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by leandot 3y ago
You’ve been chosen to be a CTO, this usually means that you either did well in the company or were hired because of a good track record. So keep doing this + keep things simple, plan ahead, learn from colleagues, share knowledge. Stay humbl
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by leandot 3y ago
I‘d be keen to see more of that, do you have a link maybe?
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by leandot 3y ago
Is this a general answer as "it might work" or you've tried that?
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by leandot 3y ago
I think 1.5yo is too young for maths. When they get a bit older - fun board games with maths mechanics (probabilities, dice rolls, etc.)
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by leandot 3y ago
Can't you just use: aws s3 cp s3://YOUR_FILE - |
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by leandot 3y ago
He is also not urgently looking for a job I guess, it's all about context.
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Ask HN: Foundational Books
2 points by leandot 3y ago|10 comments
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by leandot 3y ago
Some random ones: - thinks about the bigger picture, scalability, future maintenance, technical debt, documentation, testing, security etc. - can see possible edge cases and how to handle them properly - can do research alone and re
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by leandot 3y ago
36 is not too old for anything. Even if someone says it is, it doesn't mean you should listen to them.
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by leandot 3y ago
He has already said that he read the Rust book, my suggestion is to start applying what he learned, not to read the next book.
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by leandot 3y ago
Try implementing something useful for you in Rust from scratch, without following a tutorial. Books will only get you so far.
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by leandot 3y ago
There was a recent comment on HN, which I liked and saved for the future. So it's not 100% for your particular case but maybe helps you.. "Fear is usually based in an abstract concern. Try to make it more concrete. What are you ac
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by leandot 3y ago
Could you please give a concrete example on this, sounds interesting?
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by leandot 3y ago
My advice would be to stay away from "business" advisors that work part-time and have a stake at the company. This is a recipe for disaster and I've seen it too many times. Just go to upwork (or similar platforms) and find we
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by leandot 3y ago
It really depends on your type of data, but from the top of my mind - Pydantic.
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by leandot 3y ago
Let's dissect this a bit with some assumptions. If you're asking for $600k and want to do your own thing, then you're not talking 50%-50% split, let's say it's a rather typical 20% VC seed round. This means your com
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by leandot 3y ago
The AWS ECS cli understands the syntax of docker-compose files, so you can use almost the same setup as local development. Also depending on your setup, e.g. if your services are stateless and the state is kept somewhere else like SQS queue
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by leandot 3y ago
Why would it be embarrassing, do you think being a founder makes you somehow better than other people? That's a weird statement. And I am saying this as being a founder myself. In any case, you've seen more in those years than a l
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by leandot 3y ago
You can start by sharing what you would like to build, what you've built before, etc.
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by leandot 3y ago
If you have 80 uninstalls and 60 installs now, how was it doing before the acquisition? The previous owners must have grown this with installs > uninstalls, can you see how they did it - e.g. by running ads, word of mouth, seo, directory
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by leandot 3y ago
WoT is great, albeit a bit slow in the middle. But the last three books are just amazing, Brandon Sanderson was hired to finish the series and he did it expertly. A great series I can recommend is Red Rising from Pierce Brown (book 6 just c
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by leandot 3y ago
You haven't said what the SaaS business is, maybe start with that?
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by leandot 3y ago
Why don’t you buy a business with ~100-150k ARR for a 2-3x multiple and grow it. That would save you the first (and hardest) part of finding at least some sort of product-market fit. There are places where people talk about their businesses
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by leandot 3y ago
Thanks for sharing that story, mine is similar but with a close relative of mine. He went through dark times but now is a very capable data engineer. It indeed took a lot of mentoring and to-do lists.
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by leandot 3y ago
We document TILs (today I learned) in a GitHub repo and give mini tech-talks internally encouraging people to contribute. Next one on the list is “how indexing works in Postgres” with details on Btrees. The tech talks are one of the most ap
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by leandot 3y ago
Caching/make the homepage static if possible. I had a project some years ago that had an elastic search backend, adding redis for caching allowed it to run without problems with up to 1000 concurrent users (position 1-10 on HN if I rem
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by leandot 3y ago
Idea is usually 1% and execution is 99%. I have learned that the hard way, so I am not sure if emphasizing the 1% is the way to go. Take Google for example - the idea to provide search based on keywords with some ranking is very simple, exe
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by leandot 3y ago
'I'm an idea guy by heart' -> Who isn't, it's the easiest part.
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by leandot 3y ago
Thanks for this, had an amazing evening killing dragons and flying on magic carpets with my daughters.
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by leandot 4y ago
I pay for Kagi, results are good and the ability to raise/lower the ranking of results for future queries is really interesting.

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