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by katzgrau 7y ago
If you want to be happy, start by looking around you and finding gratitude for the things in your life that are going well. Everything from the big things like a special person you're seeing or in a relationship with, to the small thin
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by katzgrau 7y ago
> We marinate in the news. We may be familiar with the headlines before we have exchanged a word with another human in the morning; we kill time on the bus or in queues by checking Twitter, only to find ourselves plunged into the dramas
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by katzgrau 7y ago
I've hired people with both some college and an actual degree. I honestly haven't seen a big difference in ability. In fact, the ones with only some college (especially those with a family) seem to be more reliable and willing to
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by katzgrau 7y ago
Just do it. Inevitably you run into a boring feature that you aren't jazzed about implementing. Do it. Or you finish the project and never launch it. Do it. Or it's just taking you way longer than you thought (not a weekend projec
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by katzgrau 8y ago
You're lumping all publishers together. Brave blocks static banner ads whether they track you or not - whether they're served by an ad network or not. Whether it's delivered by a for-profit or non-profit. Brave's stated
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by katzgrau 8y ago
That's a horrible idea. Whoever is in charge of this fund is responsible for dolling out 100mm of other people's money. How in the world does this group of investors responsibly filter and vet 10,000 suitable companies in a time e
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Like others on this thread, I installed a chat widget (Hubspot) on my SaaS site and it's used by both existing customers and potential customers daily.
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by katzgrau 8y ago
I'd agree here. My wife was a teacher (teacher of the year in her second year, promoted to admin in her last) but left after 8 years. Why? The depressing realities of the state of the teaching profession - she decided she wanted to lea
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by katzgrau 8y ago
There's no doubt that a publisher who can convince its readers to subscribe should absolutely do that. The problem is that outside of NYT, WaPo, and WSJ and niche or special interest publications, subscription rates are far, far lower.
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by katzgrau 8y ago
I'd agree with this, but I don't even think it has to be that extreme. An endurance sport requires patience and overcoming a certain level of discomfort in pursuit of a goal. I know people who stop pursuing whatever it is they wan
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by katzgrau 8y ago
There are a lot of companies with a proprietary CMS in the general publishing space (TownNews, GTXcel are both popular), but you can bet that their customers and prospects are always considering a switch to WordPress for various reasons. Fi
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Completely agreed. There's always a second-mover advantage for burgeoning industries in that second-movers can avoid the mistakes that the first movers have become entrenched in.
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Facebook is the most expansive ad platform ever built. There are few fronts where it isn't the clear leader in capability. Advertising is problematic as a revenue model for companies on the other side of that mile-wide moat. And if Zuc
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by katzgrau 8y ago
> Instead he advocates the use of such scores when choosing between candidates for a job. I'm struggling to understand how this doesn't wind up being a proxy for racism/sexism and the other things we abhor when considering
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by katzgrau 8y ago
I started using Notational Velocity ( http://notational.net ) years ago and still use it pretty effectively. I try to label things and keep them searchable. It's the repository for anything I might need to remember. To be hon
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by katzgrau 8y ago
It seems school district security practices are pretty atrocious universally. In my junior year of high school me and a buddy realized that all passwords for our district were 6 digit numbers. We didn't have to be mad geniuses to reali
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Venture capital can be the driver behind the early demise of a company. Investor goals are rarely, if ever, fully aligned with founder or even company goals. In the end, VC money seems to benefit very few startups - - and now, even fund inv
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by katzgrau 8y ago
It's true - most news and magazine publishing companies are in a place of desperation. The internet has impacted the legacy publishing revenue model so severely that there hasn't been any clear model to pivot to despite two decade
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by katzgrau 8y ago
I noticed even a single normal ABV beer makes a noticeable impact on my workout the following morning (I workout 5 mornings per week). There's just an a edge I don't have if I had a drink the previous night, and it definitely does
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Fine tuning a message to an audience segment is something every marketer should do. When I first read the headline, this was the use case that seemed obvious. Different audience segments may want different things from a job. For example, an
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by katzgrau 8y ago
If it was straight ad delivery I'd agree that being closer to 10ms is achievable. But in the process of pulling in ad data, user profile data, running it through a selection algorithm that can be pretty complex for even a simple adserv
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Total cakewalk. Impressive!
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by katzgrau 8y ago
I agree that it's important to keep the money-making component of a business free from external dependency to a large degree, but I think there's some liability that's being ignored here. A 3 person team built such an importa
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Yeah I was thinking that if what they need or are planning is truly unique or just needs to be homegrown (a la FB's ad system tightly integrated with first party data), maybe it really does make sense. Or maybe any alternative third pa
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by katzgrau 8y ago
> if they control everything and can drop a standard 90ms down to 10ms 10ms, after request processing, ad selection logic, and faster-than-light packet travel? I think that's far too optimistic of an improvement. As the post said, 3
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by katzgrau 8y ago
As the founder of a SAAS ad serving company, I can say that as slick as (I think) my platform is, it's not a problem I would want to tackle again. There will be a large volume of technical challenges and required features to support. I
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Agree on the incompetence piece, but not because cause it's easy. The incompetence lies in the CEO not delegating that to a bookkeeper and/accountant. They're not even that expensive. I'm one to talk because I made the s
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by katzgrau 8y ago
If you say that too loudly on HN you'll get downvoted for promoting survivorship bias
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Awesome for personal projects or those startups with teams composed primarily of developers. But I wonder if the nature of embedding the bug reports in the repo makes it largely inaccessible to your typical QA and support personnel who tend
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by katzgrau 8y ago
Agreed. There are an unlimited number of variables that cannot all be accounted for, and even the most insignificant of them have the ability impact the future in dramatic ways. There is absolutely no saying what the likelihood of a recessi

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