ajcodez
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5 years ago
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on: Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate enroute
Most consumers expect that all available options in the marketplace comply with all regulations, and then make a surface level decision on the best option. So if there’s a company that is not competing in a fair way, there should be regulation to limit unfair behaviour (imo) -- otherwise every consumer needs to know every detail about every company and process and purchase with integrity.
ajcodez
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5 years ago
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on: Liquidity Is Coming
It sounds like Carta is marketing to early employees and not to accredited investors. There will be quick product market fit if employees prefer to join companies listed on CartaX. I have offer A that is liquid, and offer B that is not liquid, etc
ajcodez
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5 years ago
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on: San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.
My friends are leaving for cities like LA where they expect to enjoy it more. In my experience the majority of new SF residents move in to start a new job - not for the food, nightlife, or culture. If the jobs are remote, that segment will not come back, and will not move to SF in the first place. It’s a good thing, fewer people having to make trade offs for better careers.
ajcodez
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5 years ago
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on: Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
Saifedean Ammous writes pretty convincingly how a fixed money supply would be a good thing. I don’t know of any other unique benefit. It will be interesting to see how it plays out with nation states and diminishing block rewards. I’m holding a little bit just in case.
ajcodez
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?
I have always regretted investing spare cash while feeling a sense of self imposed time pressure. I would sit on it until there is an opportunity you are excited about.
ajcodez
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5 years ago
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on: Programming Inside a Container
Working with 150ms handicap is not necessarily a bad thing for web developers.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place
It should eventually fall under consumer protection laws. Failing to report incidents on a status page is like failing to mention trans fat on a package label.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white
Data point - of my close friends in our 20s the stressed founders were the ones to go bald. It could be genetics, but it’s interesting.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips
I can see why they did it that way. Fixing the algorithm would require setting the base pay relative to delivery cost and then canceling orders that don’t tip enough to get accepted. Not exactly palatable for customers. ”Your order was not accepted by any drivers. Try again!”
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Visa Buys Plaid
Keep in mind every pull for transactions will cost money so you need to charge enough per month to cover those costs. It’s closer to $1 than a penny like most APIs.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
Slacking means doing the minimum required to get by. It doesn’t mean doing nothing and getting fired. I was replying to the parent comment idea that engineers at Facebook work hard because in my experience they do not. Which is fine. Slacking in many ways is optimal.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
Facebook hires tons of zero passion 10am-4pm engineers. It might not be deliberate slacking but it’s definitely not hard working.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Twitter prepares for cull of inactive users
For every Aaron there are thousands of people who signed up, took a great all letters no numbers username, never posted, and never came back.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Culdesac: Car-free neighborhood built from scratch in Tempe
I lived in Montreal for three years and for at least eight weeks of the year the air outside was so cold that it hurt my face and made my eyes tear up. It is also a beautiful city and was a great period in my life.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?
(0.2) Keep your day job.
(0.4) Start building a portfolio. Nobody will hire you without examples of past work or past clients they know. Blog posts, LinkedIn recommendations, case studies, screenshots, mockups, anything is better than nothing.
(0.6) Give free advice to your friends, former roommates, former classmates, former colleagues. Sit down, have coffee, listen to their app idea, compliment them, show them who did it already.
(0.8) It’s hard to meet people if you work at a desk. Conferences and meetups can help you build your network.
(1) At this point, every month at least two people should be reaching out to you about software projects.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?
In my experience consulting opportunities come through personal connections and often to work with early stage clients that are not very technical. What you bring is experience they can trust because you were referred by someone they know. Clients often don’t have the ability to get the project started or hire the right people so often consultants start as the interim lead developer and then migrate to the interim hiring manager and then pass the baton. I recommend asking for equity if you’re launching early stage companies for clients.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: The Mun Programming Language
Off topic but it would be cool to have function types use just > for brevity, such as “add: int>int>int” and have equality operators use two characters, such as << >> >= <= ==.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable?
It sounds like you do your best work to impress others. What if you hire a code mentor to review your code every couple weeks? It’s worth $100 if it works.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon
Value is captured at the point of sale for everything, not just ecommerce. Also, there’s a number of successful publicly traded logistics companies in the $20b to $70b range.
ajcodez
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6 years ago
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on: Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates
My great-grandmother died a month before her 100th birthday. Born in California with valid records and survived her husband by decades. She was pretty active and alert considering her age well into her 90s. We would walk together on the grounds of her retirement home (she needed a walker) until the last year or so.
