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by leros 3y ago
Yeah. They want me to work for twice hours at half the pay. Lol.
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by leros 3y ago
It just requires different framing. Maybe taking a week off means making $10k less so your vacation feels really expensive. But in reality you've accepted a job paying $10k less per year with one more week of vacation.
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by leros 3y ago
I'm feeling something similar now. I'm doing freelance work about 20 hours a week making my previous income level. So far each project has ended because the company wants me to go full time with them. The challenge hasn't bee
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by leros 3y ago
Korean Air is the first airline where I had the experience of being forced to check a bag due to weight. I usually travel with a backpack and a carry on luggage, but Korea Air made me check the bag because the total weight for both bags exc
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by leros 3y ago
That's great. Have people stopped scalping pis yet?
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by leros 3y ago
Quite a lot. I've also accidentally up and down voted content.
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Is it feasible to be a contract/freelance product manager?
2 points by leros 3y ago|1 comments
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by leros 3y ago
I have a few thoughts: 1) Can you afford to live off a manual labor job? If so, that might be a good approach since you can work that manual labor job and still have mental energy afterwards to work on your SaaS. It's much harder doing
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by leros 3y ago
The danger of being a small client. Companies like Stripe and many others are perfectly content with having a few false positives in their algorithms. So what if they accidentally ban 0.1% of their customers if they're stopping 99% of
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by leros 3y ago
That's a bummer you can only use it if your Stripe account is in Europe. I'd love to offer this to my European customers.
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by leros 3y ago
I got a summer job in a factory after my freshman year of college. I realized I'd probably never have the opportunity to have a blue collar job again once I started technical internships so I wanted the experience. It was definitely in
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by leros 3y ago
You upgrade to a beefy machine with tons of CPU and enough memory to hold the database in RAM. This buys you enough time to migrate to something else.
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by leros 3y ago
I double majored in EE and CS. My personal experience as well as observing others is that EE curriculum is "harder" in two aspects. First, EE students seem to have a more difficult time grasping advanced EE concepts than CS studen
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by leros 3y ago
I've seen a huge demand for Paypal as a payment method, especially in Europe. I'm honestly surprised Stripe doesn't offer it.
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by leros 3y ago
This reminds me of the SAT, which is a major college entrance exam in the US. One of it's original goals was to level the financial playing field with an objective measurement of abilities. But then SAT preparation classes became a maj
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by leros 3y ago
That's kinda neat. I'm curious the business model behind it. Sure is expensive.
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by leros 3y ago
Join a Toastmasters club. You'll get to work on public speaking and meet a bunch of people also working on improving themselves, which usually make for cool friends.
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by leros 3y ago
I have a little custom app written in Firebase that queries all the other services, generates data summaries in Firestore, and then renders them in a little React app. Yes I have to write code, but I haven't found a decent solution tha
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by leros 3y ago
Huh. Apparently I've flagged and voted lots of stuff by accident.
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by leros 3y ago
I haven't used Supabase but I tried using Firestore with security rules for a project. I reached a point where my business logic just couldn't be done in rules like that and I had to resort to doing security in code. It just depen
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by leros 3y ago
I use a local produce delivery service. They drop off a box of fresh produce every week with some variation. I can also subscribe to other grocery items through them or make one time purchases.
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by leros 3y ago
Gotcha. You have a team of people helping out. Sounds super fun!
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by leros 3y ago
I don't know think I've ever seen a clever algorithm in a work environment.
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by leros 3y ago
I have a similar background as you. How are you finding handling the mechanical side of things? I assume your toy is more than a PCB.
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by leros 3y ago
It's probably also about getting people to use the API. With Twitter's data being public, bots and data analyzers can just scrape the site instead of paying for the now extremely expensive API. Not only does this mean Twitter isn&
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by leros 3y ago
The primary purpose of most businesses is to make money. Sometimes they are even legally obligated to pursue the best financial outcomes for their shareholders. There are alternatives of course, like non-profits and B-corps, but those are o
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by leros 3y ago
I'll throw out a slightly different opinion than I'm seeing so far. As a really small startup, you might not want these types of customers. They're going to want custom contracts that need legal review, things like 24 hour bu
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by leros 3y ago
I stopped using multiple screens years ago. I find working on multiple monitors to be a bit more efficient, but switching between a multiple monitor setup and my single laptop screen was slowing me down because my workflow changed. Now I ju
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by leros 3y ago
For a B2B service, I use Auth0. It does cost $20 or so per month for the lowest tier, but when I need to enable enterprise login mechanisms for a single customer, it will be worth every penny to have that be a simple thing to enable versus
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by leros 3y ago
You can compile your Python to WebAssembly and run the WebAssembly in Cloudflare workers.

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