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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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Jesus. I'm also today years old when I learned they're spelled Froot loops, not Fruit loops.
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Wait. Fruit loops are made of corn. Corn is a fruit! :)
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oh thanks for pointing that out! > You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your…
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Tangent maybe. But when I used Dark Sky, I and everyone who asked me about the weather and I'd give them data from Dark Sky were always impressed by my accuracy for knowing when it would rain and…
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Ah, Nikita Bier, is who I was referring to. https://twitter.com/nikitabier There's some thought provoking bits on app growth and users in that feed. Just wish more of this was in…
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Impressed by the opportunity and execution of this.
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Relatedly, there's interesting research on "self-distancing". Like https://selfcontrol.psych.lsa.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2... Talking to yourself by Name…
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Same. I recently got one of these wirecutter book lights: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/glocusent-reading... Does an amber color for bedtime reading, and now I&…
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Same. Nice work!!!
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While we're on the subject: I still can't solve this and thought you'd either laugh or you are the only people who know what I'm going through :) I have some fancy Asus Mesh wifi r…
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This is great. Thanks for sharing these.
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Hey! Thanks for this. I have no backend yet, so it can be whatever makes sense. This is all just planning for what I want to do next here. So postgres in the back is fine by me. This looks pretty grea…
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OMG, I love that you put Frozen 2 and princess Anna and a song onto this. Thank you for this coinage. I will absolutely be using this now. Please write a blog post on your coinage of this so that we a…
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Absolutely. I mean, yes, there's those moments where you need to plan your retirement and you better think 40-50-60 years out. But most of the time, just do the next 5 minute thing and see what h…
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Yes, definitely thought of that way most of the time. But I also think that might actually trivialize this concept some. Because one might say "ok, here's the crappy MVP version, and now tha…
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Being a career long engineer, I'm not unaccustomed to breaking down huge projects into smaller things that can be parallelized, plotted in time, etc. We have to do it and get better at it. But ho…
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Definitely enjoy the overall point of the article. But something interesting that's happened in my life is that I've started creating more because I've started consuming more (as some o…