csallen

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by csallen 9y ago
What kinds of material do you read? Any recommendations? I'm particularly interested in engrossing fiction, and also non-fiction work with "sticky" ideas that have changed the way you see the world.
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by csallen 9y ago
Every crash is preceded by people saying everything , because there are billions of people in the world and it's easy to find any opinion. Thus, the mere presence (or lack thereof) of any particular opinion is not a useful barometer o
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by csallen 9y ago
I suspect we'd be discussing this article even if Sam Altman's name wasn't in the title. EDIT: Also, I wouldn't say that it's necessarily a good thing that we're discussing this. Moreso, my point is that the
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by csallen 9y ago
I don't have any qualms around taking names out of titles.
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by csallen 9y ago
> The mantra on HN is that ideas matter and that HN wants to deemphasize names and avoid promoting pieces being posted merely because they are about some celebrity. I think these articles fail that test. I disagree. Whatever you think
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by csallen 9y ago
I disagree that removing yourself from the system changes much of anything. It's effectively no different than committing suicide. The rest of the world goes on. And, in fact, they have more power, because now a smaller percentage of c
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by csallen 9y ago
I remember watching an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit ages ago that railed against recycling. This seems to be it: https://vimeo.com/216389085
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by csallen 9y ago
I think you're focusing on the costs and neglecting many of the benefits. For example, just think about how much easier it is to learn to code nowadays, thanks to the proliferation of helpful websites that take a variety of approaches
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by csallen 9y ago
> we should also encourage the use of the "lesser" browsers like Dillo, NetSurf, and all the text-based ones. They can't really run "web apps" and the like, but will be fine for viewing the "long tail"
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by csallen 9y ago
Yes, but that's a huge "if". First, there are a lot more programmers than there are companies, and programmers are not unionized, so presenting a united front will be difficult if not impossible. Besides, programmers want all
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by csallen 9y ago
The reality of the situation is that it's not about what you do, but about how hard it is to find someone else to do what you do. If it's easy to find programmers who will work for below-market rates, but hard to find investors
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by csallen 9y ago
Why not just ban gratuitous advertising? I believe we do it with cigarette companies.
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by csallen 9y ago
I see this sentiment a lot on HN. I know nothing about Minecraft, but I'd be surprised if the factors at play here are any different from other situations where "superior" FOSS clones fail to overtake the original closed vers
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by csallen 9y ago
It's easy to read tw04's original comment and focus entirely on the "less educated" part, but tw04's point still stands without that — union workers can and will be affected by opposition arguments, and therefore we
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by csallen 9y ago
The culture here is often contrarian to a fault.
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by csallen 9y ago
> "…maybe finding web pages on the web is just a nostalgic thing with no real benefit, but there's no doubt that Google has moved away from that as real objective." I can't think of an example where people en masse
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“I'm struggling with finding the confidence to launch my project”(indiehackers.com)
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by csallen 9y ago
Yep, marketing departments. No one trick to finding the right person: research, asking around, very polite cold emails, etc. I also made it clear in my newsletter and on my website website that I was looking for advertisers. I've writt
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by csallen 9y ago
$0, I stopped taking on advertisers after joining Stripe
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Cash, and I reached out at first.
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by csallen 9y ago
It's difficult to find out how much money podcasts make, so here are some data points about my podcast, which I started in February of this year. I released 5 episodes of the newly-created Indie Hackers podcast[0] in March and made abo
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Tobias van Schneider on Not Fitting In(indiehackers.com)
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by csallen 9y ago
Metric for ROI is profit from a customer vs cost to acquire that customer via Facebook ads.
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> Yes, some people do it right Who? Any examples?
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by csallen 9y ago
I interviewed the people behind Intrinio[1] for Indie Hackers. I haven't used their product myself, so I can't tell you how it stacks up against the Yahoo and Google APIs that were killed this month. But I do know that they provid
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by csallen 9y ago
Before he resigned, Steve Bannon said, "Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about,
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by csallen 9y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, there is no military solution to the North Korean conflict. If we strike first, they'll destroy Seoul in seconds and cause the largest near-instantaneous loss of life the world has ever seen. They don't e
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by csallen 9y ago
I'm talking about before the Uber-Lyft duopoly came into being. It's obviously futile to make an app now. How many taxi companies had mobile apps before 2009?
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Not true. First, the taxi companies never made apps, so the lock-in factor just wasn't there. Second, the absence of an app makes it hard for any single company to succeed with every option that customers want. Willing to pay more for
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by csallen 9y ago
> Why on earth would autonomous taxis be a monopoly? I'll bite. First, there's the entry point. If it's a taxi, you as the rider don't own it, which means you have to summon it. The most ubiquitous company here has

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