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by _d8fd 8y ago
Why not just milk it until the money train dries up or you are rolling in cash? Just because one or more companies offer the same product doesn't mean you're going to squashed. What will tank your business is losing focus &
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by _d8fd 8y ago
For me it's mostly about gow people use metaprogramming. In Ruby, if I'm trying to find the source of a dynamically generated method in a dynamically generated class, that usually requires me to run add a debug statement, run the
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by _d8fd 8y ago
And supposedly the virus can survive for an extremely long time in a dormant state. Could someone do a little bit of homework who died from smallpox, dig up their corpses, and find live samples that way?
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by _d8fd 8y ago
Former insurance agent here. You can think of insurance as a small & certain loss to hedge against a large & uncertain loss. If stuff happens and you do need to cash in on that insurance policy, the payout should be thought of as sa
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by _d8fd 8y ago
I was playing with a parser generator last summer, and it was immensely frustrating to bump into bugs it had & features it lacked. In the end, it was much easier easier to write the entire parser myself. So if I understand the point y
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by _d8fd 8y ago
I like to comment on how my next door neighbor's rent (here in SF) is under $300/month. He moved when in many years ago when the rent was $85/month. I pay just over $1600 for the same 250 square foot layout.
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by _d8fd 8y ago
This happened to me, too. I lived in a hotel, moved out, and was unable to forward my mail. My hotel room was considered to be a commercial address. I think this was in 2011.
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by _d8fd 9y ago
>> You can't really build a product without talking with the customer or talking to other departments especially sales/marketing/customer service A friend of mine works at a large enterprise company on a multimillion do
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by _d8fd 9y ago
I'd say you can lose the GPA now :)
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by _d8fd 9y ago
If there's one lawyer in town, they drive a Chevrolet. If there are two lawyers in town, they both drive Cadillacs.
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by _d8fd 9y ago
Just tinker with Elm at work on your lunchbreak and say you uswd it at work. If you're awesome, no one will know and/or care where you picked up your awesomeness.
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by _d8fd 9y ago
Beats me. I use Atom everyday and spend zero time wishing I had a better editor.
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by _d8fd 9y ago
After having retired a couple of phones due to crappy battery life, my most recent phone purchase has a removable battery. I'll probably buy a new battery in ~4 months, when the phone is a year old. I'm happy I decided to follow
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by _d8fd 9y ago
If net neutrality fails, would it makes sense aggressively pursue a legal effort to break up "big cable"? Back in the long distance/DSL days, the local telcos were forced into allowing alternate vendors to sell long distance
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by _d8fd 9y ago
In SF, I have a 250 square feet studio with no kitchen & I pay $1550/month in a cheaper part of town (the Tenderloin).
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by _d8fd 9y ago
Speaking for myself, and I tend to make practical choices for what I understand now. At the moment, I am not using Rails in my day to day work, and this is largely based on my past experiences. Pros: - easy enough to find libraries for mos
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by _d8fd 9y ago
Here are my simple tips: - don't run out of cash - make something you enjoy working on - sell something people need - sell something for more than it costs to make - don't expect the people around you to be as excited as you are a
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by _d8fd 9y ago
tl;dr -- offer customers something they can't buy at a price their willing to pay. My personal, non-software example was to identify an untapped opportunity in my field, technical recruiting. My clients had 20 to 100 employees, no int
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by _d8fd 9y ago
One specific example is venture debt. If you raise a bunch of money from a whitelisted VC, SVB will lend you money on top of that. Maybe you raise $9 million from Accel Partners in a series B, and SVB lends you another $3 million. You ge
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by _d8fd 10y ago
(not sure if you were being sarcastic, so...) >> In most cases when a company rejects you because of "culture fit", chances are there's something wrong with yourself. I completely disagree. Interviewing teams reject ca
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by _d8fd 10y ago
I like the idea of @codeclub. "Would you like to go to @codeclub" "Yes!" "Ask HN: How should I teach code to kids?" Getting kids an opportunity to become interested in @codeclub is a related, but separate quest
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by _d8fd 10y ago
I've never been a parent or teacher, and have not been responsible for raising children in any formal capacity. So, my question is... Are the kids remotely interested in programming, and does it make sense to try teaching them if they
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by _d8fd 10y ago
The only problem with being a server janitor is there being a communication mismatch. I've worked with a sys admin type who was told, before being hired, he'd be a space janitor. He loved the reference, because that's what
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by _d8fd 10y ago
>> Can you talk about a project you experienced that went very badly I'd like to offer a spin on this. In my experience, asking a question that demands one to recall specific details about a painful event in an interview, which i
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by _d8fd 10y ago
My favorite is being told I can't store stuff I need on some enterprise storage solution because it is running out of space, when I know in my head a couple more terabytes of storage costs way less than the amount of effort that went i
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by _d8fd 10y ago
If you're business never takes off, it won't matter where you are incorporated. Get some decent advice for a professional you trust. When you start making mad stacks of cash, let the profits from your business pay for the super
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by _d8fd 10y ago
Other than some superficial syntax similarities, I find Elixir to be nothing like Ruby. Pattern matching, immutability, OTP, and the actor model feel like building blocks from a whole different universe.
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by _d8fd 10y ago
If you're put on a PIP, and you want to leave, you can use that as leverage to get some severance. Call it a resignation bonus. Getting a month or three of pay is money in your pocket, plus time to line up something better. An imper
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by _d8fd 10y ago
> A FOB somewhere near Lashkargah My Google-fu thinks FOB is short for Forward Operating Base.
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by _d8fd 10y ago
At a certain point, it becomes hard to market yourself in a way that maps to what people understand. Imagine having a toothpick, saw, wine opener, knife, and other various tools. Now put them all into the very first Swiss Army Knife and tr

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