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by a13n 7y ago
Not to mention Amazon Prime video and Hulu too
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by a13n 7y ago
Is there a way to find all occurrences/matches of a regex that doesn't have the 'g' modifier? Just tried `string.match` and `regex.exec` and could only get the first match.
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by a13n 7y ago
Just trying to figure out what problem this project is solving.
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by a13n 7y ago
What's wrong with browsing Hacker News in the browser?
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by a13n 7y ago
We chose JavaScript/Node because it's the language we knew best, and because we have to write it in the client as we're building a web-based service. No other language offers us that, unless it compiles to JavaScript (eg Type
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by a13n 7y ago
> safety and correctness features You can achieve safety and correctness features for node via good lint rules and typescript/flow.
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by a13n 7y ago
It sounds nice in theory, but in practice when you're negotiating dollars (whether with a street vendor for $20 or a procurement department for $200k), their "interest" is in making/saving as much money as possible.
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by a13n 7y ago
Actually we're bootstrapped so we don't need an AI/ML story :)
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by a13n 7y ago
Sorry, not any time soon - 5 person company right now
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by a13n 7y ago
> why is this "fully / 100%" important? If you're looking for a remote job, you don't want to have to filter through a bunch of onsite jobs. This site does that for you. > Why is remote working a good thing? T
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by a13n 7y ago
Cool - looks like they're getting ready to do yet another fully remote paid job board. I'd like to be able to submit our company, canny.io, to the list. We're fully remote and hiring (senior engineers). Also, looks like they
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by a13n 7y ago
Yeah agreed, but I think the other comments should help OP figure out what applies to their situation.
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by a13n 7y ago
As a co-founder, you accept the risk that if your company fails, you get nothing, and you might not get compensated for your time. That's just how startups work. High risk, high reward. Therefore it's ridiculous to say OP deserves
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by a13n 7y ago
It's not as simple as charging ad revenue per user. Only a small subset of users can/would afford to pay $25/yr for Facebook, and these users are arguably the most valuable to advertisers. Therefore by letting them skip ads,
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by a13n 7y ago
Wouldn't work. Users who are willing to pay to make ads go away are the most valuable audience for advertisers because they have money to spend. Therefore FB would have to charge a TON of money to make up for their billions in lost ads
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by a13n 7y ago
Canny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 5 person team, launched two years ago * Over 500
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by a13n 7y ago
Hey mods is there a particular reason this post is being penalized? As of writing it's #22 with 400 points in 1 hour, while #5 has 119 points in 3 hours.
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by a13n 7y ago
"All Tether tokens are fully backed by reserves." https://www.coindesk.com/tether-says-its-stablecoin-is-fully... Tether (USDT) $1.00 USD https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
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by a13n 7y ago
"All Tether tokens are fully backed by reserves." https://www.coindesk.com/tether-says-its-stablecoin-is-fully... Tether (USDT) $1.00 USD https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
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by a13n 7y ago
Tether follows the dollar (1 Tether === $1.00 USD).
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by a13n 7y ago
Crypto replaces a major painpoint (chargeback, getting 0% of your money) with a minor painpoint (volatility, losing or gaining <10% of your money). There are other cryptocurrencies (eg Tether) that follow USD (eg 1 Tether is almost alway
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by a13n 7y ago
I think the long game here is that USB will shift towards USB-C. Plenty of new Windows devices have USB-C ports, and it's only a matter of time until peripheral manufacturers transition over and the old USB ports become useless.
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by a13n 7y ago
Underrated comment. A lot of the reason business owners aren't more content with "small but sustainable" is because it isn't compatible with the venture capital model. It doesn't "return the fund".
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by a13n 7y ago
> Then I remember when MS bought it for silly money. Full on WTF? headspin. Considering Minecraft has over 176 million copies sold, not to mention the endless amount of merchandise and spin-offs I'm sure MS is getting royalties on,
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by a13n 7y ago
Google has a bigger ad network than Facebook so how is that a monopoly?
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by a13n 7y ago
I would guess foreign companies aren't protected by US antitrust law the way domestic ones are.
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by a13n 7y ago
These actions may look anti-competitive, but these companies are all foreign (China, South Korea, Japan). China does anti-competitive stuff to US companies all the time . I doubt there's any legal case for FB abusing monopoly powers
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by a13n 7y ago
I think VCs want a good story because they've been burned too many times by companies that sound like they could be big, but then fail because: – not enough product differentiation – not a large enough market – not defensible enough Ag
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by a13n 7y ago
All of these companies were started between 50 and 150 years ago, when there was much less competition. These days you need a better story for how you're going to win a market and keep it.
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by a13n 7y ago
So you think if you pick a big enough market, then building a billion dollar company with no product differentiation will be trivial?

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