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Role: Engineering Manager Contact: jeff+hn@histowiz.com About the role: As a valuable addition to our dynamic team, you will collaborate closely with our VP of Engineering, along w…

In defense of YC, many of them are previously founders of startups.

Not sure if you mean why in the movie or why they couldn’t in real-life in the movie, they bring up the mission requirements at low altitude render a certain tech of the new gen pl…

I had a similar feeling a while ago - but revisited Notion after a year or so and they've made a lot of speed improvements to it! A couple of months ago, I got a Apple M1 and a lot…

There is an option to hide and autoformat inports.

We've recently been using this at work, and it's seriously amazing.

Gang of 4 - 4 authors from the book

Venmo isn't instant. Send yourself more than 15k. If that goes through, try to send it back. Sure, the row in the database is instant though. I agree it is a feature for a bank to …

In those organizations, I highly doubt microservices or monolithic decisions would have made a difference. Disorganized management won't magically get fixed if the root problems of…

I suspect the tech stack was merely the 5th or 6th reason for not funding, they were just looking for a way to move on. If they were reasonably interested, VCs won't say no - they …

Disclaimer: I own some (not enough, I wish more). I think your points were valid when cryptocurrency first started, but now it's now a bit too entrenched to be easily squashed. 1) …

Population density and politics probably plays a bigger deal than capita as a metric though.

It's definitely used as a signal in finance. There is a prestige of working at certain shops that carry over in your career. Similar to how it doesn't matter what you studied at Ha…

One day is really a short period of time to analyze ... Let's say you take someone who has smoked daily for 5 years, and now for a day they can't smoke ... what do you think the re…

You're right that it'll impact long-term incentives, however - short-term vaccines are supply-blocked. A bidding war (probably) would be profit capture for those selling vaccines, …

It's a common startup strategy to have free plans that lock in initial customers and then raise prices later and/or remove the free plans. At that point, you're using customer grow…

Try Focusmate.com - It's really helpful to keep accountable. If you find yourself procrastinating, share your screen. Very useful for me now that I WFH and not a coworking space.

I sort of wonder how much of this is embellished. Most of the time risk management products will try to stop this.

The article briefly mentions it - but 1) 19.50 is what the United States has agreed to pay. It's unlikely the same price point other countries can / are willing to afford. 2) Rollo…

Amusingly, I've read that Apple (internally) frequently uses Anker cables.

I would bet the inverse. If the majority of tactics is spearheaded by one person from 1964 - that probably means there's a lot of innovation. I found reading Boyd's biography, so m…

I know this will sound absurd, but buying an Android Tablet for Anki was an investment that has easily paid for itself. AnkiDroid is amazing. ~14k cards, so I've committed a lot to…

Because their "expected" future profit margins are significantly lower than Apple's. Caveat: "Expected" does not mean fact. But it is understandable why investors believe this.

I'm not sure if I agree with this. This can easily lead to a trap of "waiting" and the time never comes. Many well-known authors (Stephen King, etc) build routines for them to writ…

I've had a really great experience with using http://nextdns.io/ for this purpose. It comes with a lot of pre-defined things to block (Social Media, Advertising, Genre of Distracti…