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by ian0 7y ago
A financial modelling tool that also has API access for booking revenue.
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I use Auth0, its been amazing though sometimes the docs are a little difficult.
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This skill is likely what enabled you to do consulting. Understanding and critiquing what your building is a really important part of being an engineer, but it's relatively rare - which is a shame.
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Nobody, least of all your boss, will complain if you grow the companies revenue without significantly expanding on your cost base. I would suggest thinking of this as a challenge, see if you are up to it. Grow it in a way where your boss is
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by ian0 7y ago
The underlying value of a company can diverge from its valuation. While obviously this happened when they pitched a $50bn valuation, it could also be happening here. IE Softbank thinks the value is way higher than 8Bn but forced a low valua
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by ian0 7y ago
On point! And so begins the large IT company lifecycle... - Those hundreds of sales engineers weave a spaggeti junction of pseudo products around the core application to suit the whims of the C-level clients and their buzzwords of the month
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by ian0 7y ago
Another interesting one is illustrating "depth" of knowledge in a results page. For example, I type "Sagittarius A*". It would be nice to have the results grouped into depth. From initial general-audience explainer video
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In my mind there are two flavours of queries. The first are those which are "ctrl f" in nature, ie I want to query the entire web to find string x. Which are obviously better suited to indexes. The second are more knowledge based
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by ian0 7y ago
Not sure if this is the case in the US, but here in SEA we had an unbelievably hard time getting corporate credit cards. In my previous company we were actually building credit card authentication systems for banks and schemes, a private co
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I think it's a great idea! However, I think you may find that success with this product will depend more on people being able to use your service - rather than people wanting to use your service. In my case I would require (1) conf
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There is a bunch of free programs for startups too, global competitions that fly some startups to a nice destination to pitch. I get the feeling the main goal of these competitions is to hoover data on early stage companies and on-sell to V
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by ian0 7y ago
Heres one for you. A benevolent and all knowing AGI runs a tamper proof social credit system that penalises things that are "bad" in the eyes of a strict majority and rewards things that are "good", reducing the rights o
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by ian0 7y ago
Still in college, last year of a CS degree. My favorite year, my thesis was a space combat game altered to run on a P2P architecture. The highlight was an engineer from Havoc (who did the physics engine for half life) visiting to check out
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Yeah but you don't book other peoples fees as your own revenue. VISA has a profit margin of 54%. Surely they are not counting the entire interchange cost (of which they receive a v. small percentage) as revenue.
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I would have thought the opposite. Margins tend to be high in financial services, revenue tends to be tiny. The value of payments / GTV is huge, but the taxable component is the fees themselves?
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>> Materials can be used to purchase any skin/celebration/quip etc. Materials can be bought with gold. This is what we thought too but theres no way to buy materials with gold. Only through Apex packs. Eg [0], [1]. [0] http
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Thats a good point! In the end he did learn his lesson, sort of. He realised he had squandered his cash but in learning the game mechanics also found out some skins could be unlocked by earning points through playing. As he doesnt like shoo
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Yeah I was in the same boat. Had no idea how the coins worked and have zero interest in purchasing cosmetics. I can kind of identify with it though. I remember going to a lot of bother to update the player DB in Sensible World of Soccer to
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Myself and my son play Apex legends. Its an online multiplayer game thats free, but you can optionally pay to unlock cosmetic items like character outfits (skins) etc. He came into some cash recently courtesy of the tooth fairy and asked if
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by ian0 7y ago
Id say you could make a subscription model for it. Periodic scrubbings, simple notifications of privacy policy changes, haveibeenpwnd integration, general advice, phone app permission monitoring etc. Id say $100 / month would be a good
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These types of methods are often attempted to be used for payments but theres a bunch of practicalities in rolling them out that hurts adoption. Id say the easiest is to give them an app where they can check their credits and geofence the y
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I think its more related to authoritarianism than communism, as same could be said for dictatorships. Authoritarianism gifts both a reason for dissent and the ability to purge it. Compare and contrast with a parlimentary democracy running a
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I run a checklist in my head whenever im feeling really down. I think about things I know make me really happy, basic things. Friends, family, travel, motorbikes etc. And if when thinking about those I still feel down and pessimistic - I
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by ian0 7y ago
Hard Sci-fi. Holy crap it just overdelivers. In addition to entertainment, a way to take my mind off things, it also delivers context to daily life and keeps me focussed on trying to deliver something truly worthwhile.
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meh.com is glorious, first time ive seen it.
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Just in case anyone is wondering why so many banks and wallets around the world continue to rely on SMS OTPs for 2FA. Lets take a look from their perspective: - Any type of hardware device screams cost. Not just the device cost. The distrib
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0 - We didn't have one. Just a landing page. Signed our first 50 clients with just a fancy powerpoint and door to door sales. It was a double sided marketplace so then had to bring those 50 clients to persuade our first "supplier&
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We don't call toy companies "Plastic Companies", even though plastics dominate the manufacturing process and wooden toy makers were disrupted by the introduction of plastic. Ditto with cars. Telsa is not a tech company. It&#x
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>The number of generations a moth will have in a year varies based on climate, but in her life span a female will typically lay about 1,500 eggs From wikipedia.
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> the “ravenous, fast-moving fall armyworm” that can fly up to 100 kilometers in one night Thats some distance. Assume thats only possible if greatly aided by the wind?

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