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by solumos 2y ago
Assuming that the process of failing doesn’t cost you your peace — which is certainly a risk.
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by solumos 2y ago
This is a more broad interpretation of "getting things done," but The Secret Race is an excellent book about what it was like to be a professional cyclist in the late 90s/early 2000s, doping and all
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by solumos 2y ago
Hmm, I don't think that I would want a GitHub productivity tool. The experience is already pretty optimal for PRs and code review. In terms of things within the development lifecycle that would need their productivity boosted, GitHub i
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by solumos 2y ago
The same thing happened to me in 2016 — I gave up and started a new account.
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by solumos 2y ago
https://archive.is/ejuuD
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by solumos 2y ago
Something that I think is a bit misguided about this is that YC, at founding, was pretty unfashionable itself. The "accelerator" model wasn't particularly proven, and the thesis was that there was an untapped talent pool of &
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by solumos 2y ago
All the more reason to make the jump out of a purely technical role, in my opinion
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by solumos 2y ago
WineNDine[0][1] was the highest-profile iteration ca. 2016 — around that time the broader trope of "A Social Network for Pet Owners"[2] was making the rounds as various versions of "Instagram for [niche] Influencers" [0]
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by solumos 2y ago
Honestly, I think you should quit. If you're not excited about it, then you're not going to like working on it anyway — even assuming that it takes off. And you could be spending the time and money on something that you're mo
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by solumos 2y ago
Just out of curiosity, how does the performance (compilation + runtime) compare to something like bun[0]? [0] https://bun.sh/
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by solumos 2y ago
wait, why isn't there a dating app that has this?
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by solumos 2y ago
Can you give a recent example of a number 1? The problem I see is that a a piece of advice that got thrown out on twitter was "We applied without an idea and we got in, here's how we did it!" and the advice ends up being alon
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by solumos 3y ago
My contracts don't have any stipulations about outside work and don't require me to commit to a certain number of hours. What's the meaningful ethical difference between an individual with multiple W2 income streams, and a so
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by solumos 3y ago
It's really hard to find good contracts. You have to know people building stuff that understand the value that you're providing. With platforms like Upwork it's really hard to compete with lower-cost devs. I have a client tha
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by solumos 3y ago
I'd love this for Spanish
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by solumos 3y ago
Imagine the following scenario: A footballer strives to score a goal. During the game, the footballer collides with an opponent and hits his head. He has a concussion and won't be able to play for the rest of the game, and frustration
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by solumos 3y ago
> 1. Bad managers are the cause of a lot of employee unhappiness. > 2. Bad managers are the cause of a lot of workplace failure, i.e., late projects, subpar products, and unmet goals. > 3. Managers are one of the most under-support
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by solumos 3y ago
Perhaps one of the best case studies in software ethics
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by solumos 3y ago
Honeycomb built their own columnar database[0] to support their product. [0] - https://www.honeycomb.io/resources/why-we-built-our-own-dist...
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by solumos 4y ago
This is a very west-coast view. I've had east-coast founders/execs laugh in my face and tell me that no decent founder would ever disclose the latest 409a or any cap table information to a candidate.
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by solumos 4y ago
Check out Akash Network https://akash.network/
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by solumos 4y ago
It's a hack that cuts a (sometimes significant) liability from the balance sheet. I've worked at places where it was hard to take a day or two off, and I've worked other places where it was easy to take 3 weeks off a couple o
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by solumos 4y ago
Get a better therapist I had one that was a huge waste of time and money for about 3 months and wrote the whole thing off I started up again a few months ago with a therapist that specializes more in trauma/family issues and it’s been
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by solumos 4y ago
> Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. - Michael Pollan
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by solumos 4y ago
I also work for a crypto payments firm There's a lot of interest in taking crypto payments mainstream, but large, established institutions are unwilling to expose themselves to the regulatory risk they would take on by building this st
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by solumos 4y ago
1) AirBNB is an accommodations marketplace, not a travel planning app. He's very specifically talking about travel planning apps. It's pretty difficult to monetize travel planning or travel discovery — you've basically got to
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by solumos 4y ago
I recently switched from Android to Apple, and this was a big difference that I noticed. I think Google/Android still use a "simple lookup" dictionary (or similar) that updates based on your own behavior, while Apple's s
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by solumos 4y ago
That might be true if they weren't also the card issuer[0]. The main way they make money is on interchange, which for a card issuer is a kickback of up to 2% from Visa/Mastercard/etc [1]. [0] - https://techcrunch.c
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by solumos 4y ago
> what KYC is really necessary for a company like this? If I understand correctly, all they do is pass through transactions. Products like this are particularly susceptible to fraud, especially given that they're charging your bank
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by solumos 4y ago
they don't hire junior engineers, and came up with the phrase "adequate performance will be given a generous severance" they have a "keeper test" that they use to determine who gets a severance package: basically, i

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