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by jaxn 10y ago
This is not bullshit as other comments are saying. "Profit" in this sense is a means of personal cash flow. Once the shareholders (including the founders) have their personal cash flow needs taken care of, the focus shifts to long
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by jaxn 10y ago
Dang, I was thinking the test "watched" you in terms of typing speed to infer thought process or something.
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Ask HN: Easiest way to build a mobile app that won't break upgrade path later?
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by jaxn 10y ago
I have a work calendar and a personal calendar. Both on google apps (but different domains). My personal calendar has two calendars. One is for things that impact my wife and we share it. Anything on my personal calendar that is during busi
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by jaxn 10y ago
I am about two years in to something similar. resaleAI.com Don't worry about keeping the vertical secret for competitive reasons. You either have the domain expertise to make it great or you don't. And anyone with the domain knowl
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by jaxn 10y ago
I switched from Windows to Linux in 2001, from Linux to Mac in 2004, and from Mac to Windows in 2016. The Surface is a great machine and Windows 10 is a good OS.
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by jaxn 10y ago
Spend at least one hour every day on sales. Starting now. Coding is the easy (and natural) part. In my experience, sales has been harder than I expected. Even when people love the product.
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by jaxn 10y ago
I thought that this old post may no longer be as relevant. Maybe we have made progress. Then I read the comments on this thread. :( We must do better.
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by jaxn 10y ago
That really does help. I am using private repos now and will shift them to an organization. However, I had not thought of storing password and keys in a repo. The sharing doesn't seem very granular, but it makes it easy to document and
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Ask HN: When / how did you untangle personal accounts of the tech founder?
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by jaxn 10y ago
Does this have easy support for some kind of sub-tenant setup? Following your example, let's say that most customers have multiple departments and that most tables have both a customer_id and a department_id. Oh, and this looks solid.
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by jaxn 10y ago
Active statements like that work really well. I agree with you, but as people building companies it is a choice to do what works or do what feels best to us.
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by jaxn 10y ago
I am running a niche SaaS for franchisees of several buy/sell/trade retail stores. Http://ResaleAI.com I built the entire thing myself, handled partnerships, support, sales, etc. All while still running three of these
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by jaxn 10y ago
This is the same thing Microsoft did with the Surface Book a couple of months ago. I bought one and love the battery.
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by jaxn 10y ago
You can do this with Klipfolio. That is the one I am currently using.
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by jaxn 10y ago
I like area + line charts for this. The area fill is the comp period and the line is the current. One of my favorite ways to do this (that most charting packages struggle with) is to use an area full for last year, a solid line for this yea
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by jaxn 10y ago
Sometimes, going 50mph is slow, sometimes it will get you arrested. The position on the dial is completely irrelevant, and is thus noise. The gas gauge however has a permanent meaning. Empty is bad. The Tachometer is also useful if you ar
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by jaxn 10y ago
This is spot on. A KPI is not a number, but rather a number, a direction, and a target. Also, gauges are almost always a terrible visual indicator. Even car dashboards are starting to understand this. Fuel gauges are good, speedometers ar
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by jaxn 10y ago
Simalrly, I haven't been able to get my Echo to talk to my FireTv Stick
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by jaxn 10y ago
That is me. A decent developer who gets data and enjoys reporting, particularly the variety of hard problems that crop up. I am happily serving a niche market with my own company and I suspect part of the difficulty in finding the skillset
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by jaxn 10y ago
I am one of them.
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by jaxn 10y ago
If they never read your letter, then the contents of it don't matter. The "handwriting hack" is all about getting people to open the letter and read it. I didn't get phone calls from constituents because of the handwrit
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by jaxn 10y ago
I encourage you to run for office some day.
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by jaxn 10y ago
Maybe at some pedantic level you can argue it is deceitful. It is common practice to use handwriting fonts to increase the response rate of mail. It is easy to discern that they are fonts. I just made it much harder to discern.
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by jaxn 10y ago
I ran for public office earlier this year and did this kind of thing. I used MyScriptFont to create 10 different fonts of my handwriting using a sharpie. Then I wrote a script that would randomize each letter. We used this to create "
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by jaxn 10y ago
Yeah, and I think they were way wrong.
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by jaxn 10y ago
Have you ever talked to a mechanic about this? I suspect that you would learn some things. Local marketing is not easy. Putting together capital for real estate, buildout, equipment, etc is not easy. Hubris is saying that something most peo
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by jaxn 10y ago
The tech sector is not 10 times harder than all other sectors with low barriers to entry. Unless by "tech sector" you mean only the part of the industry focused on trying to create billion dollar household name companies. A guy wh
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by jaxn 10y ago
If project sites were still mostly individually hosted using a wider variety of services and software, then a single outage wouldn't be a big deal. Now, an outage at github would be difficult because you would not only have to get your
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by jaxn 10y ago
Yeah, I ran for political office earlier this year and took my blog down. I will probably post to Medium.

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