bigtones

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by bigtones 4y ago
Yeah I had just one thought after skimming it, use Stripe.
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by bigtones 4y ago
They're just labelling it a merger for optics - it's absolutely an acquisition with one party buying the other.
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by bigtones 4y ago
Australians have had Costco for 2 years and they absolutely love it. Very popular.
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by bigtones 4y ago
Can you prove that by linking to a Bing search where one of your pages show up ?
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by bigtones 4y ago
Microsoft does this because they're security scanning / checking all links in every Outlook email for known phishing and malware attacks. If Bing has not seen the web page before and it's not in the Bing dangerous web page i
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by bigtones 4y ago
I got: 100 Meter Sprint 18.509 110 Meter Hurdles 18.85 Total Time: 37.359 with a mouse on desktop chrome.
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by bigtones 4y ago
The original dry-clean and do not dry-clean ones are the most confusing for me. A plain circle is somehow meant to represent dry-cleaning ?
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by bigtones 4y ago
This is really a promotional Microsoft shill piece. Microsoft have to provide salary guidance for their roles in Washington state where they have their headquarters by law in January 2023, and they're only doing it on the last possible
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by bigtones 4y ago
You actually do need to have Enterprise security and authentication features if you intend to sell to Enterprise customers. (SOC2, OAuth, SAML etc)
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by bigtones 4y ago
Bolt laid off around a third of their workforce accord to The New York Times, from just over 900 employees to around 660 as counted by active Slack users internally. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/business
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by bigtones 4y ago
What they are saying is if you move to a different country, your salary will absolutely change.
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by bigtones 4y ago
I've never heard of Green Hills Software. Looks like they make an RTOS and have a website from the 1990's. Note that this guys company makes a product that is a competitor to Tesla's Autopilot software, so he is not impartial
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by bigtones 4y ago
That's a really good idea.
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by bigtones 5y ago
Max, you should personally read some of your negative NPS feedback after service interactions to get a better understanding of what is going wrong in your business. If you're not already using NPS surveys after customer interactions an
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by bigtones 5y ago
Getting to $40k in MRR after 8 long years is not exactly fast growth. Still something to be proud of if it's still a small team of three people, but that's a lot of work your team put in so far to get to this point.
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by bigtones 5y ago
I could tell too, it sounded weird. The cadence of the 'speaker' was way off. Better than Alexa, but it really does not sound human. As the cost of a human to do this is minimal, and it's literally front and center on your ho
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by bigtones 5y ago
Smart phones when launched cost less than $1200 which a majority of people could afford. Cars that have this technology onboard would cost upwards of $65000 which almost no one can afford comparatively. This is not going to be a fast rollou
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by bigtones 5y ago
Conclusion of your thought experiment rings very true. An example of a similar result is the the case of the Turpin children.
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by bigtones 5y ago
Not for low earth orbit sure, but for space travel and colonizing other planets or moons.
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by bigtones 5y ago
Their huge China derived revenue is an increasing problem for Apple from a company stance perspective. They have to increasingly walk a tightrope between servicing that market, kowtowing to the Chinese government, and upholding the values o
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by bigtones 5y ago
Share buybacks increase the company share price because they decrease the pool of available shares. Corporate Executives often derive a significant percentage of their total bonus earnings when the share price goes up, so they have a huge i
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by bigtones 5y ago
So your entire system relies on a single consumer grade laptop without any redundancy or ECC. Nice.
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by bigtones 5y ago
Yes I spotted that too. It looks to be a very small garden from the photos.
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by bigtones 5y ago
$65 Million in ARR to list on the NASDAQ seems really low, especially with the 32% YoY growth. I don't think I've seen a SaaS company with < $100 Million in ARR in the year it listed.
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by bigtones 5y ago
Sure, if your thesis is that all the worlds corporate server computing is migrating away from company owned and operated data centers and into cloud computing providers over the next decade, then you would invest in Amazon (AWS) or Microsof
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by bigtones 5y ago
Julia White doesn't work at Microsoft anymore - she works at SAP. Or did you mean Julia Liuson ?
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by bigtones 5y ago
He didn't just screw over Apple employees - Pixar employees and founders too.
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by bigtones 5y ago
A $30 Raspberry Pi with free Volumio serves the same purpose for me, and I can attach a DAC hat to the top of the Pi for high fidelity audio - but this looks so much better with it's beautiful wood finish.
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by bigtones 5y ago
Brilliant well written article. Not without bias, but you can see through the words on the page and into the immense pressure that team at Virgin Galactic must have been under to get their boss into space and to beat Bezos, all for the infl
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by bigtones 5y ago
This is Google promising to spend $10 Billion to curry favor with President Biden's administration while simultaneously facing serious antitrust monopoly litigation with that Biden DOJ. That's some pretty expensive lobbying right

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