ticmasta

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by ticmasta 6y ago
>> Web development takes the lion's share of computing people pay for which translates to the work people will do (we need money for survival) This just isn't true. There are so many systems where the web component is just t
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by ticmasta 6y ago
2-stroke exhaust and new tires... Maybe it's the association with memorable activities like visiting a motorcycle dealership with my dad as a kid, or a mowed lawn and warm summer rain? Meanwhile diesel exhaust makes me think of those c
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by ticmasta 6y ago
forget about that - they're doing a cryptocurrency!
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Maybe the "we love ads" argument is gone, but I still see the "I've trained myself to ignore ads" line of reasoning, which is countered by dark patterns exploiting thousands of years of evolution against ignoring th
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Just a single data point warning: I've had nothing but bad experiences with blacklisted, shared IPs from SES. Everything gets flagged as spam.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
You didn't seem to get much of a reaction, probably because of your recommendations to go with proven (read: old & boring) tech, but I appreciate it. Front-end churn is real and, coupled with rapidly evolving and ever-abstracting c
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Sending via SES and WorkMail ALL of my emails are flagged as spam, including replies to the original sender and things as benign as accepting meeting requests. We use it primarily for inbound, so not as big a deal but definitely going to mo
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by ticmasta 6y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but you don't have to pursue your absolute best in everything you do. It's fine to just "do" things casually. I think people would be much happier if they prioritized participa
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by ticmasta 6y ago
>> 1-2 months is a more reasonable tiny project timeframe. It gives you enough time to build something with substance, and test the idea thoroughly. This is a similar timeframe that Basecamp uses for internal initiatives. I've be
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Maybe he meant "reputation for ridiculously bad drivers going crazy fast"?
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by ticmasta 6y ago
the math is still incredibly lopsided. Your secretary can pay off her mortgage or buy a new car; the founders get FU money. This is just how it works; hate the game not the player.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
The HN community is full of incredibly intelligent but often young tech-centric people. I used to be part of the latter, but the reality is they lack a huge amount of context and experience. Being a talented developer-employee, even an earl
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by ticmasta 6y ago
He mentions his VCs have always been available and engaged, so I think it's reasonable that they knew he would be open and public about the deal; he always has in the past.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Am I the only one who immediately thought of this episode of community (Digital Estate Planning)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 1fgR7oeIXFA
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by ticmasta 6y ago
if it's before though, then how would isolation after symptoms prevent the spread? I think the original post stand if perhaps overstated.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
>> only to find out later there's no way to add an Outlook calendar. I haven't even looked at it but seeing this in the comments means I can't use it. Many (most?) of your target "elite professionals" are runn
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by ticmasta 6y ago
I'm getting there, plus old enough that FB and twitter never made any impression. Google apps is hard to cut off when you have school age kids though.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
This seems similar to how I felt when consulting and knew I was billing at a much higher rate than others. Even if there is some form of value-for-money angle you feel like you have a target on your back and will be an early "win"
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by ticmasta 6y ago
wouldn't the wage fixing scandal, which was essentially illegal oligopolistic behaviour, be an example of how a larger market, wider area supply/demand relationship would look more like the classic economic model, i.e., this exact
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by ticmasta 6y ago
When there are 100 jobs and only 10 qualified people in SF ,all paying huge cost of living, they can command very high salaries to cover COL plus more. When there are 10 Million people living in dramatically cheaper COL centers they (a) can
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by ticmasta 6y ago
>> this makes zero sense to me, the value you add most likely doesn’t change because of where you live Salaries were/are so high because of the limited supply of qualified labour. If they now accept workers from everywhere the su
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by ticmasta 6y ago
How would his PA log him into twitter when he's sitting on the toilet @ 2am sharing his deep wisdom? Can you imagine the hissy-fit he would throw if required to use a strong password, or getting a guy who has his email printed and dict
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by ticmasta 6y ago
>> Mozilla and Google are implementing to the same standards and specifications; problem is, Chrome's a better implementation, for speed and stability, in the average case and the corner case. This is not the interpretation I mak
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by ticmasta 6y ago
I'm probably tilting at windmills, but I develop in Firefox, then spend the extra effort to make it work in Chrome for the few areas where behaviour is different. I tend to build stuff for smaller audiences of enterprise-oriented users
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Well if you've hurt your career with in-person failures, wait until you experience the context-free over-reaction that come from a faux pas made in a faceless medium that keeps record of your transgression forever. Getting mad at someo
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by ticmasta 6y ago
A startup that waited until they had a high-functioning product doing what it's actually supposed to do, and then launched their PR campaign? unlikely. If your scenario was accurate they would have registered a domain and put up a bunc
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by ticmasta 6y ago
>> with each new technology you learn, there's a diminishing effort to learning the next. You kind of answer this in your following paragraph, but there's also diminishing benefits with learning the next great tech stack. Co
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Q: You're a 20 or 30-something start-up founder, pulled a million different ways, trying to grow your company on a shoe string budget and decide you need to hire another team member; what do you do? A: Spend all your energy to target p
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by ticmasta 6y ago
maybe with a SW company where salaries are by far the biggest cost, but $1M revenue isn't $110K per person like a previous post suggests
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by ticmasta 6y ago
"Already successful famous billionaires say no to almost everything" Advice that doesn't really help the rest of us, much ...

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