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by polote 6y ago
It is always the same thing "If I were X" people only imagine that X wouldn't bring them anything, so having $50M is better than having nothing. Well as you said, no, is it better to have a company valued $50M growing 30% per
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Planning for My Kidnapping(blog.luap.info)
2 points by polote 6y ago|0 comments
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by polote 6y ago
Usually the good price is the price you are comfortable with. But most of the time, this is a cheaper price than customer are willing to pay. In any case you have the good behavior, put a price, give it a few months, if after a few months y
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by polote 6y ago
yeah $50 is still not a lot for the service you provide, if shneider electric, weework, ... are really your customer, you could probably 10x your price. You have to think on the value your bring to them instead of the the complexity of your
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by polote 6y ago
the website is "adopt a guy"
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by polote 6y ago
If you have spare time in your life, go to your banker, ask for 450k loan, buy 2-3 houses, keep 200k cash, rent the houses, if stock markets loose 50% of its value, invest 100k on sp500 index. There is almost nothing that can beat renting h
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by polote 6y ago
> Even if you only invested in the peaks, you'd still do quite well over the decades: This is not true for a 10 years period though https://www.vizlit.com/finance/2020/07/01/sp-performance.htm...
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by polote 6y ago
> It will be fascinating to see what happens as these two companies expand to compete with each other Very unlikely, as both markets (smb payments and enterprise payments) is unlimited, there is a few chance they will try to compete with
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by polote 6y ago
Biggest complain I have with Marty Cagan is he always describes the perfect product organization and says anything else is shit. Well you can't choose your execs, you can't choose your culture,.. so thank you for describing what i
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by polote 6y ago
> After hiding upvote and comment counts, I've found myself reading more of those high-quality niche articles that I wouldn't have clicked on previously. That's also the reason I create a newsletter to list all the creativ
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How to get your first SaaS Enterprise level customer(blog.luap.info)
4 points by polote 6y ago|0 comments
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by polote 6y ago
If you search you will find that there are always the same 4-5 HN users who comment on pulsar/kafka topics arguing that Kafka is not a viable solution anymore. Even though almost everyone is still using Kafka
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How to get your first Enterprise customer(blog.luap.info)
2 points by polote 6y ago|0 comments
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by polote 6y ago
All those articles of kafka vs pulsar are always biased (this one is from a company selling pulsar). There are so many of them that I can't get an opinion on which one is good for what.
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by polote 6y ago
> Quite a few friends of mine have dated only very few people before getting married. This is not against what OP says, you could have some people who date less people and some who prefer to date a lot. At the end, both of them will prob
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by polote 6y ago
The advantage is amplified by the distribution of preferences, but in the classic simulation the advantage was already of 13%. It is due to the fact that they are the one choosing first
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by polote 6y ago
Could we solve the advantage towards men by removing the condition that there could be some unstable pairing ? (but not a lot), it is not like changing partner is a liquid market. What would be the percentage of people not being in a unstab
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by polote 6y ago
> For all the data Google has, and all the AI and technology, their search isn't very "smart" at allowing you to contextualize or filter the searches very well. Google exists to make money from 99.9% of users, the ones who
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by polote 6y ago
What would be the advantage compared to something like Tesseract ?
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by polote 6y ago
Did you try to use the openstreemap database locally ? http://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Installation/
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by polote 6y ago
"antirez 2 hours ago. 52347 views. "
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by polote 6y ago
Substack doesn't offer exposition, they barely have a discover page https://substack.com/discover which always show the same newsletters And actually the effect can be negative as, Substack is known to make payment bas
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by polote 6y ago
If you are interested I edit a daily newsletter of the non-commercial blog articles posted on HN https://hnblogs.substack.com/
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by polote 6y ago
Another issue, is that it is more and more difficult to create a web crawler as you need to render js to be sure to really see all content and you can't know beforehand if the pages needs Javascript rendering. As it cost much more to r
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by polote 6y ago
Yes there are, in your case, it is a language specific article, which I tend to not keep, but your previous article would have been included for example
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by polote 6y ago
I don't want to do a negative review , I think the value they provide is great, but the actual product is not very good. Like no api, low customization of text in the editor, ux of header difficult to understand, I did not like using t
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by polote 6y ago
I'm sorry that your post didn't reach the front page and it is not included, in my most because I only pick recent blogposts. This is maybe not the best choice, but I want to encourage individual to post frequently and also this i
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by polote 6y ago
I try to be the less subjective as possible, I only list recent posts, not associated with a company, not on a popular topic, somewhat related to tech, works without cookies, less than 5 up votesand it looks like a blog. If you verify all t
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by polote 6y ago
Hello, I've used to rely on HN to discover new blogs, but recently I feel like a lot of content is just news article and very often several time the same news which reach the front page (even though still a lot of blog posts become pop
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Show HN: Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page(hnblogs.substack.com)
289 points by polote 6y ago|93 comments

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