awicklander

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by awicklander 7y ago
This makes me think of Fortnite. What if Fortnite, and the impact it's going to have on us, is yet but a tiny baby?
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by awicklander 8y ago
It’s comments like these that keep bringing me back to HN. Love this, thank you.
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by awicklander 8y ago
We signed up for Blue Apron and Sun Basket. Time after time, the actual food provided by blue apron was inferior. Often close to rotten. This isn’t a complicated story( Blue Apron delivers food with instructions but the food isn’t very good
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by awicklander 9y ago
This rings true, but also, a "no response" from support is never acceptable.
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by awicklander 11y ago
Everything written about here is in relation to VC funded companies. For people building companies without outside investment, and who pay employees with money, none of this is true at all and in fact sounds nonsensical.
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by awicklander 11y ago
And just won the appeal in 2015. So 13 years. Alone.
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by awicklander 11y ago
He has an awesome story. I had the good luck to interview him a little while ago for a sporadic podcast I do: http://projectidealism.com/posts/2014/1/31/podcast-episode-1...
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by awicklander 11y ago
And T is for Twitter? This seems like it would be the perfect foundation with which acquire twitter right? A twitter acquisition makes sense under Alphabet in a way it doesn't under Google, no?
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by awicklander 11y ago
Yep - check out http://bugherd.com
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by awicklander 11y ago
Check out yoga studios nearby. Because it's class based, it's more directed and time sensitive than working out, and a lot of them also foster community, so it might be easier for you to strike up a few conversations than at a gym
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by awicklander 11y ago
Well there's two primary things: 1. It shows you ALL referrals that happened prior to a conversion. For example, if someone clicks on a retargeting ad, then a google ad, then our blog, then our docs, then a sign-up. I see that all toge
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by awicklander 11y ago
I've been using Tend for about 4 months now. In all seriousness, Google analytics, and my inability to use it, was one of the most frustrating things I dealt with as the founder of a SaaS product. Google analytics regularly makes me fe
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by awicklander 12y ago
Yeah I do about 10 or 15 minutes with the headspace app. It's not a lot of time but it's quite nice and even that little bit of time is very impactful.
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by awicklander 12y ago
5:30am - 6:30am: wake up, coffee, meditate 6:30am - 7:30am: customer support from overnight 7:30am - 9:30am: breakast with family, kids to school 10:00am - 4:30pm: work, office, lunch 4:45pm - 5:30pm: beer with coworing space coworkers 6:00
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Venture Ethics(projectidealism.com)
1 points by awicklander 12y ago|0 comments
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by awicklander 12y ago
This is so beautiful.
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by awicklander 12y ago
So is Apple Pay in essence another way to get a credit card processed against stripe? If you have an app that customers can store credit cards on, it's not clear to me what the additional benefit of apple pay is? Is it simply a better&
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by awicklander 12y ago
I completely agree with you on this. I can't imagine continuing to use hipchat with this change in place. This was pretty stunning at first, but after thinking about it my guess is simply organizations that use Jira are the kind of org
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by awicklander 12y ago
There's another option that people never seem to talk about. Treat people well, give them a good working environment, and give them a fair salary based on the fact that they don't have any equity. Most engineers I know with stock
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by awicklander 12y ago
A little over $1000 per month. I recently did a write up of everything we use here: http://projectidealism.com/posts/2013/12/30/saas-we-use-2013
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A 30 minute interview with an astronaut about what it's like to ride into space(projectidealism.com)
2 points by awicklander 13y ago|0 comments
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Bootstrapping is thinking long, not small(projectidealism.com)
5 points by awicklander 13y ago|2 comments
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by awicklander 13y ago
I have to say, this HN thread is super confusing to me. There are plenty of good points in this article, none of which come off as smug to me. The fact of the matter is that the helpdesk software market is huge, and the notion that there is
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The SaaS products we used in 2013(projectidealism.com)
2 points by awicklander 13y ago|1 comments
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Surfers ride 100ft wave in Portugal(snowbrains.com)
4 points by awicklander 13y ago|1 comments
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by awicklander 13y ago
The 'if true' language on this landing page drives me absolutely crazy. It calls into question the very premise on which the protests are being organized.
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Ex NSA contractor designs 'surveillance proof' font(cnn.com)
6 points by awicklander 13y ago|0 comments
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by awicklander 13y ago
Let me guess, this will be used as a way to legitimize the FISA court. Nothing to see here - move on. See, your rights are being protected.
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Real Hope(projectidealism.com)
25 points by awicklander 13y ago|1 comments
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by awicklander 13y ago
2010 Conspiracy Theory: The US government is intercepting every online and cellular communication of it's citizens. 2013: Conspiracy Fact: The US government is intercepting every online and cellular communication of it's citizens.

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