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by mandeepj 4y ago
Same argument I heard about Tesla cars (What if I had bought Apple stock instead?) - https://conroy.org/apple-stock
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by mandeepj 4y ago
Few things you don't need to ask and can find out on your own via visiting their website (if they have) and social media (if there's one), and earnings reports as well (if they are public)
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Ask HN: Any resources for building a great Front end App Architecture?
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> “I’m going to let a few of the execs know I’m not out for turf because I only intend to be here for a few years.” Not sure if he had said that during his interview and still got hired. This is borderline common-sense to not put yourse
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by mandeepj 4y ago
Windows 10 has a auto dim feature that turns down brightness as sunsets
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by mandeepj 4y ago
Why you are recommending a smartwatch just for a repeat timer? Any smartphone can do (just start the timer again or download an app (I searched there are plenty) or a desktop app
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> I mentor some juniors and the ability to talk to a specific target audience about a topic is the most important skill a dev can have. Sure, it comes with experience and lessons learnt. But, I don't think a junior dev would straigh
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> I wonder if there is a startup out there that does English training to help non-native English speakers sound like native speakers? There are many vocal coaches. Search Google or Youtube - you'll find a lot of them. It's hard
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> "My breakthrough was the realization that read-only data packaged as a SQLite database could be deployed to inexpensive serverless hosting" My breakthrough was the realization that any text data packaged as a SQLite databas
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> most people will eventually abandon Google entirely in favor of a different search engine that gives us results that we're happier with. LOL! Which one?
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by mandeepj 4y ago
I use HN enhancement suite https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
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by mandeepj 4y ago
To those who are interviewing these days for a leadership position, the article has details for answering questions related to managing conflicting\multiple priorities
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> 16 billion dollars for a 24(?) person company with no revenue. You are minimizing the impact of WA….. by a lot. At that time, almost all the smartphone users in India were using WA. The transaction gave FB all of those ~half billion us
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by mandeepj 4y ago
“Draft PRs” for the win
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> He got an excuse to sell lots of Tesla stock at a price 40% higher than today. Ironically, Twitter deal plus related announcements hammered the stock more than the overall market downturn. Besides that, I believe no one wants this deal
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> but to start a business in that sector That's what I also meant. Even if you start a business, the features that your product would have, will be sold as a "solution" - in layman's terms.
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by mandeepj 4y ago
ShapeUp is about product development and not ‘Selling’
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> I know a multimillion £ business that probably gained hundreds of thousands in productivity by simply introducing shared mailbox. Good if someone can pull it off. But, I believe that company might have sold that feature as an add-on to
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> Unsexy sells. Not for me; it has to be sexy, world and life style changing. I’d rather build something like one of the top used apps or just be an employee at a tech co.
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by mandeepj 4y ago
SyncToy - https://filehippo.com/download_synctoy_64/ It’s not actively maintained though
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by mandeepj 4y ago
Ok! I’m going to trust you with it and buy the book
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> Can you point me to a codebase that does not use comments, as a model of how that looks in practice? Once we actively encourage “comments”, this is what we get. It was totally unnecessary - https://github.com/nopSolutio
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> You seem to consider it a negative to spend time on comments. Why? Not just me. I've heard, read - here at HN, in the industry, blogs, co-workers, other books - the code should be self-explanatory. If it needs comments to explain
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by mandeepj 4y ago
> ~1/7 of the book by page count (about 30 pages if you tally the chapter lengths of nearly 200 pages), Comments chapters start from Page #91 to 142, totals to 52. Total pages - 175; not counting index and summary pages. 1/4 of
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by mandeepj 4y ago
The table of Contents seemed interesting and I was getting ready to buy the book until I discovered - the author has reserved between 1/3 and 1/4 of the book for chapters about writing comments.
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by mandeepj 5y ago
Not comparable! WaPo is an one way media entity, but Twitter is a two way social media platform where users “engage”
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by mandeepj 5y ago
> Price at closing yesterday: $1,005.05 Did you include the stock split? I don’t think so
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by mandeepj 5y ago
I find Snapchat app to very complicated and cluttered. I guess it's just me. FB has almost cloned Snap's features into Messenger and Insta. So, do you think - Snap's UX is still far better?
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by mandeepj 5y ago
> I've become very aware that JS/TS and Swift etc are just APIs on top of APIs. I'd call them abstractions. This is how it's - high level programming languages (C#) are just abstractions so that we don't have to
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by mandeepj 5y ago
> Move to a state income tax free state It's not binary. State has to get its revenue from somewhere, so then you will pay higher property tax and/or sales tax

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