michaelje

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Olive AI lays off 450(axios.com)
6 points by michaelje 4y ago|3 comments
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by michaelje 4y ago
How can we do better to see, stop, or price-in externalities that impact people, communities, the world? This is a widespread issue across many essential areas of human life - like housing (Airbnb), or the environment (pollution).
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by michaelje 4y ago
Please don’t get less than 16. I have now had two (work and personal) - my work m1 air was specced with 8GB, and had major memory pressure and issues with an external monitor. My personal 14” MBP has 16GB - same workload, same monitor, neve
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by michaelje 4y ago
No - it has to be more casual. I don’t want to force people to join a/my/some club. I want to let my followers and friends see I plan to do a 80km ride Saturday morning and let them simply tag along. It could easily be integrated
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by michaelje 4y ago
What are the key differentiators to get me to use this over Strava where people already are? A quick look and some MTB specific metrics like hangtime? A killer feature for Strava (or anyone in the social activity game) would be allowing me
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by michaelje 4y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote (I’m in North America/Aus) Looking for iOS native dev to take our functioning (and App Store approved) prototype and build out a fully functioning product (healthcare assessment tool). We have deep industry
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by michaelje 4y ago
The issue is people need homes to live, but people also use homes as an investment vehicle. These are fundamentally at odds with each other.
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by michaelje 4y ago
>> Australia tried this with tragic results Australian living in Canada here - unsure what the tragic results were? It’s helped a number of my friends buy their first home - with a small (~$10k) credit /reduced stamp duties and t
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by michaelje 5y ago
I went to the effort of setting up a pihole, and pointing all the devices on my network to it. When I saw this notification for the first time yesterday I was a bit annoyed - do I now have to think about every application ignoring OS level
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by michaelje 5y ago
How can they add a device to your AppleID? Don’t they need your user/pass etc..?
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by michaelje 5y ago
Is it considered a horror story if you realise the company likely won’t have a significant upside? If anyone wants to exercise some totally not worthless options… they expire in 2 weeks shrug
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by michaelje 5y ago
But eventually the “need” for never-ending growth means a manager somewhere will be looking to eek out that x% growth - and their individual (professional) needs will lead to suggesting monetizing the paid user base…
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Ask HN: Best data practices leaving a company
4 points by michaelje 5y ago|1 comments
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by michaelje 5y ago
I agree. As a marketer, improving my understanding of the development process and technology in general has been one of the best skills I continue to learn. I have built a personal project iOS app but have no desire to be an engineer. (Know
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by michaelje 5y ago
Apple has a significant role - UGC is facilitated hugely by the iPhone.
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by michaelje 5y ago
I live downtown. You can see my building on that map. I moved to Canada in the infamous March of 2020. Downtown is sterile. A nice cafe or more likely a nice restaurant will pop up - but there is nothing around it. In Summer, walking a few
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by michaelje 5y ago
Thanks, I really appreciate all the positive replies. Mostly they have been arms length connections - intros from people I know. Tbh, so far minimal pushback due to the (relatively) warm nature, and in their profession (healthcare) they are
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by michaelje 5y ago
I had a (relative to my profession) decent understanding of web languages(HTML/Php etc) from years in the marketing world, had a decent technical understanding, watched parts of the Stanford CS courses, and a lot of guess and check.. G
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by michaelje 5y ago
It’s funny to hear this from the technical side. It resonates so strongly, because I’m in the same but polar opposite boat. Marketing day job for over a decade, but after spending far too long trying to find the technical partner I’ve built
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by michaelje 5y ago
+1 oltra - I’ve been using it recently for focus blocks and organizing my day for impact. How would you say your product compares or differs for the average(or ideal) user?
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by michaelje 5y ago
Knowing you can’t rescue what happens and the uncertainty of the end result absolutely made photography more exciting again when I started shooting 120 film a few years ago. There’s something boring and unexciting about a technically perfec
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by michaelje 5y ago
I was replying to the parent.
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by michaelje 5y ago
This. I moved to Canada from Aus right at the start of covid - which made meeting new people without my existing networks already challenging. I fell into the trap of being so cautious of who I’d speak to, instead of working on building my
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by michaelje 5y ago
As an Australian working in tech, I can assure you software engineers don’t earn $30-$60k on average. Most people in teams I’ve worked with are on $100k+