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by jacobr1 4y ago
We might not be able to always reason about function totality, but perhaps sometimes we can. Isn't that what `std::convert::Infallible` is trying to do? So you get fn try_from(value: U) -> Result<Self, Infallible> In w
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Awesome to hear!
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Is this still true after the IBM acquisition?
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I've seen difference estimates, but you need ~5 acres of land to feed one person for a year with a balanced diet. Intensive farming can reduce that if you focus on monoculture grain crops. Meat increases the land need. A backyard garde
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by jacobr1 4y ago
That bothered me too. Trying a few though, it looks like they are 404s. Which is an interesting way to preserve a historical, but no longer valid link. If you are going to the trouble, it might be better to rewrite the links to point to Arc
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Another one I encounter frequently ... it isn't a good fit for this team, but seems like it might be for $PeerDepartment. And now you have a warm introduction from someone they trust.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
On the other hand, managing a monetization platform (subscription billing, customer support, linking posts to email to social media notifications) is more complex than self-hosting. Not impossible, but more than most writers would want to t
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It is a classic platform bootstrapping model. It worked with new book publishers in the 1800s too. It worked for new video game consoles, etc ... The content creator doesn't fully trust the new publisher/platform, so they need upf
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by jacobr1 4y ago
No, for UX reasons. If your content is primarily text and images ... then you should NEED javascript to view page. Maybe it is needed for comments, or some other feature, but the basic content should be viewable just fine. This is good both
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Plenty of companies do not have technical career ladders of any note or value.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> For example, you don't need to know what [project xyz] is to ask who's leading it or if there's documentation on confluence. Bingo, there is a pattern to most business problems (not that the generic corporate template fo
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Showrunner isn't a job title though. Most likely the actual title on the resume would most likely be "Executive Producer".
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by jacobr1 4y ago
The bigger tragedy is how widespread the belief that calculation _is_ math. Even for the university educated, the capstone mathematical course of often some version of calculus ... it is even in the name! Personally, my first introduction i
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I first encountered the idea in fiction a few months ago reading "Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City" [1]. For those interested in this kind of thing, it is a fictional mashup of a variety of technical innovations when an engine
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Should that question be asked of the string theorists instead?
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Wild speculation has been a feature in capitalism for _centuries_. There are any number of interesting historical schemes to read about where investors lost their shirts, or, sometime won big! Every new business venture has risk that it wil
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Which works when the unit economics are good. You can take the profit from an operating business, and just inject it back in the business to grow. That sometimes looks like an unprofitable business, but the test is: "if the company fre
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Also the low interest environment was unusual. We could have very easily have a booming market with much higher rates. Just look at the 90s.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
maybe this? https://www.gerritcodereview.com/
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by jacobr1 4y ago
The valuation isn't presuming a "mature" business at a 72x ratio, but rather there is a trend where the trajectory is something more reasonable. Is there a path to $90 million in revenue in the next 24 months? I'm sure t
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I would agree with that for dev positions. But when I was hiring PMs, these types of questions were actually a key part of the interview. The particulars of the answers mattered a lot less than the fact they did _some_ research, and formed
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I think the difference is having a network. A soft introduction, even from an acquaintance, is much more likely to get you an interview. It doesn't get you the job, you need to do well on the interview and appeal more than the other ca
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by jacobr1 4y ago
There is a ton more risk to be founder than an early startup employee. A ton more benefits too, but the costs real. For one thing, if you are pre-funding, then you need to go acquire that funding without being paid in the interim. If you ca
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It also gets more complicated when considering that many "conquests" actually end up being cultural rather than genetic. So it might still be the same "people". And plenty of migration and mixtures as well further compli
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> You end up with language learning that is watered down and generally a waste of the learner's time I agree it might often be a failure, in say, achieving fluency. But certainly no a waste. Exposure to foreign languages, and their
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by jacobr1 4y ago
But shouldn't that be handled on a commercial level? Riskier site, with higher chargebacks or less identity verification (like the historical no-signature-present) get charged higher rates and fees. This already happens, but the rates
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> I thought the ACA allows charging more for pre-existing conditions Nope: https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/pre-existing-co...
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Not quite the same thing. The dispensaries are operating illegally. The fact that the states "legalized" it, doesn't mean it isn't illegal. There are plenty of other federal laws that don't have state equivalents ou
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by jacobr1 4y ago
For I-Bonds the rates are now worth it. They are very CD-like, in that you can't withdraw them for the first year, and in the first 5 there is a few month interest penalty for early withdrawal. You can only buy $10k per person per year
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Guess: when you validation of the problem, validation that there is money to fix the problem, but don't yet have validation that your particular solution or business mode has product-market fit. Though I've worked at a few startup

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