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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Some of these seem to weaken the case for blockchain for two reasons: 1. They ultimately require some kind of real world authority. For instance a land registry requires the authority to accept the transaction and then enforce it. 2. They&#
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I am not defending the choices they make. If you believe in rebalancing, let the robo-advisors do it. (I don't rebalance personally).
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Those are two different issues though. Firstly, if you believe that you should hold your money through a crash, then you are free to do so whether or not you invest through Wealthfront. Secondly, that is a huge amount of money. Congratulati
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
I will sum up what we know in general about investing: Keep fees low and diversify. That is the best you can do without specialized knowledge or effort (and, depending on how strong a view you have of the efficient market hypothesis, even t
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Another thing you could look at -- perhaps relevant to HN -- is the number of seed and early stage startups that use the various frameworks: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/popular-web-frameworks-seed... Set aside Ang
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Reading through it, it sounds very exciting and productive for people who already know what it is and can use it. But for a complete newbie. Say someone who can write an app and push it to Heroku, what is this and why might it be worth tryi
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Sounds like power ups for video games.
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Okay, here is my process: 1. Get a lot of sleep 2. Drink caffeine 3. Take a moment to think about the larger social impact of what you do -- it definitely has some impact 4. Focus on the problem just ahead of you, get absorbed in how intere
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Solo dev and 100ks of users? Wow. What is your tech stack? What is your code-deploy process?
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Meaning is something you create or find, it’s not intrinsic to the activity. Right now there is someone complaining about doing “boring front end crud stuff” - an established product - who wants your job. There is also someone doing “boring
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
I think you ought to include more details. I head that Sequoia uses a cast iron wheelbarrow but those things rust out. The new generation - the AZ16 of the world - uses alloys that are more resilient. Can anyone comment? Is it true that mac
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
I appreciate someone formally writing out their thoughts. My instinct and conventional advice reflects the principles outlined in this guide. However, how do we know it’s true? I know one entrepreneur who passed on the best deal of his life
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Check the amount of sleep they get!
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
A real startup visa gives you a pathway to permanent residence. No one wants to start a company and worry that they will have to leave everything there after 3 years if something does or does not happen.
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
I wonder if there is any data on the efficacy of these techniques. Deliberate practice makes sense to me, but I really wonder if the others require purposeful study or if you just pick up metaskills if you hack away at your project. Heck, i
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
I generally give contact info and ask them to get in touch. Then I browse their product and say we're not looking for that product at the moment if we are not. If we are looking, I put them in touch with someone. However, I do think th
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
The problem with this study is that there are only two agents: founders and VCs. And whatever credit does not go to VCs implicitly goes to founders. They did a study of married (heterosexual, this is an old study) couples and asked them wha
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Could you just give fake info? Or else use multiple fake profiles? I don't know how you an deceive Facebook without also deceiving your friends and contacts though.
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
You know my performance might change imperceptibly with sleep, but the area where I know it makes a difference -- probably the most important area -- is how nice I am to fellow human beings. I am a better co-worker, family member, client et
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Ask HN: In 2018, can an individual produce a scalable app?
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
There have always been many alternatives to consulting. But large expensive reliable branded companies are important because if they make a mistake you can’t blame the person who hired them. Also ex consultants from these firms see their va
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Oh, it is the same for programmers! As soon as we have an idea we immediately open up an IDE, and then get a GIT repository going, and get Yarn to prepare all the libraries we need, and get a quick little back end database api set up, and t
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
Still confused by this. How is a domain a "lead"? Aren't leads usually potential customers and, therefore, people? Are you saying you have a list of target companies, and you want to tell -- by visually examining their websit
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
So, I think my answer is a little different but: first decide what you mean by Web Development. These days it isn't really one thing, but an ecosystem of technologies. Secondly, inventory what you already know -- and tell us. Now one h
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
I love that the author of the paper responded to this. Thank you HN, and Andy. I suspected it was hard or else, I assume, you would have done it. But I thought it was hard because getting everyone to take a standardized test before and afte
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by startupdiscuss 8y ago
I wish the authors — or any authors — studied which courses actually deliver results as opposed to what they ought to deliver. For instance, immediate feedback ought to deliver learning. So they looked at which courses give immediate feedba
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Indian Supreme court: computer science degrees cannot be provided online (2017)(tribuneindia.com)
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
Whatever system you come up with, we have to ask these questions: 1. What if I lose my finger/password? 2. What if someone else gets a copy of my finger/password? In both cases, fingerprints seem to make things worse, not better.
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I think this is for people who don't want to share their data with Dropbox, or don't want to pay for Dropbox. There is a tradeoff (simplicity), and the idea is to reduce that tradeoff by making it simpler. The question is not woul
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by startupdiscuss 9y ago
I have a feeling that if this product is going to become successful, it will find some as-yet-unthought-of use case which will take off with some subset. If that is right (and who knows), then you would be better off giving it a generic nam

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