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by randall 7y ago
Dat isn't designed for speed, but I think academic data is it's primary goal, so modifying it for speed seems within its charter. https://www.datprotocol.com/
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by randall 7y ago
In concept I like it, but one of the biggest yubikey advantages is how unobtrusive it is. I realize the tradeoff they're going for: Absolute security in the event that it's stolen... but I think that's actually bad for me sin
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by randall 7y ago
>>There's a great quote from someone whose name escapes me right now Bill Gates. You're looking for Bill Gates. https://stratechery.com/2018/the-bill-gates-line/
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by randall 7y ago
Which nobody is prepared for because they’re used to the Byzantine style.
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by randall 7y ago
My version of this story: I almost quit a year ago, exactly today, then my company got acquired. A story (with pictures! only on Twitter though, link at the bottom.) This is what I looked like last March 27. [horrible pic] One month prior.
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by randall 7y ago
Imagine if, in high density areas like Manhattan, cars were simply not allowed. Wow. The thought of how pleasant Manhattan would become if only cabs + busses + delivery trucks + ambulances were allowed makes me almost too happy. Would be so
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by randall 7y ago
I bet you're from Utah... just a guess.
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by randall 7y ago
I wonder if future species will look back on humanity like we look back on the dinosaurs. Interesting to consider... there's also probably a short story in there.
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by randall 7y ago
“Microsoft. Microsoft had a market capitalization of US$ 904.86 billion for the first quarter of 2019, ranking as the largest company in the world. ...” and that’s just the average. Today they’re a trillion dollar company. That’s 2x Faceboo
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by randall 7y ago
g-mafia google, microsoft, apple, facebook, ibm, apple
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by randall 7y ago
*close (they got close.com)
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by randall 7y ago
Additionally, people who own the sites can use them together via methods like this, while third parties will have a more difficult time. Bravo.
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by randall 7y ago
Wow, it's been 6 years??? That's surprising.
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by randall 7y ago
You basically want to do anything you can to get your first user, but then after that just be as simple as you can.
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by randall 7y ago
Depth. You should absolutely shrink your market size at first. You should go for demand shaped like a well, not a lake. You can always spread out later. But if your initial cohort of users absolutely loves your product, you will be in a gre
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by randall 7y ago
Solution: Ignore VCs. They're incentivized for you to be Facebook size. Not the size of the business's opportunity * your execution strength, which is how you stay in business.
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by randall 7y ago
It's a paid site.
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by randall 7y ago
Manhattan uws has lower rents than comparable places in SF in my experience.
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by randall 7y ago
Much like CJ (upthread) I'm a completely self-taught developer. I started building apps to scratch my own itch, and eventually found out the only way to accomplish what I wanted at a larger scale was to build a company. Last year we so
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by randall 7y ago
This may have been true when going to college was optional, but now as it's seen as requisite, it's no longer as effective a predictor as it was before, especially in careers where there's a mismatch between personal quality
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by randall 7y ago
... "The new bytecode format uses approximately 50% less memory, which means a reduction of 10% in overall memory usage for JavaScript-heavy websites, such as Facebook or Reddit." This is squarely to help webapps be faster and mor
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by randall 7y ago
Control f "china". Nothing. I have a hard time trusting anything that doesn't message how iMessage is end-to-end secure but Apple operates in China. Nobody has ever talked about that.
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by randall 7y ago
Not entirely accurate. You just have to be an exception to the rule. I'm aware of remote FB employees. They aren't posting remote jobs for sure though. Having worked most of my career remote and now working in Menlo Park... I pref
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by randall 8y ago
Russ Hanneman is a pretty accurate portrayal of a combination of of any average real estate / non domain investor / rich person + the worst parts of someone like Jason Calacanis. Jason has a lot of upside (i used to work with him)
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by randall 8y ago
Holy shit. When I came back from germany 2 years ago I brought like a whole box of them for my kids. That would have been like a $75,000 box.
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by randall 8y ago
This needs to be an episode of radiolab.
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by randall 8y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19227441 ?
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by randall 8y ago
FWIW, I love Eero. Also, for folks who don't like Amazon owning it, there's the Orbi by Netgear.
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by randall 8y ago
Should be "square CEO."
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by randall 8y ago
The prior. Now-a-days, the majority of developers can build a quality app since infrastructure and tooling (heroku etc) are widely available, that you can paper over most completely horrible / unacceptable experiences by limiting featu

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