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by drchiu 6y ago
It’s kind of funny they got Meg Whitman to be the CEO of Quibi. Pretty sure Bella Poarch (or someone similar) would be a more appropriate choice for knowing how to get something viral.
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Yeah I remember that! Did med school in the early 2000s and they glossed over this part.
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Strangely enough, I find the anesthesiologist sometimes knows the name of the vessels as well as the surgeon, especially for the run of the mill surgeries. Because it usually turns a 20 minute operation to 60-90 minutes (the added time to f
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by drchiu 6y ago
I remember the cadaver labs during the school days. Really hard to spot certain (save for the really large organs which are obvious) unless you know what it is you’re looking for. Sometimes an illustration tells you it should be there but t
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by drchiu 6y ago
I'm also in the camp of not offering live support. For most businesses who don't have a 24/7 staffing for the live chat, it's best to avoid it altogether as it creates unrealistic expectations in the customers. Customers
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by drchiu 6y ago
A lot of hard work, judging by your write up. Congrats! Tangential to this, I am noticing a lot of info product MVPs being built on Airtable.
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by drchiu 6y ago
This too was our experience. We had several clusters running on one of the managed services. The cost didn't justify what we could do with running it ourselves. We're lucky to have experience with Postgres, performing backups (of
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by drchiu 6y ago
I think a strategy for launching something like this where an existing incumbent already exists (ie. StackOverflow) would be to niche down into a single programming topic, such that the answers within this micro community are much better th
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Broke Millennials Turn to Day Trading to Strike It Rich in Korea(bloomberg.com)
2 points by drchiu 6y ago|1 comments
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by drchiu 6y ago
On this topic, if it's a domain that seems highly desirable (single word, good TLD extension), I typically register it for the max period (10 years), just in case the registrar's system has a glitch and doesn't auto renew whe
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by drchiu 6y ago
That's a good one (asking about how they came up with their decision). It helps elucidate their purchasing logic and process. To elaborate on our last question, it's also a tactic used to help potential customers convince themselv
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by drchiu 6y ago
Questions that I've had good experience with: * What's your problem? w/ Tell me more (as follow up) * What are you doing right now for that problem? * What other solutions have you tried? * Are those other solutions working?
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by drchiu 6y ago
I’d say that the prevalence of marketing hacks out there have made people let their guard down. We assume businesses will lose money on purpose to gain traction to the degree that when we see deals like these, we jump at it without a second
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by drchiu 6y ago
Yep. Not everyone comes from the same baseline. Different biases, experiences, knowledge, affinity for a topic, capacity to understand something at a certain speed, etc. Tangentially related, I’ve noticed some online products almost purpose
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by drchiu 6y ago
I was just thinking this as well when I read that sentence. Plain text emails are a pretty low bar in terms of technical challenges if one could submit Linux kernel patches.
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by drchiu 6y ago
From experience, Shopify's app store is great for developers who want to build something and don't want to involve themselves into thinking about distribution. It was one of my first forays into building a SAAS, and I was able to
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by drchiu 6y ago
You should consult with a trademark lawyer (I'm not a lawyer), but my understanding from lawyers who've trademarked for me is that you must have used (or will use via the intention to use filing) the mark in commerce. If you have
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Apple to Enforce 1-Year Limit on SSL/TLS Certificate Lifetimes on September 1(support.apple.com)
2 points by drchiu 6y ago|0 comments
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by drchiu 6y ago
I did this with a Honda minivan a few years back. Got one of these buying agents to negotiate and get the deal. Just went into the dealership and got the car. In and out within 15-20 mins to sign paper and pick up the keys. I can relate abo
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by drchiu 6y ago
I don’t think there’s particularly a right or wrong here. I’m solo myself and have felt for a long time to be in an inferior position because I don’t fit into the ideal 2.3 founders statistic. It took more than a few years for me to move pa
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by drchiu 6y ago
Can this be mitigated by using something like ufw and restricting the IP access?
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by drchiu 6y ago
I remember some of the most mind bending topics in med school were courses surrounding consent and ethics. The superficial perspectives never seem to do these topics justice once one actually performs deep analysis into them. It seems that
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by drchiu 6y ago
I mean... this depends. I use Rails mostly in my work, and in recent years I’ve pared down the libraries I would use (ie. that will go into the Gemfile). I generally stay away from any other externalities beside this list of libraries, and
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New York MTA asks Apple for a new way to unlock iPhones while wearing masks(twitter.com)
4 points by drchiu 6y ago|1 comments
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This is consistent with when I practiced medicine. No matter how hard you try, there’s always some percentage of people who try to take advantage of the system in what would publicly be considered inappropriate. Credit rating and systems su
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by drchiu 6y ago
I’ve used this trick in the past. More than a few times the bad customer tries to quickly do a 180 and be superficially apologetic to prolong the relationship. Unfortunately, behaving in this way, at least in their minds, represents an effe
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by drchiu 6y ago
I think what the commenter is suggesting is that there’s an asymmetric cost for the parties involved. In this case, the legal costs for Apple is negligible. There’s a whole legal department whose sole job is to find and engage in cases like
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by drchiu 6y ago
My Digital Ocean load balancer went down. I think there's probably some internal routing? Would be interested to understand more.
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by drchiu 6y ago
Just got a whole bunch of alerts that my services are down. Tried logging into Digital Ocean (who it seems uses Cloudflare) to get it fixed. Could not access their dashboard to reroute things.
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It was a plugin, so I relied on the plugin directory to do the marketing for me. Other than that, it was priced competitively. Enough people matriculated through. The app itself sucked (was new to programming), but it did made money. Since

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