jasonwen

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Ford paid $199,950 to tear down a Tesla Model X(bloomberg.com)
49 points by jasonwen 10y ago|68 comments
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by jasonwen 11y ago
Is that you, CEO of GM? :')
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by jasonwen 11y ago
What I noticed i was doing was taking shortcuts for the past year so I can work more on my startup. First few years I barely hung out with friends. Big mistake. Smaller shortcuts, like eating unhealthy to save some time, not showering every
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by jasonwen 11y ago
I never wanted to have kids, maybe I'm too young for that. By reading this it definitely made me a step closer to be open to have kids in the future. Thank you for that.
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by jasonwen 11y ago
I think age has to do something with this too. I'm in my twenties and I do both have groups of friends who are working and who are student. Obviously maturity and responsibility comes with age and experience.
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by jasonwen 11y ago
I wish the world was just like you described. Everyone be a rational meaningful responsible adult. But it's far from perfect and to fit in you need to adjust and then suddenly people call you "social". This applies for intera
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by jasonwen 11y ago
So the takeaway is always send less words as you don't know on what device the recipient will read it. You can guess however where the user will read your message on. Business related it's most probably an email client on a deskto
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This is why traditional carmakers suck in software(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jasonwen 11y ago|0 comments
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by jasonwen 11y ago
I experienced the japanese toilet the first time in 2006. I was curious to try but afraid it would get messy. It takes a bit getting used to. When i came back to the netherlands, i wanted to buy one too but, like the US, no power in the toi
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by jasonwen 12y ago
A good use of investor money is when you have a proven and controllable conversion from signups -> paying customers. For example if you need $200 averagely to acquire a customer and the LifeTime value of the customer is $500 over a 10 mo
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by jasonwen 12y ago
I completely agree. Most information is nice to know but not actionable at all. It's the reason why we don't have any dashboards. Just periodic updates (weekly and monthly) in static PDFs. Nothing real time, no dashboards, static
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by jasonwen 12y ago
About the value of Apple vs Android users, it also helps that Apple has an easier payment system with Touch ID. This will only increase in the future. Android however does have introduced a 2-hour money back guarantee on apps. This might in
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by jasonwen 12y ago
Have been using highcharts now for a few years. It's easy too start with, with preset examples (but who wants default colors anyway haha). I had to write an extra layer though to render charts more easily, directly from the dom. Took q
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by jasonwen 12y ago
I have several passive income sources. I started a community websites since 2006 which generates me around $1500/mo in passive income. Have you any ideas what tools might make your (dev) life easier? You can create a small productive&#
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by jasonwen 12y ago
This is really awesome. Just needed this. 3 years ago. Sometimes I really think why things are so obvious but takes so long before someone realises and take action. Thanks a lot for the resource!
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by jasonwen 12y ago
That's what worries me about Facebook too, about being able to destroy someone else's experience in this way. Of course you can hide posts from users but Facebook's algorithm should be able to intervene when things get "
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by jasonwen 12y ago
Thanks a lot. I've applied for startup school in London. It's great to see YC initiatives in Europe!
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by jasonwen 12y ago
With most flat design sites I have the feeling I've seen them before. With the new Virgin site I don't have this feeling. Although it didn't work for you haha. Most flat design websites currently all use the same flat colors
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by jasonwen 12y ago
This is super slick. Design wise it's ahead of its game, instead of another flat design website. I love how they put "life" into their brand with those avatars and make it fun in this all too boring process of buying tickets.
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by jasonwen 13y ago
I was indeed surprised when i checked HN on mobile last week. The simple layout would suggest it would scale on mobile. Glad it's being worked on.
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by jasonwen 13y ago
I had a motorized standing desk from a Danish maker, about 1500USD. The Bosch motor was always shaking everything on my desk and made a lot of noise. A year later I bought one from Ikea[1], much cheaper around 750USD. The motor was so smoot
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by jasonwen 13y ago
Second that, exactly same experience. Plus Stripes API is awesome. If you want to move fast, avoid headaches, pay less fees, go with Stripe.