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Communication, and other CIA Sabotage tactics in your startup(piszek.com)
2 points by artpi 6y ago|0 comments
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I Miss the Commute(piszek.com)
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by artpi 6y ago
Hey, I am the author of the above tiny rant and what prompted me to write is exactly the case you are describing. I am working on monetization features for WordPress.com and Tumblr users. Micropayments are one of the cases we are considerin
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402 Payment Required, and why micropayments are doomed(piszek.com)
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Coronavirus and working from home – a primer to get your team started(deliber.at)
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by artpi 7y ago
My grandpa (88 y/o) is pretty active, but his eyesight is very bad. He manages to use his tablet in limited ways because some apps can make the font enormous. But what is really problematic is the tiny text on prescriptions, medicine l
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Show HN: App for my grandpa to help him read printed text (OCR+TTS)(helpmereadthis.com)
3 points by artpi 7y ago|1 comments
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Dear Manager, I am sorry I suck at feedback(deliber.at)
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by artpi 7y ago
I have two levels of content saving: 1. Every article I will read, I'll drop straight into Pocket, to highlight/read. I will never rea the article outright - this is important, because some clickbait can find me in a "vulnera
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by artpi 7y ago
Engineers, entrepreneurs and other tech workers are praised for finding problems and solving - throuught all of our lives. Guess what that makes us? Really good at spotting problems.
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by artpi 7y ago
KEEP IT UP! Just 2 weeks ago I have sent an expensive whisky bottle to my highschool Computer Science teacher. He let me manage the school website and that trust has had some influence on my career. Not many people do this and you are reall
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by artpi 7y ago
I am trying to keep my meeting today and still respond to these comments, so I apologize for the lack of clarity. Some people would consider a whole category of "making fool of oneself" a risk and it has been in the past. Evolutio
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by artpi 7y ago
I will, noted!
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by artpi 7y ago
You are right. My personal motto is "there are no adults" and I am constantly blown away how incompetent people are in the wider business world. Edit: sometimes I am blown away by amazing professionals, so I guess I am surprised b
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by artpi 7y ago
What I wanted to convey by quoting Seth Godin is that we should be more comfortable risking failure like embarassment, getting out of the comfort zone, etc. Failure of burnout and loosing your time is the risk of LONG work - not the type I
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by artpi 7y ago
Exactly! You also get quite comfortable "putting the parachute on your way down"!
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by artpi 7y ago
> learn your way into the 20% of that field Agreed, but how do you do that though? My experience is that there is only so much you can learn without the challenge
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by artpi 7y ago
Ha! Strong opinions! I think my failure here is that I did not fully explain, that this applies mostly to the corporate environment of technology companies, where the risk of failure is much, much smaller and you distinguish yourself from t
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by artpi 7y ago
That has been my experience as well!
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by artpi 7y ago
> This essay is a bit weird because it systematically avoids talking about the reason people (rationally, I might add) avoid hard problems: they are risky. Yes, the rewards are great, but so too is the risk of failure. Thank you for poin
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The lazy way to being outstanding: go after hard things(deliber.at)
111 points by artpi 7y ago|51 comments
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by artpi 7y ago
Fantastic work John! The membership feature looks amazing and I honestly am very impressed by your landing page since I work on something a bit similar :). The Stripe Billing integration sounds exciting, but I am curious about the 0% transa
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by artpi 7y ago
I know John's opinion about WordPress, but it sounds like you are looking for Woocommerce. - Open Source - Thriving plugin ecosystem - WordPress.com can host it for you for $300/year and it will take any traffic you throw at it -
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by artpi 7y ago
Let's think about it in terms of expected return on investment. For full disclosure: I am an Automattic employee and love working remotely on the side so much that I devote my private time to promoting it [ https://www.quora
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by artpi 7y ago
You are entirely right! However, they are entirely different monetization business models that we are offering our WordPress.com users. Our Simple Payments block for example let's you sell directly on your site: https://en.s
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by artpi 7y ago
From the documentaries I've seen, its lots of people walking to a meeting, meetings themselves, etc. For that kind of documentary, probably people walking into servers rooms, or having heated discussions. In Automattic, we basically ev
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by artpi 7y ago
I own a Renault Duster and I was convinced the UX is crappy by design to make me switch to a higher "tier" of a car (duster is about 12K USD for a new one) - Audio system has a huge knob that changes radio stations, but buttons fo
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Code is easy. Ego is a challenge(automattic.design)
1 points by artpi 7y ago|0 comments
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by artpi 8y ago
Another amazing information: https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/win-lottery-what-... Please be conservative and take time to educate yourself about investing / markets. It will take about a year. YOU CANNO
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by artpi 8y ago
I dont know about automated testing, but wanna plug this question: :) I am producing an online course on managing remote teams. I want to use https://www.podia.com/ Has anyone used it? Regarding automated testing - I dont t

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