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by wjossey 8y ago
You’re going to have 100 things you disagree about in the first year, and you need to be able to talk those through without it being a world war. If he can do that, despite how he is around politics, then he at least checks one box. If you’
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Thank you! Lots of life is tough and complicated, and there tends to be a significant amount of shame associated with stories like mine. I do my best to flip it around and share my experiences so others don’t feel so alone if they are going
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by wjossey 8y ago
I cut out my parents with the support (not direction of) my therapist. She was very clear in our conversations that the way in which my father and step mother were treating me was not acceptable behavior, and providing them with guard rails
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I’ve seen it on both sides. My mother was cut out by her sister with paranoid schizophrenia. I cut out my father and step mother (see my other comment for details) due to alcohol abuse. I will say that never once was it “the governments pro
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by wjossey 8y ago
Exceptionally tough concept for many to understand, but I became estranged from my father and step mother during the final six months and two years of life respectively. In my case, it was in direct response to ultimatums given in an attemp
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$1.2T in risky corporate debt is flashing warning signs(latimes.com)
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The opportunity is likely more B2B than B2C, where insurers are more apt to negotiate down prices if they see they are "overpaying" based on comps. GoodRx already does this somewhat with prescription medication, by getting pricing
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I have a feeling some of these non-profits that are mentioned will take a crack at creating a centralized index. But, it sounds like it'll be a borderline impossibility to make it accurate and useful. To me, the argument that people ca
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Hospitals Must Now Post Prices. But It May Take a Brain Surgeon to Decipher Them(nytimes.com)
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I'm an engineer and the technical co-founder of a small startup which helps companies, managers, and employees have more effective conversations with one another around performance and professional development. This sounds like a reall
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In Los Angeles I’ve used the non emergency line a bunch due to homeless individuals causing issues, and in every case I’ve had a cop come within the hour. I know because they always give me a ring when they are at the location to just walk
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By the same logic, couldn't you argue that you should be programmatically writing all of your HTML, because then it would "just be Javascript after all"? I'm sympathetic to not reinventing the wheel when unnecessary, but
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I’m rounding the corner on two years at the startup I co-founded. For context, I do all the tech, my co-founder (also tech guy) does sales, BD, and all the “run the business” tasks, and our one full time employee does talent development for
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The New York Times is also reporting that it was due to a drug overdose. If you, or anyone you know, needs help, know that today is a great day to get sober. There's a meeting near you with other addicts who can help you start a journe
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The New York Times is also reporting that it was due to a drug overdose. If you, or anyone you know, needs help, know that today is a great day to get sober. There's a meeting near you with other addicts who can help you start a journe
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by wjossey 8y ago
I don't know anything about their shareholder distribution at this point, so this is all conjecture. Since they took capital, the funds associated with their prior fundraising rounds ($1.2B total) likely have 10 year horizons. Investor
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Instacrammed: the big fib at the heart of New Zealand picture-perfect peaks(theguardian.com)
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Mental health: Five people called Met Police 8,655 times in 2017(bbc.com)
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I think the dividing line here has nothing to do with tech or startups, and merely jobs where the employee supply is short of the employer demand. Or, higher quality workers generating multiples more revenue. It’s true that if you’re not in
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by wjossey 8y ago
I like this as a great starter list. When I joined my first startup 8 years ago, I didn’t know to ask basically any of these questions. I just assumed I’d work hard and get a Lamborghini some day (only half joking). On the fundraising side,
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by wjossey 8y ago
As the other response stated, it depends on what you mean by clean code. When used in a positive sense, “clean code” just means well written code that’s easy to reason and maintain. When referenced in the pejorative sense, it means “overly
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$9MM PPV Tiger Woods Matched Broadcast “For Free” Due to Purchasing Glitch(variety.com)
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The Benefits of Sharing Your Salary(nytimes.com)
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Can helplines survive our growing fear of the phone call?(theguardian.com)
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I’m two years into working from home on my startup, and it’s definitely one of the challenges. I have a co-founder and one full time employee, one in Boston and the other in Chicago. As for how I cope- I live in Los Angeles and make use of
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by wjossey 8y ago
Thank you for a neat answer. I thought similarly to you on day zero of thinking about this question, asking if I could spend this time more effectively. I’ve decidedly answered no, and mostly because it seems subconscious and effective. I d
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That's not what someone in his role is expected to be doing. He may support, or defund, certain initiatives, but he won't be the "originator" of anything major. The better question is, "But what type of people will
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by wjossey 8y ago
It's questions like this that make me glad I don't take standardized tests anymore. When I took the GREs in 2008, I received a 480 on the verbal section (which was bad given I was applying to PhD programs), and a perfect 6/6
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Ask HN: What do you think about when you “zone out”?
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Ditto for me. I’m a full year into using it for my startup and it’s been a real benefit for our business. I was really skeptical of whether or not I needed an SPA for our product, but now I’m really glad that’s the route I went. One thing I

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