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by joeblau 7y ago
I loved watching this talk — After watching this I gained a new level of appreciation for the VC model they pioneered.
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by joeblau 7y ago
I don't think it is. When you're setting up your phone, you have to go through the "hey Siri" training to enable it.
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by joeblau 7y ago
About 4 years ago, I found this credit card on the street in Pittsburgh when I was walking home. When I got home, I just emailed the persons firstname.lastname@gmail.com. They actually responded and I walked back to near where I found the
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by joeblau 7y ago
Nov 4th: Q3 Earnings[1] Nov 6th: Blackout ends 2 days after earnings Nov 6th: Lockup expires ...not that I'm counting or anything [1] - https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det
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by joeblau 7y ago
Is there any way that the numbers could work out? Let’s say SoftBank is able to trim the company to the bare bones; Does the We Company still make money at high gross margins? I wonder if it makes more sense to cut losses, as opposed to pum
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by joeblau 7y ago
I did not see the connection, but I think private market investors did. They saw that if you could sell web ads (Google) or sell mobile ads (Facebook) at zero marginal cost to each additional advertiser, you'd have a company worth 10x
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by joeblau 7y ago
When I joined Amazon in 2014, there were ~120,000 microservices. A lot of them arne't used or just hello world tests apps. Every new employee had to spin one up during orientation.
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by joeblau 7y ago
1. File insurance claim 2. Get your claim money 3. Premium goes up 4. Buy another one
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by joeblau 7y ago
Or ideas are worth nothing, it's execution that matters... so $0?
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by joeblau 7y ago
I was reading this blog post by Fred Wilson last night and I think this unlocked a key insight for me[1]. WeWork (Uber, Peloton, Lyft, AirBnB, etc...) are not software companies. None of these businesses sell software, they use software t
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by joeblau 7y ago
IIRC, the limit is 50k a list, but you can have unlimited lists. That is the difference between 1Blocker and 1Blocker X.
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by joeblau 7y ago
I have USAA and they are pretty bad as well. Max password length is 20 characters. They only do MFA through cell phone numbers and email which allows someone to Sim-Swap if they are able to get your username and password. To top it off, the
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by joeblau 7y ago
I deleted my facebook account years ago — how do I delete myself?
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by joeblau 7y ago
I worked at a company from 2011 - 2013 that gave me the offer to buy out my options. I'm glad I didn't because that company was going out of business. The entire executive leadership team was swapped out 3 times over the course of
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by joeblau 7y ago
I totally agree with this and this is actually something that my Engineer Brain and Product Brain are constantly in conflict about. I ran gitignore.io for 6 years and it was not "hard" to run. It was two commands on a web server.
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by joeblau 7y ago
If I wasn't an iOS developer, I would probably switch back to Linux as well.
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by joeblau 7y ago
I think the points in the post are valid, but there are also things about GNU that are terrible as well. It's just that nobody is wiring GNU faults. If someone did a write up, I would expect that person to own their work as well.
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by joeblau 7y ago
What is interesting about this and the Apple post[1] is that no one is actually taking responsibility or signing their name. It's just a generic blog post with a list of issues. Where is the GNU's "open" log of who is pu
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by joeblau 7y ago
Yeah I totally agree with you — It definitely took me a few years to learn that but you're obviously sharper than I am :).
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by joeblau 7y ago
I already sold it for $12,000.
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by joeblau 7y ago
Here is the genesis of this blog post: CppCon 2014: Alex Allain & Andrew Twyman "Practical Cross-Platform Mobile C++ Development[1]. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcBtF-JWJhM
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by joeblau 7y ago
> when you give away something completely for free, people aren’t that motivated to pay for it. I created gitingore.io about 8 years ago and it's almost at 5000 stars. I had nearly 100k MAU's and that was still not enough to su
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by joeblau 7y ago
Facebook and a lot of others are listed at the bottom of Googles page.
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by joeblau 7y ago
I feel like the Java community will step up and refactor this to be as robust as Enterprise Fizz Buzz [1]. [1] - https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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by joeblau 7y ago
Yeah maybe — it should really just be the entrepreneurial economy. I think one of the big challenges is that most people jumping into this type of work want the freedom of an entrepreneur and the "safety" of an employee. There see
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by joeblau 7y ago
I'm not 100% sure on this but I think when you start a franchise, the model is that you pay an huge up front price for being able to use the brand. I think that's kind of what the New York taxi license model is; Pay $1,000,000, no
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by joeblau 7y ago
Can someone who is educated on the subject help me understand what the sanctions are about? I've tried Google, but I'm sure HN'ers have a higher IQ/EQ on average than whatever is on the first page of Google results.
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by joeblau 7y ago
Hehe. Packages are the developer term for a reusable piece of software that usually solves one problem.
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by joeblau 7y ago
I recall a time when Google's SVP of Engineering saw some of us in the cafeteria and congratulated us on a release; this was surprising since we hadn't released anything recently, and it soon came up that he thought
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by joeblau 7y ago
My question to the op is: Where were you for the few years of posts when other people wrote the same thing, yet you stuck with PayPal? It feels like people don’t want to actively move their payments processor and no amount of blog warnings

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