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by acrooks 7mo ago
This is obviously oversimplified but I think this is a big factor: Singapore is a business masquerading as a country. While it is technically democratic, in practice there are some barriers preventing truly free and fair elections. That bei
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by acrooks 8mo ago
Talk to customers. Listen to their problems. Build a prototype. See if they will pay for it. Repeat. As a founder I spend as much time as I can with customers. They tell us what to build.
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by acrooks 8mo ago
In my experience (enterprise software), customers buy our products not because we have a moat or some hard-to-achieve technical advantage but because they can speak to us in their words, they know we care, and we try solve their problems qu
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by acrooks 9mo ago
You can find these in western Canada too: https://www.elitejetsetter.com/snow-ghosts-big-white/amp/
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by acrooks 10mo ago
A really important part of this is the emotional component. When real money is involved, then you will sometimes face actual losses. It’s hard for a human to completely trust the machine in real world trading
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by acrooks 10mo ago
I’ve stayed >150 nights at Marriott hotels this year and was pleasantly surprised when Sonder started popping up as an option. But the thing I noticed is that, at least in the markets I visited, it was often MORE expensive than the local
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by acrooks 1y ago
I anecdotally find flight prices tend to follow a cosine wave. Starting high, dipping a couple months before, and shooting back up. You can see these sorts of trends on Google Flights which will show historical pricing for your search query
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by acrooks 1y ago
There are some contexts where 9.11 is larger than 9.9, such as semver, so it could be ambiguous depending on the context.
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by acrooks 1y ago
Often when I've rented cars, the agent has shown me an evaluator they use to assess damage - like this https://www.core77.com/posts/111200/Damage-Evaluator-Templat... Using that as a template, I would find it
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by acrooks 1y ago
I used to be a devout Airbnb user. I never had a horror story on Airbnb, and I certainly had a lot of very unique and interesting experiences that I've never been able to replicate in a hotel environment. But ultimately I gave up on it
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by acrooks 1y ago
That’s an interesting question. I think there are a couple of points here. So, more broadly, you might be asking me “why waste your time selling $100s of furniture?” which is a completely fair question. The opportunity cost of the time spen
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by acrooks 1y ago
There are two fundamental ways to win a negotiation. By "win", I mean achieve an outcome outside the norm, such as an above market rate salary. 1. Negotiate from a position of strength You pointed out a couple of these, like when
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by acrooks 1y ago
I think it's important to start with identifying your bottlenecks, and work from there to determine the solutions you need. In the case of our business, I feel that my time is best spent talking to customers and prospects. These discus
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by acrooks 1y ago
I wonder if some of this output will take a while to be visible en masse. For example, I founded a SaaS company late last year which has been growing very quickly. We are track to pass $1M ARR before the company's first birthday. We ar
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by acrooks 1y ago
Yes. As somebody who has used dozens of metro systems around the world, it is literally the only one that is not ~room temperature. In the summer, it is so uncomfortable on the tube that I almost always take a taxi, even if a taxi is materi
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by acrooks 1y ago
I interpreted the “uninterested in giving … attention” part of that point a bit differently. To me, somebody avoiding socialising is not giving off a superiority complex. I suspect what the author meant is being inattentive while socialisin
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by acrooks 1y ago
Claude responded “Nothing.”
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by acrooks 1y ago
Their 2024 revenue was estimated at $16.8M [1] and $10.5M in 2023. If you extrapolate that growth rate +1 year you can assume it's now $26.9M. Another source estimates it at $15M in 2025 [2]. So if you assume their revenue is in that r
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by acrooks 1y ago
Maybe easiest to explain from a software perspective. So if you build a SaaS app, your company will incur a number of costs. You need to pay AWS for hosting, your support team, your sales team, your annual team retreat to Mexico, etc. When
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by acrooks 1y ago
You will need to sacrifice something. If the regulations become more restrictive, one of the following needs to change: - cost (laptops getting more expensive) - quality (laptops getting less powerful / smaller) - time (manufacturers h
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by acrooks 2y ago
I have a lot of experience with this. Happy to have a call to give you some tips - my email address is in my profile.
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by acrooks 2y ago
I'm interested, can you email me (address in profile)
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by acrooks 2y ago
I suspect certain domains have higher performance than others. My normal use cases involve API calls, database calls, data transformation and AI fairly consistently does what I want. But in that space there are very repeatable patterns. Als
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by acrooks 2y ago
Yes this is the same for me. I’ve shifted my programming style so now I just write function signatures and let the AI do the rest for me. It has been a dream and works consistently well. I’ll also often add hints at the top of the file in t
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by acrooks 2y ago
While the strategy to find good deals / award space is a solved problem, the search tools to do so aren't. Tools like ExpertFlyer are super inefficient: it permits you to search for maximum one origin + one destination + one airli
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by acrooks 2y ago
I've built a couple of experiments using it so far and it has been really interesting. On one hand, it has really helped me with prototyping incredibly fast. On the other, it is prohibitively expensive today. Essentially you pay per cl
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by acrooks 2y ago
Hi, I have a lot of experience in this space - software for logistics, supply chain, shipping. I have helped companies procure off-the-shelf software, helped them build in-house technology, and have a lot of connections with companies like
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by acrooks 2y ago
Sorry for the delayed reply ... feel free to email me (email address in my profile) if you have more questions - No online sources. This is first hand data for engineers that have worked on my teams. - Here are some resources [1] [2] [3]. D
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by acrooks 2y ago
As somebody who works in tech in the UK, some of my thoughts: - I don’t really see senior engineering IC salaries below GBP 100k - “Head of” roles are materially higher than IC roles, mid-to-high-100s. - All of my experience is London-based
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by acrooks 3y ago
Depending on how they measure obesity, this 1B number may be greatly overinflated. One very popular measurement is BMI which only considers height and mass, and does not consider other factors like fat vs. muscle mass, body water, etc. For

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