waytogo

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by waytogo 8y ago
> we closed a $1.7M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins [...] in a little over 8 weeks This is fast and it's hard to believe that it was a terrible experience. How would have been your post if you needed 8 months or didn't raise
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by waytogo 8y ago
OT: What eBay is really good at: If you want to buy a notebook with a US keyboard (which some devs prefer) and when it's hard to get them in your home country. eBay.com offers a Global Shipping Program where the US seller just send the
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by waytogo 8y ago
Had also one key which was registered as two key strokes every fifth to tenth time. Super annoying and the solution was strange: after vacuum cleaning and blowing the keyboard many times the only thing that helped was resetting the NVRAM wi
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by waytogo 8y ago
Thought that all new Android One devices should get upcoming updates like the Pixel devices but they don't get Android P Beta (except the Nokia one).
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by waytogo 8y ago
The problem you face is pretty simple, your opportunity costs are just too high: The probability that you create a company as a first-time founder that generates $500k/yr or $42k/month is... - in 12 months ultra low - in 24 months
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by waytogo 8y ago
Stopped using AMP. Created a site in pure AMP. All competitors didn't use AMP then (1 yr ago). My site was the fastest, didn't have any ads, was the lightest, the most beautiful, had the best UX flow. SEO-wise my site still doesn&
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by waytogo 8y ago
Interesting piece but perspective matters. > don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short. It depends on your situation. If you cashed out and don't have to worry
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by waytogo 8y ago
Three years ago I forced myself to reduce my FB usage. - At the beginning I remember it was super hard not to check FB - So I just stopped posting first - Then I realized that it significantly helped to avoid FB in the morning - Later, I in
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by waytogo 9y ago
Before we dive into a long discussion about depression, who has made actual experiences with Ketamine and likes to talk about it?
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by waytogo 9y ago
12 °F / -11 °C. On my bike. Listening to Gorillaz on my Powerbeats 3. They shut down after 5 minutes every time.
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by waytogo 9y ago
Maybe most of the tech fields covered by HN are also of my domain expertise.
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by waytogo 9y ago
OT: From my perspective, HN is the reference regarding tech content. The upvoted stories, the comments, the discussions are of such a high quality. It's just the best resource to stay informed and educated in tech. Surprisingly this is
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by waytogo 9y ago
While most of us happily discuss what Candy Japan's CEO did right and wrong with his Youtube ads, they miss one little thing: Candy Japan, the master of upvoted stories on HN, burned $14K on Youtube to have another story for HN which b
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by waytogo 9y ago
Wrong question, wrong perspective. Even the very best jobs where everything seems to be perfect still have significant setbacks because of the nature of a job: - Employees suffer from one single dependency which can make their live miserabl
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by waytogo 9y ago
Super nice thread with inspiring thoughts. My shot: Once I had a family with wonderful little kids I understood what 'quality time' really is. As much I enjoyed being with my friends or even ex-girl-friends: If I think back of wha
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by waytogo 9y ago
Out of curiosity: why homeschooling?
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by waytogo 9y ago
Being on-site != lived in
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by waytogo 9y ago
> When he needed a shower, Peck — who was 35 at the time — would drive to his parents' home, which happened to be nearby. Why didn't he then just live with his parents for the 3 months? He still could have go there to get that
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by waytogo 9y ago
OT: Anyone know the best architecture using LE with a Docker Swarm cluster. I let one server do the challenge and renew the certificates with cron every three months. Those certificates are synced with every Docker Swarm node through Docker
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by waytogo 9y ago
A decade after social networks got popular people still do not understand how relationships are formed. They think you can get a buddy, find friends, be not lonely anymore with a single click. FB, Instagram, Tinder and today's Show HN
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by waytogo 9y ago
Dang, no need to get aggressive. I was on mobile and had not the time explain why all products around Facebook—which need to collect user's behavioural data to target ads etc.—can't ever get compliant with the strict GDPR. I gue
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by waytogo 9y ago
I can't relate to her post. We use on purpose attractive female profiles for our support chat avatars (our product is a SaaS) and the cases where a user behaves like this are 0.5% and for us not a problem at all, we just ignore them.
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by waytogo 9y ago
It's the modern version of a trade war between the US and the EU which targets massive online monopolies which the EU doesn't have.
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by waytogo 9y ago
> Facebook will do just fine, they had years to prepare and an army of lawyers. They won't do fine. Don't want to go into details but their actual products/required architectures for their products just can't be GDPR
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by waytogo 9y ago
Wait until GDPR is in place in May and German and other EU courts will rule FB to death. IDK how FB will ever be compliant with GDPR and survive that huge upcoming fines in the long term or in the worst case the withdrawal from these market
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by waytogo 9y ago
Not one who is 'prominently against cryptocurrencie' in general but most have clear preferences and dislikes. The field is super wide.
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by waytogo 9y ago
A good while controversial start is Ian Balina @diaryofamademan (ICO heavy content) and then just follow founders from various cryptos (Vitalik from Ethereum, Jed from Stellar). Then just add all the people mentioned people retweet.
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by waytogo 9y ago
Rediscovered Twitter for blockchain news. Why: Subreddits for different tokens/currencies end up being echochambers (but still good resources as long you follow multiple subs). HN rarely shows blockchain stuff and the upvoted ones are
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by waytogo 9y ago
Super interesting piece and as somebody who is interested in many things I appreciate such articles. But seeing this on #1 feels a bit off on HN. Is there a slight possibility that the feed is sometimes curated (eg through different voting
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by waytogo 9y ago
OT: This type of article ('how we hit the goldmine with xy') is always tempting to read but eventually a disappointment. If someone had the plan to the goldmine why should he disclose it?

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