waylandsmithers

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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
Right. When I was learning to code a more seasoned dev told me "The code doesn't do what you want it to do, only what you _tell_ it to do." Really helped me gain the mindset that not only was it my mistake that resulted in co
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
I thought it was a joke at first but maybe not. Of course many of these people I'm sure are in favor of requiring ID at the ballot box...
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
That sounds a lot like Oprah. Her given name was Orpah (a biblical name)
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
One piece of millenial defeatism I hear a lot is "Ugh, I'll never be able to afford a 20% down payment, home ownership is impossible" I'm not sure where this myth came from, but as a millenial who went through the buying
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
Personally, I've had my heart broken by projects and companies enough that I now take a more impartial approach.
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
1) I get the sense that millennials (such as myself), having not lived through the era of ubiquitous cigarette smoking, kind of recognize smoking as more of a legitimate life choice, live your truth, healing crystals, class warfare, can&#x2
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
My own personal anecdote: I worked for a company that produced reports for insurance adjusters. Sometimes the reports were small enough to take an hour, and some large enough to take a week to produce. For some reason the company was obsess
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
Same. My personal pet peeve is "workflows", aka, you moved something from To Do to In Progress, and now it's impossible to move back because its not part of one of the allowable paths for a ticket. It's just like... why.
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
To attempt to reach synthesis, I would say it could be valuable as a therapeutic exercise for yourself. However, my own experience is that choosing to vote with your feet doesn't really effect change that often. I've done it twice
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
Hey- thanks for making this. I heard about it from indie hackers and I'm pretty psyched to participate. Just hanging out with the other thirsty AF indie founders on slack has made this a cool experience so far. (I doubt I'm going
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
I'm curious, as someone knows probably only enough about this stuff to get myself into trouble, what am I missing out on by just pushing to heroku?
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
> I think the question might be "why might someone gatekeep at all?" We'd always go through the same thing with folks who were new to interviewing with a candidate who couldn't quite cut it. In the following discussio
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
What is implied but not specifically stated in his lessons learned is that selling your time while also selling a product is VERY difficult to pull off. Fried/DHH eventually turned into a product company to focus solely on Basecamp, an
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
Personally I was surprised to see that Thoughtbot (a top web/mobile app consultancy and creator of factorybot and other well known open source libs) starting publishing blog posts detailing use of Crystal for some of its client project
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
I’ve been into this idea for a while and even created a side project to help read the classics instead of social media, or HN (you can check my profile if interested) The books I absolutely hated being forced to read in school have been muc
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
I think the response to your original comment was more that having the "Ugh, forget it I'll just fix it myself" last resort option could be a crutch for a manager
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
Wow- and I thought it was weird and inappropriate when I got a linkedin message from a MongoDB rep basically saying "Hey! I'm the account manager for your company so let me know if you need help with anything Mongo related!"
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
I don't know- there must be institutional players on the long side by now right? Either way, _eventually_ someone will be left holding the bag when the stock comes back down to earth.
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
> Don’t target your SaaS at other indie hackers. It’s a small niche of people who like to build things. This is what I've never totally understood about product hunt. Is the goal to get feedback from other creators, or launch to an
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
> Being pushed by clients, the organization, dead lines. Often bad. I disagree with this part, respectfully of course, based on my own personal experience. I can see how external forces do lead to poor decision making and short sightedne
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
I'm not sure self awareness is the best way to put it though if they thought they had the blessing and encouragement of the sitting president. That's what makes this hard to compare to most of the revolutionary uprisings of the pa
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
It really is a staggering amount to give. A hospital near me is naming a wing after a person who gave $10 Million in recent years- by all means a massive amount of money. It's just hard to imagine that, times four thousand
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
Does anyone here get to use Basecamp? It looks awesome and I’ve read up on their Shape Up process but have yet to find any organizational support for it in my professional experiences.
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
What about the burn down charts? Every project I’ve ever worked on, features are finished, apps and websites are shipped, clients are happy and pay the bills, yet the burn down just goes straight to the right and never down. Sometimes right
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
I actually understand Facebook's point here, because the fact is they are just too good as what they do. The deal is, give up all your users' info, and we'll give you some very similar people we know are very likely to also b
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
I've been working on a related product (never going to be a complete set of books, but you can read them through the site because they are public domain) that you can check out in my profile if interested
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
Thanks so much for being forthcoming about the donations you received, as well as your commitment to maintaining free features. I've been weighing a paid subscription against voluntary donation for my own bootstrapped product launch, a
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
This is going to sound strange, but the only thing that has ever worked for me was HQ, the live trivia game app. It was nightly at 9PM, so I'd my various daily tasks done and then I'd have to go to my bed to plug my phone in to pl
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by waylandsmithers 6y ago
> While I'm sure that HubSpot, its employees, and management may have learned some things about integrity and transparency since then I doubt it, from what I can tell they still think their main product (CRM) some special thing that

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