indymike

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by indymike 4y ago
> I do wonder why HN is so anti-crypto Some of it is regret from selling early (I'd be a billionaire... if I had held), some of it is FOMO, some of it is that crypto is used by criminals (see bitlocker hacks), some of it is seeing p
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by indymike 4y ago
> If the news is inherently skewed towards negativity then maybe it's not as valuable as we assume it is. I suspect discussing knowledge of the news is some kind of social signaling.
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by indymike 4y ago
Could be, but if you look at Preset, you are dealing with honestly a parity product as far as I can tell. > There's also going to be crazy price pressure from GPT4 tools in this segment. Not really, error rate must = 0 for database
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by indymike 4y ago
> This is in the $5/mo category not the $50/user/mo category. The pricing here is in line with other DB management tools. He's competing with things like Preset (a hosted Apache Superset), DataGrip (JetBrains SQL IDE)
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by indymike 4y ago
Can second using DigiKam. It's a great app.
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by indymike 4y ago
> respecting terms is a nontrivial effort. This is true of almost all contracts. If respecting terms was easy, we'd have no needs for lawyers and courts.
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by indymike 4y ago
Then the button should say ‘license’. Lying to buyers is simply not right.
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by indymike 4y ago
This would be a just way to do it. Making a dispute over $20 cost the complainer $2000 in digital goods seems like a good way to create hate and discontent... and lawsuits.
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by indymike 4y ago
This is really how the system works in most places. If a chargeback result is unjust, the merchant can sue. In most places court costs and attorney fees are awarded to the winner. Most of the time, merchants just assign the account to a col
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by indymike 4y ago
The button needs to say "rent" or "lease". A "buy" button should not result in a rental.
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by indymike 4y ago
> effectively negates the protection offered by credit card networks This behavior for smaller companies will likely result in fines from Visa, MasterCard and other cards. You really are supposed to treat charge-backs like you would losi
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by indymike 4y ago
Not-for-profits can also vote to sell themselves if their bylaws don't prohibit it.
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by indymike 4y ago
> And since podman doesn't have an official repo like docker, Hmm... https://github.com/containers/podman I found that on: https://podman.io/ so, I'm pretty sure it's official.
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by indymike 4y ago
> Nobody seriously uses AWS/GCP/Azure to have a couple VMs or dedicated servers alone. Many companies and people do host loads that would be better served on dedicated hardware on EC2 because "cloud". > Hetzner wit
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by indymike 4y ago
I agree with you that there's more to people than numbers. But it's a lot easier to surface that when you have a frame of reference and some consistency in how you measure: "so, last week you had a -23.5% contribution... You
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by indymike 4y ago
> 1on1’s are for the manager like server metrics are for the SRE. I'm not sure that is accurate. As a manager, I have a bunch of production metrics on my people. I can tell who's getting work done, who isn't, who has high
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by indymike 4y ago
Why is meeting with direct reports needed every other week?
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by indymike 4y ago
What was the sci-fi book with "silvers" that were basically AIs that would handle administrata, set appointments and negotiate with each other for their humans?
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by indymike 4y ago
It's interesting that the example for using an AI to write documents is a job description. It is uniquely suited to the AI because in real life, we've been copy-pasta-ing them for decades. It's also a place where there is som
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by indymike 4y ago
> The weird thing is that transparency about the difficulty at the bank is exactly what leads to the run. There are places where transparency does not work. I wish it did.
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by indymike 4y ago
OS integration is critical when it comes to keyboard shortcuts, especially for non-Web where there's expectations set by the shell (TUI) or the GUI.
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by indymike 4y ago
Actually, capitalism is simply an economic system where private citizens can own the means of production. In other words, people can own businesses, and shares in businesses That's it. Nothing else.
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by indymike 4y ago
I suspect hating on Twitter/FB/etc is a tech industry thing. Most people don't hate big tech. They buy iPhones/Androids to keep up on their family and friends on Facebook, watch Netflix, find things on Google and buy stu
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by indymike 4y ago
> Good for you starting a tech company outside the tech meccas, it's a hard road. Thanks. I think the hard road is getting easier every year. Access to capital is getting better, and as you said, remote work has been a game changer
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by indymike 4y ago
> "flyover country" that the tech sector has gleefully been shitting all over for a decade I'm a founder of an Indiana based tech startup. What people in flyover states don't like is seeing stuff like Theranos. They a
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by indymike 4y ago
I've worked in offices, cubicles, open areas, coworking spaces, coffee shops and even an occasional sports bar. The value of having an office has really went to zero for me (I'm a developer/founder/sales guy) as we got t
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by indymike 4y ago
It looks like this may be a great place to use SQLite instead of Postgres because of the requirement to run this on a single server.
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by indymike 4y ago
> “Depositors shouldn’t get anything beyond the insured $250,000”. This is just uneducated people sharing a knee-jerk reaction.
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by indymike 4y ago
> your company gets cashed out (and you with it). They'll find a better sucker. I don't want to be that kind of founder when I grow up.
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by indymike 4y ago
In 93, I bought an 720x720dpi Epson inkjet over the 600dpi Canon model. That printer was amazing, but by 99, everyone had caught up. By 99, I had a 1200dpi Tektronix printer at work, and at home the inkjet claimed to do 1200x2400 but looked

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