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by tbrooks 10y ago
Monoprice sells 'em on the cheap.
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by tbrooks 10y ago
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi -- you're my only hope.
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by tbrooks 10y ago
Chattanooga is a beautiful town. I almost moved their in January. The city has a lot to offer and it could be one of the next great tech hubs. I decided not to move because I didn't think the local economy offers a lot of choice fo
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by tbrooks 10y ago
Why go back to Mandrill? Why not go to SES?
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by tbrooks 10y ago
What's the real identity of the startup?
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by tbrooks 10y ago
Mike Judge and Silicon Valley.
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by tbrooks 10y ago
I don't have a CS background, so I can't speak much to the performance of Elixir and Crystal. As someone who has made the transition from Ruby to Elixir, I'm really, really intrigued by Crystal. Though, upon a cursory look in
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by tbrooks 10y ago
> mainly sales calls and content writing system Goes on to list strategy for only content writing system. No mentions of strategy on sales calls. "If you want action don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want." -- David Ogl
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by tbrooks 10y ago
K-armed bandit algo?
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by tbrooks 10y ago
In all your replies, you haven't given concrete example of "I need arrays because tuples or lists can't do X". Complaining in the abstract isn't helpful. If Elixir had arrays, why would that be better than using oth
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by tbrooks 10y ago
It's unclear if the NYT accounts for dividend reinvestment. Leaving out compounding interest could massively affect the returns shown in the chart.
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by tbrooks 10y ago
Warren Buffett bet $1mm that S&P500 will outperform a hedge fund over a 10 year period.[1] That's good enough for me, I'll follow the oracle. [1] http://longbets.org/362/
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by tbrooks 10y ago
How is this different from Clearbit's Enrichment API? https://clearbit.com/enrichment
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by tbrooks 10y ago
And others think building on top of BEAM is risky... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11946824
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by tbrooks 10y ago
Small suggestion - I would love to see upgrade instructions somewhere in blog post announcements.
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by tbrooks 10y ago
Played around with the API a little bit. Cool discovery: if you search for a financial institution, they return logos as Base64. Super rad.
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by tbrooks 10y ago
The main thing to consider is, as your customer acquistion scales, does your headcount/labor cost scale as well? If so, that should be a factor in your CAC calculation. I don't think there's one canonical formula. But here ar
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by tbrooks 10y ago
David Oglivy (ad firm founder) has a great quote: "If you want action don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want."
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by tbrooks 10y ago
While this is true, if you're a one-person SaaS company you probably won't factor in your time as a cost. Sales (and some marketing) labor overhead should be factored as a direct cost to acquiring customers. If you are "pro
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by tbrooks 10y ago
Meat and potatoes selling. 1) Found a list of potential prospects 2) Called 30 prospects each day 3) Repeat steps 1-2 for 4 years
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by tbrooks 10y ago
I run DripEmails.com and SimpleDonation.com both are profitable.
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by tbrooks 10y ago
This belongs on HN why?
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by tbrooks 10y ago
If you use 1Password, they have 2-factor auth built-in. Read more here: https://support.1password.com/one-time-passwords/
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by tbrooks 10y ago
TL;DR Reporter based in an area with great transportation choices (NYC) says, "Austin w/o Uber and Lyft ain't so bad. There are new alternatives."
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by tbrooks 10y ago
OP mentioned that Elixir is better at concurrency and parallelism. Python is better at processing (more libraries/toolsets available). As someone who wants to use Elixir more and see its community flourish, what libraries does Elixir n
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by tbrooks 10y ago
I'm most excited about the Calendar datatypes. There are 2-3 really good Elixir libraries around dates and times: calendar, goodtimes, etc. Choice is great, but I really like a canonical library around something so core as time.
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by tbrooks 10y ago
> "death tax" is a kind of a charged language. "Estate tax" is equally charged language, even if you aren't superrich and affluent.
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by tbrooks 11y ago
It does pay well. :)
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by tbrooks 11y ago
OS processes !== BEAM process He's referencing processes on the Erlang virtual machine, not OS processes. A BEAM process is much lighter weight.
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by tbrooks 11y ago
I want to use AWS SES, but the lack of a dashboard (like Mandrill had) is a dealbreaker. Quick strawpoll: are others in that boat too?

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