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   by zild3d 7y ago

   > What proved conclusively positive was adding a discount to the checkout process ... Just to make the customer feel that they're getting a good deal. Definitely guilty of this, if I'm on the fence about a purchase, finding a d
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   by zild3d 7y ago

   obligatory "Dropbox is just a trivial ftp server plus SVN" [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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   by zild3d 7y ago

   WeWork is rebranding as "The We Company", so the word WORK is probably not their #1 choice https://www.fastcompany.com/90289512/exclusive-wework-to-reb...
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   by zild3d 7y ago

   2018 revenue was $400 million, ~doubled the previous year - Slack isn't a company with just a ton of free users and no monetization
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   by zild3d 7y ago

   That's really absurd to say, do you realize that $30k/yr is in the top 4% globally? https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i/?...
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   by zild3d 7y ago

   Very cool, will try it out. As a startup experimenting with a free plan, I found the "Badge required" to be a cool idea to get some promotion from free users Also do you mind saying what network graph library you use? (first gif o
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   by zild3d 7y ago

   >“We don’t want financial data and social data to be commingled” Keyword is want. They don't want the data to be commingled, but alas, it will.
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   by zild3d 7y ago

   * Use the Pareto principle to find the 80/20 in any activity and increase your leverage at every turn.
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   by zild3d 7y ago

   Used to work in missile defense at LM as a Systems Engineer, and seen similar estimations done for cost, schedule, LOC, FTEs, etc. To get to the total 1.5M LOC, it's after decomposing the system into lower level black boxes and doing s
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    > they provide a nice web interface (Horde) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder :) https://www.horde.org/apps/webmail/screenshots
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    Me too, was excited to learn about some nice wood working :(
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    Not sure what you mean by "monetizing instagram". Instagram's ad revenue is already around $10B no? Plus they've added in-app shopping
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    They used an excavator instead of a Gabriel
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    Only if you made/used it commercially and also that Google did not decide you can use it ("What rights does a patent provide? A patent owner has the right to decide who may – or may not – use the patented invention for the period
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    Happy about this, writing a slack app/bot with the old SDK was often opaque sc.api_call() with strings for the specific API (there are dozens, each with different inputs) always felt like a temporary ducttape SDK
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    > Meanwhile nonprofits and startups focused on solving the problem of open-source sustainability for everyone, not just Github customers, will suffer from this announcement. Frankly, those startups/nonprofits haven't done a goo
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    a
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    b
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    c
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    this only applies when you "know" that what you're building will stick around. If you are quickly iterating on an MVP it's more likely that code you write is going to need to be totally revamped. Acquiring tech debt in
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    > rather than have a few people attempt to judge ... as they groggily try to wake themselves up with coffee. This was our experience during the YC interview as well. Since we had an end of day slot, most of the partners were yawning as
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    Congrats Geoff, YC Startup School has been an incredible program I'm a bit confused if Michael Seibel is still CEO?
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    if slack becomes your hub and you start adding in integrations the app limit (10) can hit you pretty quickly as well
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    thank you. Skimming through this now and seeing how clearly it maps to recent conversations we've had that have turned into customers vs conversations we thought would and never did
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    why not use their ```# fmt: off``` ? I have not used Black, but considering it so I am curious about these occasional situations where you want to override auto-formatting
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    This comes up all the time and it's silly. If dropbox only had a high valuation on paper, but employees/founders/investors couldn't actually exchange that into real $ in their bank account then sure, you can say the jury
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    brings to mind C++. If you learned it 15 years ago and haven't kept up, new C++ will look like a new language. Don't think the same is true for python (yet?)
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    > Unsafe railing gaps what is unsafe about a space between railings at a corner that not even a hand can fit through?
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    Thanks, super helpful as another bootstrapping just-2-founders team. Also - for the public roadmap, trello works really well for this https://blog.trello.com/going-public-roadmapping-with-a-publ...
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    by zild3d 7y ago

    Please noone make the "Juul for opium"