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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Macro stats about install/uninstall rates of mobile apps are meaningless distractions when you're building a startup. Focus on what your audience needs and build that, whether it's a mobile app or a website. I built a fun
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
The best way to make your talk memorable is to focus on substance over style. Work hard on giving something new for the audience to chew on. Without interesting content the audience will tune out no matter how well you structure the talk.
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Managers have to communicate both up and down while developers only need to communicate up. When I made the jump from a developer to a manager I had to learn how to properly communicate issues and risks to upper management. If there's
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Simple things that have helped me: - Right before the talk: get to the room well ahead of time and make sure there are no setup issues with the laptop, audio, projector, etc. I've seen a number of speakers fail to do this basic thing a
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Some explanation why it's so, courtesy this obituary of William Baumol: https://www.wsj.com/articles/baumol-diagnosed-the-disease-of... (paywall) An excerpt from the article: "Dr. Baumol’s insight in the 1
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
It was useful for us. What we got out of the 1-1s depended on our effort preparing for it -- how we communicated our value prop, how succinctly we described the problems we're having, etc.
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
My cofounder and I took this course last year. About the format of the course and efficacy: - assigned mentor: we were assigned a former yc startup founder as mentor. the mentor had 30 minute 1-1s with us once a month and gave us useful adv
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
We've built a tool for this use case. It's called Outclip -- https://checkoutclip.com . You'll need to install the Outclip chrome extension (click on 'get chrome extension' on the above webpage) and after
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Some of my favorites organized by category: Interviews on a broad bange of topics BBC: In Our Time Conversations with Tyler Hidden Forces Econtalk The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish Startups and Tech a16z Exp
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
I'm really into taking notes -- both written and typed. The tactile part of taking notes helps me register things better and the notes themselves greatly help with recall. For written notes, I use Peter Pauper notebooks ( https:/&
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Heavy note taker here. If I'm on my Mac, I use the Notes app. My favorite things about the app are real time sync between the desktop and phone app, easy checklists, text format options and the ability to inline embed images. When I&#x
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Thanks for your words of encouragement! Very interesting to hear that you've come across an internal tool that did something similar.
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
1) Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier Autobiography of a guy who won an auction to have lunch with Warren Buffett for $600k and ended up becoming a successful, contrarian value investor. Fun read for contrarians out there. 2) Nap
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Some more details on the landing page will be helpful. The features could use more explanation.
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Curious, what's a use case for emailing an app?
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Hi HN! Tao (@taot) and I have built a tool that allows users to create screen recordings (via a chrome extension) for bug reports. I've been in the software industry more than a decade and a significant part of it has been dealing with
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Show HN: Screen Recording for Bug Reports(checkoutclip.com)
7 points by carusooneliner 8y ago|5 comments
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
There's various kinds of documentation of differing granularity. Typically the high level documentation (coarse grained if you will) about architecture, requirements, etc. stays good over time but finer grain documentation (the kind I
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
More broadly, reverse engineering a codebase is a critical software activity. If you can't reverse engineer a codebase you can't debug it or add to it. Working with an existing code base is pretty much a given, unless you're
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Good to know, thank you.
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It's going to change and get less hefty, we're looking into code splitting.
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Haven't tested, I intend to make it possible. Thank you.
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Agreed! We're working on prerendering some pages -- https://ssr.vuejs.org/#why-ssr .
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Our site does't work with js disabled. Serious question: is it common for folks to disable js? vue is used only for the web app. No js frameworks used in the chrome app.
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
I can vouch for the author's points on the good parts of vue.js. We've built our single page application (SPA) web app with vue.js and are very pleased with the results -- https://checkoutclip.com . We were able overcom
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
The ones hitting my inbox: * The Art of Data Science: https://tinyletter.com/art-of-data-science * Week in Ethereum: http://www.weekinethereum.com/ * Benedict Evans: https://www.ben-evans.com&#x2
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Ask HN: What are the best email newsletters you subscribe to?
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I like this point in particular -- "Don't stress out too much about how valuable the things you're going deep on are." The general stance of people is to stick to the practical stuff -- knowledge or skills that you can u
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
There's a dire need for spam control on Whatsapp. As any Whatsapp user knows there's a ton of spam that goes around, thanks in large part to the ease of forwarding posts. If only one could flag spam, that should let the system ide
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by carusooneliner 8y ago
Will have to wait until the Blockchain class goes live, but I've found Udacity courses to be top notch. I've completed several of their web dev, Android and iOS classes and found them to be up to date and well organized. Possibly

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