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by drchiu 5y ago
I think managers and business decision makers underestimate how much benefit we bring with our unique set of skills. A great developer can fix the codebase with a single line of code. A mediocre developer adds hundreds of lines of code to a
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by drchiu 5y ago
Well, when they bought it, the share price was sub $100k. Some even lower. The B shares didn't exist before either (pre 1996), so some of these are legacy shares.
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by drchiu 5y ago
The higher share price serves as a mechanism to stabilize the share prices as well. I have a few friends who disdain at the idea of selling even a single share because they don't want to bother converting it to B shares and/or don
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by drchiu 5y ago
Something about "Don't deploy no Fridays."
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by drchiu 5y ago
Looks like it is. For anything else, I would have went to Twitter to find out if anyone else was experiencing the same.
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by drchiu 6y ago
Could you share the link of the projector technique? I’m learning sewing and finding preparing the pattern to be the most time consuming.
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by drchiu 6y ago
I wished there's an indication of how much this costs. Because this seems like the target market may also be startup teams who can't afford 1000s per month (ie. enterprise) but whose APIs are getting hammered.
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by drchiu 6y ago
> From what I can tell their API deprecation strategy is quite hostile to developers. Yes, every 3 months you need to revisit the API. It's good and bad. It means that if you're casually developing an app, this will consume a l
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by drchiu 6y ago
My biggest problem with the ecosystem is how Shopify tries to deflect their own customer problems onto their partners to solve. And oftentimes, these same customers expect the partners to solve it for free. Examples: - Their default theme (
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by drchiu 6y ago
Yes, this is true. There's a lot of pressure, I suspect, since they've come out as a publicly traded company. I've built on Shopify before. While they're great, you'll find that it's hard to grow your company i
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by drchiu 6y ago
Subscriptions is now available as part of their API. It does require a bit of time* to understand it though. * - May vary depending on your level of experience with GraphQL
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Upgrade Ruby from 2.7 to 3.0(fastruby.io)
1 points by drchiu 6y ago|0 comments
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Jason Calacanis invites solo founders to contact him if they're making 20k MRR(twitter.com)
3 points by drchiu 6y ago|0 comments
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by drchiu 6y ago
I think selling a product that doesn't yet exist may work without an MVP, especially if it's a completely novel idea where none exists. We launched recently (and got paid customers on day 1, no mailing list, no large # of follower
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by drchiu 6y ago
From a purchaser’s perspective, I really do welcome more choices most of the time. Reasons: - more likely I’ll find the product that fits my budget and needs - ability to switch out of an unfavourable technology stack that no longer works f
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by drchiu 6y ago
We did that for a couple of SAAS. In fact, we even extracted this out to an internal library with a web UI. If anyone is interested, let me know and I’d be happy to open source it. It’ll have to be run in its own server and process. But for
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by drchiu 6y ago
I read this with a lot of hope. The -80 degree cold storage part won’t be easy. Most vaccines stored at medical offices are nowhere near that and are only around ~0 degrees C. Freezer temps are only ~18 deg C. Possibly will only be able to
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by drchiu 6y ago
I’ve never met him, but having read his blog (before he took it down around the time Shopify IPO’ed) and his work in libraries like Liquid, Rails, and others, he’s an engineer/programmer at heart. Nice to see he’s able to hold onto som
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by drchiu 6y ago
Marketing software is really hard, as others have mentioned, due to switching costs, the number of niche verticals, and user to user requirements. I also notice that in the past few years, there are a flurry of new products in this space of
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by drchiu 6y ago
Interesting philosophical question. The blog post got me thinking as well. If by extension developers aim to please by releasing features as fast as I (the user) wants them, is the act of requesting feature a morally wrong? Therefore, my de
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by drchiu 6y ago
Promox is great, as the other reply mentioned. We don't use any virtualization like that. All bare metal as we are running a single app.
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by drchiu 6y ago
Yeah, I would avoid their VPS. I benchmarked their higher end VPS and they were still not great. Ran a few as well on Vultr, Linode, and DO and ended up going with none of them. Linode performed the best for VPS for me, but price-point wise
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by drchiu 6y ago
Nope, it's OVH for us as well as this point. We have about 8 or 9 dedicated servers at OVH right now. Things we've noticed: - Yes, UI sucks - No autobilling - Reboot times are slow (as the actual machines are reboooted, not a VPS)
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by drchiu 6y ago
We tried running things on AWS and digital ocean. Yes, AWS offers a lot of extra value with all the other services. But at the same time, we had a relatively simple application. We ended up managing our own sets of dedicated servers for a f
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by drchiu 6y ago
Wasn't the taxi industry also one where it had its own corruption and connections with people who may resort to guns to protect their turf? How did companies like Uber and Lyft gain marketshare without incurring some physical penalty?
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by drchiu 6y ago
My first thought was that this sounds like a joke, but thinking about it further I realized there are definitely some target cases for this kind of program. I'm lucky to be able to work on my stuff full time, but it wasn't too lon
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by drchiu 6y ago
So I checked out the git branch for Next.js Commerce ( https://github.com/vercel/commerce/ ). Aside from the missing documentation, there seems to be a lot of touch points where the code is tightly integrated with B
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Ask HN: How do you handle a non-reproducible customer reported bug?
2 points by drchiu 6y ago|4 comments
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by drchiu 6y ago
I wished I learned earlier in my life that hard work and success don't come hand-in-hand. There are a lot of hard working people in the world who never get to reap any reward from their labour. At least for me, recognizing that success
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by drchiu 6y ago
Termius and several other SSH apps use this workaround as well.

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