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The Five Characteristics of an Ideal SaaS Company (2013)(redpoint.com)
1 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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How Fast Must a SaaS Startup Grow to Raise a Series A?(tomtunguz.com)
3 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is crazy as I was just thinking about uncountable infinity when I was on the bus this week, having no idea this was part of such a paradox. The things you consider when you're not distracted by a cell phone...
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by acconrad 11y ago
I'm a huge fan of Text Secure, been using it for a while. That and Red Phone (also by Open Whisper) makes your life indeed more secure on Android.
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Ask HN: What are your best “soft skill” resources?
164 points by acconrad 11y ago|66 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is at best incomplete, armchair science, and at worst dangerous. The founders are all entrepreneurs / engineers, which is to say they don't have a medical degree or any expertise in biochemistry, so their argument is on the w
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If Ever I Should Leave You: Job Hunting for Web Designers and Developers(alistapart.com)
2 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
> I think that history will look kindly at Snowden I don't. As much as I want it to, and as much as the HN group wants to, the crazy (sad) thing is that a vast number of Americans not only do not know who he is[1], but those that
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by acconrad 11y ago
Does anyone know how this benchmarks against Postgres and MySQL? Would be curious to see how TPC-C runs on this platform but I can't find any studies of any independent parties benchmarking Aurora.
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by acconrad 11y ago
Err wow I didn't think me raising an issue on Github would put me on the frontpage of HN. But I am glad to see that they handle this well by default - another reason why I will be keeping it!
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by acconrad 11y ago
Would love to learn about those very early stages in cold emailing. Do you find this can work for any business vertical - I want to cold email places vs cold calling them since it's so much faster, but I fear that the owners may not us
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The Great Filter(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
Except there are a ton of competitors and it's already become an oligopoly. FanDuel and DraftKings alone have accounted for 95% of the DFS revenue as of 2015, and just acquired the two other biggest competitors in the space (DraftStree
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by acconrad 11y ago
I also helped a competitor that got acquired by DraftKings. Anyone worth their salt in this industry knows this is about the money. The top guys throw down $25,000 A DAY. Many of them are severely in the red, in spite of winning large tourn
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by acconrad 11y ago
These are tough lessons to take at face value. Unicorns are even harder to replicate so their path to success is also fraught with unique challenges. The whole "keep going" and "don't give up" mentality is admirable
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by acconrad 11y ago
It does raise an interesting question as to what we define as development anymore. Do you have to open up a text editor to be a developer? Certainly not if you're creating views in IOS or even Visual Basic. Is HTML and CSS less "h
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The Front-End Developer's Dilemma(css-tricks.com)
4 points by acconrad 11y ago|1 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is just an ad for UBiome, hopefully this will get flagged.
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by acconrad 11y ago
Because most people of any culture can't stick to restrictive diets [1]. Restricting calories is ultimately the goal - how you do it is largely irrelevant, outside of eating mostly whole, unprocessed foods. When you apply further restr
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is simply not true. You are oversimplifying the issue. As an example, I'd like you to go take a shot of olive oil and tell me you feel fuller than having a cup of steel cut oatmeal with a cup of blueberries. In fact, in 1 shot of
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by acconrad 11y ago
Correlation does not imply causation my friend. Carbs do not imply obesity, neither does fat. Only excess calories (of any macronutrient, including protein) will lead to bodyweight storage, and eventually obesity.
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by acconrad 11y ago
We don't know much about our bodies. I feel like every time a major news publication publishes an op-ed or a study, they're contradicting themselves[1]. One week eggs are bad, the next they're good. Same with dairy, carbs, an
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by acconrad 11y ago
Which is funny because Google is also sponsoring Web Components (via Polymer), so I wouldn't be surprised if Angular is one grand experiment to see if the world will adopt data-bound web components as the next step in the evolution of
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by acconrad 11y ago
> The author thinks that React is amazing at everything, but detests JSX. Conversely, he hates Angular but loves Angular's directives. The hilarious part about this statement is that React is the equivalent of the Directive compon
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The Complete Guide to the Kano Model(foldingburritos.com)
1 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
So far my advice has come from people who I want to become - mentors who are currently CTOs, CXOs, and other self-starting entrepreneurs. Who better to give you advice than those who have already traveled the road you want to travel?
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by acconrad 11y ago
Let us assume it does skew search results. Two things we also know are true: * Google is a publicly-owned corporation . They have every right, as they own the platform, to skew it as they see fit. They aren't supposed to be unbiased
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by acconrad 11y ago
> Public markets are rational Are they? If markets were rational and efficient, you wouldn't have stocks trading below their asset value. There is nothing rational at all about having $1B on the books that you could acquire for th
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by acconrad 11y ago
I'm not surprised the 2008-2009 collapse created much stricter lending standards. I bought a condo last year and I was shocked (in a good way) at how difficult and laborious the process was, even for someone with great credit and a rea
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by acconrad 11y ago
> On the subway I see all walks of life with the best cell phone(s) money can buy which is kind of great when you think about it. Is it great, or is it simply a case of poor financial management and/or contract incentives placed b

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