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Check out bill.com, I know several people happily using it for client billing (including for recurring payments).

If you're allowing emails as a credential reset mechanism, you've already got that problem.

That's what database-level user IDs are for. Don't push your technical requirements onto the user when it's not needed.

It's worth noting that "things knowable from third parties" and "an aggregation of all your things knowable from third parties" are very different risk profiles, if that's the deci…

Cache prediction: it's not just a problem for CPUs.

More are urban than non-urban, so the national average isn't a particularly useful number either. Here's a relevant page by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If you scroll down a bit…

Do you own any virtual space corresponding to your physical space? No. But you can sue someone over the effect they have on your physical space.

Don't take turns, take concerns. Have the best person answer the question, even if that means one person does 90% of the talking. Marketing question? Tech question? Maybe different…

Because countless companies are stupid and treat it as authentication. It's a password that you reuse everywhere and never change.

"What features should I add" is another trap question. Avoid this. You want to study the people & problems you're targeting to the point that you become the expert they're trusting…

> How many startups fail because their MVP is too minimal? None. They fail because they didn't talk to customers, didn't do sales, didn't do marketing, or failed to find a viable s…

Yup. Small multiples of price inefficiency mostly don't bear thinking about until they group together in large batches. The time it takes your engineers to work out the difference …

More generally, it's a term of art in HCI research, going back to J. F. Kelley in the early 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_experiment

There are many ways in which you can incorrectly interpret statements on Wikipedia, which is why specialized textbooks and so forth still have use.

"False positive" has a precise meaning in statistical analysis. The second thing you're talking about is useful to know, but calling it the false positive rate is just wrong. "Out …

I'm not surprised at all...the whole point for Amazon is ebook sales, they want install base, it's nice if you upgrade your device but many people will keep paying for books regard…

If you tell me what your thing does, I can probably get a working prototype together within six months, even absent any more technical detail than "applying deep learning to audio …