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by drewda 4y ago
It depends upon what your startup is doing. Maybe Kubernetes is overkill for a basic "CRUD" web app backed by a relational database and some object storage. It's very helpful at our business that runs a variety of web service
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> I've finally decided to cancel my SO account, to add it to my hosts block list, and to block SO results from Google using an extension. I won't say that Twitter and StackOverflow are exactly alike, but to quit a website I als
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by drewda 4y ago
Yeah, agreed that it's all along the "dimension" of revenue. But the details of how Stripe prices its add-on functionality is different than competitors like Chargebee or Recurly (for subscription management) or QuickBooks On
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> Stripe's usage-based pricing works well because it's so direct – it's just X% of revenue. For what it's worth, that's how Stripe Payments works. But if you want to also use billing, invoicing, other additional
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by drewda 4y ago
FWIW, the frustrations of not being able to change high CO2 levels was just a topic of discussion over on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648021
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> In 2022, YouTube's advertising revenue accounted for approximately 11.35 percent of Google's total revenue. That year, the video platform's annual ad revenues amounted to 29.24 billion U.S. dollars, up from the 28.84 bi
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by drewda 4y ago
For example, it could be fascinating to see YouTube as a stand-alone company. Currently its revenues are masked under the "Google" part of Alphabet. It sounds like it's extremely profitable. It could be interesting to see You
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Yes, I will give Microsoft that -- MS Teams is so much better than Skype for Business/Lync, which was a horrible piece of video conferencing software.
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Seymour Hersh has decades of credibility from reporting the My Lai Massacre to the abuses at Abu Graib. But he does often rely on sources who remain anonymous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#Use_of_anonymou
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by drewda 4y ago
A recent blog post making similar points: https://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/23/software-and-its-discont...
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At least from the outside, Area120 looked like it existed mainly so that Google could have an option for retaining key staffers who might leave to do their own startup. Instead Google could offer the chance to be a founder -- at least in te
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by drewda 4y ago
For what it's worth, I'd call this "Docker 3.0" given that the first iteration was dotCloud, their Heroku competitor — I liked using that!
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> This is not rocket science: Evolution designed humans to pay special attention to threats. So, unsurprisingly [...] I know it's not the main point of this essay, but I am always turned off by this appeals to evolutionary psycholog
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by drewda 4y ago
One related argument I've read is that after the Russian Revolution of 1917, American capitalists had more incentives to look for points of compromise with labor. The threat/appeal of socialism/communism was helpful to making
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by drewda 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. I am curious to hear how you start with new clients like this. Do you identify one task to do together with a very well defined scope and a fixed cost? Do you just get started on an hourly basis and whether it's wor
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by drewda 4y ago
Perhaps. But the relevant point here is that California has long had state law banning most forms of non-compete clauses in employment contracts. It's considered to be one of the strengths of Silicon Valley and other California industr
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by drewda 4y ago
As the saying goes, California is the United States... just 30 years in the future. (Note that often this is a good pattern, but not always!)
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by drewda 4y ago
It sounds like selecting Tailwind helped to make clear the specific skills you were looking to hire for and at what level you'd be working together. Good to know. Thanks for sharing.
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Makes sense. Would you be able to share a bit more about how you started off with the designer? (Background: I'm asking because our SaaS business is at a point where we know it's ready for more polish for both marketing site and w
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by drewda 4y ago
This looks like a very nicely polished marketing website and SaaS product. If the creator would be open to sharing, I'd be curious to hear more about whether he's engaged contractors or firms to help with specific types of design
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For what it's worth, John Yoo is a professor at UC Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo#Academic_career
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by drewda 4y ago
I've had good luck implementing this "git scraping" pattern: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/ Might be more precise to call it "GitHub scraping" as you set up y
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by drewda 4y ago
> ads work when people want to spend money on products That's a good "30,000 foot view" summary of how consumer advertising businesses work.
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I don't think I ever interacted with him on Twitter, but I do from time to time press the "like" button on tweets in favor of criminal justice reform, in favor of the tax measure that voters passed in San Francisco to support
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by drewda 4y ago
I had an interesting chat with a bit player who's at the center of a Bay Area business ecosystem: the proprietor of http://executiveseating.com who buys hundreds of used chairs from larger older companies, stores them in an
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I started reading this book in a bookstore. In the intro, I recall him mentioned how he felt a blandness of middle age starting in his late 30s -- soon after he got tenure in his faculty job at a university. As a "recovering academic&q
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by drewda 4y ago
The coda at the end makes a great point: > Finally, I do not think Substack is uniquely shitty. Substack has demonstrated that they are instead typically shitty. Bad organizational behavior toward reporters and editors is too often the n
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by drewda 4y ago
Eh, well, Microsoft Teams is so much better than Skype for Business (originally known as Microsoft Lync). Now that was a horrible video conference application!
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When I read that article in the New Yorker, I did find it odd that a long piece all about video platforms didn't mention YouTube. I can see that the writer wants to make a more specific argument about "social graph" vs. &quot
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by drewda 4y ago
To a certain degree, yes. Agreed that it's funny and ironic. But also from an overall software-engineering and developer-experience perspective, this isn't the worst outcome...

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