mikekoscinski

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Ask HN: Coolest thing you learned in 2023?
29 points by mikekoscinski 3y ago|38 comments
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by mikekoscinski 3y ago
It's a metaphor. For things like office politics, OKRs, etc.
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Walter Isaacson's book about Elon Musk is available for pre-order(twitter.com)
3 points by mikekoscinski 3y ago|2 comments
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by mikekoscinski 3y ago
Proxyman is great. It was essential to our development workflow for one of our user-facing products at my last job in healthcare.
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by mikekoscinski 3y ago
> “I mean, I would probably argue that venture capitalists are not good for society regardless of what they’re investing in.” Definitely. Personally, I have __never__ purchased anything from Amazon, looked anything up with Google, shippe
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by mikekoscinski 4y ago
Presumably, it is more appealing to Binance to kill their largest competitor than it is to realize a return on a minority investment.
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by mikekoscinski 6y ago
It looks that way to me too. I converted the conversion rates from unique-trial-paid for each scenario. It looks like 0.846% for credit card required upfront and 0.264% for no credit card required. So *net conversion is ~3.2x higher when
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Ask HN: What's the most fun thing you've done in 2020?
2 points by mikekoscinski 6y ago|0 comments
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by mikekoscinski 6y ago
Some assumptions to analyze this switch: - Dropbox saves $50M/year in AWS costs - Dropbox spends $200K/year (salary, benefits, equipment, SaaS, etc.) for their average infrastructure engineer Following those assumptions, Dropbox m
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by mikekoscinski 6y ago
Right. It seems commonly misunderstood that the universe of investable startups represents a zero-sum game for investors. It isn't as simple as "invest in more companies"; one fund's investment represents another fund&#x
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by mikekoscinski 6y ago
In addition to (or instead of) a 20% discount, a referral system might be interesting to you. 'Refer a friend and you each get one month free', or something to that effect. Paid ads are pretty expensive in everything financial ser
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by mikekoscinski 6y ago
I think your pricing instincts are directionally correct. They may be off by a bit, but I don't think it's by a magnitude. Perhaps you settle at $15, but I think charging ~$2-5/mo for this would be much too little. Might as w
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by mikekoscinski 6y ago
You could randomly select one company to feature from a list of N upcoming IPOs. E.g. `${sampleCo} begins trading this week, along with N-1 others...` You could leave the N-1 other tickers blurred out, or you could literally write 'alo
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by mikekoscinski 6y ago
Correct. Perhaps I'm being pedantic but my past experience has been to log in via 2FA, update settings to disable 2FA, then authenticate via 2FA one final time before it is finally turned off. This has held true across many services.
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by mikekoscinski 6y ago
Edit: This is shockingly the case with Google as well. Every other major service provider seems to require re-authentication prior to disabling 2FA.
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Tell HN: Twitter does not require 2FA to disable 2FA
4 points by mikekoscinski 6y ago|3 comments
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by mikekoscinski 6y ago
I struggle to understand how this benefits applicants. So long as SAT/ACT is accepted at all, students should (and, mostly likely, will) continue to take them. This is a very obvious illustration of game theory and the Prisoner's
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by mikekoscinski 6y ago
Came here to say this. Still broken for me. "NPR" was last query.