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chuckus

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About chuckus

Software Developer currently living in London, UK

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    Comment #25510378

    Agree with this, 3% of something is better than 40% of nothing. I was a technical co-founder was that left a startup early on, and because we didn't have a vesting agreement from t…

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    I found this particular post from a hedge fund owner quite insightful why the the stock market is unlikely to crash spectacularly if things keep going the way they go with the Fed …

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    Comment #17534354

    I've been using Evernote for 6 years, and still continue to use it for the following reasons: * Everyday I use https://marxi.co to write my technical work journals in Markdown (wit…

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    Comment #14149818

    We've already established that the main thing to know what makes your customer tick so I'm surprised this isn't mentioned yet: Your first MVP is simply a static website describing …

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    Comment #13257809

    Totally agree, I've got a solid applied calculus background from my electrical engineering undergrad degree and some DSP in my first job, but avoided learning statistics and probab…

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    Comment #13242774

    Good point, that adjective changes everything. In regards to scaling, yes I haven't met performance scaling issues with Python web applications, even when needing long running asyn…

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    For Evernote, to write in Markdown, I've been using http://marxi.co and am a big fan of it, though it does cost and runs on only web technologies.

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    True, I've been using type notations with all my Python 3.5+ projects (and works very well with PyCharm), though noting that this is only a recent addition, available (officially) …

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    In your case, if you are just planning to de a web API with the majority of the workload being I/O (such as hitting other APIs), then node.js (outperform Python and Ruby out of the…

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    Ask HN: Would you use Python as the main lang in a potentially large project?

    tl;dr Would you advocate for using Python as the main language in a potentially large-scale project and long running standalone project (not a library)? Such as if you are a startu…

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    Comment #13145558

    Depends, there are billable hours e.g. time spent with customers and non-billable hours e.g. administrative tasks not specific to any customer such as payroll, transfer of knowledg…

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    Comment #13025247

    From my experience, I disagree with the heuristic of money paid within the first month for knowing if you are really talking to users, because it doesn't apply especially for enter…