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by katzgrau 6y ago
Having been a VC-backed wannabe for a period of time (and pitched some well known investors), I learned that most investors would rather not offer that kind of feedback because it inevitably raises counterpoints which extends the conversati
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> We made a choice not to take it because we are booming during crisis. What's strange about that is that there were/are so many unknowns. Sure, you could be booming, but what if the unexpected strikes and you are suddenly not
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Is there actually a nail salon that took 5-10MM with only 14 employees? The guidance, at least initially, was to apply for 2 months of gross income and see what you get. You also had to supply supporting documentation. I'd be shocked i
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by katzgrau 6y ago
> Would I rather work for an employer who did what it took to navigate the Covid shitstorm on their own dime I don't know about that. Every accountant I knew urged their clients to apply — primarily because there were so many unknow
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Joel classic, and it always reminds me of times I've seen this happen again and again years after it was written. I don't think I've ever seen a full rewrite bring all of its heralded benefits. I'm sure there are some pe
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I think this was a very long and drawn out way of saying that there are an infinite number of ideas, most of which will fail, but some will be successful. The successful ones typically aren't created at big companies because there&#x27
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by katzgrau 6y ago
If you're just calorie counting, you can certainly have success, but it's not a bad idea to maintain some idea of where you stand in terms of your consumption of fat, carbs, and protein. If you calorie count and generally try to s
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by katzgrau 6y ago
First of all, don't grow for growth's sake. Figure out what makes you happy. When you're 100 years old, what will you have done, learned, or experienced that will make it worthwhile? As if it were one big experience that you
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by katzgrau 6y ago
You might find this useful - Fermi problems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem You could make a rough model based on educated guesses and perhaps not even be that far off the actual number.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
When you're new to CS, you're excited and kind of have that Dunning Kruger effect of not knowing how much of a noob you really are. I think all of us who have gotten to the senior level were there at some point. And when we see th
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Having worked at Big Co and then on my own company for years, this is exactly what I was thinking. You'll lose professional autonomy in exchange for a good salary, job security, and resume bling. And you probably won't have to wor
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> Many have already done that. Citation needed
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I think Zapier is maybe the closest we'll get eliminating software developers from a project. With clearly defined requirements, like connect a to b , it's possible for a novice user to "build" software. Anything more t
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I have an app that was falsely flagged as malvertising by Google Ad Manager. Also got a generic message with no insight into the specific problem. It was only because I had a point of contact at Google with actual influence that I was able
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I had very intelligent linear algebra professor in college but he was, in my opinion, a very poor communicator. I paid attention to lectures and stared at the text, but couldn't really understand the material. For the first part of a l
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by katzgrau 6y ago
This is the problem. The ways in which it can fail can vary (sometimes you can't even pull logs from the web interface), and if it fails during a production deploy you may be left at half or no capacity. When something inextricably eff
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I thought for sure I was going to find Elastic Beanstalk. It's great when it works, but when it doesn't, the list of ways it makes life hell is a long one. Elasticache though? Pricey, but I recently got an alert at 1am that one of
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I actually still do a fair amount of dev, but I've hired out for most of it. I turned to sales because I needed to really focus on selling the product I'd built. If you're the type who likes learning new things, you'll l
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Agreed. I use Hubspot as a model - stellar inbound strategy, but still has a very strong outbound strategy too. And tbh, the majority of sales I've ever made were from outbound. Usually very targeted outbound where I had the prospect m
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by katzgrau 7y ago
I find that someone looking for "part time" work is kind of suggesting that the role isn't important to them, or they don't plan to stick around. I say that as both an employer and a former freelancer. As an employer, hi
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Just following this thread to see if anyone here thought screensavers were just for fun :)
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by katzgrau 7y ago
"a surprise for the turkey is not a surprise from the butcher." Whether it's a black swan event depends on the perspective you're taking.
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by katzgrau 7y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Even though I'd been following this since January and have already been taking it very seriously, Hanks, NBA, and Europe travel ban suddenly make it seem like there's a loud knock at the door.
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Uh, citations needed.
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For process documentation (eg, not code docs), we use a company shared Google Drive folder with subfolders broken down by department (sales, marketing, support, finance, general management, hr, etc) and within each we have documents and che
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by katzgrau 7y ago
> programmers able to assume users have 4GB RAM rather than 4MB RAM But with that, some programmers assume they can use all 4GB of RAM
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Clicked in to say the same thing. My favorite time to work usually came between 9pm and 2/3am. Now with a baby I'm usually sleeping by 10 and up at or before 6. I kind of like it though. Now the before-lunch period is the producti
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Yep, I registered for the "preview" ages ago, so I figured it was vaporware at this point
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Nice... patiently waits for AWS to create a managed version of it...
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> it would be great to get some of the de-risking that comes with a portfolio approach. Right, but at some point "de-risking" seems like it can easily become "we're installing our own leadership team/ops staffers

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