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by rwhitman 12y ago
I think the basic idea is that if Google helps high growth companies launch, using entirely their infrastructure, that will pay dividends down the road, in many areas across the company. Startups built and scaled on Google products will sta
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Interesting. I have a client who has a booking engine for their very specific education tour company and have been wondering if I could port the software for resale. They sell direct to the traveler no agents or 3rd parties so it works well
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Being the software guy gives you a lot of leverage in the situation, especially if you have a lucrative market lined up.
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I've never used Buffer. Not sure if I've ever met someone who uses it. But holy moly their content marketing strategy is top notch. I have seen more articles and interviews out of that company on HN than any other startup I can th
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At 25 I would already have blown all my savings on basically not working partying and traveling. Actually that's pretty much what I did.. But I crafted that lifestyle for myself specifically after having a pretty lonely miserable time
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Dating is the most aggressively competitive social media vertical there is. Dark artists lurk in this place, Harvard MBA geniuses with cold hearts and unfathomable amounts of cash. Backroom deals are made to carve up ad publisher territory.
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One could argue the hipster-friendly beach buses that go from Brooklyn and LES to the Rockaways in summertime are yuppie shadow transit There are also a large number of better sanctioned private bus lines that go from Port Authority to vari
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by rwhitman 12y ago
This is why I love HN. Such an in-depth smart response. Really making me rethink how I build on WP. Thank you
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Thats a pretty bold statement. Kind of curious the reasoning
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This is my workflow as well. Not ideal, but better than nothing. Though I will say the biggest pain point with Wordpress is syncing and merging DB changes amongst team members, since so much of WP configuration is stored in the DB this beco
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by rwhitman 12y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote I'm a web dev / design consultant with several gigs coming, focused on finding Django engineers but one project involves Salesforce and if you've ever worked with Force.com and Apex I'd love
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Well for one, I'm assuming the frontend is all javascript? Am I dependent on a 3rd party service? Are there some examples of how it looks / behaves on the frontend? Is it stable? Is that form submission code adding rows to the spr
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I wish this landing page wasn't so sparse. Lots of questions unanswered.
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For those trying to get a foot in the door in competitive creative fields, an internship is an important first step in starting a career or pivoting to a new one.
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When you move into a retirement village you expect a draconian HOA. It comes with the turf. And old folks make a de facto government out of it, because they have nothing better to do. But that's generally expected and most just deal wi
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My parents live in a retirement village, similar much smaller and in Pennsylvania. I could rant about this forever. For my parents, when they were very mobile and active it was a blast. Today both of them are in poor health with very little
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You have to fake it. Yelp seeds every city they enter with paid copywriters for instance, Reddit was entirely fake accounts initially. Airbnb pays for photography of nicer listings. Either hire professional copywriters or recruit unpaid of
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by rwhitman 12y ago
I did end up sticking with Django. Just seems like Node is still too bleeding edge for the client use cases I have right now
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Being on the HN frontpage is really going to expose you to both opportunities and competitors. Taking funding is probably a winning strategy for you right now
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To have such a slam dunk in the apartment rental space, and such big wins selling advertising to small businesses so quickly, thats huge. I've met so many people over the years struggling so hard with products trying to get in on this
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I appreciate your helping to knock some sense into me. I should know better than to go diving headlong into building large client projects in bleeding edge technology, heh
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Really appreciate the breakdown. Its actually surprising me how little I educated myself on some of the components. From what I know ExpressJS is more of a microframework that can be used piecemeal. Closer to Flask or Sinatra maybe? Or am I
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Thanks I really appreciate your incite. I may have other engineers with Node experience pick up the bulk of it so learning curve wouldn't be as big an issue. But I guess what you're trying to tell me is that I'm jumping the g
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One of my best friends is a brilliant internationally notable figure in his field and has a serious cocaine problem. To the point where its destroyed his life and left him jobless and homeless at least once. He burned all his income on drug
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Ask HN: Could I replace Django with Node.js?
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I've worked with a weirdly large number of female-run and female-focused startups and clients over the years. I could write a long, blunt tirade about this. Basically the cards are stacked against these businesses from the day they are
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Thats a bummer for model airplane enthusiasts
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I guess it makes sense that the only library left to have in Google's web stack was an HTML/CSS framework. So now the circle is complete - you can run a website in Chrome on a Chromebook with a Starter Kit layout (all images as We
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Scolding pro blackhat SEO guys is an effort in futility. And the fact he confirmed using the technique also means that its no longer as effective I'm sure most of his customers have no idea what he's doing either. With these guys
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by rwhitman 12y ago
Go find a therapist. Now. Don't wait. Suicidal thoughts are considered an urgent mental health issue so you will probably be covered by health care. Even if you weren't suicidal a psychologist is a great place to air your grievanc

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