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by matrix 11y ago
The issue of administrative costs (e.g. IT) growing rapidly boils down to the fact that there are no economic forces that would otherwise enable the administrators to be held accountable for their spending. In the private sector, if you are
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by matrix 11y ago
Thanks for this PG, it's wonderful to see Jessica get the long overdue credit she deserves. That essay is also comforting for me on a personal level because like Jessica, I'm uneasy with attention, public speaking, etc and that&#x
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by matrix 11y ago
I suggest the using the one on color.adobe.com (formerly Kuler) as a starting point.
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Cinnamon ][: Lessons Learnt from Launching a Kickstarter Product(dpeckett.com)
2 points by matrix 11y ago|0 comments
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by matrix 11y ago
While I admire the effort that people put into this (and the similar effort of email address validation), what I really want to see is a comparison based on "good enough" validation -vs- performance. I think a reasonably low rate
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by matrix 11y ago
TLDR version; Here's their success factors ranked by magnitude: Technical co-founder, enterprise product: +230 Elite school: +220 ex AMZN, AAPL, FB, GOOG, MSFT, TWTR employee: +160 Female founder: +128 Discovered investment via non-tra
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by matrix 11y ago
The old content is awesome and is never going to stop being relevant. I think the key to address the criticisms would be 1) Navigation - perhaps some sort of timeline that accompanies each article so that you can easily see the context that
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by matrix 11y ago
Some background to this: the author, Colby Buzzell, is/was famous for his blog "My War" written while we was serving in Iraq. It was compelling reading to say the least, for example "Men in Black": https:/&#x2
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by matrix 11y ago
There are many potential reasons you didn't get a response, but I want to highlight one in particular: There was no value proposition in this email. For an email like this to be worth responding to, you have to provide a brief, no BS,
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by matrix 11y ago
You're probably right. The book I mentioned is the one I see most frequently recommended as a how-to guide to mindfulness. I have not read Mindfulness in Plain English, but judging by the title it sounds like a similar approach.
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by matrix 11y ago
Most likely he's referring to this book: B. Stahl & E. Goldstein, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook
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by matrix 11y ago
Agreed, but it would be a difficult problem to solve. The technology part is straightforward. Things happen like shipping containers showing up on the docks without a proper cargo manifest or other documentation errors, which of course lead
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by matrix 11y ago
I'm in the early stages of bootstrapping a marketplace similar to those that exist for hotels (e.g. Booking.com, PriceLine, etc). The supply-side is primarily small businesses ("merchants"). The demand-side is consumers. The
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by matrix 11y ago
If anyone needs convincing to use this site, read the About Us page. It's a big credit to Chanel Reynolds that she was able to drawn on a tragic experience to help others.
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by matrix 11y ago
Thank you for writing that article. To me, the article is pretty much how an ideal technical article should be: it doesn't assume deep knowledge of the subject matter and uses lots of examples and comparisons to make the case. It takes
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by matrix 11y ago
Sounds like you guys might have used Apache Oltu? If so, I (and I'm sure many others) would be interested in hearing more about that, because modern, non-trivial authorization and authentication is probably the single biggest missing p
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by matrix 11y ago
If the authors are reading this: in your later articles, I'd love to see some details about what method of authentication and authorization you settled on for the REST API and how well it plays with Dropwizard.
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by matrix 11y ago
Piggy-backing on this topic: does anyone successfully use Amazon S3 as the log store for application event logging? The low cost is attractive, but at first glance it seems like the latency is too high for it work well.
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by matrix 12y ago
Agreed on the second item. It's sort of like Facebook - I liked people better before I saw what they post. In both cases I suspect that a lot of it has to do with the kind of people that are predisposed to post things. That said, it&#x
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by matrix 12y ago
Thank you; people like you help change the status quo. Anyone aware of any large sites using Flexbox that has non-tech users, e.g. Netflix or a major ecommerce site? I ask because I'd like to see any presentations or write-ups those gu
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by matrix 12y ago
They don't mention it on the "what's new page", but it looks like this update also includes all the new features in Webstorm too, including support for a bunch of JS frameworks and tools including React/JSX, Meteor,
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by matrix 12y ago
I put readthedocs in the same category because they try to look like the original source of the documentation. They lift the content and style, lock stock and barrel, and then try to rank higher than the actual project's documentation
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by matrix 12y ago
Agreed. This behavior is not benign "naughtiness" (as the YC guys like to encourage), it's parasitic exploitation of other people's hard work. Another group I'd lump in with this group is readthedocs.org
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by matrix 12y ago
Excellent perspective, thanks. I've decided to forego having any part-time founders -- I agree, it just isn't possible to have enough skin in the game.
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Ask HN: Sweat Equity Agreements – What Works and What Doesn't
4 points by matrix 12y ago|6 comments
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by matrix 12y ago
If you are using Java, I suggest taking a look at JOOQ. JOOQ implements SQL statements as an AST: http://blog.jooq.org/2014/07/28/jooq-tip-of-the-day-reuse-bi... I've been using JOOQ lately and liking it
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by matrix 12y ago
Grellas wrote a very informative series of "Startup Law 101" posts. Well worth reading: http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup.html
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by matrix 12y ago
It sounds like you've taken the most important step, which is appreciating that "what got you here won't get you there". One of my favorite books when stepping into a new role is M. Watkins, "The First 90 Days"
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by matrix 12y ago
This is the behavior I have observed too. There are addresses that could not plausibly be gotten by any means other than unauthorized scraping of my mail or contacts. The only other mechanism I can think of is that maybe they're gettin
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by matrix 12y ago
Their shadiness is not limited to usability dark patterns; I am fairly sure they're scraping people's contact lists from gmail and the like without consent via impersonation (have gmail open in one tab, linkedin in another...). Ex

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