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by glacials 6y ago
That's great feedback! I've shared it with my team, thanks.
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FriendlyUUID – Short, stateless URL slugs for UUID-based Rails models(github.com)
4 points by glacials 6y ago|1 comments
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by glacials 6y ago
As an example of what the opposite pricing model looks like, YourBase[1] charges a flat fee per build such that it's in their best interest to make builds as fast as possible. Because of this forcing function, builds are instrumented a
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by glacials 6y ago
Bingo! Balance is key. Farmers working under communist rule in China who started private farming caused agricultural productivity to skyrocket and the number of starving people to drop [1]. Say what you will about human greed, but aligning
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by glacials 6y ago
"Do things that don't scale" [1] generally refers to the startup advantage. Doing thing A more cheaply than thing B _at_ scale is a different problem. [1]: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
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by glacials 6y ago
Can someone explain why Mano's job description prompted this response from Feynman? I don't know enough to understand what this problem is, or why Feynman thinks any person solving it would be sad.
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by glacials 6y ago
> Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach. I'm sorry but this is not true. There have however been perception issues around viewbotting. One such: For most of th
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by glacials 6y ago
I interned at LLNL on three separate occasions during school. Everything about what y'all do in high-performance computing is levels beyond anything I've gone on to see in the "real world". I cannot drop enough praise.
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by glacials 6y ago
Speak of the devil, as you posted this I updated the messaging to say exactly this! Thanks for the feedback.
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by glacials 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Reflecting on this, I completely agree -- what this tool is actually estimating is a minimum to compensate you for lost time, sanity, energy, and money. Your actual price should be based on the market. I've upd
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Show HN: Estimate how much to charge for your SaaS side project(pricegun.twos.dev)
37 points by glacials 6y ago|6 comments
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by glacials 6y ago
Modern stock (Google-flavored?) Android has also taken up buttonless gestures with the last couple of generations of Pixel devices. Depending on your Android version and your phone, you can toggle it on and off in settings by searching for
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by glacials 7y ago
I started a side project in 2013, and when I (for other reasons) left my job at the beginning of 2019 I decided to go full time on it. I timeboxed myself to one year to show salary-like profits. Things that snuck up on me: 1. I thought it&#
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by glacials 7y ago
For anyone else who's hunting all over for a rendered example, just open devtools -- the site dogfoods itself.
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by glacials 7y ago
Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes, been successfully remote for last 2 yrs Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rails, Go, Node, Vue.js twos.dev linkedin.com/in/ben github.com/glacials qhiiyr@gmail.com
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by glacials 7y ago
Easier said than done -- data models frequently evolve in hard-to-predict ways. Instead, build your data model in a way that is easily pliable, and won't need a complete refactor because of something simple like a hot key or a new inde
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by glacials 7y ago
My company had just started doing performance reviews, as they had been growing a lot (generic small startup with unlimited vacation and all that) and it was That Time. So this was a quarterly performance review, but was my first after havi
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by glacials 7y ago
All complex software has bugs. In good software, the bugs don't cause user-facing issues. QA teams aim to make software good by finding them. Speedrunners aren't users or QA. Speedrunners find bugs no matter what. From the develop
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by glacials 7y ago
I'm one of twelve speedrunners of this game [1] and this is a killing blow to our community. Those of us lucky enough to have the game installed are the only ones who can continue speedrunning this game, and we can never uninstall it o
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by glacials 7y ago
Electric cars are an energy-source-agnostic vehicle. Whether their energy comes from coal or nuclear or wind or solar, they are unaffected. Because of this you can gradually swap out pieces of the energy production backbone to renewables, a
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by glacials 7y ago
This is a far cry from a rebranding. Restructuring into a parent/child company or redesigning a logo don't affect the day-to-day operations of Facebook employees. Shifting into a white label company does, and it's a huge risk
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Pando (Tree)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by glacials 7y ago|0 comments
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by glacials 7y ago
I believe in your mission. The world needs a better way to fund open source development. At first glance, your product feels unrelated to this. It seems like a Stack Overflow replacement that's worse for posterity (read: googlers) beca
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)(paulgraham.com)
153 points by glacials 7y ago|22 comments
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by glacials 7y ago
Good point! I meant to convey free-as-in-beer; I'll fix this wording now!
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by glacials 7y ago
Hey HN, I'm Ben Carlsson. I recently left Twitch (YC W2007) after five years and have founded an open source esports startup. In my downtime I've been trying to solve the perception issue that causes many open source authors (incl
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Show HN: Dead simple dual-licensing for open source software(license.land)
2 points by glacials 7y ago|3 comments
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Gut-Driven Development(twos.dev)
3 points by glacials 7y ago|2 comments
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by glacials 7y ago
Funny when you can get this narrow window into the team members writing vs. the ones editing!
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by glacials 7y ago
I left my silicon valley job and am building a speedrunning analytics startup out of a side project I started 6 years ago. https://splits.io

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