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by mbesto 3y ago
> But that the Reddit team moved so slow to do anything This is actually the killer feature that has made Reddit so successful - not much has changed and the content keeps coming in. Same reason HN has still continued to do well.
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by mbesto 3y ago
I'm pretty sure thats fake.
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by mbesto 3y ago
> Larger companies have already exhausted those levers, and are ready for more sophisticated optimizations. Sort of. Companies copy changes at larger companies because they're addressing a different audience and different set of nee
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by mbesto 3y ago
> company you actually get all your equity as cash But many times you get a significant portion, enough that many founders can simply coast and it doesn't matter. > you are certainly still working at your company for a year or mo
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by mbesto 3y ago
Long story short from a business perspective - good luck logistically scaling a dev team from 2 founders to 100 devs as quickly as your app does. Elixir devs are hard to find and are expensive.
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by mbesto 3y ago
> I know people around these parts think that Tesla has uncovered some magical factory building ability, but can you even consider the fact that maybe Toyota knows what they are doing? Not a Tesla fanboy (I'm turning mine in for a R
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by mbesto 3y ago
Interesting. I've had the same issues. Is there a captive portal whitelist somewhere?
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by mbesto 3y ago
25 years ago, you didn't have thousands of websites and applications supporting billions of users and millions of TPS. In hindsight, the innovation around DevOps is nothing short of a marvel IMO. 87 MB in the context of a $100 16GB sti
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by mbesto 3y ago
For one, the payment setup in the US is a massive burden to proper care. For every screen and procedure that gets logged into an EMR system, there is some resulting billing setup that is complex, overburdensome and user hostile. The billing
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by mbesto 3y ago
The EV charging station (i.e. not at my home) situation is abysmal. I get the idea is that eventually every parking lot you're in has one, but there are still concerns. Here was my recent experience in Houston: - staying at a family me
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by mbesto 3y ago
> doesn’t bear much weight on a skewed power balance existing. What's your proof that a skewed power balance exists? Just because buyers have experience buying 100s of companies? Well then my experience advising 500+ companies tells
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by mbesto 3y ago
The author basically says this - but companies are not sold, they are bought. Build a great business and focus on running a great business. Selling is just time in the market. If you're creating value, someone eventually will want to b
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by mbesto 3y ago
As a seller, not going exclusive is an absolute PITA. Based on anecdotal experience, I'd bet that most of the "50% of signed LOIs" don't actually close because the seller misrepresented themselves. > There’s an extrem
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by mbesto 3y ago
Work in M&A. Have been involved in 500+ M&A deals and also sold a company. These are very good insights!
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by mbesto 3y ago
I mean, how else can you actually get a result without using your actual data...?
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by mbesto 3y ago
I should have clarified... I wrote my comment too quickly. The code isn't open source afaik, however the service is completely free and donation based.
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by mbesto 3y ago
Actually what you're referring to is specifically FOSS - free and open source which is used synonymously with 'open source'. Furthermore there is free as in gratis versus libre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by mbesto 3y ago
https://savvycal.com/ is way better than Calendly.
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by mbesto 3y ago
Example - I start a group message with 1 android user (droid) and 3 iOS users (foo, bar, and doof). `doof` sends a message to the group and it shows up as a group txt. `bar` sends a message and it now shows up as a direct message. I don&#x2
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by mbesto 3y ago
> How often are you in a situation where you do have WiFi but don't have a cellular connection? Ummm, all of the time. Traveling, on a plane, etc. > Wow. I feel sorry, not for you, but for your friends who chose to be friends wit
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by mbesto 3y ago
I've been slowly moving towards https://intervals.icu/ which is kinda "open source" since its donation based. Way better than Strava.
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by mbesto 3y ago
> That makes it sound like android phones are at fault. The experience is the same coming from an Android perspective. > People who use iOS should be asking Apple to fix it if they cared about this problem at all. We do, thanks.
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by mbesto 3y ago
bigger than that: - iMessage works on wifi without a cell connection - green txts constantly break group messaging to the point where I refuse to add my friends partners who dont have iOS - there are no abilities to admin group messaging wi
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by mbesto 3y ago
> Adobe makes $17B a year in revenue, they would need some pretty strong growth out of Figma to justify the price tag especially after valuations came down. That's not it works. 1. Adobe is at $19B in revenue 2. Adobe's market
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by mbesto 3y ago
Which actually reinforces the grandparent's point. Sequoia, Benchmark, Kleiner, etc. can say an actual "no" and you'll still go back to them because they're...Sequioa, Benchmark, etc. You'll go back to them, be
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by mbesto 3y ago
To be fair to Dropbox that page also states: > "Your files within Dropbox are sent to a third-party AI only when you chose to interact with AI powered features. For example, when you ask a question about a file. " > &quot
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by mbesto 3y ago
Serious question - do you know this to be in fact true of Blazor specifically, with real life comparisons, or is this just conjecture based on analogous frameworks?
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by mbesto 3y ago
> If you join a consultancy group, and 2 months later quit with the client roster... is it really OK to poach all their clients to start your own consultancy? I've been part of 5x consultancies in my career now, so this is a very he
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by mbesto 3y ago
Not a customer nor have I used the app, but I think one use case you're hitting is the following: I'm an ad management agency that does google ads for 200x ecommerce companies. Every month I have my marketing specialist create a p
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by mbesto 3y ago
We use Merge for an app I built so I can elaborate. Using your example, let's say I want to get the weather for Berlin today from NOAA, Foreca, and DarSky. I would have to do: noaa.com/api?city=berlin foreca.com/ap

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