mikeokner

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by mikeokner 7y ago
Location: St. Louis Remote: Willing (some travel OK too) Relocate: No Technologies: AWS (SA Pro), Go, Python, JS, Scala, Linux, Postgres, Dynamo, Cassandra, Redis, Terraform, Ansible Email: michael (at) okner (dot) com Resume: https:/
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by mikeokner 7y ago
That’s sort of the vision I have for https://www.naverator.com/ . Make planning the actual specifics of a particular trip easier, but also make it easier to discover and share ideas with others both within the site and on ot
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by mikeokner 7y ago
You're right, it is all manual for now. I do like the idea of some sort of import, but it's intended for a more general audience. I'm not sure my mom would figure out how to create and then import a CSV.
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by mikeokner 7y ago
Neat project! If anyone's interested in more of a full-featured web app for travel planning, I've been working on developing https://www.naverator.com/
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by mikeokner 7y ago
> The ability to take the feedback and double down in just a few days is motivational. Maybe. I took it slightly differently. They received negative feedback after a 10 minute pitch, and immediately dropped everything to change their p
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by mikeokner 7y ago
It's all done through AWS Cognito so it's something I got working with the default code-based method and then moved on to other things. I'll look at reprioritizing a confirmation link to smooth that process. I do care somewha
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by mikeokner 7y ago
I mentioned in another comment that I've been working on something targeted more at the personal vacation space: https://www.naverator.com TripIt is good for business travelers and works for personal, but it's very uti
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by mikeokner 7y ago
Seems like as good a time as any to Show HN (or shamelessly plug my side-hustle, depending on how you look at it): https://www.naverator.com It's a trip organizer/sharing platform that aims to be the place for you to c
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by mikeokner 8y ago
Really cool! I love simple solutions like this.
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Startup Sanity: Investor priorities are not (necessarily) aligned with founders(datascover.com)
3 points by mikeokner 9y ago|0 comments
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Startup Sanity: Ownership percentage matters(datascover.com)
1 points by mikeokner 9y ago|0 comments
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Don't think of it as a call for a quote, think of it as an initial sales contact. An unsolicited inbound phone inquiry is about the strongest possible lead you can possibly get. The potential customer typically won't expect you
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by mikeokner 9y ago
You should not start charging double to existing customers (which is why Stripe doesn't allow you to edit existing plans). You should keep them on a grandfathered plan for at least a period of time and/or nag them to upgrade (opti
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by mikeokner 9y ago
> Essentially, I come up with a new tactic to motivate myself every couple of months. If I don't do so, I find myself struggling to meet my goals and distracted. How often do you think about your goals? How important are they to
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by mikeokner 9y ago
I would personally discourage you from incorporating as a Delaware C corp unless you absolutely have no other option. On top of the registered-agent fees, Delaware charges a minimum of about $700/year in taxes. For a company with no
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by mikeokner 9y ago
> We don't solve problems, but we create some amazing products that people want. Sure sounds like you're solving someone's problem ;)
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by mikeokner 9y ago
You have to find a broker that will sell them to you. Usually these things aren't vanilla options, they're some sort of quasi-option derivative.
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by mikeokner 9y ago
It's tricky for interviewers because a lot of candidates claim to be "senior" yet can't even solve fizzbuzz on a whiteboard. Look for jobs with "Lead" or "Architect" in the title, but beyond that, ex
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by mikeokner 9y ago
> 2017 was a pustule of a year, politically and personally; the general anxiety around the degradation of American democracy made it hard to get much done. If you're the type of person to make excuses for your lack of personal ach
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Totally uninformed comment. Signal the app relies on centralized servers to route messages & discover contacts. Signal the protocol (which is what Skype is rolling out) is a messaging encryption library that encrypts messages on the c
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by mikeokner 9y ago
I was right there with you for a long time, but the touchpads on PC flagships have largely caught up. I switch between a Dell XPS 15 and a late-model MBP daily, and while I still give a slight edge to the mac, the Dell works well too and d
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by mikeokner 9y ago
That's coming from the client because the client has received a new public key with which to encrypt messages.
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Looks like someone with a lot of money watched the third Matrix film and thought "I want one of those suits."
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Cool, is there a way to use it to dynamically generate data (for streaming)? Would be nice to be able to just call something like .next() and get another record so a simulator can run for an indefinite period of time.
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Yeah I find it strange that publishers & such bother to release AMP versions of their sites but then opt to keep their crappy, bloated versions around as the default. Google should just more explicitly rank pages based on load times and
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Show HN: Datascover – Data analytics APIs as a service(datascover.com)
2 points by mikeokner 9y ago|0 comments
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Congrats to the team! I love that this project has been so successful. My M5510 DE has been my daily driver for almost two years now.
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by mikeokner 9y ago
A $60 price in 2021 is about 7% growth per year which is about average for the market as a whole over the past 50ish years, but significantly lower than current market growth and especially current tech sector growth. Still, it looks prett
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by mikeokner 9y ago
While attacks like that are absolutely a massive and terrible problem, I think that problem is orthogonal to my original question. Those victims are also tallied under general violent crime and murder statistics. When trying to determine
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by mikeokner 9y ago
"Gun deaths" always seems like a silly metric to me. Who cares if you're killed with a gun instead of a knife or baseball bat or whatever else? Why not just compare murder rates?

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