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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Lived in the bay the whole time, did the same thing. Multiple sources, categorization, distances, etc. Chaining GPT for rating is a nifty feature add though.
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by alaskamiller 4y ago
1. Breathe. I lost a business in the pandemic, racked up lots of debt, have a family, saw myself living day by day, held back by misery and mental health struggles. I even forgot to breathe, like I'm just gurgling water, I had to pract
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by alaskamiller 4y ago
Sometimes when you want to say something to be understood, it seems daunting and isolating as those things don't feel heard. I read this and heard this. The thing I can say is that looking at startup culture now, after twenty years of
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by alaskamiller 4y ago
Job searching since Q4 of 2021. Same thing with PM roles. Have lots of direct operational experience with a particular industry, have full stack dev exp, have PM exp, have big tech names, have 15+ YOE, so naively thought I can apply for com
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by alaskamiller 4y ago
Yes. Silicon Valley, Orange County, Seattle, Dallas, Vancouver Washington or Canada. EB5 visa is $550k minimum to buy a business in impacted investment areas designated by USA.
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by alaskamiller 4y ago
What a blast in the past, MMC was a client at the agency I was at and we pitched a lot of modernization updates.
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by alaskamiller 5y ago
Quick Service Restaurant. Specifically a boba tea shop. This is how it's done here in California.
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by alaskamiller 6y ago
UberEats losing market share to DoorDash is indicative of UberEats leadership failure. DoorDash engineering is bad, DoorDash policies are bad, DoorDash feeds their PR machine often. Additionally, UE software is bloated and user-hostile comp
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by alaskamiller 6y ago
It's linked to Catalog Manager, which is a third class citizen in the FB ecosystem that they're shoehorning into being a second class. It's similar to Facebook Messenger taking Facebook Page and trying to upgrade its citizenr
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by alaskamiller 6y ago
Nah, it'll just end up being 100 copies of Alibaba postings. 90% of Shopify is BS, just dropshippers copy pasting images and texts over.
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by alaskamiller 6y ago
With Shopify you don't pay ~20% sales commission to Amazon per se, but you sure as heck will end up paying for that if not more to Facebook. Where by FB has no direct incentive, yet. It could be a FB Marketplace PM team someone has alr
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
It's a lesson taught through hip hop. As demonstrated by one Mister Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi: All I do is try to make it simple The ones that make it complicated Never get congratulated
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Two perspectives: I worked and coded out on alternative POS solutions right when iPad POS solutions became popular. But it's a dead end. It's too complex and resource intensive for an indie shop, it's not worth it. For exampl
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
It's relating how techies put stickers on their macbooks. And this is the newsroom press release, they just need something simple for illo.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
It's relating how techies put stickers on their macbooks. I get it immediately.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
I served in war time. I run businesses now. Business is war. War is business.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Suffering, indeed, is not a KPI but your takeaway is off. I use Timing app to track my digital. I spin up at 11am, get reving by 1pm and don't stop until I pull up to the drive way at 1am or 2am. Monday to Sunday. There are plenty like
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Hi, how do we get in touch?
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Multi screens is the same as multi cores.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Depends on if logojoy would stay as lead gen for actual software play, a la canva, or if they were selling human-in-the-loop as pure AI. The former then margins might be fat but the latter his margins will be slim. Additionally to continual
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
New is everything old. Back in 2015 a little burger shop sues a little known company for ferrying burgers across the Stanford campus. https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/12/in-n-out-burger-sues-...
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Life is really different on the inside tho. You move way, way slower and spend more time dealing with people than with code.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Your timeline and mine align somewhat. I got out of military by 2007 and started up working for the fruit company in 2008/2009 then went outside to but stayed within the iOS ecosystem from 2011 to 2013 and did indie work from 2014 onwa
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Agree on this very much
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Likely billable rate of $100-$150 at 2000 hrs per yr. Earlier on during the iOS dev crunch of 2010-2012 billable rates were hitting the $200+ mark. From 2013-2016 those rates dropped down to $150, in the past 4 years those rates plummetted
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
I did HR at one of the FAANGs (the alphabet one). This is not true.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Prior to the first day of boot camp they flown us to an airport in San Diego, everyone gathered at the USO lounge on the opposite end of the airport to wait for everyone else flying in. At midnight, a bus rolls in to the parking lot. Everyo
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Amazon will eat this up. They're eating up the custom apparel with the tshirt printing part.
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Your assumption is that the narrative is that WeWork is an office rental company when perhaps you can take the leap of faith and believe We was being truthful in their intentions of "elevating humanity" or whatever. Therefore thei
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by alaskamiller 7y ago
Also, it's really an indictment on how the era of superpowered CEO is going to hopefully end. While Marissa and Adam share the same winner circle, Zuck is in the same league as Gates.

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