billhendricksjr

Namecheap. Cheap, decent UI, good customer service.

As a host I can confirm. 3 days ago I had March 100% booked. Yesterday the entire 2nd half of the month was empty. I slashed prices and bookings are starting to trickle back in. April is looking really lean, though, and May has multiple bookings from European citizens. It’s only money, not health, but the economic impact of COV-19 seems immense.

Shea Serrano is a writer for The Ringer. He’s not rich, but he’s doing fine (has written a couple books). However it went to another level in my mind when his followers started paying each other’s bills midway through the thread.

Note - Had to edit the title to get under 80 char limit.

Contradiction? You’re too kind, he’s a straight up hypocrite. He used “privacy” to kill Gawker, in part because he didn’t like their coverage of his ventures.

Given Thiel’s purported views on privacy, the hypocrisy is overwhelming.

If you think you can convince him not to pull the trigger. I’d rather be standing at ground zero. Dying of radiation poisoning is an experience I don’t need to see to believe.

My father in law was at the bikini islands for the test runs (died of cancer), my great uncle was on the ground in Japan shorty after they dropped Hiroshima (died of cancer), and great uncle’s kids has Japanese rifles he recovered from sites that glowed in the dark as late as the mid 70s.

Clean water is an exponentially larger problem than any single disease. From Flint, MI to Malawi, no one is going to listen to any aid worker about anything else if they’re dying due to lack of clean drinking water.

https://www.charitywater.org/global-water-crisis/

His political affiliations are in conflict with his desire for long life, given who has the nuclear football.

I don’t care, I’m an atheist with no kids who’d be bored out of my mind before I hit 300 years old, much less 1,000.

Just don’t piss him off. Just got done reading “Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue.” Starts a bit slow and pretentious, but once it gets going... I dislike Thiel immensely, but hole-lee-shit he pulled off one of the most complicated, ruthless, and complete revenge plots I’ve ever heard of. That he kept secret for NINE YEARS while planning and executing (quite literally) his scheme.

Even if you know the story well, the book is worth a read or listen.

Yeah, the first peak around Feb 1 is almost a mirror image of tax day. You could load up for first peak, ramp down for the trough, then load back up again for the “deadline” (not actually a deadline). But you’re taking about 100s of times more scale, not 10s.

I’m not an engineer, but the best ones I’ve worked with have stated that autoscaling ain’t easy to architect right.

MeF (“Modern” eFile) is only 5ish years old. The earlier version was EDI based I believe.

Trust Me I’m Lying by Ryan Holiday is the definitive text on the subject IMO, published in 2013. Some of the examples the author uses involve manipulating humans here on HN to distort reality, in most cases for free press, shares, and back links.

I changed the headline because the headline buried the lead. The headline should have read "Credit Karma Takes On TurboTax, H&R Block With Free Tax Filings" as this Forbes article (http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurengensler/2016/12/07/credit-...) did.

Long, but great pod. Patrick Collison and Ezra Klein discuss:

- Innovating in highly regulated markets - Breaking into well established markets by challenging assumptions, fine tuning product experience, and using lean startup principles - Using time horizons strategically... The discussion about Jeff Bezos "simply willing to wait longer than your competitors" at 1:12 in really resonated with me. - Building company culture - Avoiding group think

TaxAct | Cedar Rapids, IA and Irving, TX | Product Manager

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Apply at reqs below or email me your resume and LI profile to bill.hendricks@taxact.com.

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A People's History of The United States by Howard Zinn. Given it at least 5 times.

All students should realize that history is written by the "winners" see US history from the perspective of the oppressed - Native Americans, slaves, women, the poor.

I'm green with envy

ProducePay | Los Angeles, CA | ONSITE | full-time

https://producepay.com/ is a two-sided marketplace connecting farmers with produce distributors and provides immediate cash flow to both parties.

We're looking to hire a Senior UI/UX Designer to join the team in Downtown Los Angeles. Req below.

We're a well capitalized, seed stage startup backed by some of the smartest investors in SoCal. See https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/29/producepay-seed-funding/

If interested, email your resume and portfolio to me, bill at producepay dot com.

Responsibilities:

• Apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end user experiences that optimize among user needs, business goals, and technological realities across web & mobile platforms

• Design both interaction components and system-wide capabilities

• Take ideas and concepts, and visualize them in such that they are communicated effectively and compellingly for internal leaders, partners and customers

• Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity, despite complexity of the system

• Directly responsible for delivering User Experience visions, UI specifications, wireframes and prototypes

• Collaborate effectively with product management, development, marketing, and other team members

• Use facilitative leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in Human Computer Interaction, graphic design, or other relevant field. Graduate degree a plus

• 5+ years of interface design experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile or award-winning web sites or products; preferably experience with SaaS and mobile products

• Strong knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with customers, along with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research. Seasoned in Agile development processes

• Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, etc)

• Proven track record in setting a vision for great customer experiences, inspiring others to get behind the vision, and ultimately delivering products and services that are known for their delightful experience and ease of use

• Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator

• Organized, self-directed, efficient and able to manage multiple and complex projects in a timely manner

• Expertise with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, but skilled in creating 'lo-fi' prototypes to share with users in a fast, iterative manner

• Familiarity with web and mobile technologies and their impact on the feasibility of design solutions; hands-on expertise with HTML, CSS, Javascript is a plus

• A passion for creating products that resonate on an emotional level

• Strong online portfolio available for viewing

Disclosure: I work for ProducePay.

Disclosure: These guys are my friends and Techstars batch mates.

Disclosure: I am Bill Hendricks and this is shameless self promotion ;-)

Thanks for a thought provoking post, Sam. It's good to challenge one's beliefs regularly.

He’s right that the economy is not growing nearly fast enough

Can you share the data and rationale you used to come to this conclusion? I get there's a hugely growing and unjust divide between classes, but the macro economy seems pretty healthy. GDP growth has slowed [1], but it's positive and we're a much bigger economy (so harder to grow as fast).

[1] http://www.multpl.com/us-gdp-growth-rate/table/by-year

I get the appeal to an extent, but the interface is so bad I don't use it much. As an almost 40 something with an increasingly poor memory, I often lose track of the "conversation" because previous messages in the (non)thread have disappeared.

I was curious about this as well. I believe Google started indexing tweets in 2014. Twitter gave Google a slice of the data well before then.

If this is correct, I'm curious if those unindexed URLs were Twitter.com URLs (tweets) or 3rd party URLs, meaning those pages were shared on Twitter before Google indexed them.

Edit: grammar

Even if it is true, it changes nothing.

I haven't watched the videos yet, so apologies if this is covered. Looking forward to seeing them.

If it is true, it changes everything. If you're simply a character in my simulation and not a real human, then there's no reason why I shouldn't screw "you" over to maximize my personal enjoyment.

That's the most actionable point of the thought experiment, to illustrate the importance ethics.

Was surprised to see Ring get mentioned so prominently in the deck. Then I saw them on http://www.kpcb.com/companies.

They disclosed it at the end of the deck, but that's some great pub for Ring. If they wanted to use an example that resonated with more of the audience, Nest would have been a better choice.

Is it wrong for me to be amused at how much I dislike all parties involved in this story?

The broader conversation is very interesting on a number of levels, but I have a specific question for this audience... do you actually pay attention to the trending topics on Facebook? They're not prominently displayed and if FB really wanted to influence the conversation on X, they could be doing so much more IMO. I feel like they're still trying to test their way into this experience.