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by patio11 9y ago
See also: the phone reps for high-tier members, for the same reason. (Not that I'd ask for this particular accommodation, but having access to the premium member line is one of the most useful perks of concentrating your travel.)
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by patio11 9y ago
The real kicker to this line of argument is "When you call BigCo at 3 AM, you will get someone who listens attentively to your problem but cannot do anything to help you. When you call at 3 PM, you will get... an interchangeable repla
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by patio11 9y ago
20 conversations; 5~8 coffee dates; 2~4 proposals; 1 gig. Many developers believe that conversations "just happen" for some elite breed of networked/famous/etc developer that excludes them. Sales conversations generally
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by patio11 9y ago
None taken!
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by patio11 9y ago
Paperwork, and the inhumanity of being a cog in a machine, with the machine not forcing you to do evil but rather making you very good at self-generating evil out of a desperate desire to survive. Another game with a similar take on moral c
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by patio11 9y ago
Thank you for the offer. I'm not sold on Patreon, for a number of reasons. I get the intuitive appeal of it if one is a starving artist, and I get the appeal on the consumer side. I am not really a starving artist, though, and as a c
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by patio11 9y ago
So I came up in the post-retail days of software, but I sold CDs (once upon a time) and have had a coffee or hundred with folks who came up a few years before I did, including ones who operated spiritually similar businesses with retail com
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by patio11 9y ago
You used to be able to walk into a Comp USA (or even local computer stores) and see aisles of CDs from all these different software companies. This is true. Those were terrible, terrible times to be in the software business. If you want
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by patio11 9y ago
The most natural reading of this is "Sophisticated entrepreneurs attempt to increase revenue by diversifying into a new line of business requiring capital improvements financed by readily available debt.", unless one has the misap
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by patio11 9y ago
"Churn rates are constant given age" is a model which is generally false-but-useful at SaaS companies, particularly for ages over 2~3 billing periods (months), while folks are basically on extended trialing before really deciding
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by patio11 9y ago
I mean if you really want to nerdsnipe you could go straight to sum of an infinite geometric series.
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by patio11 9y ago
The falls out of the fundamental equation for SaaS and other subscription business models: LTV = prospects * (conversion rate to paying) * (average price point) / churn This makes a 5% increase in prospects, conversion rate, or price c
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by patio11 9y ago
Remember this incident the next time someone on HN kvetches about how much money HFTs make "just" for providing liquidity.
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by patio11 9y ago
Is there any risk or downside to this? A number of people with USD on deposit at Mt. Gox, who correctly understood Bitcoin's price to be unsustainably high and were waiting for the correction, are now 3+ years into waiting for a Japa
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by patio11 9y ago
As a practical matter, every Bitcoin-accepting business with a competent ops team will stop accepting transactions until Bitcoin's central authorities declare All Clear. (This is phrased in a fashion which Bitcoiners will not appreciat
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by patio11 9y ago
The big variables are (rough order) entry airport, the mix of passengers on the exact aircraft you're on relative to your own citizenship/immigration status, the general business (or lack thereof) when the flight you're on
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by patio11 9y ago
There were probably higher-productivity ways to get money than writing bingo card creation software for elementary schoolteachers. To put it mildly. I didn't have "an itch" for either problem myself but I did really, really
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by patio11 9y ago
The Supreme Court has given the SEC ability to duck type the definition of securities, which is: > The term “security” means any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness
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by patio11 9y ago
When you say "side project" how large are we talking? If it has $15~$25k a year of profits or so, consider talking to FEInternational -- I sold both of my companies through them. At the "few hundred bucks a month" level
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by patio11 9y ago
This is really good. A companion piece: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip14... I will caution you that the amount of Bitcoin backstory you have to be caught up on to understand why this matter
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by patio11 9y ago
My experience (for an application which had a working set of under 1 GB of files in the 50kb to N MB range, and approximately 50 GB persisted at any given time) was that preserving access to the toolchain which operates trivially with files
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by patio11 9y ago
they would probably take a loan (in yen) with the btc as collateral Do you have a suggestion as to who in Tokyo has 70 billion yen which they'd like to loan to a bankrupt entity owned by an accused embezzler whose main line of busine
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by patio11 9y ago
Because Mt. Gox is a corporation organized under the laws of Japan. Corporations in Japan can own many things of value, such as hotels, laser printers, intellectual property rights, Alpha Black lotuses, swiss francs, and promises to be pai
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by patio11 9y ago
I would never take negative signal from a GitHub profile, because for many, many developers, that will not be a meaningfully sized or representative example of their professional output. There exist many employers where you can do excellen
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by patio11 9y ago
I plan on continuing writing in my own capacity; been a bit busy the last few months though (a combination of work and us having our second child in February).
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by patio11 9y ago
Attempting to be as accomplished/skilled as the union of people you read on the Internet is a fool's errand. You have to accept you'll never know everything and that, for almost all things, there will be someone -- or a lot
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by patio11 9y ago
That phrase comes from the TechZing podcast ("increase one's luck surface area") and is a really valuable insight (surface area = depth of value created times breadth of people who see it), so all the credit to them.
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by patio11 9y ago
Market salaries in Tokyo startups for developers cluster in the $30k to $50k range. Market salaries for developers generally in Tokyo go up to ~$70k (assuming one is in twenties or thirties). There exists a separate scale in finance and f
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by patio11 9y ago
Thanks for the praise, though I think that might oversell my blog a bit.
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by patio11 9y ago
Make companies pay extra compensation if employees work overtime. This is the standard practice at many (but not all) Japanese companies with an overtime culture. "Service overtime" (サービス残業) -- uncompensated overtime -- is wide

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