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by brettgriffin 2y ago
He's not oblivious to this and the answer lies in "Raise on Your Own Terms" section. Linear raised its A during the 2020-2021 frenzy and its Series B when every VC was telling their portfolio companies to reduce burn and get
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
They are eligible for discounts after their 10th trip each month. I think people misinterpreted the point. Saying 'there are no poor people driving and parking in NYC' in an asinine statement when the data clear show that 30% of t
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
> A negligible number of them drive into Manhattan for work every day. I think you're just making that up. Do you have a source?
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
On the contrary, they are! ~30% of people entering Manhattan a day are lower income!
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
People in houses can have cars. In fact, ~30% of people entering Manhattan a day are lower income. More specifically, lower income housing is often very far from subway stops. Often in outer boroughs!
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
There are like 400 housing developments in NYC for lower income folks. Saying that lower income folks don't drive in NYC is bananas.
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
you go first: tell us the features you built that the other tools were lacking
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
A lot of analytical and financial reporting has to tie activity to its ISO week, often to roll that activity up to the correct month and year. YYYY is perfect for that.
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
I'm as equally amazed by the solutions in this post's github repo as I am with Taco Bell's new chicken nuggets.
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
The whole scenario only exists because of the axiom introduced between points 3 and 5: > 3 ...ORG spends an egregious amount of money on middleware SaaS > 4 ...executive figures they should be able to replace SaaS with in-house syste
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
There's some really interesting stuff in here, but I think, given the example, it is burying the lede: organizations systemically underestimate the total cost of ownership of a service. By, like, orders of magnitude. In this example, i
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
I'd be really surprised if most applications that rely on databases can't just use a containerized image of their production database in any environment, including CI. In fact, the only example I can really think of is when the pr
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
Of course. But I use it dozens of times a day across dozens of projects. Many of the concepts are linked together. Intelligently indexing, linking, and referencing them seems like a pretty obvious feature. I doubt I'm in the minority i
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
There are two technologies I use every day that demonstrate a company is capable of solving an incredibly hard problem, X, while completely dropping the ball on the presumable easier part of UX, Y. ChatGPT is one of those. Driving in my Tes
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
I don't think it's just software engineers. In every discipline, there's a pareto distribution of people's time management ability. My take away is that being in that caliber just requires a wide range of attributes, and
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
> CTO who should also be CPO This is just awful, awful, awful advice. Please do not do this. Your technical leaders should think deeply about how to build a product, but not the product that is to be built. Asking them to do the latter i
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
then go work on one of the antacid ideas
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by brettgriffin 2y ago
the dating app idea seems pretty fire. hit me up if you want to work on it
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by brettgriffin 8y ago
I've given up most social media but have become obsessed with Reddit. No matter how much I use it, I'm constantly amazed that I can be immediately connected with the most knowledgeable and enthusiastic people on virtually any subj
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by brettgriffin 8y ago
I think you need analyze your requirements first, and then let that you point you towards the databases that provide the functionality you need. Then evaluate and compare the databases. I would start by asking if a RDMBS or MPP warehouse ca
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by brettgriffin 8y ago
The two aren't mutually exclusive; you could easily get contractor work with five years of EE after going to another school (provided you can pass the background and security checks).