mtlynch

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   by mtlynch 2y ago

   This seems AI-generated. Both the project itself and the HN intro sound fishy. It seems to be a UI for creating symlinks on Windows? I'm not clear on what problem that solves. What's a situation where you need to move a file that
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   by mtlynch 2y ago

   I'm impressed at how principled and unflappable Ed Colligan is in his response to Jobs: > On the other hand, this is a small space, and it’s inevitable that we will bump into each other. Threatening Palm with a patent lawsuit in res
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   by mtlynch 2y ago

   I've never tried Arc search, so I couldn't say. I think it's all the LLMs + some Kagi-specific intelligence on top because you can flip web search on and off for all the chats.
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   by mtlynch 2y ago

   Kagi Ultimate (US$25/mo) includes unlimited use of all the Anthropic models. Full disclosure: I participated in Kagi's crowdfund, so I have some financial stake in the company, but I mainly participated because I'm an enthusi
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   by mtlynch 2y ago

   I was curious how this worked without violating the copyright of the originals. I was imagining something akin to tracing over the original game assets and calling it a libre replacement, but it seems like they actually did it in a reasonab
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   by mtlynch 2y ago

   Cisco published their implementation under BSD license: https://github.com/cisco/openh264/
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   by mtlynch 2y ago

   My sense is the opposite. I meet and hear about many more successful B2B founders and a lot more struggling B2C founders. If you look at who's speaking at conferences or who's appearing on podcasts to talk about their successful b
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   by mtlynch 2y ago

   I'm overall a fan of Krebs' work, but he has done some questionable things to reveal people's identities that feel more like immature spite, sometimes outside the context of any crime he's accusing the person of committi
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   by mtlynch 2y ago

   And when you compare it to Lightsail, it blows it away. This is a bit of a confusing sentence because there are so many pronouns. Do all of the "it"s refer to Fly.io?
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    You should review the site guidelines, as you've only made two comments on HN, and both of them violate the community guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. >
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    It's fine that you don't get value from it, but how does that add to the conversation? There are an infinite number of activities available to humans. Some people will find some of those activities enjoyable, and others will not.
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    > Substack's CEO explicitly said they won't ban someone who is explicitly spouting hate, and when confronted with the rampant white supremacist propaganda that they are profiting from on their site, they took down... four of th
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Reference for the curious: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6202
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    In fairness to OP, that is the first line on the page. > My work is supported by affiliate commissions. Learn More OP does disclose this more clearly than 95% of other sites, most of whom omit the notice entirely or bury it after the ar
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Postmark is owned by Active Campaign, which was included in OPs list, though I'm not sure how the Postmark product differs from the original Active Campaign product. I've been using Postmark for hobby projects for the past three y
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    I appreciate that the author disclosed it, but the reason they went to all this effort is likely that they expect to make money as an affiliate for the platforms that they recommended. Affiliate-driven reviews introduce a major bias into th
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    I agree they're not an ideal target but I've been surprised to hear indie projects that succeed with students as customers. Mitchell Hashimoto created a service that students at UW could use to find out when registration slots wer
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Yeah, 2023's profits was $235k,[0] which is good, but it doesn't leave a ton of room to hire some sort of executive to replace me. I don't even know if I'd attract someone qualified if I gave them the entire profit, but
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    > Say customer support, if it'd be offered as a paid service instead of "free" as in baked-in-product-cost, thus giving the customer a choice to either go for that easy-pick fruit of available paid support, or the alternat
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Just through that blog post linked above. I put up an interest form and got a lot of responses within a day, so I turned off submissions and offered it to the best bid. We did it through Escrow.com, which worked okay.
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Thanks for reading and for the kind words! First, a meta comment is that I've found that you should weigh advice based on how similar the advisor is and how closely their success matches what you want. So, given that I came in with a b
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Thanks! That's helpful context.
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Have you used change-tracking software that worked well in other domains? To me, saying that change tracking in Word is fine when you've never seen anything better is kind of like someone 60 years ago saying, "A typewriter is fine
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Thanks for reading! I wrote about that in a previous post: https://mtlynch.io/i-sold-tinypilot/#why-sell
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Author here. Yeah, that seemed strange to me, too, but that was how my lawyer told me it worked. And the buyer's lawyer cared enough to fight about the exact amount of liability, so I assumed the buyer's lawyer felt that way as we
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Thanks! > Wondering what your thoughts are of these extremely low cost kvm’s from Sipeed (NanoKVM)? > Do you think that allows you to expand your market since the hardware is cheaper as you maintain great user experience? Or does tha
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Correct, I did not draw a salary.
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Earlier this year, I worked on 60 pages of M&A contract documents with lawyers, and I found the change tracking in Word miserable. It's so difficult to see only the delta quickly, it's slow to go back through the history, and
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Author here. Thanks for reading. > This sounds crazy to me. Never ever mix your business and personal accounts for anything! The point of an LLC (in any jurisdiction) is to keep your personal and business concerns separate, so why would
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    by mtlynch 2y ago

    Thanks for reading! > Your worst case is you lose the deal and the time and money you spent on it, and their worst case is they are fired and lose their healthcare (that is how it works in America right?), is that correct? Yeah, I get t