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by nmfisher 6y ago
I’ve never tackled a game before, but as someone who has done the whole “iterate publicly” thing (link in profile), I’ve always wondered whether games are basically “startups on hard mode” for precisely this reason. There’s so much competit
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Don’t you appreciate the knowledge and experience you have now though? I’d never consider that a waste.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Have you ever done this though? This is how I started and progress was impossibly slow. At some point you’re just draining yourself of every spare hour, you’re underperforming at your day job, and you’re not really moving forward. It’s ok t
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I'm assuming you haven't been to Singapore hawker centres, because they're nothing like the crappy corporate foodcourts in Australian office towers. First, the food quality is much, much better and considerably cheaper. Secon
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I relocated to Singapore earlier in the year, and I have to say that the hawker centres here are amazing. I know the economics require a bit of government intervention (and it only really works in a dense urban environment), but I would lov
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by nmfisher 6y ago
This is such an incredibly apt comment.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
It’s abundantly clear that Google was itching to get rid of her. They probably couldn’t believe her luck when she (stupidly) tried to bully them with not just a threat of resignation, but an actual statement of “I will resign on date XXX”.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Didn't both Soros and Taleb move from "well-off" to "squillionaire" by going short?
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Presumably that the output at step (n) is conditioned only the output of step (n-1).
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by nmfisher 6y ago
No, he's stating the CEO is delusional . It's not a crime if you honestly believe what you're saying. (Oversimplification, of course. I'm fully aware of corporate obligations around market disclosure, profit forecasts,
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by nmfisher 6y ago
"Ready" or "safe" are matters of opinion, though. It's ready/safe when governments ("the people") decide it's such.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> In the US however? Decades, sometimes centuries behind bars. Given that perspective, it does make sense for a criminal to shoot that traffic cop - the chance to get away and escape a death in prison is non-zero. Three-strikes sentencin
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Not just that, she never provided any links to tutorials/papers/etc that she had given on the topic, and when I looked into the one workshop (from memory) that someone else mentioned, it had literally nothing to do with the issue
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Exactly, the whole argument is dumb. Until it's proved that masks don't reduce transmission, they should be mandatory (and freely distributed by governments). The burden on the wearer is so small, and the potential upside so lar
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Link? I'm currently steering well clear of enterprise sales but this sounds like it may be useful for future.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Australia certainly doesn't.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> Average Chinese may not think about paying tax for each sale because it's not printed on the receipt. But the price they pay do include all the taxes incurred to the business. Sure, if you're shopping at IKEA or 7-11 (notably
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Yeah, this is a good point and something I learned the first time round. Just because I (as a manager) had previously been willing to adopt bleeding edge tech with no hoops to jump through to eradicate hundreds of man-hours, doesn't me
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Discord just hit 100 million active monthly users, kind of proving OP's point. Using Electron enabled them to ship quickly and deliver on important features to users.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I mean, I completely agree with you. As a non-American, the concept of "at-will" employment is utterly bizarre to me. But, as a matter of practicality, it's less likely that, after you've signed your contract, Google co
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by nmfisher 6y ago
This is probably the most overlooked comment here. I'm guessing that Google just DGAF about any individual employee. They're not short of candidates, so why waste even a tiny amount of time customizing their contract terms when th
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by nmfisher 6y ago
This does happen regularly, and employees should never do it (for precisely this reason). Don't quit your job, move cities, etc etc without a signed contract.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I read their licence agreement recently, and you can only use San Francisco for mockups/screenshots demonstrating app/iOS functionality.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Two reasons I use Firebase for my app (although with an admittedly trivial schema/data): a) I have a thousand things to do that are higher priority than configuring/hosting a Postgres server. b) Integration with Firebase Auth is a
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Yeah, but both labs burn hundreds of millions of dollars. Without Google/Microsoft (not to mention Tesla/YC money), they would have died before bringing these kind of results to market.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Even though it was the wrong career choice, I'm grateful for my time as a lawyer before switching back to software (and now running my own business). I've probably saved tens of thousands of dollars just by knowing the basics of i
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Slightly tongue-in-cheek, but it's a ponzi scheme when they start selling courses on "how to become an entrepreneur".
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Honestly, I suspect zero. My app is on the major stores and literally zero downloads come from simple organic listing. It's pretty clear we need to invest considerably in our own channels/marketing. In all fairness, though, while
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Yeah, but you’re usually only hyperinsulinemic if you’re obese or diabetic. Calories-in, calories out works perfectly for everybody else (including obese people before they get obese). Willpower certainly is the problem for most people.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Honestly, this is what concerns me most about China. There are literally 30 million more men than women. That's equivalent to the entire population of a mid-size country who will never marry. Add in unemployment and drugs, and you get

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