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devbot9

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    Comment #42754034

    Your company's product will never be the best version of itself if your only business goal is to lead a VC backed mindless race to an IPO. Your company will almost always have to d…

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    Comment #34249388

    I think OP is asking for any alternatives that are more fullproof than simply holding into a cane or walker. It can only take one stumble or slip and fall for someone at 80-90 to b…

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    Comment #32584201

    People that are calling it a failure because of quality are missing the point. Facebook makes its money by leaving the feed an unorganized mess of random posts, leaving the user di…

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    Last year Chiptole launched a game to win a Tesla. No winner was ever announced

    On June 23, 2021, Chipotle announced "Race to Rewards" contest, a top down retro racing game where players had 48 hours to try and get the highest score playing. There were various…

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    Comment #31006304

    It's a publicly traded company with a fiduciary duty to increase shareholder value every quarter. For Facebook specifically that means a jumbled mess of a feed of ads, random notif…

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    Comment #30673367

    The question really becomes how do you make any platform/service that will stay true to it's mission and stand the test of time. The answer seems to be private ownership + the will…

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    Comment #22762923

    Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it a fairly simple answer that most founders just prefer mindlessly chasing rounds of investment and "growth for the sake of growth" and cash…

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    Ask HN: Best way to monetize how-to content?

    Frequently when working on a project, I figure out how to do something novel with a technology/language/framework, or something that's unique for a combination of tools. Often time…

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    Comment #18917967

    "If your business idea is so fragile that can be blown away by competition, you might want to rethink your strategy." It may not be that you "want to rethink your strategy," but if…

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    Comment #18656855

    As a long time independent seller, Amazon has virtually already done this by gating nearly every brand under the sun. It's hard to sell so much as a box of pens without a bulk purc…

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    Comment #17813814

    I got my current job after getting accepted to Indeed Prime, where my current employer reached out to me for an interview. I uploaded my resume, and after getting in (every potenti…

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    Comment #15851866

    In your opinion, what is the biggest failing of software engineering now that you hope to correct with a "true" engineering society?