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by mrisoli 9y ago
I'm pretty sure it's possible and being done(especially in developing countries). If I'm not mistaken Uber itself was cutting deals with dealerships in some markets to help drivers finance cars loans and insurance, so Uber it
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I share the same opinion, TBH, there's much more to being a good programmer than writing good code.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I don't think it is that simple, good enough doesn't mean good. It's easy to fool yourself if you're just getting by work day to day thinking everything is going well until one day it isn't. Validation might be vani
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I couldn't agree more, as a programmer you get assigned tasks because non-technical people think throwing software at a problem solves it, good programmers can solve problems with code, the best programmer is the one that can identify
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by mrisoli 9y ago
If your code is bulletproof and you don't have any problem to solve then you move onto the next piece of software, I've never heard a programmer saying he has too much free time and not enough projects to work on.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
You think the AR was well done? Serious question, not trying to flame or anything, but I disagree. For me, the AR is pretty much just overlaying a Pokemon graphic on top of camera footage, there's very little interaction to the camera
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I have similar feelings, I started my own startup just out of college and feel like that was a waste of time. I had never shipped any code more than college assignments, there were some classes on entrepreneurship and business but they were
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I knew this existed but I never knew the name thank you! I suffer from this in many ways, not just shipping a product, but even when just starting a dumb side project it is easy to get sidetracked with simple decisions, such as language, fr
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Exactly! What I love about IH is that it doesn't define success as 6+ figures revenue streams, many of them are in early stages or making <$1k/month and are people happy with what they are building even if it is not their main
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I've read most of the interviews on IH and some of them do mention audience as a big factor, but you are right, it is very underestimated. Good audience, network, reputation or community involvement doesn't just get you product va
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Someone tested this a while ago by sending online applications with equal Ivy League graduate resumés by just switching the name to stereotypical ones(it was something like John on one, DeShawn on the other), and the 'white-sounding&#x
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Most things about job seeking are a time drain, not only it is hard to find companies because of fragmentation but when companies use terms such as 'developer', 'programmer', 'engineer'(plus the weird ones: &#x
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by mrisoli 9y ago
This is because conversion rate is not the right metric to analyze, spamming as a job hunting approach might work, but it is not the best method given the desired outcome. When businesses spam people they are getting customers, so if they a
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I worked on a state government transparency project once. It lists everything the government spends money on, including the companies they contract to do things, it was interesting seeing how much the company was making from that project an
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by mrisoli 9y ago
You can't really compare some classic games to Google's product offering, there's a huge difference in the scale of value here.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
This is the best analogy about web development in a while and totally spot on, as long as you know your way around your own basic tooling it is pretty easy.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I had the same question, repo has no commits since April 4 and only one release dating back to December last year, and, as another comment pointed out, it uses MDL which has been discontinued in favor of Material Components.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
It seems that bump is pretty obvious, after school if you are not doing something that regularly has you around other people(college or some job), then time spent alone will increase. For me, the most interesting part here is how this actua
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Uber did the essence of what a startup was supposed to do, it identified multiple pains(inconsistent and ineffective personal transportation) and solved it. The private transportation(taxis) market was scattered around the world and was run
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Big companies can't hide this stuff forever, you can eventually figure out, it is just better business-wise for them to just state they read your emails for ads, it can cost them a lot if they don't, plus most people don't re
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Uber's appeal in most markets is exactly that, product and pricing. Speaking from a place where taxi service was terrible, inefficient, expensive, often corrupt and dangerous, Uber came in like a savior, when the government went after
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by mrisoli 9y ago
But are they losing money on every ride? I thought the whole point of subsidizing rides was(as OP comments pointed out) to raise demand, both for drivers and riders, they first entice both ways with the promise of lower rates and higher pay
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Necessary is the wrong way to look at it, it was a consequence of the growth above all strategy. They broke into markets with disregard for the law, often it backfired, often it didn't. Allegedly(as it is being investigated) they also
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I did not do this survey but I'm in the demographic as a Brazilian(with Italian citizenship) who just moved to the EU. While the current political climate is concerning I don't think that would make a lot of people want to move ou
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by mrisoli 9y ago
This was a disappointing read, coming from such a large company, looking like a disposable blog post. It makes it sound like front end development is about knowing CSS, react and redux, these are good options of tools for the job, not essen
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I miss it now(mid 20's I guess), I used to work at a company with a big drinking culture and I made a big social circle around that, then I moved to a different country where I don't know anyone outside the office and the lack of
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I think it started as "cool and edgy" thing but showed many benefits to startups. First, if you have many people you can buy alcohol in bulk much cheaper than usual, if most of your workforce enjoys it then it is cheaper to buy it
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I have a CS degree and just short of 5 years worth of buzzwords in my resume(React, Rails, JavaScript and alike) I don't get cold calls(ok, I've gotten it maybe once or twice), but I get spammed on email and Linkedin because of pe
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Maybe Google Wave was targeted at the wrong segment? I believe it was used as a general communications tool, not specifically for business.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Slack reminds me of my school years, I grew up as cell phones became commonplace. We've always had chat software, but mostly we talked to each other during breaks or after school using our desktop computers. Then cell phones became nor

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