candyman

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by candyman 5y ago
I see how hopeless downtown Louisville is. On some days and weekends it can be okay but the issue is that nobody lives there so it's mostly empty unless people drive in, which is sporadic. We built a huge park on the river downtown t
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by candyman 5y ago
Reminds me of Channel Advisor which was a public company $ECOM. I wonder what happened to them? I think they were basically giving you the ability to sell on AMZN, EBAY and some others. I wonder how many competitors there are.
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by candyman 5y ago
Man that's ugly.
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by candyman 5y ago
I find it disturbing that somehow the whatever the internet is seems to consolidate to central provider because they have such advantages due to scale. Is that how everything goes? Seems weird.
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by candyman 5y ago
Nothing matters unless and until it scales. There are scores of these little examples of doing this sort of thing in a lab.
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by candyman 5y ago
Investors seem to like the "product market fit" but that already exists for all these materials. The issue is always scaling up and what the costs and margins will look like. We're not lacking at all in solutions - just scale
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by candyman 5y ago
Netflix is cheap enough with enough content to make it a keeper. There are lots of other options but they are too niche (Curiosity Stream, Gaia) or too expensive (Fubu, YouTube TV). It feels like a weird redux but eventually maybe the big p
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by candyman 5y ago
I was lucky enough to do this with the man himself at NYU. He had trouble speaking then but the class was dead silent and hung on his every word. Profound thinker.
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by candyman 5y ago
People smoke cigarettes, they drink alcohol, they bet. All are losing propositions in multiple ways. There is no scenario where you can stop any of it. You can make it harder and more costly but they will do it anyway. Some gamblers have di
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by candyman 5y ago
During the football playoffs there were some silly adds from some outfit called incredible or whatever. The point that they didn't really stress was not selling your data to every other vendor out there. I don't know if it's
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by candyman 5y ago
It's hard to comment on something this general. 1-1 meetings come in so many different contexts. One thing that I think is universal is what questions you ask and how good you are at listening. I offer one idea which is if you want to
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by candyman 5y ago
It's funny but I've always payed for the NYT crossword subscription even though I tend to only pay for the NYT on the "trial" rate which I think is like $1 a week. I enjoy doing the crossword that much. I like doing the
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by candyman 5y ago
Seems to be news items from the financial press - FT, BI, etc. Not really anything value added since all those outlets broadcast out their headlines everywhere. If you are a trader or investor this information is not going to get you anywh
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by candyman 5y ago
I don't think so. Almost every time I have seen good service it is either a function of the person (actually cares about doing their job) or the culture of the establishment. I tip generously because in the US wait staff generally get
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by candyman 5y ago
I was having some serious wrist and shoulder pain. Turns out it was related to my mouse which I kept to the right side of my keyboard. I moved it directly in front of the keyboard so it's in the middle and my pains disappeared. I may s
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by candyman 5y ago
Google doesn't really build things or have product management. They need to acquire. So I expect them to do that if/when things get serious and they realize how far behind they are. There will probably be money to be made if we ca
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by candyman 5y ago
Thirty years ago when you needed to install new computers in an office I remember it took us weeks to get the cable (Ethernet) installed because one contractor had to pull the cable and cut it at each workstation, another contractor had to
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by candyman 5y ago
I hear you on JS. Nothing against it or the people that love it but I don't enjoy it at all. I will look at Netlify. They have been active here because they just raised a round.
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by candyman 5y ago
As Taleb says take many low-cost shots on goal. (paraphrased)
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by candyman 5y ago
Okay I went back and read it. It reminds me of an old time method where you spent five or six hours thinking before getting in front of the computer to start writing code and them limiting the amount of time you will have to write, test, an
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by candyman 5y ago
Love the title!
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Ask HN: Standing Up a Website
2 points by candyman 5y ago|2 comments
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by candyman 5y ago
I've got one of these from my Grandmother and I wish I had been smart enough to accept the lot of them. I get that newer ones with bigger pores can be "just as good" but this old pan seems to be on a different level IMO. I ha
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by candyman 5y ago
I presume the US banking industry pays lots to lobby and makes big campaign donations, gives senators offspring jobs, etc. In the old days we got great at check processing and lowered the cost to pennies. Processing a transaction should be
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by candyman 5y ago
Finally! I hate the whole "keyword" thing because it makes your writing terrible (IMO). Of course you want the keyword and meta stuff to make sense but getting all these messages about "use your keyword here, here, and there&
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by candyman 5y ago
Very beautiful space. However it seems like sound isolation would be horrible. A conversation or any noise anywhere would be heard everywhere. Fine if you are living alone but this looks like a lot of space. Congratulations though on the sa
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by candyman 5y ago
The title should probably be "A Major Quantum Computing Strategy..." It's less surprising that way since there are quite a few different fundamental paths people are taking towards quantum computing. I'm no expert but di
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by candyman 5y ago
Probably very good news for younger, more independent platforms like ConvertKit.
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by candyman 5y ago
Is the ultimate woke state to not care at all about being woke?
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by candyman 5y ago
I don't understand why people with a large audience feel compelled to weigh in on things that they don't know anything about. It makes sense when it's entertainment but when it comes to medicine and investment advice it seems

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