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by jokull 6y ago
Your job is to bridge business and engineering. If both of these sides trust your judgement your job is easy. You will win arguments when you can translate between these sides. Turn business concerns into engineering projects and express en
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by jokull 7y ago
A negative interest rate is a penalty for not putting liquid capital to productive investment, regardless of wether such opportunities are at hand. To some extent, so is inflation. Negative rates don’t mean alternatives become better invest
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by jokull 7y ago
1. People’s QE (modern monetary policy, some great explain-to-me-like-I’m 5 sections) 2. Doing Capitalism by Bill Janeway (innovation economy) 3. Crashed by Adam Tooze (some financial history)
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by jokull 7y ago
They charge per seat so it gets expensive if you have lots of people that need access but are not full time support. That being said we never switched and are still paying! Good product. Surprised there isn’t more competition. Lots of SMB’s
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by jokull 7y ago
Could you run this as an instance with a HTTP API to perform actions? Then I could use this with Python.
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by jokull 7y ago
Founder of the biggest UK platform here (also active in Germany and US). Influencers have been talked down for the whole four years we’ve been active. Don’t forget what we’re comparing this to. Banner ads! Instagram influencers who are thou
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by jokull 7y ago
It’s an integrated solution. Patreon does bring a blog but this one is much better IMHO. It’s very well done.
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by jokull 8y ago
No, banks are not stuffed with reserves because they learned a lesson from 2008 and are being cautions like "before 1970". It’s because the Fed has been furiously swapping assets with the banks, buying their MBS’s for example. Thi
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by jokull 8y ago
Lektor by Armin Ronacher is a lot more fully featured and based on a different model than most static generators. Pretty sure it handles this use case.
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by jokull 9y ago
We used to, the idea being we could reproduce validation in JavaScript and Python. It kind of worked but it wasn't that clean. Ended up switching the server to Marshmallow schemas and just having more custom logic on the client side. I
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by jokull 9y ago
I'm on the monthly donation to Watsi, which is another product they don't mention in the article. I don't pick people to cure like the article suggests. They do send me emails about patients that I've contributed to. But
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by jokull 9y ago
Replaced it with Task Tiger ( https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger )
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Managing a Product Roadmap(medium.com)
2 points by jokull 10y ago|0 comments
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by jokull 10y ago
He has that reputation but he has also improved a lot over the years.
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by jokull 10y ago
CRM is a strange term. To track sales and comms with clients we’ve been using Close.io and it’s pretty sweet. We have LOTS of integrations around reporting and Slack notifications on top of it. Let me know if you want more info. @jokull on
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by jokull 11y ago
It’s one big grain of salt in Iceland since everything and everyone is somehow related.
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by jokull 11y ago
My uncle is one of the jailed, mentioned in the article. One of Iceland’s most respected lawyers and teacher at the University of Iceland has gone on paper, and on radio, and on TV, saying that the Al Thani trials did not make any sense, fo
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by jokull 11y ago
I’m co-founder of Takumi. If anyone has questions about our payments integration or our experience building a marketplace with some unique characteristics, I’m here to answer questions :)
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On-Demand Platforms: Smooth supply side payments(blog.takumi.com)
16 points by jokull 11y ago|1 comments
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by jokull 11y ago
😜
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by jokull 11y ago
It’s called an emoji
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by jokull 11y ago
I guess this is intended for trusted clients?
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by jokull 11y ago
This is the easy part. Hard part is hooking up to datastores with predictable performance. Great work though. Seems like RethinkDB could be a good open source fit for this?
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by jokull 11y ago
Just do both. Take fewer courses.
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by jokull 11y ago
I worked for Plain Vanilla when they received a big round of financing lead by Sequoia. If you want to ask me questions: jokull@solberg.is
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by jokull 11y ago
I understand both sides. In the end banner and interstitial ads need to either get better or publishers need to find another revenue model (happening already). With the rise of programmatic and more layers between publishers and brands we’l
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Quartz Tests Amazon Prime Instant Delivery(qz.com)
1 points by jokull 12y ago|0 comments
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A16z Podcast: The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel(soundcloud.com)
2 points by jokull 12y ago|0 comments
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by jokull 12y ago
Or widen the readership. You can either convert causal readers to serious readers, widen the audience to include more serious minded readers, or mix both. I think there’s a winning combination in there. In any case they wouldn’t be the firs
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by jokull 12y ago
His main argument is that by funding BuzzFeed he is "contributing to intellectual decrepitude" of young readers. This is an outrageous statement. BuzzFeed started out with socially optimised content and were one of the first to re

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