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by superasn 5y ago
As a product creator I can say the same about sales. How I wish someone had told me that when it comes to SaaS the 80-20 is 80% focus on sale (traffic, customer feedback, seo, conversions, etc) and 20 percent is actually technical. And it&#
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Though I'm pretty sure this is one of the oldest tricks in the book, I only get to watch my favorite TV show while on treadmill (I've put the treadmill right in front of it). It has helped me mantain a pretty long streak and I als
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> have worked at 6 failed startups in a row, and can't face work, or looking for a job I don't know much about your situation but this comment on HN from 2013 (1) might be helpful in your situation: Burnout is caused when you
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Yes it links to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393292#:~:text=Genera... . The funny thing is there are definitions for it in wikionary and urbandictionary yet it is picking the HN one.
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And now Google is picking up the definition of footgun(1) from Hacker news! (1) https://i.imgur.com/pHlLFJA.png
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You're definitely right about the overconsumption lifestyle. This is a quote from a Bill Bryson book I was just reading called Notes from a Big country: What is saddest about all this is that a good part of these goals to cut greenhou
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Google's AI has gone totally bonkers. I've been routinely getting emails about 'adult content' in my videos and my videos get age restricted. Last one was a simple screen recording I made of an error to send a company wi
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I think a lot of these errors can be fixed with using strict types, aka Typescript. I've had the same issues with PHP in the past too, which makes me believe that whosoever created these languages had ease of use as a higher priority t
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> Note: also applies to telephone numbers (type=tel), URLs (type=url), and numbers (type=num) in your signup flow While this sounds great advice for telephone numbers in theory, but in practice browsers on Android replace the normal keyb
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Would be amazing if it could interface with web.whatsapp.com as most people I know use WA primarily nowadays instead of sms.
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Even though I only do it for hobby projects, crawling pages is becoming increasingly difficult unless you are a big player like Google or Microsoft with a whitelisted IP range. I've had some success in scraping lately with a similar pr
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While most of the black friday deals are shams, but when it comes to VPS they are actually good. If you're looking for such deals cyber monday / black friday is when you will often find such deals.
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Wealthiest U.S. executives paid little to nothing in federal income taxes(thestar.com)
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> Imagine the carpenters were like programmers. You bought a chair. Except no carpenters ever gives out chairs for free let alone thousands and millions of them for free. And then they get abused for making a shoddy chair even though som
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Everything on 'Naked and Afraid' Is Real – and I Lived It(outsideonline.com)
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Yes it was stripe identity 100% not a custom solution. I think my experience was bad because it wanted to scan the back of my card which is just empty. Hopefully their tech will improve with time but my original point still stands. Don&#x27
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Yes I'm talking from a customer point-of-view. Was trying to buy a vps and they for some reason wanted to scan my driver's lic using this before I could pay through Paypal. Yes I was trying to buy via PayPal but this was step 1 fo
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Had to do this on a site recently and it didn't work for me at all. It wanted to scan the back of my dl but Indian dls are totally blank at the back. Then it said my webcam wasn't good enough and showed me a QR code to use for my
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Yes, this is a really big shift in thinking. Some people despise selling, as selling often brings up images of being pushy, self-promoting and at some times even scammy. I believe this often happens when you don't have enough confidenc
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Elon Musk affects Bitcoin prices, in one chart(vox.com)
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Is there a term for when people reminisce something and think those were the days at the same time think everything contemporary has gone to the dogs? Like my uncle who is an old car enthusiast who thinks ambassador was the greatest car eve
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Yes probably the best news I've read today. A friend got sick of it sometime back and it was one of the most harrowing experience of his life. The amount of pain is just indescribable. He had blood coming out of his gums and whatnot. A
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Sometimes one in that 0.01% end up creating a world changing operating system like Linux. I shudder to think what the world would have be if Andrew Tanenbaum/Linus/Wall/etc had to wait for a week long review after creating th
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Wow seeing this for the very first time. Very eye opening I must say.
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That is certainly eye opening and it's really amazing news. Hopefully in future the rankings could be fairly decided on usefulness and merit than who can buy or trick the most links. Anyway so how would you explain the rankings of site
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Google really needs to come up with a better way than backlinks to rank sites. It's 2021 and surprisingly for all the billion dollar A.I. it can still be gamed with a bunch of unrelated links with little or no connection from the artic
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This repo is probably going to become the next youtube-dl on Github.
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I don't say for this project but if you own a popular open-source project which is used by many companies it does make sense to think off it as your main business sometimes. I mean not just donate to me or follow me on patreon business
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Wow so this person has been running this site for so many years, paying bills, answering god knows how many idiots and even getting close to trouble with 3 letter agencies and senators for absolutely nothing.. hats off to you sir, any other
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A lot of websites are using cloudflare which does make scraping quite difficult (just by default I think). Spoofing your user agent is a must if you need to do anything nowadays. To your second point that same would be applicable to Google

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