snarkypixel

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by snarkypixel 6y ago
I'm so tired of seeing these posts. Facebook can do whatever it wants with your account and the data you've giving them. Facebook isn't some "free speech" place or a decentralized protocol.. It's a for-profit b
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
One pro-tip when building a product that you don't yet have product market fit for is to be a bit more general in your technology choices and naming conventions. Ideally, you don't lose 100% of the work you've done in the pas
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
yes!
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Both with Dropbox and Instacart, their business model didn't make sense to me. But they still became billion dollar companies that will go bankrupt in a few years after making many people really wealthy. I guess it's a different w
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Because it can be copied and doesn't have a defendable business model. For most people, consolidating many services into one is just more convenient, even if it means using a "good-enough" version of that feature.
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Ironically, it's often when there's no mastery that you realize what mastery is. (I.e. when things just work, are shipped on time and are easy to maintain, there's not much fanfare about it)
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
> due diligence on anyone you might go into business with. > importance of operating agreements and vesting cliffs I'd argue it's more important to work with someone you've worked with in the past and know you can trust
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
> Turns out many of those ideas that seem silly actually aren't going to be that profitable! You still want some core users that love the product, even though many bigger players dismiss it as a toy. Think Bitcoin, Google, Apple (I
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
When I see posts like this, I always think about how insane it will be in 2520 if we keep the same innovation growth (and not die to whatever)
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Small anecdote. At some point I was hiring designers and had a few candidates listing MindGeek on their resumes. I didn't think too much of it.. until I saw the portfolio! It was kind of an awkward moment looking at a designer's p
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
What did you guys use on Android? Was it painful to have to maintain both apps?
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
One question about Airbnb.. Before covid, were people still renting to sleep on the couch? For me, Airbnb was always this "I don't want a hotel room, I'd rather have an apartment by myself". I know some people would rent
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Hack for you: add all the books you want to read in blinkist, listen to the summary (2-10m in 2-3x mode), then you can classify them as: A) Not interested --> nice, you saved yourself some time B) Interesting, but feel like the summary i
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
I guess a third option would be to use an "Option" but with much more syntactic sugar. So, rather than calling func(some(3)), you'd just call func(3) and the compiler would automatically wrap it up. Func would be declared thi
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
The landing page is great too, congrats on the beta launch!
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
I'll go against the grain here but I think it's all fine.. it's part of the 99.9999%; we've just hit the 0.0001%. It'll get better over time and the pros outweigh the cons.
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Because the world is incredibly complex and following great leaders is a great risk reward ratio. It's also a great way to learn
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Same, give me an example, and if I don't get it I'll dig in.
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
The problem is many founders build things they /think/ people would want. Like "nice sounding problems" that actually no one cares about. The great thing about building something for yourself is at least you know it&#x27
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Adding to that, even if you don't like negotiating, it's helpful to understand the tactics used by the other person so you can counter them (or at least be aware of it). For instance, my favorite tactic when someone is pushing har
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
>> The iPad has since recovered from its 2017 nadir in sales, but seems locked in at around 8% of Apple’s revenue, a far cry from the 20% share it had in its first year For me, the reasons are that I love my current Ipad pro, I don&#x
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
>> First, to say Design is sport is stupid beyond comprehension Agree to disagree (without calling it stupid beyond comprehension). Design is so much more than final UI. It's the whole experience, how it works and how it's d
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Design is a team sport, so what you need to ask yourself is does the whole team prefer to use a native mac app vs browser? RIP sketch
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Yeah.. call me grumpy but I'm not a fan of sending big objects in space easily detectable by aliens.
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Just as a fun thought experiment, what /new/ things could be possible if we had 1Terabit/s?
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
imho Slack screw themselves by not making it nice for larger communities (I.e. how they fucked over the react community). They put themselves in a "Work only" corner which is being taken over by Microsoft Team, etc. RIP Slack
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Just wanted to point out that there are good SPAC too. Hyliion, OpenDoor & Virgin Galactic come to mind. If you haven't heard of HYLN, check it out. It's currently in a massive dip due to many people cashing their early SPAC p
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
I wish more companies would separate the cost of _current revenue_ vs the growth investment of future revenue. I.e. Say it cost 30M to generate 100M, and 150M was invested in R&D and future sales. Even though it has negative revenue (10
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
A bit of a side question, but how slow would it be if we were to query the data without using a time-based approach? I.e. "select * from obj where parent_id = <x>" --> Imagine we had billions of obj and a few thousands ma
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by snarkypixel 6y ago
Yeah, compiling in Rust was the bane of my existence. I tried to stay on old versions for as long as possible to avoid compiling. At some points, I'd basically have to wait 10-15min.. so I'd go for a walk or grab coffee. Then I&#x

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