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by acwan93 6y ago
An educational and insightful book, but it had me losing sleep because I got so anxious on needing more sleep. Talk about irony!
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by acwan93 6y ago
I don’t have one yet, but one of the peer comments talked about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23137228
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by acwan93 6y ago
I’m working on my PPL right now, and in my aviation circle we can’t wait until Flight Sim 2020 is released. Even at $60 + hardware controllers, it’s a steal compared to actually flying a small single-prop.
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by acwan93 6y ago
Have you had experience selling on-premise systems? I’m really curious how other companies handle the sysadmin and IT support issue.
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by acwan93 6y ago
Any websites that utilize this API?
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by acwan93 6y ago
I agree with you OP. Our company provides on-premise ERP systems to small (we’re talking at most 20 person companies) wholesale distributors. Pre-COVID, I was pushing for a cloud solution to our product and pivoting our company towards that
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by acwan93 6y ago
Called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22957193 A step in becoming the next Amazon.
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by acwan93 6y ago
>although many of those selling on that platform still use Amazon for fulfillment. That’s what makes me weary that there’s any way you can truly avoid Amazon. For many sellers it’s just easier to outsource their warehousing and fulfillme
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by acwan93 6y ago
Yeah I mean, the brands themselves have generated a lot of buzz. But the average consumer still doesn’t know what Shopify is.
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by acwan93 6y ago
When I visited Coke’s HQ in Atlanta and did the public tour, there was a section where you can sample all the different Coke flavors from all around the world. I asked about New Coke and the guide gave me a sour look. I guess the question g
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by acwan93 6y ago
Sometimes I wonder if Shopify’s long-term plan is to do something like this. It's probably the leading direct-to-consumer platform out there right now, it’s touted sometimes as the anti-Amazon. The leading D2C brands I’ve seen are on t
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by acwan93 6y ago
We sell an ERP catered to distributors and many do sell on Amazon. I’ve always wondered why on earth they would continue to sell on a platform that’s constantly gathering their selling data, or even inventory if they’re going FBA, and event
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by acwan93 6y ago
Apparently for us we take ACH payments from our customers and disburse payroll through our WF account we’ve had for over two decades. When I asked why continue banking with them after the scandal: “we did have fraudulent accounts opened but
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by acwan93 6y ago
ChannelAdvisor breaks it down by industry, which is neat: https://www.channeladvisor.com/blog/industry-trends/the-impa...
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by acwan93 6y ago
There’s also the ripple effect of Shopify’s data. We run an omni-channel API connector service for our wholesale distributors to connect Shopify/marketplaces to our own back-end on-premise ERP, and the distributors that have utilized t
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by acwan93 7y ago
Historical context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise
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by acwan93 7y ago
We were considering laying off but quickly decided on pay cuts due to (what currently seems like!) the temporary nature of this and knowing that the relief bill will come. Our projection is that the loan funds should arrive by the pay cycle
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by acwan93 7y ago
With gigwork and independent contracting becoming a significant part of our economy, I can’t agree more. It seems archaic to bundle health insurance to my workplace. I can purchase auto, home, life, and whatever other insurance on my own, w
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by acwan93 7y ago
Totally agree. I’ve driven nothing but CarPlay cars over the last several years (I used to rent a lot of cars), and when I drive a non-CarPlay enabled car now I’m super distracted.
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by acwan93 7y ago
We were partially cloud based with our source code and some of our internal support docs, and I’ve been going in to migrate the rest over. Our employees have been using RDP in the meantime to access our internal tools and docs. Not the grea
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by acwan93 7y ago
>Are you using Grasshopper for communicating internally within your team, or as an open line to communicate with potential customers, or both? We’re using Grasshopper for the latter. Our (pre-WFH) situation was that we had 9 landline pho
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by acwan93 7y ago
Our company just switched to WFH when we previously didn't have any tools. I guess this is a project on its own: moving the company operations from all on-premise and physically present to all remote. Some tools we've adopted and
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by acwan93 7y ago
Exactly. Obscuring the pasteboard or something along those lines is unfortunately the solution.
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by acwan93 7y ago
I really hope we don’t start getting into a parade of dialogs going “X app requests permission to use Y”. I get why it’s important from a privacy-perspective, but most people aren’t going to care. They’ll just mash the “Allow” button until
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by acwan93 7y ago
That’s what we’re doing with an event originally scheduled for May. We’re postponing until September and hoping for positive news over the summer.
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by acwan93 7y ago
Of course. At that point it became a matter of internal politics rather than the actual tool or tech itself. Most of it was showing industry best practices and where things were headed.
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by acwan93 7y ago
Unequivocally yes. I switched companies (FANG) to my family software company and the company had been using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. The company was only casually using it, as one computer was used to compile customer executables (and f
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by acwan93 7y ago
I too would much prefer to read a paper book, but after going through a major move between metro areas I realized how many of these physical books just spent most of their time sitting there, unused.
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by acwan93 7y ago
A small family-run company building an ERP solution for wholesale distributors. (www.mastersystem.com)
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by acwan93 7y ago
Unsurprisingly this is a similar story from our customers who switch away from us, and then come crawling back due to the implementation nightmare from NetSuite/SAP. Usually it's a high level executive who wants the name recogniti

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