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by jaxn 8y ago
Yes.
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The bubble that is going to pop is Ad Tech
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The only way is to have more resources so that others can do what you can't/won't in order to maintain balance. You can balance some aspects of healthy life (sleep, exercise, eat right), but that is more about maximizing than
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It is a tool to leverage when appropriate. You can write tests when prototyping or you can borrow a little tech debt and skip the tests during the prototyping phase. At this stage it is like a line of credit. Then, as the feature/produ
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by jaxn 8y ago
Sounds like you aren't looking for a co-founder as much as you are looking for an employee. Guessing you don't have money to pay them though. If it is exploratory, you should write code that you both own. Build something that isn&
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by jaxn 8y ago
If their revenue model is based on people selling each other stuff, it will end up the LinkedIn for MLM. The Enterprise play sounds like a Holy Grail project. A social network, project management, ActiveDirectory/LDAP all-in-one? As a
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by jaxn 8y ago
I work with a leadership coach who works from the framework of DiSC (one of the personality tests). We meet every other week, set goals, work through problems, etc. I hired her when I was in a similar situation and had friends recommend her
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by jaxn 8y ago
Smaller companies let you work with a wider range of technologies / problems. You wear more hats, so to speak.
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Ask HN: What are the code bases like at the really big product companies?
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by jaxn 8y ago
I left Mac for a Surface Book a couple of years ago. It was a challenge at first. Largely because of WSL speed, but that has been mostly fixed now (test suite may be a few seconds longer, but it isn't 10x longer) I am browsing the thre
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by jaxn 8y ago
Not Mongo, but I am eyeing CouchDB, solely because of PouchDB. I am just not finding an easy and well-supported way to build an offline-first SPA/PWA backed by Postgres without handling all of the data syncing manually.
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by jaxn 8y ago
But not Sketch. And I havent been able to find anything similar.
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by jaxn 8y ago
If you are talking about the Linux kernel, true. If you are talking about "Gnu/Linux" then not.
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by jaxn 8y ago
I second the WSL recommendation. I use it every day building a large SaaS product that is Rails (backend and legacy front end), Vuejs, C# (WinForms app for deep system integration on point-of-sale computers).
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These systems are the kind of thing people with no management experience build. And they don't get good results. It is more important to coax the best performance possible from the team on the floor this week than to schedule the best
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by jaxn 8y ago
Just curious about your eviction comment. I haven't seen or experienced anything like that, but maybe I am in a bubble.
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by jaxn 8y ago
It is similar for politicians. I ran for office in my town and there is a similar kind of asymmetrical familiarity.
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by jaxn 8y ago
So, is this "laundry for hipsters?" Akin to all of the dopp kit stuff where mixing shaving cream with a brush is a better experience than just squirting some shaving cream on your hand from a can?
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by jaxn 8y ago
As a company, what format should we supply user data if requested?
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by jaxn 8y ago
The knowledge required to build machines that can do the job would require intellectual property or trade secrets that the company owns.
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by jaxn 8y ago
The investors page kills your credibility both with developers and with investors. If this product does anything of value, it needs to proove it by using subscription based crowdfunding itself.
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by jaxn 8y ago
It's pretty neat (I use it every day). It closes the gap on OSX for "*nix experience on a computer that can run Photoshop and Excel"
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NTFS may not handle a bunch of small files well, but I'm pretty sure WSL isn't a virtuialization layer.
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by jaxn 8y ago
There are a lot of use cases where getting someone to install an app is a big lift. With PWAs, discoverability can be search ads, included in existing communications, linked from another app, etc.
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by jaxn 9y ago
I currently am using npm from Windows with VS Code for my Vuejs projects. There is good support for using npm in WSL in VS Code,but we are using Cypress for testing and that doesn't want to work. On the Rails side, I am using RubyMine
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by jaxn 9y ago
I'll add a hardware rec to the Win10/WSL stack: the Microsoft Surface Book 2. The keyboard is great, screen is beautiful, battery life is great. It even has a magnetic power connector similar to the old MBPs. I don't use it a
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by jaxn 9y ago
Good point. I should have been more clear about "non-obvious" funding sources. If a service isn't profitable, but has a clear funding source (philanthropy, government, etc), that is a little different. But the motive for that
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by jaxn 9y ago
Profitability (or the possibility of profitability) is absolutely a measure of whether something can be relied on. And if it can't possibly be profitable, then it means there is likely a non-obvious revenue stream or funding source, wh
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by jaxn 9y ago
How does this compare to something like Flipper? https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper
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by jaxn 9y ago
The lack of published pricing immediately makes me think it is too expensive for me. I pay for plenty of services, but "contact us" pricing either means "Enterprise" expense, or pushy sales people.

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