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by solumos 6y ago
Well, we can certainly speculate: Chesky - Both parents are social workers, probably would have been in a rough spot taking on that debt. Would have moved somewhere else and gone back into industrial design. Gebbia - Father is/was a su
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It seems a lot of people feared a tech bubble pop throughout the 2010s after the 08 crash, but it never really happened - hence the current "froth"
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Sheesh, I would melt - I'm a "4 reasonable seasons" person myself.
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I'd say the jury's still out on WFH. Once more companies put their cost-of-living adjustments in place, I think a lot of employees will change their minds. Additionally, I think many companies won't go "fully remote&quot
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"Better"'s subjective - some people prefer extreme seasons (Midwest), 4 distinct seasons (East coast), 50s year-round (Northwest/SF), or sunny/70s most of the year (Miami? LA? Texas? Not a lot of experience personal
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> As of September 30, 2020, we had over $4.2 billion in funding capacity from a diverse set of capital partners, and we have funded approximately $10.7 billion of purchases since July 1, 2016. "diverse set of capital partners"
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Some contributors actually pay to publish.
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Not only that - Facebook allows you to create "lookalike" audiences from e-mail lists. So as a marketer, if you can get your hands on a good e-mail list, you're golden.
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It seems that Nextdoor also had issues with celery[0]. "Scalability" is a great scapegoat for making dubious decisions, but my guess here would be the "task priority" requirement. [0] https://engblog.nextdoor.
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Fiverr wrote a few blog posts about their implementation a while back: https://medium.com/fiverr-engineering/fiverrs-microservices-... https://medium.com/fiverr-engineering/fiverrs-microservices-..
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In my opinion, "creating a coding tutorial" and "creating/updating documentation" are two things that seem conflated here when they're very different workflows. I wouldn't ever prefer to create a video tut
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This sounds sort of like what Remarkable[0] claims to be (not affiliated). I pre-ordered one because I'm very similar with my notes - I have a ton of ad-hoc notes taken on legal pads floating around. [0] https://remarkable.c
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Absolutely. There are payday loans (poorly developed systems) that are clearly always a bad idea, and then there are mortgages (well-architected w/ focus on minimum viability) that get you much farther in terms of realized value than y
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It's certainly hard to find one person in a group of players who can be a _good_ GM. Regardless, I think the key difference here isn't just connecting D&D players, it's more that the GMs are professionals. It's the d
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In my opinion, this is one of the weakest points of spec-heavy approaches. These kinds of tools/approaches work great the first time you use them, but end up adding a lot of friction long-term. Or even immediately if that initial spec
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> I got a few vague and wordy excursions into things that are true and things that are false, but never the clear, straightforward answer. Not once. Sounds like he made a point to shut down that line of reasoning.
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I can't help but think that this is due to a combination of selection bias via the applicant pool and interviewer bias. It's kind of ironic that his logic is flawed here - "I interviewed 120 master's program applicants a
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Not only very large blogs - the Forbes contributor program is probably the biggest example of "linkbuilding garbage"
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I used to know an e-commerce startup founder whose entire growth strategy was focused on this brand of "grey hat" backlinks SEO. He was a Forbes contributor and tried to get stuff published in high domain authority sites pretty fr
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Oversimplifying somewhat, but isn't that basically what Palantir is?
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Sifting through videos for a specific piece of information is a problem I've come across as a developer (and more generally, as someone who watches a lot of informational/instructional videos). Over the past few weeks, I've b
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Show HN: High-precision video playlist search (demo)(topica.io)
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That's a super common dark pattern with clickbait sites. It's definitely on purpose (in a lot of places).
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Sifting through videos for a specific piece of information is a problem I've come across as a developer (and more generally, as someone who watches a lot of informational/instructional videos). Over the past few weeks, I've b
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Show HN: I built an app that makes it easier to search videos(topica.io)
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I'm a superfan of "Why is this interesting?" https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/ It's a daily newsletter that's a sort of potpourri of interesting topics. They're pretty digestible, and
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I found this newsletter really interesting - specifically, that Evernote is stomping on the breaks until they've cleared up all of their tech debt. In my experience (and in disagreement with the author) tech debt is inevitable - it&#x2
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On cruft, culture, and the value of ongoing maintenance(whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
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Similar to how companies rarely fail due to competition, ideas are rarely the sole reason for a company's success. "Stealing" an idea doesn't really happen unless someone else has the means and will to execute it. The id
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Assuming that's true, why would they publicly expose the back door as an anonymous API endpoint that's used in a standard flow within the product? Incompetence seems much more likely. I'm not even sure that would constitute a

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