For an enterprise client, I'll echo others and encourage you to lump the software charge in as "maintenance", and charge whatever the market will bear. If the standard pricing is 10-20%, then quote 20%, discount to 15%, and g
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Second mouse. Doesn't have to be fancy at all. Since I trained myself to be "ambimousetrous", I keep two mice attached to my work computer (one on each side of the keyboard) and switch back and forth throughout the day. It si
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by _ah 8y ago
This is great, because it essentially puts the employee in the same position as a VC with amortized risk. We know that startups succeed and fail according to some known distribution, but the odds that this particular venture will succeed
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I think there's a pretty good opportunity here for a large format combined playspace/toystore. Build out the toy area around some hands-on demo spaces, and include the normal playspace items nearby with climbing structures and cof
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On-site. First round was a phone screen.
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Make sure you have a least two answers for every question. My interviewer didn't like my prepared answer, and without a backup I had to improvise... I'm pretty sure that conversation is what sunk me.
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by _ah 8y ago
I love what your proposing and hate to be the voice of dissent, but I suspect that you will (quite ironically) have a hiring problem. The best, most knowledgeable, most empathetic, rock star recruiters will be able to make MUCH more money o
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by _ah 8y ago
No one willingly creates a do-nothing job, and people are not hired to be useless. In the rare cases where this DOES happen, there's usually an ulterior motive such as vanity. What does happen with great regularity is that do-nothing j
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by _ah 8y ago
Sounds like classic Fear Of Failure to me. The longer you procrastinate, the more is riding on your "perfect" solution or performance, and the more daunting the project becomes. You need to realize that failure is allowed, and tha
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by _ah 8y ago
Code More. Your analysis reveals a common mistake, and more (complex) projects is the answer. This mistake is not obvious from the outside! Once you actually work in the industry for a while, you realize that most newbie side projects are
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by _ah 9y ago
I've started noticing some sneaky math in my local supermarket. When comparing two items, both list the unit price, but they list the price in different units. Example: A 1.4-lb package lists the price per oz, while the 0.8-lb package
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by _ah 9y ago
The bands overlap a lot. While the top end for in a product role is likely to be higher, that doesn't mean a guaranteed income change when making the leap. A senior dev will be higher than a junior PM. A very senior (principal level) d
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by _ah 9y ago
Counterpoint: be careful about going too far into the "cool" spectrum. When I've been hiring, the best-looking resumes were often the least qualified. If you're a visual artist, then sure, go nuts! But if you're a t
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by _ah 9y ago
Don't know what your goals are here, but if you have $2M banked then you're presumably shooting for a relatively large ~$100M+ market valuation. At this point, your primary focus should be the success of your pivot, and nothing is
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by _ah 9y ago
In my experience with early-mid career hires: 3 months to get ramped up, after which you should be productive-but-slow. At 6 months you're productive, and know enough to be dangerous. At 12 months you're really cranking and delive
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by _ah 9y ago
...because if you're going to hide a secret satellite, how better to do so than to declare it "lost" on launch?
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Famous "Don't Talk to the Police" lecture: https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE
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by _ah 9y ago
Your friend was lying to you. Source: I'm a former MSFT employee, and I've spent WAY too much time working in the Office codebase.
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My previous job would buy two iPhones on each annual release cycle: 1 big screen, 1 small. One of these devices was kept current with software updates, while the other was frozen at the major iOS version it shipped with. This generally prov

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