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by richardbrevig 11y ago
This is a neat project, but if you need the full 120 words you're probably not writing as concisely as you should.
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
When I was looking for a full-text search solution a few months ago, this guide sold me on Elastic.
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Dollar Shave Club Competitors: analysis of the men's razor and shaving landscape(rivalseek.com)
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> You dismiss Musk's accomplishments because he has so many of the "best minds" working for him. That is exactly the wrong way to look at it. Go out and try to recruit someone who is brilliant. You will see it's a non
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
This is always my thought whenever I see a conversation like this come up about Uber. I understand they're all important issues, but why care so much about whether their drivers are employees or contractors when they're intending
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
gmail does this too. I've been caught several times having forgotten to actually attach the file.
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
> it is math incarnate. I learned how to write functions and subroutines a long time before learning algebra. The way that functions were taught in my math class were so confusing. Eventually I realized they were the same as what I l
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
Looks neat, but I don't understand the use case. I thought maybe it was a form of heat map, but then it asked me to determine what definitions were relevant. For instance, the civil war map. Why was it asking me to decide the correc
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
For understanding and calculating MRR, CAC, LTV, and cohort analysis, "SaaS Metrics 2.0" by David Skok (of Matrix Partners) [0] is highly referenced. Skok discusses viability of SaaS businesses (such as that LTV should be at leas
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
As well, if having financial difficult, someone could request forbearance for up to 12 months and not have to make payments [0]. [0] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/deferment-forbearan...
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
I think #24 was my favorite.
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API for $0.25 ACH transactions(synapsepay.com)
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
If I had to venture a guess: They're referring to fixation [0], or preservation of the tissue, and not to affixation, the attachment of something. So, basically, they fixed the tissue prior to removing it from the skull, causing it t
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
TL;DR: The most important step to success is simply making the first step and actually doing something. Coding vs watching a movie.
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
Their premise is the most likely to found a company? This seems fairly misguided...what about succeeding at the venture? If all they're looking for are people that want to be founders, there are thousands here, on /r/startu
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
As of April 18, 2015...I know that's not true. They archived a site of mine that does not have a robots.txt So it must be a very new policy, because prior to that there are long histories of my sites that don't have robots.txt f
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
Tinder brings to the mainstream what the gay population had since 2002 [1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20020903191409/http://www.adam4a... Edit: changed to reflect actual date of a4a going live.
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
An expensive ($800k+ home) in Dallas could easily cost $10k a month to maintain. Generally, as people make more money, they find more ways to spend it. More/expensive cars, more/expensive housing, more/expensive vacations,
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
I had a driver stop to get gas on their way to me. Another one was very close when they accepted the hail, but after several minutes after I expected them to arrive I checked the map and noted they stopped at a CVS. It's been a while
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
A $20k poverty threshold is for a household of 3. For 1, it's a little under $12k. http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/15poverty.cfm#thresholds
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
I'm surprised this has received so many upvotes in the past 2 hours. It rang like click-bait playing a race card. Maybe someone knows more about the details than I do, but exactly what injustice is being done? This is similar to whe
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
In supermarkets, I understand it's common to pay initially to get the shelf space so you can demonstrate your product will have traction.
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
Agreed, and that's what he said, the cooling was for humans, not the servers. I think their current plans are open where they let air in from outside.
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
> To prevent the server stacks overheating, tech companies spend vast sums on cooling technology - more than a third of a data centre's hefty energy bill may go on air conditioning. Data center cooling isn't necessary. I saw a
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
Is there a way to get included in the ACH beta?
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
I was afraid of lakes when I was younger. Anywhere I couldn't see the bottom, I'd try to avoid. At night you can take a flash light, shine it towards a lake, and you'll see all the eyes reflecting back at you.
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
For databases: I remember all the "create dynamic websites with PHP and MySQL" tutorials around 2000. Prior to that, on the low-end (being a high schooler with no money), my applications used flat file databases. > Real Media
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
Learning to script back in 1997, this was completely my experience. Learned a little by looking at other code, but also had to buy a book to learn Perl. Among others, this was a main reason why I switched to PHP around 2000, because of th
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
> Even if Zenefits turns into a unicorn It turned into one ~2 days ago [1]. [1] http://recode.net/2015/05/06/startup-zenefits-raises-500-mil...
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by richardbrevig 11y ago
Nothing against the quality of the book. But I would have considered this at a $9 price point, not above, for ebook. That's how much I paid for "Running Lean" and I doubt to gain more value, personally, from this than that

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