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by hklgny 4y ago
This was a very strange article to read - and the author felt a bit over the top apologetic to me. What excites me about Mastodon is its open nature and more decentralized community feel. Feels like the kind of place that you can still &qu
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by hklgny 4y ago
Fair enough, I should have looked before I added the snark - upvoted cause fun response. But the rest of my comment stands, I do think they selectively disclosed and working in PR would know they were doing so.
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by hklgny 4y ago
Because they took the time to disclose the parts of their situation that supported the point they wanted to make (work at stripe, live in Ireland), but disregarded the parts they knew would discredit them a bit (PR for the company). Also,
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by hklgny 4y ago
You do you, man. But you haven’t replied to anyone asking your thoughts on alternatives and if total market index funds hit the ground we’ve got bigger fish to fry. I just hope nobody takes you seriously.
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by hklgny 4y ago
I’ve been following the bogleheads philosophy since I graduated college. I’ve done it while working normal jobs, pursuing startups, side projects, sabbaticals abroad and everything in between. I’ve had some luck with startups, but the major
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by hklgny 4y ago
If they're being really fancy, they'll create rough-ins for real windows embedded into the frame. But more commonly they'll just punch a hole in the exterior cloth and replace it with clear plastic. Here's some example
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by hklgny 4y ago
I have fun coding. I can't wait to dig into interesting problems and figure them out - regardless of if it's for my own coding or my employers.
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by hklgny 4y ago
100% this. Spinning up a new Next project "just works" for getting started, and makes me confident in a scaling path as times goes on. Adding things like lightweight API routes (weirdly useful in a ton of situations) or pulling in
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by hklgny 4y ago
This article was a bit of a whirlwind for me, I had many of the reactions he later mentioned hearing in comments. I think where I settled is that this was an annoying invasion of privacy and ruined a good thing. I loved hearing about people
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by hklgny 4y ago
You may be right - but does not seem like you were just asking out of genuine interest :) You're making your own value judgements in your response which is fine. It just means you may not opt for it if you were in that situation. If
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by hklgny 4y ago
Some companies do it for expensive training that COULD otherwise be purchased by the employee but they choose to go this route instead. medical field, pilots and law are common examples. In those cases, it can be a good deal if you land in
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by hklgny 4y ago
I appreciate the offer. We are very much working closely with you on implementation and have from the start (over 6 years spanning many of your products). I am very familiar with all of your offerings. The core of stripe is great, we’re fan
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by hklgny 4y ago
I would be shocked to learn you’re using stripe billing and checkout sessions successfully internally - those products are so convoluted in how they overlap and don’t as to be unusable. All but the most basic use cases are a nightmare to bo
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by hklgny 4y ago
Part of building relationships from a management perspective means understanding how people operate, and then helping to create an environment that’s conducive to them. Your responses in this thread read like you expect everyone you work wi
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by hklgny 4y ago
I know it's a silly thing to point out, but I really enjoyed your typo in the second line in the context of that world view being incongruent with reality. We can't even type it as a society.
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by hklgny 4y ago
Because if you read the article his advice wasn't to engage in predatory mechanics - and that's why this conversation is so inflammatory for folks. It's a bad title. Here's the quote: “It used to be the case that develop
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by hklgny 4y ago
For sure - you can often find anecdata that works out well. But I think being conscious about that decision up front as a developer is still a good idea. If you choose to go the Minecraft route then great. Just know what you're gett
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by hklgny 4y ago
This seems like a click bait title to me, he "technically" uses those words, but the article seems a lot more sensible to me than inflammatory. We should definitely be thinking through sales/marketing when building games jus
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by hklgny 4y ago
I suspect this is more of a stripe problem than a Shopify one. Having dealt with them shutting down our customer accounts on several occasions with no information as to why and ambiguous documentation requests that seem to go on forever, it
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by hklgny 4y ago
That doesn’t change it from being a blunder since it IS inherently political and the consequences were the same.
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by hklgny 4y ago
This may be true after a certain point, but is certainly NOT the case when you're just getting started.
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by hklgny 4y ago
While both are anecdotes, I think the original warning is the more important one as it's not the one new founders will expect to encounter. Nothing wrong with taking the call, but be aware of the risks and do a bit of homework before y
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by hklgny 4y ago
I think the difference he’s suggesting is that there is more than one battle taking place here. You don’t have to charge the machine gun hill you can go hang out on the hill with a bunch of folks larping with swords and having a good time d
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by hklgny 4y ago
Unregulated sports like this are a delicate thing. It’s up to the participants to self regulate and avoid catching the public eye so they don’t lose access to the areas they get to enjoy. This is a huge thing in FAR 103 sports (ultralight f
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by hklgny 4y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted for it. It’s a useless addition to an otherwise interesting article.
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by hklgny 4y ago
I don’t think they’re dismissing it - that’s the point they’re making. And the other response here furthers it. Nobody is going to invest 20 years at this point until there’s a more compelling reason to do so. So until then, why moan about
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by hklgny 5y ago
Obsidian has a solid mobile app now
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by hklgny 5y ago
You do sound negative and it doesn’t seem like a useful negativity. The world consolidating into so few companies is new, and any attempt at smaller more self sufficient businesses seems to me like a good thing. Who cares if they make the e
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by hklgny 5y ago
you should visit china sometime - this isn't always the case and certainly isn't for the folks you're talking about
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by hklgny 5y ago
That’s actually exactly how vegetarian buffets work. If you want to avoid Facebook with this library you can. That may not be the case with every library so folks who care about such things appreciate the callout. If you don’t care you don’

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