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by zhobbs 6y ago
I would think an Android skin would still be preferable. Much bigger ecosystem of touch optimized apps.
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by zhobbs 6y ago
You need an ISP right? You think telecom companies are anxious to provide them bandwidth?
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by zhobbs 6y ago
In my experience the types of developers building this stuff are personally fans of open source and companies are willing to let them submit upstream due to PR wins and limited downside.
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by zhobbs 6y ago
Alexander Hamilton wrote a lot of articles published in newspapers across the country in 1793 about how to "cure" yellow fever with booze and hot baths: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/486788-how-p
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by zhobbs 6y ago
I don't believe any of the trials have included children so far, so not sure why you'd say "starting with kids"
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by zhobbs 6y ago
Maybe a driver would still be in the truck for non-highway situations, but could be sleeping in the cab so the vehicle utilization time is higher and goods delivered quicker on long hauls.
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by zhobbs 6y ago
Agree -- recruiters don't care about side projects. But, if you hustle and track down the hiring manager they might be impressed, and at a minimum it could be a good conversation starter. My side projects have opened a lot of doors for
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by zhobbs 6y ago
Windows, Linux, and Mac do. I'm proposing this scoped just to device+OS combo that you purchased.
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by zhobbs 6y ago
Maybe it should be something like, "if your platform doesn't allow side loading of other apps, or other app stores, then the store on that platform can take no more than X% commission on sales"
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by zhobbs 6y ago
The coverage of this has been misguided IMO. The headline here should be, "Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Fresh". The benefits you get are really just delivery of in-store items to your house, it seems your walmart.com experience do
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by zhobbs 6y ago
Walmart+ only applies to in store items as far as I can tell.
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by zhobbs 6y ago
If you watch the video of it, it looks like this is just a rolling self checkout machine. So you basically self checkout with each item as you put it in the cart.
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by zhobbs 6y ago
User acquisition is very hard. If you can outsource that to a marketplace the commission is probably worth it, especially if your goal is to be a very lean micro-SaaS.
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by zhobbs 6y ago
We need to be making more science based risk decisions here. The commentary I see on this topic, like this article, are justifications of whatever viewpoint the person is anchored in (due to emotions, political leadership, or personal home
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by zhobbs 6y ago
You can't think of your pay as a transaction based on value you bring. It's based on 1) retaining you 2) how much would it cost to replace you For 1, what are your alternatives in your local market or remote positions (next best a
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by zhobbs 6y ago
Thank you! I'm tired of the "Sweden ignored coronavirus" meme that simply isn't true.
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by zhobbs 6y ago
This was also my experience. It's easy to reflect on the day, or the week and feel like there was no joy, no break, no time where you got to do something you wanted or just relax. Our days were very long, as we did a staggered schedule
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by zhobbs 7y ago
I don't understand why HN finds piracy acceptable for news content. If the post was about a video game or movie release, should we pin a link to the .torrent file?
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by zhobbs 7y ago
I'm considering purchasing one. In general, I value convenience and personalization over privacy. I completely don't relate to the idea of relevant ads being a bad thing. Anyways, as someone who spends a lot of time panning a lapt
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by zhobbs 7y ago
Could the same be said about computer science or most engineering degrees? You walk out of your CS program ready to be a frontend web developer or a device driver developer? I think all degrees are pretty general and then you specialize in
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by zhobbs 7y ago
Is it a cost structure issue? Ie, replacing the captain on a ship that holds 15,000 shipping containers, does that lower the cost of each container by a couple of dollars? Similarly, with airline pilots, how much of my ticket cost is pilot
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by zhobbs 7y ago
Also curious about the 3 vs 2 on the left. For 6, it says 6+, so maybe that is a mean that could include outliers with tons of active workspaces.
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by zhobbs 7y ago
Yes, without their exclusive IP there would be very few switch sales. It's why I have one for sure, same with PS4.
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by zhobbs 7y ago
San Francisco spends in the neighborhood of $300M per year on homelessness. Feels like research on how to better spend that money will do more than just throwing more money at the problem will.
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by zhobbs 8y ago
Probably cheaper to invoke the lambda functions from Cloudflare workers.
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by zhobbs 8y ago
I can't find the $400k/year number anywhere. The census puts it at "$250,001" which seems like a fishy number.
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by zhobbs 8y ago
"According to Census data, the median household income in Palo Alto is $137,000 a year, while the US average is $57,600" from: https://www.cnet.com/news/silicon-valley-middle-class-earns-...
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by zhobbs 8y ago
Might check out AWS Lambda for the Rust backend, I usually use a SAM config to deploy ( https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws... ). For the DB, you could then use RDS, a managed postgres servi
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by zhobbs 8y ago
I second this. I use Next.js with lambda, so I don't have to worry about servers. Works great...
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by zhobbs 8y ago
If he stayed he might have ended up in an executive position, getting additional stock grants down the line.

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