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by volkk 7y ago
OP wrote that they have employees. if 6k-8k is too much for a company with employees to literally keep it running, that means it was months away from going completely bust anyway
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by volkk 7y ago
You couldn't pay the 6,000-8,000 for like 3-4 months and keep your business afloat until you rewrote it? Kind of sounds like your business was really really in the red already, or more information is missing?
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by volkk 7y ago
how is it spam if it's just shared various blog posts from a single website?
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by volkk 7y ago
i have a separate problem. i got a puppy and there was a time where i had to just put in headphones while i was crate training him, and listen to rain sounds to fall asleep, instead of his cries. months later, all i get on my discover feed
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by volkk 7y ago
following up as another developer that really wants to get better at overall drawing/design. what are the best resources?
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Ask HN: How do you successfully deal with sharing information internally?
2 points by volkk 7y ago|1 comments
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by volkk 7y ago
looks like just your regular iterm2 split panes?
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by volkk 7y ago
insane coincidence but literally the minute i started my first project ever on netlify just to play with it, i deployed it and nothing was loading; i kept googling and thinking it was my fault and then it clicked to check their status page
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by volkk 7y ago
it's ridiculous how blatant it all is, to the point that even in modern media (e.g tv show Succession) pokes at all the cancer this stuff produces and its one of those things most people are like "yep its happening" but there
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by volkk 7y ago
FYI im not downvoting you, but a large portion of the modern workforce (at least in the US) do have their asses in seats 9-5 at a desk. whether its administrative tasks, finance, law etc. there's a giant world out there aside from CS p
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by volkk 7y ago
i think your argument of "just be happy that you're not in grueling conditions of working hard labor outside" doesn't really apply to the argument of "work less and be more efficient." its the same argument of
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by volkk 7y ago
this sounds like one of those super arbitrary statements. like theoretically its correct to say "multiply" is better than "add" but in this case, it doesnt translate. i think they both added to each other is a completely
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by volkk 7y ago
sure here's a comical one: we were a healthcare company so HIPAA was very prevalent, and so that entailed a locked office which further included either taking your laptop home, or locking it up in a drawer. there were plenty of people
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by volkk 7y ago
i rounded down, it was actually 1.5 years, but the stories i have are downright comical and belong in the silicon valley HBO show
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by volkk 7y ago
what do you do?
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by volkk 7y ago
Happened to a company I started working at. Long story short, I joined as an engineer when one 15 year old based company that was clearly still running like it was 1995 bought a lean tech startup with smart/focus people and proceeded t
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by volkk 7y ago
I think this question essentially boils down to: "why do people commit crimes" and that's not something that has one easy answer
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by volkk 7y ago
Okay but what's to stop at the very least an "opt in/out" feature?
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by volkk 7y ago
here's the thing, are you saying that number 3 (aka research), is not necessary? because i think reading and knowing the domain you want to deal with is extremely important, and really before anything, number 3 should tell you whether
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by volkk 7y ago
does anybody know if all of these are available in nightly?
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by volkk 7y ago
I'm still so sad about vine. I really enjoyed the app at the time, and thought their UI was astounding, especially clicking anywhere on the screen to record the 6 second video. I think it also spawned all kinds of comedy and culture an
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by volkk 7y ago
i would assume that for the first X years, aka a long time, the SDCs would operate mostly on highways/very rural areas.
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by volkk 7y ago
quick google shows me that it does BUT the article is from 2014. https://aws.amazon.com/gaming/reinvent-2014-slides/ (ctrl-f league) not sure today
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by volkk 7y ago
True, but a lot of that can be solved with PaaS/DBaaS products like compose or something
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by volkk 7y ago
holy shit, some of these are making me actually cry. this list is something else
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by volkk 7y ago
by competent i mean, enough to fundraise and build a team. i think the thing im most looking to get out of it is experience building a team from scratch around me while also creating a tech culture, but none of that can happen without the f
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Ask HN: What do you ask a founder to work with to verify they're competent?
2 points by volkk 7y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Have you known any devs that become great CTOs with no leadership exp?
23 points by volkk 7y ago|17 comments
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Ask HN: Have any devs transitioned into pure design work (or maybe a combo)?
1 points by volkk 7y ago|0 comments
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by volkk 7y ago
sure-- but the main difference is that the community pretends to be super altruistic under the guise of doing god's work for the good of all developers. it comes off as super fake. at least thats sort of the vibe i get from it. i also

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