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by sombremesa 5y ago
> The brilliant ones are so driven that they will often succeed without assistance. That might be true, but the level of success might change dramatically based on assistance. Founders know this, and may choose that path despite being
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Pretty sure the “such a great product” is also just PR. I had a much easier time integrating with PayPal (of course, they have other issues not related to onboarding…), Stripe does seem to be better than Visa’s abysmal onboarding though.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> No dog in the fight either here, but that's exactly what those who posted these stories recently are trying to do. Why? Do they have nothing better to do with their time? Maybe you can ask this person directly why they are lying:
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by sombremesa 5y ago
I believe if you kill the parked domain industry it will be harmful to legitimate businesses. Why? Because these domain squatters provide a valuable service - making sure domains are still purchasable by legitimate businesses, even if at a
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by sombremesa 5y ago
I think what GP is trying to say is that your hiring process is within your control ( especially this far in the pipeline), so even the worst candidate experience should fall above some baseline. You don't get much sympathy if you say
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Sometimes a recruiter or hiring manager leaves the company halfway through the hiring process, leaving the candidate in a limbo. It'd be funny (in a sad way, I suppose) if the same becomes true on the other side..."sorry, my onlin
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Just today I was reading a post that said "Stripe is a startup no one seems to hate" [0]. No matter how you cut it, that's clearly incorrect based on the discussion here. So, I fully believe this is a PR engine in motion. [0]
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by sombremesa 5y ago
It doesn't really matter who you are, you could still be a paid shill. Or do you have some way to definitively prove that you are not on pc's payroll? Paranoia goes both ways, and I think it's sufficient to just have the re
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> Actually making a commercially viable indie game takes incredible amounts of time, effort, and skill-building Only if you don't invest in luck. Flappy bird, for example.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> The older I get, the more time I have to spend rebuilding reputation whenever I enter a new company. This is very dependent on organizational structure. Some companies re-org so often that you’re still “proving your value” several year
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Alcohol definitely does more good, just consider the uses it has aside from being ingested.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
I strongly disagree. It’s true that people who do not understand how to use something basic to accomplish their goals are far behind in terms of fundamentals compared to those who do, but it’s provably false that primitive tooling is supe
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Funnily enough my bank very recently made me sign an agreement which precluded me from subleasing my safe deposit box. Maybe this is the next arbitrage opportunity.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> you need to disable that Might need a bit more elaboration there. You want people to turn off 2fa?
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Yep, just left a company where the contractors building out a core solution had just such an endpoint where you could get anyone's data, and worse, personal photos. And of course, every API key and secret was just hanging out in the re
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Maybe the reason these CEOs were all let go was because they were useless?
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Wouldn’t that just lead to a black market? Especially in a country that loves its informal economy like India?
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Since you want impractical suggestions, you might enjoy “if Hemingway wrote JavaScript”
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Personally, I disagree that DRY is the same as “clean”. Clean code is merely code that has been thoughtfully structured (regardless of repetition) and is relatively transparent as to its purpose.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
HN has a lot of people who seem to benefit from these types of “common sense” articles that bury the lede, judging by the fact they appear on the front page so frequently. (Putting common sense in scare quotes to acknowledge that this is ne
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Indeed, no tasty food doesn’t imply no good (e.g. relatively nutritious) food.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Who determines that the wine is high quality? You’ve already established taste there, regardless of the wine’s taste.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
You don’t know about lightsail containers? Why make a flowchart that omits one of the simpler solutions in favor of complex ones? Agreed with the other commenters that this flowchart is not to be recommended, for this and other reasons.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> until the middle class/upper middle class realizes that our current lifestyle and access to "cheap" services is being held up by a systematically abused and underpaid labor force that isn't given the time, compensat
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Given that I know the mapping of an IP address and a physical address, I am unable to match one to the other? I suspect you’re attacking a strawman.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
How come this is a complete non-concern in other areas? If you give anyone (say, PayPal) your address, you’ve given then your roommates’ address as well - since you share the same IP. Nobody cares, even though the third party can immediatel
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by sombremesa 5y ago
You could suggest that this hook only be executed on a small subset of the repo to start with.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
First, life isn’t all about money. Although, If you don’t enjoy what you do you, it’s probably best to find something else. Second, people make things like this all the time (anyone remember the million dollar web page where ads sold by the
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by sombremesa 5y ago
There aren’t all that many “wonderful businesses” in the world. But, there sure are a lot of fools parting with their money.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Makes sense - I’m well aware no one here cares about anyone else’s wellbeing (but some claims to the contrary sure are good for your image), and you can freely move that line around whenever you want to dunk on someone on Twitter or HN. Tha

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