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by yourcousinbilly 4y ago
Two people to do the work. A founding team that can build and sell the product alone is the ideal team. All those skills in one person are hard enough to find. But the time required to sell and market is a full time job one cofounder often
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by yourcousinbilly 4y ago
Video engineer here. Many seemingly network restricted tasks could be unlocked with faster CPUS doing advanced compression and decompression. 1. Video Calls In video calls, encoding and decoding is actually a significant cost of video calls
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by yourcousinbilly 4y ago
They are called personal CRMs. Dex is the YC company, https://getdex.com/about/ Monica is the open source tool, https://github.com/monicahq/monica
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by yourcousinbilly 4y ago
“Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the United States were $800 billion in 2018–19 (in constant 2020–21 dollars). This amounts to $15,621 per public school pupil enrolled in the fall of that year.” https:&#x2
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by yourcousinbilly 4y ago
Thanks! I built this from the beginning to be public, so have got into the habit to both copy and paste whenever I learn something new and obfuscate secrets. I have had the current problem of its so massive that finding the specific sheet c
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by yourcousinbilly 4y ago
I have a massive Cheatsheet for most languages and many packages- https://github.com/jsfuentes/Code-Cheatsheet Also hosted on gitbooks: https://openai.gitbook.io/code-cheatsheets/
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by yourcousinbilly 5y ago
The way I think about it, YC funds founders very early with their current idea and traction as their resume. Founders pivoting and iterating through several ideas during and after the batch is very common. So just because something is a YC
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by yourcousinbilly 5y ago
Hey, it’s Jorge the CTO of Slingshow here. The security claims refer to all the video/audio in the product and were passed on from our video infrastructure providers[0][1]. Unless you are recording on the Stage, the video/audio do
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by yourcousinbilly 6y ago
Political vs apolitical is just semantics. Will companies deciding not to be socially active have a political impact? Yes. Does not engaging in political activities support the status quo? Yes. Is a particular political group more affected
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by yourcousinbilly 6y ago
Well the point of CSS separating style from structure is to be modular and useable across different websites/pages. So define a button class name I can use anyway in my HTML. But the web environment has changed. React and Vue introduce
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by yourcousinbilly 7y ago
I get the sentiment for YC, but “not one” is pretty impossible. Airbnb reported a profit in 2017 and 2018. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/airbnb-sa... It did lose money in 2019, but becau
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Relearning React with React Hooks(modulo.blog)
4 points by yourcousinbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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Getting Some Closure with JavaScript Closures(jorge.modulo.blog)
3 points by yourcousinbilly 7y ago|1 comments
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by yourcousinbilly 7y ago
The Onion did it better in 2008: "North Korea has one of the largest armies in the world, but they save consumption by simply not feeding them" "Truly elegant in its simplicity" https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by yourcousinbilly 8y ago
Aren't you worried the silencing of dissent will hide a very dysfunctional world from you? Aren't you worried it has happened already and your opinion has already been influenced?
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by yourcousinbilly 8y ago
While bad actors being punished is important, there is a constant trade-off for ensuring good actors aren't punished. Ideas like trial by jury and innocent until proven guilty try to address this because the judge of good and bad is es
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by yourcousinbilly 8y ago
Whoa whoa whoa, just because both systems have problems and have some similarities doesn't mean no one can complain. I'm not gonna defend the US's problems because it doesn't matter! It's easy to see the Chinese sys
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by yourcousinbilly 9y ago
True, why go through the motions of taking money then giving it back. Sounds like a great way to waste money through government inefficiency. It could possibly be efficient, but we should expect it not to be.
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by yourcousinbilly 9y ago
I think we can agree meritocracy means the best people for the job get the job. But, your contention points out what factors we evaluate when we say "best". Do we take "best" to mean when they apply for the job after yea
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by yourcousinbilly 9y ago
UBI isn't the clear choice everyone makes it out to be. I'm all for lowering inequality and spreading out wealth. But, fundamentally, UBI is just a welfare program with way more money pouring in so it guarantees a livable income