jeffshek

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by jeffshek 2mo ago
Role: Engineering Manager Contact: jeff+hn@histowiz.com About the role: As a valuable addition to our dynamic team, you will collaborate closely with our VP of Engineering, along with a talented group of frontend and backend engineers, and
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by jeffshek 4y ago
In defense of YC, many of them are previously founders of startups.
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by jeffshek 4y ago
Not sure if you mean why in the movie or why they couldn’t in real-life in the movie, they bring up the mission requirements at low altitude render a certain tech of the new gen planes useless under the scenario because of its dependence on
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by jeffshek 5y ago
I had a similar feeling a while ago - but revisited Notion after a year or so and they've made a lot of speed improvements to it! A couple of months ago, I got a Apple M1 and a lot of these electron apps load much snappier. (Slightly i
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by jeffshek 5y ago
There is an option to hide and autoformat inports.
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by jeffshek 5y ago
We've recently been using this at work, and it's seriously amazing.
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by jeffshek 5y ago
Gang of 4 - 4 authors from the book
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by jeffshek 5y ago
Venmo isn't instant. Send yourself more than 15k. If that goes through, try to send it back. Sure, the row in the database is instant though. I agree it is a feature for a bank to be able to undo mistakes. The problem happens when a ba
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by jeffshek 5y ago
In those organizations, I highly doubt microservices or monolithic decisions would have made a difference. Disorganized management won't magically get fixed if the root problems of ASAP, priority, techinal debt, etc features aren'
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by jeffshek 5y ago
I suspect the tech stack was merely the 5th or 6th reason for not funding, they were just looking for a way to move on. If they were reasonably interested, VCs won't say no - they just pretend to not see your emails until someone is ab
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by jeffshek 5y ago
Disclaimer: I own some (not enough, I wish more). I think your points were valid when cryptocurrency first started, but now it's now a bit too entrenched to be easily squashed. 1) Many miners use renewable energy. China uses a bit of c
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by jeffshek 5y ago
Population density and politics probably plays a bigger deal than capita as a metric though.
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by jeffshek 5y ago
It's definitely used as a signal in finance. There is a prestige of working at certain shops that carry over in your career. Similar to how it doesn't matter what you studied at Harvard, just that you studied at Harvard. I'm
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by jeffshek 6y ago
One day is really a short period of time to analyze ... Let's say you take someone who has smoked daily for 5 years, and now for a day they can't smoke ... what do you think the results would show? (Maybe not the fairest argument
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by jeffshek 6y ago
You're right that it'll impact long-term incentives, however - short-term vaccines are supply-blocked. A bidding war (probably) would be profit capture for those selling vaccines, but won't actually raise the amount of availa
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by jeffshek 6y ago
It's a common startup strategy to have free plans that lock in initial customers and then raise prices later and/or remove the free plans. At that point, you're using customer growth as your primary metric to investors and th
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by jeffshek 6y ago
Try Focusmate.com - It's really helpful to keep accountable. If you find yourself procrastinating, share your screen. Very useful for me now that I WFH and not a coworking space.
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by jeffshek 6y ago
I sort of wonder how much of this is embellished. Most of the time risk management products will try to stop this.
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by jeffshek 6y ago
The article briefly mentions it - but 1) 19.50 is what the United States has agreed to pay. It's unlikely the same price point other countries can / are willing to afford. 2) Rollout may be harder than expected. 3) If some of the
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by jeffshek 6y ago
Amusingly, I've read that Apple (internally) frequently uses Anker cables.
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by jeffshek 6y ago
I would bet the inverse. If the majority of tactics is spearheaded by one person from 1964 - that probably means there's a lot of innovation. I found reading Boyd's biography, so much effort was made before decision makers would u
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by jeffshek 6y ago
I know this will sound absurd, but buying an Android Tablet for Anki was an investment that has easily paid for itself. AnkiDroid is amazing. ~14k cards, so I've committed a lot to Anki.
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by jeffshek 6y ago
Because their "expected" future profit margins are significantly lower than Apple's. Caveat: "Expected" does not mean fact. But it is understandable why investors believe this.
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by jeffshek 6y ago
I'm not sure if I agree with this. This can easily lead to a trap of "waiting" and the time never comes. Many well-known authors (Stephen King, etc) build routines for them to write. https://www.goodreads.com/
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by jeffshek 7y ago
I've had a really great experience with using http://nextdns.io/ for this purpose. It comes with a lot of pre-defined things to block (Social Media, Advertising, Genre of Distractions ...) that can be helpful especiall
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by jeffshek 7y ago
This might be slightly unfair to Robinhood ... the time we saw volatility similar to this was in 2008. Most of the major banks had technical difficulties that day (despite being around for decades of years). Technology and scaling are tough
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by jeffshek 7y ago
https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a... A bit of a self-post, but I've compiled a list of Anki tips I've learned and found. My deck is about 14,000 cards over the last few years - so I
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by jeffshek 7y ago
How large is your deck? I'm at 14k (which is considered a reasonable size). I definitely do average about 30 minutes + a day, but the productivity at work has helped me much more. I've thought about this quite a bit and written ab
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by jeffshek 7y ago
High cash flow, high margins. Low customer turnover, stable growth. Its a much safer investment than most unicorns.
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by jeffshek 7y ago
The same security a bank gives you with a vault with guards. Sure, you could put the money in your safe at home, but security always has tradeoffs.

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