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by mbesto 4y ago
Super interesting. Is the idea that this is like Retool, but a little more dummy'd down (in a good way) and has cron/workflow capabilities?
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by mbesto 4y ago
(1) I'd love to (2) don't have the time right now (3) would have to be very non-specific due to NDA.
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by mbesto 4y ago
Heavily depends. I've seen CTOs with 4 devs and CTOs with 100 devs who don't even know what programming languages they use. Which frankly is a bit of a red flag. There are probably only 500 CTOs globally who operate at the level o
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by mbesto 4y ago
I've done nearly 300+ interviews with CTOs regarding their technical architectures over the last 8 years. AmA
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by mbesto 4y ago
> iBuying is a business and your paying for the convenience of them taking your home as-is If that was the case then OpenDoor wouldn't have "asked sellers to pay for home repair costs that were higher than what people would typ
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by mbesto 4y ago
> A friend of mine was hired by Peet's to try to clean up the mess they caused by doing this to their previously loyal fan base Clean up what? You test it once and if it works, it works, if it doesn't you revert back. You'
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by mbesto 4y ago
True. I would then test that over a 6+ month interval. Depending on the volume of subscribers the results may not be correlative.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> I assume that returns are diminishing, and turn negative past a certain point. Which is why you should test it. Jan '22 -> once a month Feb '22 -> twice a month Mar '22 -> thrice a month Jan '23 -> once
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by mbesto 4y ago
Human bias at its finest - e.g. social proof. It's the classic "you don't get fired for hiring IBM" notion. If you were a CIO and chose Retool but it flopped, no one could say "what the hell was the CIO thinking by
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by mbesto 4y ago
> You think he doesn’t want these devices? Don't Chinese people want the social credit system too? You clearly glossed over the more important factor "is used by police to selectively enforce crimes, sometimes also altering the
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by mbesto 4y ago
> I stopped using IG because it's near impossible not to prevent the sound from blasting from accidentally scrolling or clicking on a reel. I don't know a single person who doesn't hate the muting functionality in IG. I ca
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by mbesto 4y ago
I've always heard this, and so when I went for my first smart thermometer I went straight to Ecobee (which I'm very happy with btw). So I gotta ask HN...what the heck was so popular about Nests?! It's one thing to be go after
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Congress has passed nearly a hundred bills in the last year alone. A patent troll can create hundreds of patents per year and never release a single product. The quantitative aspect is meaningless without the qualitative. > I quickl
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by mbesto 4y ago
If you have been historically comfortable with MS Outlook, then O365's email service is far superior in every imaginable possible over GSuite...with ONE big exception of the web interface. But alas, I don't need a web interface fo
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by mbesto 4y ago
Imagine if Snapchat said "if you download the sideload version your snaps will continue to auto delete, but if you download the Official App Store version, every snap you send will be stored forever and never deleted from our servers&q
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by mbesto 4y ago
Is there any way outside of just polling every 1~5 minutes to get realtime updates to RSS? Curious what is standard here? If you do do polling, what interval?
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by mbesto 4y ago
It also ignore the absolute elephant in the room - what does it mean to settle a payment in near real time and protect for fraud? (like how CC's work) Payments its just "Stevey's Google Platforms Rant" but slanted toward
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by mbesto 4y ago
Fair point.
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by mbesto 4y ago
Which begs the question - if you want to get top in rankings wouldn't you simply design the school around the objective ranking parameters and nothing else? Ripe for abuse...
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Typically they cut a bunch of expensive overhead, like employees, which juices the books to make it look much more profitable, then sell to someone else left holding the bag of a dead shell of a company. Cut long term viability for sho
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by mbesto 4y ago
It's absolutely part of the investment structure. It's no different from buying a house that you would rent out for yield. If your yield outpaces the costs (maintenance, taxes, utilities, AND the mortgage rate) then you are basica
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by mbesto 4y ago
> (but then do it right, and not like a amateur who build's his first "gaming-pc"). Again, still avoiding the point, but oddly enough proving the point. You assume everyone isn't an amateur and knows how to build an
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by mbesto 4y ago
> you would never do that with software right? You facetiously implied that every company fully tests software before it gets to production. Oh boy, do I have news for you... Note the word "fully" as the variations of what ge
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by mbesto 4y ago
All good! It's a total nuance to this space so I can understand if someone got it wrong anyway.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> According to the article, the average valuation multiple for US deals to take firms private is 19.3x EBITDA. That's on a PIPE, which is a small subsection of all PE buyouts. Average multiples for ALL buyouts is 12.3x in NA: Avera
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by mbesto 4y ago
If by fall you mean from its all time highs, sure, but theres still so much money allocated that needs to be spent: After 10 years of steady growth, dry powder set yet another record in 2021, rising to $3.4 trillion globally, with approxim
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by mbesto 4y ago
2016 MBP gang rise up! I switched over to the Air M1 a year ago (I think?) and it's faster, lighter and smaller. Best laptop ever.
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by mbesto 4y ago
The term was only coined ~12 years ago...
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by mbesto 4y ago
> you would never do that with software right? Hilarious you used this as an analogy since software development shops are notorious for cutting corners when it comes to QA.
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by mbesto 4y ago
If I procure a fleet of cars I expect none of them to be faulty...how about you?

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