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by mitchellst 8y ago
As the other answers say, you will need something specific to drive at. The field of software engineering is vast. You'll be repeatedly overwhelmed by its size and scope without getting anywhere unless you start, and develop skills on
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by mitchellst 8y ago
This is the best answer here. You've come to the conclusion that you're good at coding alone, but you don't know how to do it well in a team or company— your team and company. Other answers frame this as a technology problem
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by mitchellst 8y ago
No, they wouldn't shut them down. They'd open up the toolbox of administrative law to bleed them. We don't need to pass new laws. (that's what the line about "enforcement" means.) The US Government can just bar
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by mitchellst 8y ago
This is the answer. The reason anyone gets paid what they get paid in the free market is supply and demand, whether it be for their labor, for a product they're selling, or for a security they own. It's not about what they deser
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by mitchellst 9y ago
My favorite of these is notion.so
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by mitchellst 9y ago
I don't think it's disrespectful, because I think this is what the OP is saying. When considering how to make money in this business, you need to look at the company you're working for. He emphasizes that if it does not provi
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by mitchellst 9y ago
Programming craft does not matter because programming craft has no content. Doctors treat and fix bodily ills; their actions— the uses of their craft— are determined by the state of the patient. Similarly, lawyers' craft is determined
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by mitchellst 9y ago
Come for the 90's nostalgia. Stay for the websocket fight in a phonebooth.
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by mitchellst 9y ago
I've been thinking about the ecological sustainability thing thanks to today's news, but it's actually not about supply chains, per se. The news is that China has tightened restrictions on importing foreign waste. (We recyc
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by mitchellst 9y ago
Not to fanboy, but the "Who is Hiring" thread posted here on hacker news on the first of each month. In my experience, the rate and speed of responses from that thread is dramatically higher than anywhere else. Obviously it's
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by mitchellst 9y ago
The "issuing bank," which issues your cash back or rewards credit card, has its cut protected by the payment networks. Part of the "interchange," the wholesale cost of processing a payment, is reserved for paying out the
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by mitchellst 9y ago
True, but the big guys like First Data are out of reach to the size of shops that generally use square. (They can use them, but the fees don't get appreciably more competitive until you clear a certain scale.) I'd say Tsys and Wor
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by mitchellst 9y ago
Most, yes, but with plenty left over. They charge this for all transactions, whereas the wholesale/processing rate depends on the type of card. Pin debit transactions clear interchange well under 1%. Visa and mastercard have a few diff
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by mitchellst 9y ago
It's true that processing is low margin, but (1) you make a ton of money on a low margin as long as you have a lot of volume. Just ask Wal Mart, Amazon, Big Oil, etc. (2) Not quite the same, because verifone is not a processor. Compare
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by mitchellst 9y ago
These articles pop up once in a while, and it always makes me grateful for my high school debate experience. New England private schools don't compete in NFL, they have their own league that's federated with some other private sch
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by mitchellst 9y ago
I think this is fine for excusing the social quirks of individual contributors. If you're talking co-founders, though, I'd consider this "caveat" a red flag. If a person can't bring himself to make a positive impres
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by mitchellst 9y ago
It's a good question. I received some advice about this young-- and it wasn't about startups, it was about careers generally. If you don't know what you want to do, but you know the general area, proximity is your solution. G
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by mitchellst 9y ago
For my part, I think the partners are much more important than the idea. Good companies can pivot to find a good market. Bad partners will sink you, or never get off the ground to begin with. Select for team, not for idea. The best idea is
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by mitchellst 9y ago
OK sure, but it assumes that young student would be able to discriminate a money-making investment from a money-losing one-- something the best VC's in the business, who vet tech deals all day every day, struggle to do. Imagine you rep
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by mitchellst 9y ago
Actually... kind of. Imagine you're a French pharma company. You know the US is the richest country in the world and spends a quarter of its massive GDP on healthcare. When you put together R&D budgets, it makes sense that you plan
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by mitchellst 9y ago
"Charging the maximum allowed by private insurance" is the same thing as competing on price. You're just competing to please insurance plans, not consumers. Admittedly, the insurance plans have every incentive to play ball: t
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by mitchellst 9y ago
So many replies to this comment, and none have yet acknowledged the high probability that Baron's request is sarcastic. When frat guys with names like "Baron" claim they have superior social awareness, this is what they mean.
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by mitchellst 9y ago
Is the DO NOT PUBLISH across the top of this article some kind of a gimmick from axios, or did someone mess up pretty hard?
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by mitchellst 9y ago
Homejoy. Adora and Aaron Cheung.
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by mitchellst 9y ago
well, yeah. There are doctors who, for example, treat your kidneys. They never need to prescribe opioids. There are doctors who perform surgeries, and prescribe a week of pain killers for recovery. There are doctors who manage chronic pain.
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by mitchellst 9y ago
I think you mistyped a URL, the link is broken. Perhaps Contentgems.com?
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by mitchellst 10y ago
What about the treatment side? Once you have a diagnosis, could we use AI to review the patient's medical record, compare outcomes of past patients with the same diagnosis and similar histories, and suggest adjustments of personalized
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by mitchellst 10y ago
Maybe the fact that you know your diagnosis is not the important part. If the app can verify the diagnostic data is accurate (e.g., temperature, AI image recognition of visible indicators like rashes and pupil dilation, audio analysis of he
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by mitchellst 10y ago
The analysis assumes prices for these used battery packs are not governed by supply and demand. What happens to this analysis 5-10 years from now when the secondhand market for decade-used, 80% capacity batteries faces a supply glut, with r
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by mitchellst 10y ago
The Trek 500. It's a bicycle. It's a steel bicycle, which is out of favor these days, but Trek still makes a few each year. And they haven't really changed the design since it was introduced in the 80's. Why? Because it&

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