defnmacro

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Understanding Timings in Distributed Systems(klaviyo.tech)
2 points by defnmacro 2y ago|0 comments
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by defnmacro 4y ago
To just make the point as well in regards to variability. The politics and political infighting at startups can be just as bad or worse than larger established companies as well. I think the best way to categorize the startup experience is
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by defnmacro 5y ago
> We hear about all the IPO’s that made 200 overnight millionaires. But we don’t hear about the vast majority that either fail, have a poor exit, or just sort flag in the wind. To play devils advocate, most people who intentionally optim
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by defnmacro 5y ago
I love this idea to get at least a pipeline of people to talk to in order to get closer to PMF. Sometimes its abysmally hard to even get people to get feedback from in the early days of a product it's like the great filter for pre-seed
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by defnmacro 5y ago
My personal take is working hard is a precondition towards being successful but not necessarily a guarantee. Lots of normal people work very hard, many normal people I know outside of tech are working night shifts and a day job to just sust
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by defnmacro 5y ago
Doesn't type hinting in 3.5 solve this, assuming one was to use it?
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A Wrapper for Handling Retries in Apache Beam Pipelines(mmartinfahy.medium.com)
1 points by defnmacro 5y ago|0 comments
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by defnmacro 5y ago
There's alot to unpack here and I resonate with it to a degree since I've also failed with 3 ventures so far, luckily while employed so as a result the failure wasn't so life or death, simply a learning experience. 1) Your 10
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by defnmacro 5y ago
Congrats! How did you you guys validate your idea?
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by defnmacro 5y ago
A brief exercise in shipping an MVP and seeing if it gets traction before refining the feature set =). Thanks for reading my ramblings despite the lack of proofreading hopefully its a bit better for others now.
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My experience releasing failed SaaS products(mmartinfahy.medium.com)
223 points by defnmacro 5y ago|97 comments
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by defnmacro 6y ago
The advice here is fairly practical but I think doesn't do much to encompass the premise of the question: which is how to you become more empathetic? Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. This is a com
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by defnmacro 6y ago
It's simpler than that ZIRP simply means the only way to find yield is in assets i.e. to fulfill fiduciary obligations i.e. pensions you have to go further out on the risk curve to produce that yield e.g. buy equities. The equation is
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Learn APIs in Ten Minutes or Less: JSON the Language of the Internet(daily-coding.info)
1 points by defnmacro 6y ago|1 comments
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by defnmacro 6y ago
I wanted to make a post on what APIs are in a short bite sized chunk, assuming you have literally 0 programming knowledge. Please let me know if you find it helpful! Also let me know if you'd like me to make more posts in this format.
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Learn APIs in ten minutes or less: Whose Jason? Oh you mean JSON(daily-coding.info)
2 points by defnmacro 6y ago|0 comments
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Learn what a Web API is in two minutes or less(daily-coding.info)
2 points by defnmacro 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What to do when bored at work?
1 points by defnmacro 7y ago|0 comments
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by defnmacro 7y ago
Personally I think this is a fantastic idea, I always have an issue with barbers getting wildly different hairstyles from the same specifications, a few inches off top with scissors, 3 buzz on the sides, you'd be surprised the variatio
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On Starting a “Startup”: A journey of a thousand miles starts with a step(medium.com)
3 points by defnmacro 7y ago|0 comments
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by defnmacro 7y ago
So long and thanks for all the fish.
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by defnmacro 7y ago
If I was an exec at Tinder what do you do here? There's nothing exactly that differentiates FB Dating from Tinder and I can't think of an USP differentiating the two, except that FB Dating may be more convenient. Kind of an intere
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by defnmacro 7y ago
> infinite growth Assuming growth is linearly correlated with resources. It's not, wealth can be created though cognitive effort i.e. software engineering. > finite planet Assuming humans are bounded to Earth for growth. The mark