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by petervandijck 8y ago
Congrats on the launch, sounds like you're solving a real issue.
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by petervandijck 8y ago
For the people in this thread wondering whether this is ok: double dipping is never ok. Once you get to a level where you have financial decision making power, don't pick a provider (even a great one, even at a competitive price) if yo
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by petervandijck 8y ago
Set the habit from the beginning to do quick debriefs (a few minutes) after each meeting. The most interesting thing when shadowing very senior people is to see why they do certain things. Try to have 1 question ready after each meeting&#
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by petervandijck 8y ago
Despite the other commenters, I think it's a great service (with some competitors already existing) and there's a market for it. You can probably find your first few customers if you fix your landing page. (Fix the spelling mistak
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by petervandijck 8y ago
One of my startup ideas is to start a service that makes it easy to hire full-time remote employees (not contractors) and we handle all the paperwork/hassle. Anyone interested?
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by petervandijck 8y ago
Correct it's just to discuss the idea.
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An API for every city in the world
2 points by petervandijck 8y ago|2 comments
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by petervandijck 9y ago
The page states "We’ll publicly share our results, and at the end of the process, we’ll decide if it’s something we should pursue and at what exact locations." Are the results of the research available anywhere?
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by petervandijck 9y ago
Airtable runs businesses and I can easily see them becoming a platform (with other businesses being built on top of them) in the next few years. Amazing product and they've nailed something no-one else has for decades (merge excel and
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by petervandijck 9y ago
Not quite yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
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by petervandijck 9y ago
In our 150-people team as part of a 1,500 people company, we use a ton of Excel, but a significant part of our structured data is in https://airtable.com , which I can't recommend high enough. It combines the structured-ness
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by petervandijck 9y ago
"We kept getting great feedback from these groups" If someone says "they love it" and "it looks awesome", or "that's such a great feature", that's just them being nice. Did they actually ask
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by petervandijck 9y ago
If only our webpages were as awesome as Disneyland :)
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by petervandijck 9y ago
High Output Management, by Andy Grove. It's not specific to engineering management, but still rocks. Second, First Break All The Rules. Again, not about engineering, but better than most all other books. And then also of course Mythica
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by petervandijck 9y ago
Yes, same here.
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by petervandijck 10y ago
That's easy: plan a 2-month trip (8 weeks), and then come back. If you really, really want to extend your trip, you can do that, but 2 months in, say, Thailand or something is an amazing experience. Don't leave your great apartmen
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Show HN: Engineering rates
4 points by petervandijck 10y ago|0 comments
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by petervandijck 10y ago
"it would be far more productive for all of them to work together" -> not necessarily. It's not very common but there are examples of having multiple teams try to solve the same problem in parallel. It ends up speeding up
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Step 1. Drinks with colleagues who got fired too, stay in touch for job opportunities (X is hiring). Step 2. Polish up resume. Step 3. Contact your network (one by one, not mass), say "our startup is shutting down, looking for next job
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Let me count the ways: 1. It is controversial to employees who support Trump. 2. It is controversial to investors who support Trump. 3. It is controversial to clients who support Trump, and now might stop using AirBnB. 4. They are taking pu
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Let's be clear: if you are taking a public stand against the president of the United State who is known to be vindictive, you are taking a stand. ALL OF THEM. It is never just a stunt, because a stunt means there's no risk.
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Good idea too, but that's harder to organize (on a practical level and at scale).
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by petervandijck 10y ago
They're much better now than 7 years ago, try them again.
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by petervandijck 10y ago
I ran into something like this when a discussion board I ran attracted the wrong users and ended up having to close it down. I would fight this hard, zero tolerance. Your policy should be "we know it when we see it, immediate removal,
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Say you'll accept an offer for 150K, with details on what you hand over (domain name, code, database), with a post-sale support contract retainer of 20 hours a month for 250$/hour for as long as they need you for questions.
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Frankly, no, it's not a codeword for unpaid overtime, it means "you will likely just make everyone depressed with your attitude." You don't need to be passionate about insurance, but you need to be able to show some enth
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by petervandijck 10y ago
"you can't throw money at adventure market and expect to gain traction". Eh, yes you can. Not to say they'll make it this time, AirBnB has been trying this (or something like it) for years, they might well fail. But not
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by petervandijck 10y ago
omg that is fun and freaky at the same time.
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by petervandijck 10y ago
I've tried many (1pass, ...), and hated them, now finally I am using Dashlane and it's pretty good. Still needs a little bit of work/love, but it mostly just works. I'm paying for the sync version, I don't mind payi
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by petervandijck 10y ago
Double your rate, have a strong Github profile and start writing professionally whenever you communicate to clients. Writing professionally means no grammar, spelling or punctuation mistakes, and re-writing your emails a few times for clari

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