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by csytan 8y ago
The value prop is in getting the item much quicker via Prime. It's also a form of arbitrage.
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by csytan 8y ago
IPython has a pretty neat feature where you can await at the top level: https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/whatsnew/version7.h...
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by csytan 8y ago
Reading this blog post, I see two skills in conflict: 1. Ship now, ship often 2. Strive for perfection The first one is required for entrepreneurs. Your "work <--> reward" iteration cycle should be as short as possible, and
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by csytan 8y ago
"What does it take to... join the same market space?" Speaking on the SAAS space. IMO the bar for entry is getting higher every year. It's getting easier and easier to build apps, and the number of developers keeps gr
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by csytan 8y ago
My wife and I are bootstrapping a business, and we're nearly at 100 customers (92 right now). I would not say it's an easy road. We've been working on it full time for 1.5 years so far. A couple things I've realized whil
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by csytan 8y ago
You should check out notion.so
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by csytan 8y ago
I've been looking into this as well. Here's some notes: https://www.notion.so/csytan/iPad-as-a-Development-Device-99...
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by csytan 8y ago
Could you clarify? I'm guessing you mean.. Square: Small/individual merchants, Etsy style physical shops, trade shows, etc. Stripe: large retailers, grocery stores, stores with many locations etc.
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by csytan 8y ago
It's interesting to see: - Square become Stripe, while Stripe becomes Square - Stripe owning the whole user experience in purchasing - If they own the physical end points, will they eventually cut out credit card companies? You can alr
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How I scaled a website to 10M users(youtube.com)
3 points by csytan 8y ago|0 comments
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by csytan 8y ago
Sellers are customers too, but I think that in this context it means the people who make purchases on Amazon.
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by csytan 8y ago
Python3 + tornado + peewee + sqlite3 + vuejs hosted on Digital Ocean. I've been using this combo in production for https://www.cozycal.com for a year with no problems. Likes: - More control than hosted environments - Dirt c
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by csytan 8y ago
Co-operatives have been around for a long time outside of the software world. The low level problems are being worked on right now with DAOs, but it will take a while longer. If you take the D out of DAO, then the high level problems: fairn
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Ask HN: Are there autonomous organizations that integrate with the legal system?
1 points by csytan 8y ago|0 comments
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by csytan 9y ago
Music also has much more replay-ability than movies.
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by csytan 9y ago
Here's a great community for just that: https://www.indiehackers.com/ Coincidentally, Indie Hackers was acquired by Stripe via patio11.
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by csytan 9y ago
When I was living in NYC, cycling to work in the summer was the best part of my day. It took me ~30 mins to get from the Upper West Side to the office in Alphabet city. Commuting by subway would take ~50 mins.
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by csytan 9y ago
The two I'd recommend are: 1. https://giphy.com/apps/giphycapture 2. https://getkap.co/
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Ask HN: Remote workers, how do you show your work?
105 points by csytan 9y ago|45 comments
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by csytan 9y ago
This is not surprising to me. I've worked in this space, and I think consumer hardware startups are just incredibly hard. I just finished my stint at one ( https://www.electricobjects.com/ ) last year after we failed to
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by csytan 9y ago
Electric Objects | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Alphabet City, NYC | ONSITE Electric Objects ( https://www.electricobjects.com/ ) is pioneering digital art in the home. We’re a small and growing group of digital art enthusias
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by csytan 9y ago
Javascript's async feels a bit more natural than Python's. In Python, you've also got to run the event loop and pass the async function to it. This makes playing with async code in the interpreter more difficult. Also don&#x2
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by csytan 11y ago
I'm working on a project like this as well! Still in the early stages -- I just got my parts. I'm planning on using the ESP8266 chip + Arduino core ( https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino ) controlled with a simpl
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by csytan 11y ago
I see this pattern all the time on GitHub. A promising project starts to catch a lot of stars. Issues start piling up, and the developer no longer looks forward to working on the project because of they have a boatload of issues to deal wit
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by csytan 11y ago
While I haven't had a chance to use 3.5's async/await syntax, I have used AsyncIO pretty heavily to deal with multiple sensor inputs/outputs on a Raspberry Pi. The author is right. If you write a coroutine, any code th
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by csytan 11y ago
SQLAlchemy is great, but for those who are looking for something lighter, I highly recommend Peewee ( https://github.com/coleifer/peewee ). It's a very well maintained alternative.
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by csytan 11y ago
Here's a link to the video of Nate Lewis' talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yNj1zEh-nM
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by csytan 11y ago
I haven't read Rob Walling's book, but I found his video on "Finding your flywheel" to be useful: https://vimeo.com/47465229
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by csytan 11y ago
Thanks for clarifying. This is a very neat way of removing what would be an extra level of nesting. It doesn't look like native promises support this unfortunately: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web
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by csytan 12y ago
iOS Webkit still has the 300ms click event delay even though Android released a simple fix over a year ago. To work around this, you'll have to use a library like FastClick (which is not perfect) or write some Javascript to hijack touc

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