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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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There's some useful dining and bar options down there too. They don't get super crowded either like the above ground places do at lunch and after work hours.
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Not the point of this article, but I've been so curious if we've spent enough time debating if we could/should just send a ton of some kind of material/balloons/mirrors to the…
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You raise a great point. Maybe they’re good citizens now. On the other hand the Italian restaurant down the street from me was shut down from multiple health code violations including roaches. They’ve…
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Today I also learned, it's dangerous to rent from Hertz. https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa... You might accidentally get arrested f…
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That's a tough but great question. I spend a lot of money on books very loosely. It's one of the areas of my life where I don't really think about a budget. I just want to consume more …
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Ah, great call out. So these probably shouldn't be thought of as your todo list or jira backlog for the day. They're more like optional "side quests" (another term from the book) t…
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I've enjoyed Ali Abdaal's new book he just launched. A couple similar points really stood out along these lines even if they sounds pretty common sense. Treat your priorities like any invest…
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This is my favorite part of my day. Yesterday we were just having dinner talking about god knows what when my 9 year old drops something into convo about The Homestead Act and how many acres you could…
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I constantly ask chatGPT: "are you sure?" to it's replies, and it almost always corrects a mistake it made that I've spotted.
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Might be nothing. Just an accidental flag. Fingers crossed. https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/3791#issueco... and https://twitter.com/maci…
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I'm gonna miss it. I always thought it had an interesting Job to be Done when I observed my behavior with the store. We had one a few blocks from my home, and though I order from Amazon like I&#x…
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Census isn't an official plugin yet. We just make writing plugins easier if someone is writing one. Since our connector makes it easy now to get your data write into the plugins version of a data…