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by mguerville 2y ago
Or the investment was made under the assumption the business model to gain traction isn't the same as the future one that generates cash flow. Plenty of company start with a free or cheap product then up their pricing once the value is
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by mguerville 2y ago
Chicago is, sadly, very segregated, and if you exclude the south and west side where frankly no white collar workers live you’d be looking at much more comparable numbers. I don’t say this to downplay the tragedy of 500+ lives lost, but if
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by mguerville 2y ago
is x.com HIPAA compliant?
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by mguerville 2y ago
Thanks that’s exactly the type of guidance I was hoping for. I’m trying to think more of architecture now that I move from basic (50-150 LoC) scripts to more complex applications, I’ll try to read up on good practices suited to my skill lev
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Ask HN: Prompt engineering for LLMs to generate beginner friendly code
4 points by mguerville 2y ago|3 comments
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by mguerville 2y ago
Pricing info would be welcome, I pay for otter.ai and also bought MacWhisper so I'm not anti-paying but I don't feel like downloading and signing up 'for free' without any idea of the downstream cost
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by mguerville 2y ago
And criticize the colors, shading, exact sizes of UI elements, etc. instead of the underlying holistic UX
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by mguerville 2y ago
They found PMF in a niche (productivity-obsessed email-superusers), which is decent market in size, but raised money and got press coverage like a mainstream so in the end it feels like they kinda failed. It reminds me of Peloton (though th
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by mguerville 2y ago
Editorial decisions can be unethical but rarely illegal, so I'm assuming there's absolutely no legal standing there and it's solely intimidation
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by mguerville 2y ago
The entrepreneur one has "visit a coworking space" at the mid level of difficulty...
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by mguerville 2y ago
I've been anxious about this for the past couple of years, to me the biggest challenge is that if you end up affected in the first few waves you face a real uphill battle: the stigma of unemployment or marginal employment will still ve
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by mguerville 2y ago
Like the idea, I once did marketing for a startup and creating infographics was as useful as it was laborious.... Feedback: The fact that two of the examples on the page use the exact same format (the paperclip) and all of them also follow
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by mguerville 2y ago
AirPlay or more accurately "screen mirroring" does cast sound and more often than not recognizes the video content and casts it full screen (from most iOS media apps such as youtube at least). It doesn't always work on my sam
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by mguerville 2y ago
Hyper tailored version for each role, with SEO-like focus on the right keywords that demonstrate fit not with stated requirements but industry-specific business lingo
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by mguerville 2y ago
In management consulting it's big 3 (Bain, BCG, McK) but same sentiment
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by mguerville 2y ago
Between the name and the logo colors I assumed for years it was a frozen foods store (there's mostly in strip malls too so I'd drive near but never close enough or slow enough to truly peek), then one day I stepped into one and re
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by mguerville 2y ago
I have a Boox Ultra Tab C (color) and while true I don't find it problematic in the slightest. I went down the rabbit hole of watcing video comparison etc. but in practical terms once I started using it I never once felt that I wanted
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by mguerville 2y ago
Maybe some power tools that get only occasional use could be fine with a better rental market. Not long ago I bought a ceramic tile cutter because renting one for 3 days was more expensive that buying one outright, but if that market went t
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by mguerville 3y ago
Start by identifying the problem you're trying to solve, then validate that the problem is worth solving and that your approach can get people wanting to solve it. Then figure out what's the quickest way to test this, and only the
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by mguerville 3y ago
AI is very legitimately a large scale disruptive force, but its speed of adoption and true value creation will vary greatly industry by industry and application by application. In some cases it helps the long tail of the market: DALL-E and
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by mguerville 3y ago
In Europe a lot of old buildings do this conversion easily, it's really more a problem with modern construction (and hence most American buildings) where the entire design is extremely skewed towards one use case vs the other
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by mguerville 3y ago
People already don't walk around enough, and there's plenty of benefits to walking (including cognitive: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experience-engineeri... ) mostly because it helps us think
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by mguerville 3y ago
Accountability is needed in this era of "marketplaces". I don't care if it's thru better/clearer separation of first-party vs third-party sellers or thru letting the retailers like Amazon represent however they want
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by mguerville 3y ago
I joined as employeee #1 as a friend of a friend (we were friendly acquaintances for a year or two before). I think the relationship helped get us to a good working rhythm right away, but as many founders do he had slightly misrepresented s
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by mguerville 3y ago
The article is more about sleep quality but I personally often realize that I am lethargic rather than tired when life/work is a bit boring and magically find energy when it gets exciting. Most of us have relatively dull and repetitive
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by mguerville 3y ago
Parts of it is that when you're cutting an arbitrary number (like 5%) just because.... you kind have to do it "randomly" so that there's no claim of discrimination. If it just so happens that all you best performers shar
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by mguerville 3y ago
Chicago Pros: Affordable compared to similar cities, yet very rich and diverse economy with multiple sectors represented. Friendly people and decent infrastructure. Relatively "central" in the US for domestic travel. Cons: Extreme
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by mguerville 3y ago
The thing that made America successul almost exactly 100 years ago is now the thing that will hurt its competitiveness on the global scale for the next few decades. Mostly because elections cycles and attention spans now move too fast for i
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by mguerville 3y ago
I think closing a funding round is like an enterprise SaaS deal, it takes a special talent to navigate the multi-step and multi-stakeholders process.
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by mguerville 3y ago
In absolute terms it's not hard to believe (despite tiny sample size in the tweet) given the rise in popularity of seltzers and other low ABV drinks in the past 2-3 years. But in share of craft as % of the overall beer market? I suspec

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