nthngtshr

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by nthngtshr 7mo ago
I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve seen this pattern a couple of times with close friends: they get obsessed with a topic, their sleep falls apart, they seem manic, and eventually they start doing really strange things online and crash and burn. Th
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by nthngtshr 7mo ago
Don’t mean to pick on you specifically, but this comment feels like a pretty good distillation of a certain mindset you often see in Googlers: * we know better * we judge everything against internal big-company standards * we speak as if we
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by nthngtshr 2y ago
Could you provide more details? Although I've never had the opportunity to use Datadog at any of my previous positions, I am quite familiar with Grafana and I'm generally pretty happy with it. What's the TL;DR for why Datadog
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by nthngtshr 3y ago
I think you're missing the point. The idea is more that avoiding a victim mentality typically leads to better outcomes. This isn't a surefire guarantee, but statistically, it tends to yield more favorable results. E.g if we plot t
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by nthngtshr 3y ago
Anyone has any info on any specific teams that got cut?
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by nthngtshr 3y ago
ah, fair point
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by nthngtshr 3y ago
Genuinely curious — is there some jurisdiction where the law is "if the pedestrian is in the wrong it's fine to go over them"?
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by nthngtshr 3y ago
Similar story here. Me and my partner befriended another couple through grad school in our early 20s and the next few years were just the best — we would go to bars, movies, horse races, parties, shows — everything together. And we had so m
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by nthngtshr 4y ago
I don't understand why so many people have such a hard time justifying this. * If the bank collapses then many startups shut down. This is bad, but okay, maybe you think startups are net negative. In addition to that thousands of peopl
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by nthngtshr 4y ago
Startups don’t hire CFOs until the revenue is in 10s of millions of ARR. And most companies don’t ever get there.
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by nthngtshr 4y ago
So how did you manage your treasury when you were running your businesses? Did you split it 10 ways? Did you buy t bills?
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by nthngtshr 4y ago
Stock Options?
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by nthngtshr 4y ago
How is it not? That’s what technological progress has always been doing for ages. That’s why we have all the good things.
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by nthngtshr 4y ago
I feel similarly. My favorite things about running a business are: * The variety of problems I get to work on. I write code, I do sales calls, I manage people, I negotiate contracts, I do taxes, you get the idea. I really like learning thin
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by nthngtshr 4y ago
See, generally speaking I don't think this is a bad deal. I mean, I don't know the exact numbers / company profile. But I was in a similar situation 8 years ago. I could early exercise and I did. Estimating taxes was a pain (
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
> I cannot with good conscience continue to support the Russian regime in any way, shape or form. People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government I understand you have a lot of employees in Ukraine and
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
I'm having a hard time parsing why he would post this. Did he think he'd get customers? I doubt it. Investors? They already raised hundreds of millions. To me it seems like the only thing he's going to get out of this is twit
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
Is there any good books for people new to ADHD diagnosis?
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
What kind of doctor do you go to with this? I’ve never gone to anyone other than my primary care doctor and the spectrum of titles mental health professionals have makes it all very confusing to me.
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
Yeah, but how are you going to get likes on those tweets?
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
I like the people I follow but they get like 5 likes on interesting things they have to say, and 500 likes on depressing takes like "computers were a mistake", or "everything is bad because capitalism" or fake uplifting
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
step 3 — quit reading twitter
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
Tell us about your first enterprise sale. How far along were you? How did you find the customer? How long was the process? Also, congrats!
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
I don't know the whole story so maybe there is something more to your argument, but on face value this doesn't sound like a strong argument. Early stage investing is high volume, low involvement, low due diligence kind of thing. I
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
Y Combinator.
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
I don't think it's the craziest idea, and in some circumstances I would probably do that, e.g if I had an extra house or two. But even in that case I would try to take advantage of the frothy market before selling a house. Raising
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
I've never worked at a big company and my immediate reaction is that I don't like this. It feels like most HN commentators share this kind of sentiment. I'm genuinely wondering what people on the other side of this debate thi
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed response, this makes a lot of sense!
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
Some of these books are indeed trash, many have advice that's inapplicable to most people, a lot are based on anecdotal evidence, but some of them are alright and I read them and every once in a while I get something valuable out of it
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by nthngtshr 5y ago
I'm not an expert in this field so maybe I'm missing some important context here, but this idea of preventing people from porting your software seems odd. Who cares if people make shitty ports? If they're not good then no one

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