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sixhobbits
7,550karma·1,282submissions·January 21, 2016
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yeah sorry the idea there is to move over stuff from our handbook like https://ritza.co/handbook/how-we-work/our-production-process... - but it's hard to separate what …
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I'd really recommend Matt Levine's various columns on this. Here's one [0] - it's paywalled, but if you sub to the newsletter you get the full texts for free. Not sure if you can g…
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I encountered this weird issue yesterday[0] (forum post is not mine but I also could not log in with Safari). It made me think I had somehow forgotten my master password for a while. maybe its time fo…
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If you'd told people 50 years ago that "literacy" would decline to the level of the reddit poster's style of writing, with poor sentence structure and words in ALL CAPS, they'…
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yeah big +1 to this. People are obsessed with automation, but doing a bit of manual work for stuff like budgeting and project management actually really helps cement it mentally I think (a bit like ha…
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There's a bunch of good advice and resources here but in the end sales and marketing is not that different from coding. To do it well, you have to do it a lot. And you're going to suck at it…
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Pixel phones run song identification constantly now. They have a local database of the top 1000 (?) most popular songs. It has negligible impact on battery life. Not saying I agree that 'phones a…
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Cashflow problems regularly kill business. Now you need a much higher cash buffer than before (in parent example where is that 800k coming from?). Combine with much tighter VC market and there are def…
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It's interesting that the idea that 'banks should refuse to do business with potential terrorists' is something that most people I know support, or don't care about. Until it happe…
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It's very popular in tech writing circles and pretty standard now as others have suggested. We do see people try to take it too far though and have literally only these four categories on their d…
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I've seen the airplane/railway comparison a lot and I'm not sure I buy it. Nvidia is currently important to training new LLMs but it's not that important to running inference on ex…
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There are a lot of comments about the up vs down hierarchy thing, but I think it's not really the most important factor for "giving feedback", which here seems to mean more "advoca…
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What's a good way to convert the output of something like this into an html page? We have non technical people looking at markdown PRs and commits in github and the diff viewer is terrible. It wi…
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It's not illegal for US people to view it and use it as a poll. Afaik polymarket doesn't currently charge fees, so they are trying to become a well known/respected alternative to offici…
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I think this is a good comparison. I wonder if some people would argue that it _was_ disastrous though? We seem to struggle with things like putting people on the moon and not making airplanes fail co…
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I've been calling a crash for far too long so take with a pinch of salt BUT I think another four years of this is very unlikely. 1996 - Cisco was 23.4B or 0.3% of US GDP 2000 - Cisco peaked at 53…
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Yes TFA says largely the same > This is how any other peer-to-peer network (eg. BitTorrent) works too, so surely we could make blockchains work the same way > For many years, it has been common …
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I've long wanted something similar to this. I currently use Linear as both an ATS and a CRM, and most project management can be reduced to People/Companies, Tasks/Deals, and Pipelines. …
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I enjoyed the Cape Town categories. At least in my experience the : 'Students', 'Drunk student', 'Poor students', 'Karens on community whatsapp groups', 'n…
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DoNotPay predates GPT by quite a bit -- it used to be pretty positively received on HN e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13822289 …
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Apologies then, I always assume show HNs are new projects but maybe that's unfair. Would be maybe a good idea to explicitly list any problems you had with ReviewNB and why yours is different as t…
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https://www.speakeasy.com/guides/api-frameworks/typespec This post has a bit more detail about why "we don't need more standards" might not be the correct tak…
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Is this just a copy of reviewnb which has been around for years? If this is new I'm doubtful you already have all those logos as your customers. It doesn't build trust to make claims if they…
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Sue me ;)
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Sure if it's online and multiplayer it's similar. My comment is not google over Microsoft but shared/multiplayer docs for tracking changes and reaching agreements in minutes for somethi…
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Technology spreads slowly. google docs is an instant 50x productivity increase for any legal process and yet a few years ago I saw an advocate's mind blown by a simple demonstration of simultaneo…