ryanackley

9 ms·

61.
by ryanackley 8y ago
The author's best arguments aren't articulated well. I will try and paraphrase. Essentially, Imperfect Produce is buying scraps from medium to larger farms and marketing it to people that would normally buy produce from small farm
62.
by ryanackley 8y ago
Sydney felt an order of magnitude larger than Boston or Seattle. The population density was staggering compared to those cities. It took hours to get away from urban sprawl and feel like you were out of the city
63.
by ryanackley 8y ago
Getting a job in a major metro area. I was very resistant to moving away from the smallish city/metro area I lived in until my late 20's. When I did, my career just took off. I'm not even talking about Silicon Valley. I worke
64.
by ryanackley 8y ago
This. I've never used any of their products but I've always found their marketing to be spot on. They perfectly positioned themselves as a 3rd option to GitHub and BitBucket. With the GitHub acquisition and Atlassian's stock
65.
by ryanackley 8y ago
There is definitely room for competition in this space. We use Readme.io and find the pricing a little ridiculous. $100\month for the lowest tier plan. How complex is this product really? Also, one minor thing that really gets to me is they
66.
by ryanackley 8y ago
Really strange to see the negative comments. My favorite thing about TripAdvisor is that I feel empowered when I have a terrible experience at a venue. I can just go leave them a crappy review. It's very cathartic. Also, I find most of
67.
by ryanackley 8y ago
This is exactly what I think of when I hear senators and congressman talk about cutting so-called entitlements. The narrative needs to be switched around to highlight defense spending as "entitlements" to defense contractors and n
68.
by ryanackley 8y ago
He looks at it empirically > Cancer deaths have fallen by a total of just 5 percent since 1950. (In comparison, heart disease deaths are a third of what they were then, thanks to innovations like statins, stents, and bypass surgery.) No
69.
by ryanackley 8y ago
On a laptop, the code block is much easier to read than the "correct" way. I can see it being harder on a phone
70.
by ryanackley 8y ago
I'm guessing the first company is Plaid. I'm in the ACH payments space so we're a potential customer of Plaid and I vaguely remember a presentation or something where they (Dwolla + Plaid) promise merchants the ability to gra
71.
by ryanackley 8y ago
I agree. The advice should read, "Find something you can be passionate about that you can also make a living at" Personally, I feel like people who take "find your passion" literally are just using the advice to rationa
72.
by ryanackley 8y ago
I think the reverse would be incredibly more useful. Here is a giant block of code. Break it down into snippets and explain what they are doing. I rarely have trouble finding examples of code using Google. When I do, I'm most likely us
73.
by ryanackley 8y ago
I've been through a small acquisition/acquihire twice. The first time, it was part of a small team. The second time it was my own bootstrapped one-person startup. My biggest piece of advice is if you believe in your product and th
74.
by ryanackley 8y ago
I'm not a Microsoft fan but I don't get two of your examples. Nokia was on the path to obsolescence before Microsoft purchased the failing company. Nokia lost more than $3 billion dollars in 2012. You don't spend billions of
75.
by ryanackley 8y ago
As someone who has been in the file format space for a very long time, I've always been impressed with Aspose. I was one of the founding members of https://poi.apache.org . Later, I went to work for a competitor of Aspose. A
76.
by ryanackley 8y ago
I did something similar a few years ago. https://github.com/ryanackley/git-html5.js . A lot of the links don't work in the README anymore. It was more of a "this would be cool!" project rather than a libr
77.
by ryanackley 8y ago
Just realized that Atlassian does this. Bitbucket commoditizes code hosting and HipChat/Stride commoditizes team chat. Both are loss leaders meant to protect their core business: Jira
78.
by ryanackley 9y ago
If you're in your first year of university worrying about the 9-5 grind, it's your subconscious telling you to change your field of study.
79.
by ryanackley 9y ago
He explains this further down. To paraphrase, he doesn't want to endanger his appeal by flaunting the German court order
80.
by ryanackley 9y ago
Dude, you're presenting a straw man argument. This entire thread, I've been saying I don't want them to be treated differently. YOU are the one defending special treatment. Isn't that what has happened here?! They'v
81.
by ryanackley 9y ago
It's way different where I live. There is no foreclosure before the tax deed auction.
82.
by ryanackley 9y ago
The practical effect of the penalty is relative to a person's ability to handle it. Wealthy people having to pay their way out of an awkward situation caused by their own irresponsibility? I don't know the means of these people bu
83.
by ryanackley 9y ago
The difference between public roads/sidewalks and private ones is called "public right of way". Google it. Chances are if you own property along a public street, you own the land to the middle of the street but for all practi
84.
by ryanackley 9y ago
Sorry I don't agree. The situation was one of the HOA's own making. The tax collector didn't make the mistake, the HOA did. That's how life works for most people. There are consequences for making mistakes. Also, with re
85.
by ryanackley 9y ago
I don't think it's the norm because it doesn't sound like most of these things happened in this case. Also, I've participated as a bidder in one auction where I live in FL. There was no notice posted on the property. I d
86.
by ryanackley 9y ago
I agree but what are the extenuating circumstances in this case? Was the person responsible off serving in the Armed Forces so they didn't get the notice? Nope, actually it sounds like someone forgot to change their address seventeen y
87.
by ryanackley 9y ago
I don't think it's a comeuppance. More of a lack of empathy. If you didn't receive a tax bill for your house one year. Would you just figure that you didn't owe taxes that year? Probably not, there is a minimum level of
88.
by ryanackley 9y ago
Nothing. My only point was most roads are public. I was referring to public side walks on the right of way not private ones.
89.
by ryanackley 9y ago
OP seemed to be asserting that owning a house implied owning the road in front of it.
90.
by ryanackley 9y ago
They told them based on the most recent address of the contact on record. Why should it be the responsibility of the tax collector to make sure this is up-to-date and accurate?

More ›