JoshuaRowe

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by JoshuaRowe 2y ago
Thanks! I'll check it out.
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Ask HN: What Tech Consulting / Agency Books or Podcasts Would You Recommend?
1 points by JoshuaRowe 2y ago|3 comments
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by JoshuaRowe 3y ago
My personal address isn't my business address. They are different. Mixing the two, while seemingly innocuous, actually can mean opening myself up to liability issues or a good argument that the biz that I operate isn't actually di
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by JoshuaRowe 3y ago
This is the perfect reason for having a true separation of personal / biz addresses and the reason I went for the UPS box in the first place. Business is business and home is home. It becomes more clear if I had some sort of public per
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by JoshuaRowe 3y ago
The separation of personal and biz addresses is an important concept in owning a business. Not only for privacy, but for proving the biz is a separate entity and such. This is probably one of 2 - 3 recent changes that they have imposed on m
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Updates to US verification requirements(support.stripe.com)
51 points by JoshuaRowe 3y ago|89 comments
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by JoshuaRowe 3y ago
They don't even really specify this in their link in the email sent, but I am getting this error when going to my dashboard now: Invalid address. Your business address must be a valid physical address from which you conduct business an
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by JoshuaRowe 3y ago
Adding a comment here in case anyone else is looking for a solution to save paying the difference. It appears that if you continue to use Stripe, but simply make payment links using the dashboard or programmatically, you will not incur thes
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by JoshuaRowe 3y ago
Yeah. I could see that. It isn't dire, but how much is too much to pay over a period of time? How much do they really need to run a solution that has been feature complete forever now? I get inflation and costs, but this increasing cos
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by JoshuaRowe 3y ago
Definitely not. Don't get me wrong. Stripe is a pretty good product, but it isn't "that" good, especially for SasS that is essentially feature complete and for my use case.
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Ask HN: Is it me, or are Stripe fees somehow getting worse?
19 points by JoshuaRowe 3y ago|8 comments
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by JoshuaRowe 3y ago
They did indeed use those things in their own setup. Whether that is good or bad is a matter of opinion, but I think they were trying to provide a realistic challenge into the work that needed to be done. I think he did realize the “challen
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by JoshuaRowe 3y ago
I think it keeps what is good about React and ditches what is bad. It is familiar enough to pick up if you’ve done any component and hook based React. I think it probably serves as a framework that people who know what they are doing to get
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by JoshuaRowe 3y ago
I worked on a simple company idea chatbot style app as a take home test for a startup I was hoping to contract with. They asked me to use LangChain and SolidStart JS. No biggie it seemed as I’ve done a few SolidJS and OpenAI API things in t
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by JoshuaRowe 4y ago
You really don't have to put you or your family at risk to have a profitable business that is a benefit to you and the people around you. You also don't have to work long hours or get no sleep to get there. There is no doubt that
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
Yes. I am not sure I have ran into this problem in a super major way before, but I remember not being able to do some things at previous gigs. I could not imagine having to ask to install software or config to just get my job done. In the p
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
I've been working this one out in my head, but I think that the above is generally a good indication of the quality of the code / project docs and thoughtfulness with on-boarding and making projects that people want to work on.
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
I think a good tech one that is a bit opinionated is: Does a project(s) build, and run (fully, without problems) in 5 or less steps?
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
This is a great take and a good set of questions. I totally agree on being more concrete and specific to get, at least, closer to the responses you are looking for. I feel like I have asked some more open ended questions, which can be good,
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
I agree. There really needs to be a team first sort of culture to produce the best outcome of giving individual members more say. It is probably hard to ensure that always happens, but I think if you hire people who generally want the same
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
No kidding. I feel like this happens a lot. It is nice to have both individual and team goals and hopefully they also align in a few ways.
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
Not necessarily. I think sometimes those committees are composed of people who never will work with a perspective employee. That isn't bad, but I think a team should have its on sub-culture and be able to make decisions for itself most
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
I think this is generally a good thing. Teams should make decisions together, but I could see the above point as a downside of that if taken to its max. I think that decisions should be made generally as a team, but there probably should be
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
Yes. It is probably a rare thing, but some companies that I know of actually pay overtime willingly (to a degree) to get more good work done. I think the tradition thoughts that a lot of companies have that overtime is the worst thing. Over
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
I could see that. I guess a better way to say it is just to pay attention to their overall body language.
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
I totally agree. Their perspective and thoughts also matter. This kinda goes along with the whole "Do they allow their entire team in interviews".
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
Another one that I like to ask product companies is if they use their own products and like them!
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
Yes. I think this is especially important if you are a more senior person or work more independently than a lot of product companies.
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
I agree. Usually, I tend to think that things can only really be improved if there is a culture that allows it. I can't count the number of times that someone had legit improvements, but they just stall after some initial effort as rea
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by JoshuaRowe 6y ago
Yes. Just asking about work life balance always tends to get boilerplate answers ("Of course we do!"). This is a great way to get that same info without making them produce those selling point ones.

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