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by saxelsen 2y ago
I don't think this would be such a problem if people were comfortable challenging the CIO/CEO. So maybe that's the cultural aspect that needs to change on the exec's behalf?
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by saxelsen 2y ago
From my experience working remotely for 2 years, this can be accomplished by starting a thread with a descript title and posting the body (with the context) inside the thread. Just like reading across a bunch of article headlines on HN. For
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by saxelsen 2y ago
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but this is literally how the market becomes more efficient: by allowing participants with more information and reducing the arbitrage opportunities. The bookmakers don't set the odds bas
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by saxelsen 2y ago
How many active users did you have when you sold? Was the sale price anything useful or just a small bandaid to not make the whole experience feel like a throwing savings in a hole?
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by saxelsen 2y ago
Have you actually looked at waves and how they move, though? If you've spent years living on the beach you'd be able to spot in a heartbeat that the formation of foam and movement of the wave is not natural.
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by saxelsen 2y ago
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing your story with such transparency.
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by saxelsen 2y ago
The demo where they take turns singing felt like two nervous slaves trying to please their overlord who kept interrupting them and demanding more harmony.
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by saxelsen 2y ago
Honestly I hate the process of writing resumes, too, and having to tailor an application creatively to a specific job to even be able get an initial interview is draining and my time would be better suited. I am hoping for a world where
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by saxelsen 2y ago
This is the reason my wife insisted that we get an SUV: Concern that if she were to be in a crash with another SUV/truck, they'd obliterate her in a small car.
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by saxelsen 3y ago
foundingsales.com is a good resource that contains a lot of the wisdom and advice found in other sales books. Generally the literature you're looking for depends on what account sizes you have, as others have mentioned. Advice for sell
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by saxelsen 3y ago
2023 is a bad year for CEOs of hype-companies named Sam.
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by saxelsen 3y ago
This touches on what I think is a main separator between the GPT models and humans: If a human is unsure of the instructions, they will ask clarifying questions. GPT-4 cannot do that currently.
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by saxelsen 4y ago
Life-hack for applicants: stand out with a cover letter. Life-hack #2: Use ChatGPT to write it in 2 minutes Alternatively (shameless promotion): Use a special-purpose tool I wrote for it, which uses the GPT API https://aicoverlet
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by saxelsen 4y ago
https://aicoverletter.me Simple GPT3-based app for writing cover letters for job applications. Spent about 6 hours and think it does what it is supposed to pretty well.
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by saxelsen 4y ago
I honestly always test this with with video chat Mute buttons. I feel like it is only recently that UX designers designed a way to show that you are muted that is different from the Mute switch, which is a complete guess as to what state yo
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by saxelsen 4y ago
In Copenhagen (and maybe Berlin) it's döner kebab
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by saxelsen 4y ago
Just Eat was founded in Denmark.
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by saxelsen 4y ago
Not entirely different from getting on a plane? You have to listen to the safety protocol before take-off.
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by saxelsen 4y ago
The text messages that were published as part of the suit to close the acquisition showed Musk discussing "return to office" as a way to naturally trim some of the workforce by having the dissatisfied remote workers quit on their
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by saxelsen 4y ago
This is a perfect post on what I hate (and can't seem to quit) on my Twitter feed. If you follow anyone in the startup space, the profiles and recommendations they generate will fill up your entire feed with useless, like-farming threa
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by saxelsen 4y ago
I find it extremely frustrating that the entire build stack for frontend changes every 2 years. It's really hard to create JavaScript apps that "just work", because you have to factor in that the whole ecosystem and community
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by saxelsen 4y ago
I'm a fairly happy user of Joplin - it's great if you want a synchronised cross-device markdown editor! I write "fairly happy", because there is a longstanding issue with the Android app where notes that have more than 1
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by saxelsen 4y ago
When I was at uni, I made an AR app intended for the iPad, that would let the user walk around a specific part of Brighton and see historical facts as overlays on the screen. One of the early feedback comments was that it was quite exhausti
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by saxelsen 4y ago
Much much worse, unfortunately. Though no fault of the maintainer. I use it in an Electron project and a documents that takes about 1.5 sec per page with the Tesseract CLI, I can get down to about 15 sec with Tesseract.js with parallelizati
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by saxelsen 4y ago
Malazan fan here too! Coincidentally, Erikson and Esslemont are also Canadians like the OP :)
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by saxelsen 5y ago
Definitely read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. It goes over why you shouldn't spend ages on market research and instead just get an MVP out of the door as soon as possible. One way to validate demand for SaaS without risking too much d
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by saxelsen 5y ago
Wow, a lot of hate for the guy in this thread. My understanding is basically just that he had a consulting company and made a good salary, which enabled him to save enough money to live off a 2k per month salary for 2 years if need be. He t
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by saxelsen 5y ago
You just blew my mind!
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by saxelsen 5y ago
Modern economic literature suggests that managing inflation is about managing public expectations. If businesses expect there to be price increases in the future (inflation), they'll raise their prices today to offset future losses fro
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by saxelsen 6y ago
There's a good Darknet Diaries podcast episode about Hacker Giraffe, a guy who hacked 50,000 open printers to tell the owners their devices were exposed.

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