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by dyim 9y ago
yes - when people complain about their own revealed preferences, just smile and nod!
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by dyim 9y ago
FYI, you don't need to pay $3k - I lived in the Mission / Potrero Hill area (with roommates, mind you) for a few years, and my rent had always been between $1000-1850/mo. Centrally located, safe(-ish), and beautiful. You can
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by dyim 9y ago
Shameless plug, but one of my old college friends sells gift cards at scale: https://support.priceyak.com/hc/en-us/articles/203465699-Buy... If you're in the Amazon world I'm sure you know of them,
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by dyim 9y ago
We use Trello and it works great. Its closest skeuomorphic equivalent is... a whiteboard with Post-it notes stuck to it.
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by dyim 9y ago
Returnbase (reverse logistics), CropMetrics (agtech), Weather Analytics (ag. insurance), and Loop Support (customer support, shameless plug) come to mind. It's tough to "casually observe" startups because you can't flip
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by dyim 9y ago
30% doesn't sound crazy, based on this first-order-approximative data: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=E...
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by dyim 9y ago
Couldn't find out from the article or the linked blog post - what were the responsibilities of the 173 laid-off employees? How many employees does SoundCloud have, and what roles do they have? Clearly they're not all devs - do the
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by dyim 9y ago
I'm rooting for these guys - it looks like their COO has been in waste management since 1999 (and, from the article, his family's been in it for decades). As a casual observer of "non-sexy" startups, I've noticed th
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by dyim 9y ago
Work with a friend that you trust! My co-founder is brilliant at using tech to optimize operations, and talented-but-indifferent when it comes to marketing. I like selling things. It works out well :)
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by dyim 9y ago
Word, thanks for the input!
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by dyim 9y ago
I thought the aside about NUMMI was interesting [1]. Though the difference between Dayton culture and Chinese culture might be bigger than the difference between Fremont culture and Japanese culture, it's been done successfully before.
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by dyim 9y ago
Curious about this - and I mean it in a 100% sincere way - how much waste does Blue Apron generate, and why is it unreasonable? How does it stack up to other common forms of waste generated by households?
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by dyim 9y ago
Fun game! Just played a round - the ship that shoots a bunch of single letters is a cool mechanic. Can I see how I stack up against other users?
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by dyim 9y ago
I also had some friends who did this around 2012-2013. It was pretty easy, and they were making 25-30% margins on the bitcoins that they sold. Sounds great! They ended up getting scammed a few times, and they realized that it was a fairly e
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by dyim 9y ago
HN readers tend to have lots of disposable income. They also tend to fall for hobbies with lots of room for discussion, debate, and nuance. Gourmet cuisine fits very nicely between the two :)
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by dyim 9y ago
Agreed, 100%. My co-founder and I read all of Paul Graham's essays before starting our current company [1], and it really helped us get a good intuition for the kind of work that gets you closer to product-market fit. (Good work: direc
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by dyim 9y ago
I have the same problem too - I solve it by humming/singing the melody and recording it on my phone. Afterwards, I'll find nice synths, put chords to melodies, write horn arrangements, tweak drum fills, etc.
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by dyim 9y ago
Likely because they have custom pricing based loosely on how much business value they create for the customer. E.g. if a philatelist wanted to scrape stamp catalogs, and if an industry-specific analytics platform wanted to scrape a directo
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by dyim 10y ago
I've had deeply mediocre experiences with recruiters in tech - but my girlfriend was recently looking for a private equity job. She interviewed at ~15 places, and most of these interviews were placed by "headhunters" (i.e. re
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by dyim 10y ago
I've heard finance-types use "secular" to mean "long-term" (as opposed to "non-religious")
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by dyim 10y ago
their operational side looks/walks/quacks like a startup, so i think something important gets lost in translation if you look at the balance sheets and call OpenDoor a REIT
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by dyim 10y ago
#16 is my personal favorite [1] - but #85 is a close second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_85 [1] It reminds me of the spoken-word intro to "Love Sosa" :)
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by dyim 10y ago
100% yes - and I am guilty of this myself. I've always found CSS miserable, so I'd just Stack Overflow things to "just make it work" ASAP. Yesterday I took the time to read the specs for the flexbox feature. Spent an ext
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by dyim 10y ago
I also forget. Thankfully hair-washing is an idempotent operation for guys :) .
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by dyim 10y ago
These seem like little UX things :) . It'd be tough to imagine changing their core cultural tenets in order to accommodate tourists.
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by dyim 10y ago
Yup, you could AJAX-ily listen to the phish fields
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by dyim 10y ago
It'd be like deploying an update before leaving for your honeymoon!
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by dyim 10y ago
I would argue that you can combine two parts of your cynicism to create something very wholesome! 1) "It seems like a marketing photo-op for the CEO." 2) "Rockefeller would have helped his company much more by improving his o
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by dyim 10y ago
Reach out to people who leave email addresses in their HN profiles! :)
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by dyim 10y ago
You should write that letter, and let SFMTA know that some ruffians have removed the posts ;)

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