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by programminggeek 10y ago
Perhaps changing human behavior to do something they don't naturally want to do is not the best basis for a business.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
That's a lot to pay for a car. I bought a used 2001 Mitsubishi Gallant 10 years ago and it still is a solid daily driver. I think I paid $7,000 or so for it. Perhaps in 5 years a used Bolt will be a sensible purchase. Until then, I&#x2
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by programminggeek 10y ago
He seems like a reasonable guy and his points about how close minded the diversity movement in SV is are interesting.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
NOTE: Don't make the company you work for your life. It will end in sadness.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Here is one thing we get very wrong. Programming is a communication tool to describe communication systems. If you were to design a tool to design/build communication systems, it wouldn't look like what we program with.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Paying $4/month for email is worth it. I pay a lot more for a lot less elsewhere. If you are on HN, I can all but guarantee you this - you've already spent more than $4 of your time even doing the research and posting on HN. If yo
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The Most Important Political Issue of 2016(brianknapp.me)
2 points by programminggeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Bizarrely, it's almost to the point where Microsoft is making better computers than Apple.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
You don't seem to get the other half of the advice - earn more money. Get better at making money. If you spend a lifetime to save $100,000, you won't be a millionaire.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
No, not a 401k unless you don't want to be able to do anything with it until you are retired. The purpose of a non 401k is to invest so you don't have to wait until you are 65 to retire.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Yes.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Getting it right is not what I'm talking about. I'm saying doing the exact same kind of thing. What if his next company would have been building an online store like Amazon. Does he end up building the iPhone from there? Probably
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by programminggeek 10y ago
One important thing that visionaries get credit for, but perhaps shouldn't... Being in the right place at the right time. It is a delightful bit of luck that Steve Jobs made it back to Apple. That scenario could have been way different
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Man, people are obsessed with Trump. I think the people who dislike him care more about Trump than his supporters do. Bizarre.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
PHP.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Why can't women make climate change too?
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by programminggeek 10y ago
It'd remarkable to me how many people who support 'diversity' and 'inclusion' will shun those who have ideas/beliefs they disagree with. Good job to Mark for not being one of those people.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
This is interesting, but if you need card present payments and EMV, something like CardFlight's SDK https://cardflight.com/sdk/ is going to be a better fit. Disclaimer: My friend works there and has told me all ab
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by programminggeek 10y ago
I think the problem is a simple assumption - people will leave the print version of My Local Journal and go to mylocaljournal.com when in fact they go from My Local Journal to Buzzfeed or the Yahoo! homepage or Google News or Twitter or Fac
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by programminggeek 10y ago
All models are flawed, but sometimes they are useful.
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What are the best-kept secrets of great programmers?(brianknapp.me)
12 points by programminggeek 10y ago|4 comments
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Most businesses that are one-off type businesses tend not to work well. Uber works well because you will use it often enough and is basically a similar model to other transportation services like Bus and Train transit. A lot of businesses r
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by programminggeek 10y ago
You know, sometimes it would be better to just let market forces do their thing. The downstream effects will be interesting and far reaching. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
What was RethinkDB's business model and why didn't it work?
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Because someone has to or civilization doesn't exist.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Sometimes jQuery is all you need. Sometimes you don't even need that.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Building an app and building a business aren't the same. Go out and sell the app to people and find out how easy it is.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Ad strategy #1 - make someone an offer and ask them to buy. If enough people buy, keep running the ad so long as it's profitable. Kill ads that aren't. There is no ad strategy #2 worth bothering with.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
Irrationality rules the world.
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by programminggeek 10y ago
I was disappointed that this had nothing to do with any kind of Lego Pizza.

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