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by theunixbeard 8y ago
In this post, Justin reveals that the founding myth of Basecamp has had an important part of it left out --- that Jeff Bezos personally bought a small equity stake which made both DHH and Jason Fried millionaires. This is what gave them the
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Bootstrapper’s paradox (Justin Jackson)(justinjackson.ca)
2 points by theunixbeard 8y ago|1 comments
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by theunixbeard 8y ago
You don't have to, just click "the email" which is a hyperlink to the archives: https://mailchi.mp/872ceee548ec/its-loaf-time https://us17.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=14538d8f859116
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by theunixbeard 8y ago
Funny to see the $0.70 Bitcoin reference and debate as to whether it would gain traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407053 Hacker News referencing Bitcoin in April, 2011
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by theunixbeard 8y ago
I went through his Instagram and YouTube channel just now --- he is a 99.9999% level chef of Thai cuisine. As an enthusiast of Thai cuisine, I am grateful for the link.
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by theunixbeard 8y ago
You don’t save 100% of what you earn. 50% is considered very good, but in consumer focused America some people might save only 10% of their income (thus for a 100K income to save 30K represents 3 years of savings obliterated).
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by theunixbeard 8y ago
Are you an entrepreneur with a profitable business or successful exit? If not, 30K might represent 6-12 months of personal runway to build your own business.
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by theunixbeard 8y ago
Can you elaborate on “calcium salts”? Are you referring to stuff like: http://www.calciumtherapy.com
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by theunixbeard 9y ago
This is by patio11, in case it wasn't apparent.
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by theunixbeard 9y ago
What hourly/daily/weekly rate were they paying you? It sounds like it must have been low if you weren’t able to save money.
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by theunixbeard 9y ago
Looks like the XProton malware is a RAT. Full description here: https://www.cybersixgill.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/0207...
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by theunixbeard 10y ago
Quite meta! Would be nice to hear csallen's thoughts on it. Once big difference I think is that csallen is focused on writing specifically for the Hacker News audience as a way to bootstrap traffic from an existing large audience. Prod
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by theunixbeard 10y ago
Didn't dig too deep, but how do you make money (or are you yet to monetize)? The reddit posts all repeat "completely free (note: free does not mean "freemium", it means totally fucking free)".
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by theunixbeard 10y ago
1.) Build an audience (~6 years) 2.) Build your business (a few months...) That's the winning formula. I wrote about this at length regarding Ryan Hoover & Product Hunt: https://medium.com/@theunixbeard/product
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by theunixbeard 10y ago
I've always wondered why tech salaries in Western Europe were so much lower than the US (exc. Silicon Valley effect). Could it be the proximity to similiar-culture Eastern Europe where inexpensive developers are easily available?
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by theunixbeard 10y ago
Would have been good for pg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3695076 / https://web.archive.org/web/20120314171633/http://blog.metri... / https://web.archive.org
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What I Learned Selling a Software Business(training.kalzumeus.com)
2 points by theunixbeard 11y ago|1 comments
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
For me it's a fun hobby. With that said, as a software developer making $XXX,XXX per year, your time is worth more than the money you save by DIY. So it's up to you. The final caveat is that w/ milk kefir in particular, the s
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
Good point! I've been meaning to make Kimchi but unfortunately my gf hates the smell so much that she's banned me from making it... Another (banned) item on my list is homemade natto... ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
Instructions I use: https://www.kombuchakamp.com/kombucha-recipe SCOBY Sources: http://www.kombuchabrooklyn.com/cultures.html (Where I purchased) http://store.kombuchakamp.com/Kombucha-Mushr
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
Alternative to expensive probiotic supplements: fermented foods. It is easy to: 1.) Brew your own kombucha 2.) Turn milk into kefir 3.) Make your own sauerkraut. I do all 3 of the above, feel free to email me w/ questions!
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
Speaking of marketing... At 19 points with 0 comments my suspicion is that this article is an engineered "content marketing" effort on the part of Amplitude :)
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/churning and specifically look out for "manufactured spending".
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
The author of this post (Gary Marcus) is a huge proponent of hybrid systems, in fact he is using that technique for his current stealth startup: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/544606/can-this-man-make-...
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
An interesting article about the author, Gary Marcus, and his stealth startup[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/544606/can-this-man-make-... [1] http://geometric.ai/
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
Based on the recent popularity of "Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm that AI Hasn’t Yet Crossed" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11020652 ) I came across this article about Gary Marcus' work on a hybrid d
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Can Gary Marcus Make AI More Human?(technologyreview.com)
3 points by theunixbeard 11y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Any Opinions on the X-Team Freelancing Platform?
3 points by theunixbeard 11y ago|0 comments
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
For any programmers curious about how HFT actually works in practice --- I recommend checking out our very own patio11 & tptacek's https://www.stockfighter.io [1] It's a stock market simulator with a websocket
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by theunixbeard 11y ago
Great write-up, I had no idea that China was using machine learning to detect VPN setups... I'd suggest the author make their Idea #4 random-padding code open source, but ironically if it became popular then surely the ML-based filters

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