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by sequoia 6y ago
* Courier wants to get paid as much as possible * Restaurant wants to get paid as much as possible * Platform wants to get paid as much as possible * Customer wants to pay as little as possible And the customer's baseline is "pa
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by sequoia 6y ago
My personal anecdote is that I was a Skype user, had the desktop and phone app, had an account with maybe $20 in credit for the occasional call to a POTS number. Then Microsoft bought it, I had trouble logging in, used my "Live.com&quo
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by sequoia 6y ago
Main paragraph: "Starting Friday, third-party food delivery companies such as Grubhub and DoorDash will be required to “disclose to the customer an itemized cost breakdown of each transaction, including the menu price of the food, any
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Chicago orders food apps to disclose itemized cost breakdown to customers(chicago.suntimes.com)
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Ask HN: What Happened to Skype?
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by sequoia 6y ago
Don't worry, the salaries will still be platinum plated, they just might not be diamond encrusted.
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by sequoia 6y ago
Hm that sounds like a good solution. It's a bit more friction as I must ask people to make sure they follow a specific format (and don't forget to add it to the index page!!) rather than just clicking "new post" button a
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by sequoia 6y ago
Here's what I did on my previous team to encourage writing and documenting while keeping the barrier low: use the internal/team blog feature in Confluence. I had a team of 5 so posting to that blog did not "spam" a lot o
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by sequoia 6y ago
> I could have set up a static site generator Instead of generating HTML from markdown & sticking it in a template, your posts are HTML and you stick them in a template. Instead of hand-writing the HTML, you're using an HTML WYS
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by sequoia 6y ago
I have seen this question come up a lot recently when food ordering apps are on hacker news (disclaimer: I work for one of "those companies"). My answer is this: Respectfully, if you think creating & running a platform like Do
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by sequoia 6y ago
Single payer isn't just "more government," it's also "more open market competition" at least in my limited experience as an American in Canada (been here almost three years). Single payer means everyone has
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by sequoia 6y ago
> In the best-case scenario, you’ll end the year with a path towards a profitable business and the money-making skills you thought you needed student loans to build. Author should include a pie chart (or something) of the odds of this ha
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by sequoia 6y ago
Agree that you are helping them grow, but you are trying to influence their behavior. In the interest of honesty I prefer to call a spade a spade. You'll notice I also use the term "subordinate" which bothers some people, b
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by sequoia 6y ago
One major point I'd add in giving corrective feedback and coaching teammates or subordinates away from "bad behaviors" is "Rome was not built in a day." Don't try to correct or address everything all at once. R
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by sequoia 6y ago
You "ask to understand" their perspective & motivations because the alternative is for you to assume you know their perspective which is always worse. Imagine an employee does X, which is explicitly against company policy an
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by sequoia 6y ago
Why companies have open floor plan offices: * Reasons 1-9: it costs A LOT LESS than offices or cubes * Reason 10: Collaboration :)
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by sequoia 6y ago
Makes sense that you'd like some sort of apology or mea culpa from the CEO, who has not been completely forthright. I know you don't want answers from me specifically, but here's my thoughts: > What made Github/MSFT s
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by sequoia 7y ago
I did confuse you with someone else. lewisl9029 opened this question last time, you were further down thread, apologies. Mostly I'm curious, just like you. You're curious "what happened to Atom development", I'm cur
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by sequoia 7y ago
According to this: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?device1=iphoneSE2ndgen... This looks like basically the same phone as the 8 & the 6s. I own a 6s, I'm wondering what the advantage is to buying thi
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by sequoia 7y ago
This is the second time I've seen a comment from you complaining about Atom development when an unrelated Github article is posted. What's the purpose of these posts? Do you expect Github to start funding active development of Ato
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by sequoia 7y ago
"do a lot of people chose to use safari" No. On iOS, www = safari to almost all users.
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by sequoia 7y ago
Go look at the lighthouse score on my blog: https://sequoia.makes.software/ Also a 100 on performance & time to interactive 0.9 seconds. What are the key features of React that you use to set your blog apart from mine?
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by sequoia 7y ago
The issue is it's premature to even call these listings "projects." I can write "create vaccine for covid for free distribution" on this list, what does that achieve? There are concrete things we can all do, and pro
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by sequoia 7y ago
Agreed. Good intentions but this needs some filtering of ideas to focus in on things people can actually do. "1 Million Ventilators" Why not 10 million, or 100? This is effectively clickbait. :(
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by sequoia 7y ago
Do these projects have PMs etc.? I am curious about them (and work at a company whose services overlap with some of these initiatives) but it's hard to tell if there's anything more just a title + a paragraph to these projects. No
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by sequoia 7y ago
So happy to hear this! I just dropped CAD~800 to have the logic board on my late-2014 MBP replaced. I figured "it still works, why spend 3k on a new one?" Plus the new ones with those stupid bar things (I have one for work I never
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by sequoia 7y ago
I agree it was stupid of them to placate people by making promises they don't intend to keep.
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by sequoia 7y ago
From Microsoft's perspective, what's the advantage to them or their users to pay for two somewhat similar free offerings to be worked on in parallel? Given that one was gaining in popularity by leaps and bounds while the other was
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by sequoia 7y ago
> Microsoft for all intents and purposes killed Atom I don't think so. When VS Code came out my reaction was "Wow! It's like a 1.0 version of Atom!" I.e. an electron (or similar) based editor that works , whereas ato
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by sequoia 7y ago
But when I don’t get sick, I also don’t spread it to you or your child or your grandpa. We all benefit. Everyone should increase distancing however they can, and driving and biking rather than taking transit is a part of that solution. Thos

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