presidentender

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Ask HN: Have you successfully raised prices?
16 points by presidentender 3y ago|4 comments
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by presidentender 3y ago
My company (heystage.com) provides flexible pricing infrastructure to allow you to easily change your mind if you get this wrong the first time. I'd love to hear your thoughts and see how your changes work out for you!
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by presidentender 3y ago
Usually if you don't track the news you don't have opinions on the news. If somehow you develop an opinion it's pretty easy not to express it.
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by presidentender 3y ago
The workers are sterile. Sterile drones would be counterproductive.
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by presidentender 3y ago
When I was a kid in the late 90s, my mom went back to college. She'd put her cell phone in her backpack, and the natural jostling would hit the emergency call button. Eventually the dispatchers called her back and figured out what was
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by presidentender 3y ago
This confirms my preconceived beliefs, and so I'm happy to see the science agreeing with intuition. Unfortunately, exactly the same attitude would lead the people in question to reject the validity of the result! Not only does the roun
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by presidentender 4y ago
Is there a way to get the Bookface knowledge base without participating in YC?
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by presidentender 4y ago
It's an all-terrain solar powered buggy with smart behavior around faults, GPS pathing, and four-wheel steering. Calling it a 'rover' for the time being is fair.
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by presidentender 4y ago
That is lovely, thank you for sharing.
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by presidentender 4y ago
It may be practical to feed that beef algae instead of corn.
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by presidentender 4y ago
My cofounder and I raised (not from YC) on a deck. The network was what mattered for this, though. A former colleague (an exec at my previous job) is also a venture partner at a credible firm, who introduced me to his network of VCs and to
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by presidentender 4y ago
Partial outages of cloud services feel more and more common lately. AWS had degraded service a few weeks (months?) ago. Am I mis-remembering how robust everything except Reddit and Twitter used to be? It feels as if the internet caught a na
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by presidentender 4y ago
Whether it's any healthier doesn't really matter to me. I'm excited to be able to enjoy bacon without paying for the inefficiency of raising animals.
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by presidentender 4y ago
I've been doing standup for just shy of 5 years. I started with a similar class, attended a lot of open mics, hosted several of my own mics, and produced shows. With covid I left SF and came back to Montana, which might seem like it wo
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by presidentender 4y ago
I like "Consider extracting this to a separate function."
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by presidentender 4y ago
It seems to me that if you have a copy of the information locally and compare it to the remote, you can see whether they diverged with or without a hash - the hash certainly makes it faster, but it's not clear to me that a hash chain o
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by presidentender 4y ago
I am interested in this and I have an emotional desire for you to be right; I'm skeptical of every application I've ever seen for blockchain. That being said, it is not clear to me how a hash chain guarantees that the data it stor
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by presidentender 4y ago
The Darien Gap is insufficiently friendly to construction to permit that.
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by presidentender 4y ago
I'm not up-to-date with the ongoing state of the UQM2 effort, other than awareness of the subreddit and the streams. They communicate mostly via video and I prefer text, so I haven't kept up since the kerfuffle with Stardock. I di
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by presidentender 4y ago
When I google "EV," I get news articles about Tesla and their competitors. What does EV stand for in this context?
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by presidentender 4y ago
My disdain for Origins is just about Brad Wardell's treatment of Fred and Paul and his complete disregard for which rights he purchased versus which he didn't. And that really hurt because I liked Stardock so much - I remember r
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by presidentender 4y ago
Star Control is a spiritual successor to Starflight - the star system exploration screen is virtually identical between Star Control II and Starflight.
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by presidentender 4y ago
Star Control II, but more so. Star Control II is a collection of different interrelated minigame mechanics. You have spacewar-style combat, planet exploration resource collection, interactive storytelling with the communications with other
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by presidentender 4y ago
At my last job, we had an organically-developed years-old tradition of what we called "adventure lunch," a weekly outing where one attendee would nominate someone to choose another restaurant for next time. The shared experience o
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by presidentender 5y ago
Are you saying this because you measured it, because you have anecdotal evidence that it is true, or because it is something that you believe?
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by presidentender 5y ago
SoFi's devops function is extremely robust, if overcomplicated, and they've got redundancy for all their application servers and production databases. They're also an AWS shop, not GCP.
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by presidentender 5y ago
At my last employer, we lost a ton of engineering candidates to Flexport - it was frustrating because we'd try to articulate the scope of the opportunity, but some combination of what Flexport is doing and the recruiting process meant
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by presidentender 5y ago
Historically when interviewing candidates I put more weight on side projects the shorter the resume was. A brand new college grad who made an impressive-looking portfolio web site got extra consideration. But interviewers are still human be
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by presidentender 5y ago
That doesn't quite apply here, because the games cover different (but overlapping and consecutive) time periods. So you take a world shaped by the alternate medieval history of your Crusader Kings playthrough, run it through the conver
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by presidentender 5y ago
Unless we forget how to make mRNA vaccines, we're likely to avoid pandemics forever. These vaccines are going to fix everything.

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