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by everdev 7y ago
Yes, service companies usually sell for 2-3.5x annual recurring revenue (ARR), which is measured by averaging your last 3-5 years of revenue. And you'll need to be easily replaceable.
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In SaaS you need some differentiating factor, but that's pretty easy: We're faster, simpler, privacy friendly, cheaper, etc. Most leading SaaS businesses have proven there's a market, but they're vulnerable on one of tho
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Why is Taiwan absolutely critical to Chinese defense?
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by everdev 7y ago
> how is this any better than X This is called switching cost and it's a challenge for any new business in an established market. Consumers ask themselves this question constantly and it's something you need to be prepared to a
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by everdev 7y ago
> workers must work ever increasing hours to make a living wage. That sounds like trying to use the gig economy to make a living. I'm sure some people could do it, but it's hard like you mention. The gig economy is designed for
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by everdev 7y ago
It can be a freedom for some people. People raising kids might love to work a couple days a week a couple months of the year (to match the school schedule). Many of them would never consider a 9-5 FTE job.
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by everdev 7y ago
As a small business owner it's a huge pain to hire employees. Payroll, taxes, health care, retirement, PTO, etc. add so much complexity that the only real solution is to hire a payroll agency to do that for you. With a contractor, or a
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by everdev 7y ago
I've looked into it as well and it looks really interesting. The biggest downside for me was that at some point I still needed a backend server to hold secrets or run business logic. At that point, Postgresql was just another server &#
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by everdev 7y ago
Well, many have sought absolute truth and "I think therefore I am" or simply "I am" is about as close as we've come. Scientific truths are really useful for everyday life, but they're not guaranteed to be true
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by everdev 7y ago
A nice list but I'd also add row-level security (RLS): https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/a-postgresql-row-level-sec... It's amazing how much effort we put into restricting access on the server, but ignore use
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by everdev 7y ago
True. The only other challenge is that in production software you rarely want to call panic()
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by everdev 7y ago
You could, but then when you get an error, you'll see the file and line number of the assert function rather than the code that actually produced the error.
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by everdev 7y ago
I used to write only in Sass for these same reasons, but switched back to CSS. CSS now has variables (if you really need them -- chances are you don't). The redundancy of writing a selector multiple times is sightly annoying, but I don
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Some would say adding a dependency that doesn't give you anything new you can't already easily do is abhorrent and inelegant. There's a trend to throw a library at the problem, but that comes at a cost.
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> basically, when you want to stop a behavior, the worst thing you can do is prohibit it. The results certainly sound encouraging. I'm curious though how people from those communities who tried to do the "right thing" and
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by everdev 7y ago
Sass and other CSS generators were useful a few years ago for rapid code generation. However, CSS has caught up as have editors and it's hard to see what real advantage Sass has today. Some novel things like a primaryColor variable to
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by everdev 7y ago
A question that needs no answer
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The ricochet turns a goal from 2 points into 3. Seems like an extreme amount of difficulty to return kick an oblong ball in the air through the gates for only 1 point.
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Maybe it's a low scoring game like soccer or hockey.
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Right. And kicking a rugby ball at full strength from a short distance towards an unprotected goalie might hurt. In the video they're only lightly passing and kicking the ball.
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Here's the sports official site: https://playspeedgate.org/
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by everdev 7y ago
I was really impressed by this 4d toys video: https://youtu.be/0t4aKJuKP0Q Now what if time is an illusion and similar to the video objects in life simply appear to be bouncing in and out of our 3d realm? That would look a
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More than that, it's just a Chrome browser with Ad Block by default.
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A professor had us replicate this effect in college. We broke up into pairs and one person put on a blindfold while the other person let them around campus. After about 5 minutes the person being blindfolded could hear people, conversations
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by everdev 7y ago
Are there any Nim benchmarks vs. Go, Crystal, Python, Rust, etc.?
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> Maybe it could eventually become an atmospheric variation of seasteading. It's like a miniature version of the Venus cloud city idea, but here on Earth.
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by everdev 7y ago
Glad you were released, I'm sure it was an intense experience. It reminded me of a book called "Never Split the Difference" by Chris Voss where he talks about his approach to negotiating hostage releases. The basic strategy i
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It was a joke :)
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> I dropped in a bid around $2,200 ’cause I was confident I’d be outbid. 5 minutes later, I was the proud owner of VidaliaOnions.com For those that are looking to replicate the success of this Vidalia Onion business only have a $10 budge
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by everdev 7y ago
No, I think I said "We don't know" what the better way is. But if your goal is to let animals roam free in their native habitats then captivity on farms probably doesn't seem like the better option to you.

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