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by seancoleman 6y ago
What's a standup?
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by seancoleman 6y ago
Regarding resale tax exemptions: technically, yes! BUT the entity selling to a reseller needs to request and maintain a reseller license to prove that the sold goods went to a reseller with the intent of reselling. If you simply claim exemp
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A Component Library Can Make Your Design System Stronger(drawbackwards.com)
1 points by seancoleman 6y ago|0 comments
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by seancoleman 6y ago
Several people have pointed out the redundancy, even hypocrisy, with `@apply` and compositional classes. I like to think of `@apply` and componentization as competing solutions. Just like "composition over inheritance" I believe i
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by seancoleman 6y ago
Tailwind is the most counterintuitive yet obvious-in-hindsight CSS tool (or of any class - no pun intended) I've worked with. I know the general sentiment towards Tailwind is "I spent years getting my separation of concerns with H
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by seancoleman 6y ago
You're likely missing 2 things: 1) you probably haven't delved into Tailwind on a non-trivial project and 2) the nuanced difference is between infinite possibilities (style attribute) vs. discrete, "hard-coded" options (
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by seancoleman 6y ago
"Incompatibility with IE11, so you can tell the man upstairs 'sorry boss it's out of my hands, blame Tailwind'..." I know it's said tongue-in-cheek, but popular frameworks taking this stance is valuable when co
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by seancoleman 6y ago
5+ year full-time consultant here. I use FreshBooks ($15/mo) and push clients to accept monthly net 15 or net 30 invoices. Doing any more frequently is too much overhead and cashflow isn't a huge concern for me. One tip: Any effor
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by seancoleman 6y ago
For sure, and FB notes amortized investments bringing this figure down. The tax code rewards corporations for R&D investments. I think it's working. The optics are terrible though.
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by seancoleman 6y ago
"Our third quarter 2020 effective tax rate was 4%" [down from 17% YoY]. Numbers like this sure support the "rich corporations don't pay taxes" narrative with average Americans paying a 24% effective tax rates.
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by seancoleman 6y ago
I think a different way of looking at the problem is that ActiveRecord models really shouldn’t have much, if any logic. Instead, logic should get delegated to other types of object, such as services, decorators, query objects, etc. While “f
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Ask HN: Why is the AWS console UX so bad?
4 points by seancoleman 6y ago|2 comments
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by seancoleman 6y ago
I loved the term a colleague used for this: refactorbation.
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by seancoleman 6y ago
I guess it's been a long time since I've been personally responsible for the financial side of Stripe accounts. I think it was 5 years ago when I used to run a lot of test transactions and refund for net $0, but times change. Sorr
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by seancoleman 6y ago
Stripe does refund their fees with a transaction refund. I understand this may be novel for the payment processing industry though.
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by seancoleman 6y ago
This reminds me of how a friend (as a teenager in the 90s) would buy expensive video cards from Best Buy and CompUSA only to swap them out with cheap cards off eBay, re-shrink wrap the box and return for a hefty profit. I thought it was a c
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by seancoleman 6y ago
Sisense (formerly Periscope)
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Show HN: Create Happiness with Serendipitous Messages(design.org)
2 points by seancoleman 6y ago|1 comments
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by seancoleman 6y ago
Hey HN! This is a project I built with a small design team. Our product thesis is that happiness is a byproduct of positive thinking. By changing thought patterns, you can create happiness. The app serendipitously delivers curated affirmati
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by seancoleman 6y ago
I can’t count how many times I’ve individually solved this problem for various companies, and fixed broken ledger systems. I’m currently dealing with the terrible legacy decisions of single-precision float database columns leading to floati
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by seancoleman 6y ago
Hiked / ran 50 miles in the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim. Canyons are a great forcing function for mind over body.
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Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?
328 points by seancoleman 6y ago|324 comments
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by seancoleman 6y ago
The primary feature is true table-to-table relationships that mimic an RDMS.
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by seancoleman 6y ago
Airtable has a learning curve, but it's life-changing once you're comfortable with it. To me, it felt like discovering spreadsheets when I had only worked with documents before.
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by seancoleman 6y ago
Airtable-as-a-Database is absolutely delightful. It comes with an advanced admin back-end for other team members to view and manage data. For many apps, instead of starting with RDBMS tables, I consider Airtable and strategically move to an
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by seancoleman 6y ago
This was an internal app so all users were known and gave authorization, but I hear your concern.
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by seancoleman 6y ago
This reminds me of how I hacked twitter 10+ years ago to get free SMS delivery for a web app I built. Before Twilio, custom SMS notification delivery was hard and expensive. At the time, twitter allowed you to receive SMS notifications of t
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by seancoleman 6y ago
I've been hired to perform "technical-interviews-as-a-service" for a handful of non-technical founders / leaders. Has anyone partook in this format, either as leader, interviewee, or interviewer?
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by seancoleman 7y ago
Modulate.com - A project tracking tool for cross-functional, remote / async development teams building incredible software products. Using Modulate will spark joy among your team.
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by seancoleman 7y ago
Yeah, I'm planning on it. I just need to move the Yelp API key from source to an environment variable and then I can switch the repository type on GitHub.

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