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This exactly. It is more important to move fast. Screw the edge cases. As long as it’s correct _most_ of the time, you can always fix anything that’s broken tomorrow.

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A programmer’s wife is pregnant and goes into labor. Programmer brings her to the hospital, she gives birth and the doctor hands the baby to the doting father.

Wife: “So, is it a boy or girl?”

Programmer: “Yes.”

Studying, getting hired, career promotions, raising funds... It’s all about beating the system. You’re evaluated based on certain criteria and you optimize for those.

Never heard of this "annual salary divided by 1000" rule but I calculated and it works out about right for me.

I am in a third-world country though, so rates are much, much lower than $150-320/hour

This is awesome. I used to think music was no big deal but after playing with this I realize I have no musical talent whatsoever.

or donating cans of food.

Thanks, I never realized

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/im-begging-you-stop-donatin...

Does pitch get lower with age? That would correlate with larger companies tending to choose more experienced CEOs.

That aside, there are other forms of biases, like people preferring better _looking_ leaders (based on socially perceived ideals on height, color, religion, hereditary status) and so too will they prefer better sounding CEOs.

This is an easy one - go for it! With your age, experience and accessibility to support from friends and family I think the upside far outweighs the downside.

You haven’t mentioned any financial commitments (loans, dependants, filial support, etc) so presumably you have none.

You will probably regret not going for it more than sticking with something you hate.

Get a barcode scanner, scan the ISBN and use that to do a API query on Amazon to retrieve title, author, category, price, etc. Store this info in a DB.

Some scenarios:

1. Generally lookup should return something. Store these book by categories, e.g. business, children, fiction, etc. in their shelves/containers for physical browsing by your customers. The more subcategories you can do the better.

2. If price is bigger than some threshold then store these books privately and list for sale directly in an online marketplace. There’s an industry around book scalping (forgot the actual term) where traders buy books from fairs and sell online based solely on margin.

3. The lookup returns nothing - these books are probably very valuable or worthless. Some manual action required.

I was actually considering doing something like this for remainders before, but never got it going. I’d love to know more about your eventual solution.

Amazing! This pretty much enables clothing brands to generate extremely targeted ads on the fly. Models can have similar body shape, hair style, skin colour to the user. Based on past photos the advertiser can figure out preferred colours, patterns and possibly even styles.

I'd love to read more about how you positioned your brand, especially on the design decisions that you made to entice customers come more regularly and how you manage to sell more cups than your competitors.

That’s a really great company to pay SF rates while working remotely. Wish I could find one like that.

Have time on your side

More time = more options

No time = desperation

A few months back people would have been yelling “BUY THE DIP!”

IIRC for me it was a one time fee of 1 USD.

They implemented this fee whenever they were growing too fast and needed to slow they growth to keep their servers in check. At other times it was free.

They ran some tests and found that mangosteen juice can conduct electricity, but does not cause short circuit when in contact with the batteries

Article didn’t actually say why they’re shutting it down. Is the tech not feasible?

With the Otto lawsuit settled and Levandowski gone it should have cleared the way. Focusing instead on self driving cars doesn’t make sense.

How do you qualify candidates as being the target audience, and what happens if it’s a really small, hard-to-reach niche - how do you guarantee the number of respondents?

There are LOTS of jobs that appreciate programming knowledge but don't require you to do hard core coding.

Business analysts, project management, tech sales, testing, support, etc

Choose an industry-focused company (banks, oil & gas, telecommunications) instead of a tech-based company.

As a Malaysian, this win is so amazing. Literally against all odds. I’ve never been more proud of my fellow Malaysians.

Najib had control of the Election Comission, Registry of Socieities, Attorney General, Inspector General of Police, and his own political party.

With this power he shamelessly gerrymandered, deregistered the opposition coalition, appointed someone to proclaim him innocent in 1MDB investigations, locked up the opposition leader, and sacked critics within his own party including the deputy prime minister and a VP.

Then there was also the EC who set voting date on possibly the most inconvenient date, new laws to bar advertising of the opposition prime minister candidate’s face, the Sultan who spoke out against the opposition and the Agong who stripped some opposition leaders of titles.

This is indeed a historic moment.

Yes, this exactly. Your kids’ education is the way out of poverty. In some families, one child with a decent job will provide a lifeline for the whole family.

Even if the system is broken, even if the quality of education is bad, you have to play along because private education is too expensive.

There's also the guy that won the ball to pass the person who passed to the person who scored.

And also the guy who pressured the opponent into attempting a difficult pass so that his team mate could win the ball in the first place.

I imagine balance will be tricky. Too few flights and customers get frustrated because they can't get seats or decent times. Too many flights and you lose money. This is probably why other airlines have peak/offpeak pricing in the first place to solve the load problem.

Whats the minimum number of months to subscribe for?

This is very insightful. I’ve never been into a coworking space myself, but don’t these problems apply to all coworkign spaces? Or are they somehow better designed?

Given the criteria to double the capital in 3-6 months, you will need to do something very speculative, which at this point in time looks like crypto currencies.

Interesting. Are you allowed to tell us more about what the site did and what the buyer did after?

I disagree. There are too many negative comments in this thread. This is an awesome site that will resonate well with clients and recruiters. It has exactly what they looking for and yet presented in such a refreshing way. It show cases your creativity, ambition and dedication to do something like this. Great job!

Thanks for sharing. Could you tell us a bit more about what were you building?

I'm surprised free shipping has a negative impact on revenue. Worst case I imagine would be that revenue would increase but with less or negative profit.

Likewise most GUI-related tweaks seem to have a negative effect (mobile friendliness, search, navigation). Assuming it gives a better mobile experience, why would anyone spend less - unless the goal is to get them off mobile and onto the desktop.