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by charliepark 8y ago
Oh gosh, that is so awesome to hear! I love that it's worked so well for you! Native mobile app! Absolutely have thought about it in the past, and will absolutely be thinking about it a little later on this year as we tune our roadmap.
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by charliepark 8y ago
Sure thing! Thanks for asking. We're closed to new signups now while we wrap up the last bit of feature parity from the old app (and make sure all is working smoothly for our current subscribers), but would love to have you check it ou
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by charliepark 8y ago
I run one, a minimalist personal finance app. It's about 11 years old at this point. I built it up as my full-time gig and ran it initially for about six years. At that point: A) I had hired someone part-time to do customer support; B)
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by charliepark 8y ago
Have you ever tried Twitter lists? I find that having separate streams for "irl friends", "professional network", "people I might want to hire", etc. makes it easy to dip in, get a sense of what's up with
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by charliepark 8y ago
Every app will be different, but I found (at first) that doing support myself, and doing a light "first principles postmortem" on every email that came in was a good way to drive support down over time. Essentially asking "wh
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by charliepark 8y ago
I haven't used it, and don't know how it compares to heyfocus.com, but you might find https://focusme.com/ helpful.
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by charliepark 8y ago
Still looking through the various elements of this, but this is really impressive. Would taxes be incorporated in the "annual costs" box?
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by charliepark 8y ago
A few things. I wouldn't say these if I didn't think you had the capacity to listen and learn. 1. Your tone is excessively combative for Hacker News. If you're put off by my saying that, ask yourself what a non-combative way
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by charliepark 8y ago
Pretty shitty to have absolutely zero keyboard interactivity on that page. Tabbing gets you … the NYT homepage, a bunch of YouTube videos — which you can't even see on the screen — and a "privacy project" link of some sort.
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by charliepark 8y ago
Unfortunately, we're not there yet in California, either. I worked at one of the most progressive / women-friendly companies in San Francisco, and as of last year, only 34.3% of our technical roles were filled by women (company si
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by charliepark 8y ago
Even if it's including annual contracts in the 2019 numbers, 1,000% growth per year — all bootstrapped — is great. Congrats on that!
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by charliepark 8y ago
Agreed with you that her accomplishment is great. As in engineering, it's helpful to use proper terminology with people: if using a gender is necessary for the narrative … - under 13: girl - 13 – 18: girl / teenager / young w
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by charliepark 8y ago
It's fallacious to presume that — because gender, sex, race, etc. shouldn't impact peoples' opportunities — that we should treat is as though it doesn't impact them. This is a good article on the concept: https:&#x2
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by charliepark 8y ago
2vw would be a reasonable substitution, as it creates a dynamic margin, based on the screen's "view width". Smaller screens → smaller margins.
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Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods(nytimes.com)
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by charliepark 8y ago
Welp. I have no recollection of what research I did to conclude that it was “legit”, but I believe that was my post on Wikipedia. As I don’t have memory or note of that research, I can’t really stand behind either my initial claim or my cou
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by charliepark 8y ago
This looks really interesting. "A series of eight articles … from the March 1970 issue of Astronautics & Aeronautics." Quickly summarizing the table of contents and some of the internal content, these seem to be the main takea
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by charliepark 8y ago
> So do it for me. I think this will work: Put this wherever you put your reusable functions: `const scrollToTop = () => document.getElementById('root').scrollIntoView();` And put this in the components / functions you
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by charliepark 8y ago
https://notion.so , in addition to being a really great product, is the most Victor-ian company I’ve seen. Really great thinking and product sense there.
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by charliepark 8y ago
Assuming the only difference is cost, would you recommend seeing it in 3D? (Also: It's amazing to me that they could convert hundred-year-old film to 3D.)
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by charliepark 8y ago
For those in the Bay Area interested in this, there are a number of Sacred Harp "singings", in different cities — Berkeley, Palo Alto, SF, and others. https://bayareasacredharp.org/local-singings/ for event l
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by charliepark 8y ago
I love the design. Looking forward to checking out the articles.
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by charliepark 8y ago
(Wrote practically the same message at the same time, then deleted mine. Agreeing with the parent comment: Eloquent Javascript is really solid.)
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by charliepark 8y ago
Just want to say how fantastic Common Sense Media is, and what a great resource it provides for parents trying to be intentional about all of this. Thank you for what you and your team do! (And, to parents here who aren't familiar with
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by charliepark 8y ago
It sounds like you're content being offline more, which is great. If you miss it, though … per your comment that "nothing worked back then but that was part of the experience", you might enjoy seeing if there's a local H
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by charliepark 9y ago
Just about two hours ago (right when you were posting this), my daughter was transferring her Christmas list from her Neo to our computer, onto Google Docs. She's written a number of lengthy stories on it over the years. It's a gr
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by charliepark 10y ago
I have one in Marin I recommend. Email is in my profile.
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by charliepark 10y ago
You'll need $10K to buy the options from your company. That's "Day 1". By Day 30 you need to file 83b with the IRS. And when it's time to pay your taxes for that year, you'll need to pay the IRS the taxes on th
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by charliepark 10y ago
If you're interested in bootstrapped SaaS writing, https://startingandsustaining.com/ from Garrett Dimon is really good as well.
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by charliepark 10y ago
It depends on the age you're looking for, but at around ages 6–10 ours enjoyed Snap Circuits: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00CIXVIRQ

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