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That’s generally how pricing works for SAAS products - most later stage customers have stricter or more customized needs. Think support SLAs, SSO, ACLs for their employees, etc.

I don’t know the specifics of what you were quoted, but a quarter million dollars (guessing per year?) does strike me as high. Were you a later-stage startup by chance? The price p…

Highly recommend Heap [1] - they have a neat approach that doesn’t require you to ‘decide’ which analytics you want to track ahead of time. Disclaimer: I was an early engineer at H…

What does reasoning about things from first principles mean?

Why does this happen at low volumes?

How do compostable products compare to recyclable ones? How much better/worse are they and how much impact do they have?

Hilariously enough, Carplay is actually standard on Camrys now (even the cheapest base model). What a weird time to buy a car.

Sorry, I didn't realize this. Can a mod change the title to match the article and unflag this?

It's in the subtitle.

Pretty wild, I did a double take when I read the parent comment.

I'm always impressed by the products that come out of the 0x team. One of the few legitimate projects in the space staffed by top-tier talent. This is awesome dev tooling, didn't e…

I’ve yet to see a company with no managers work out. Usually it signals lack of bandwidth to set up management, low perceived value, or pessimistically a cost-cutting measure to do…

So they have better salespeople that will never negotiate? Seems like a win for them.

> I've never seen a start-up fail on account of technical debt. That's because noone ever says "XYZ startup failed because their code quality wasn't good enough." It's usually some…

Ctrl-cmd-q locks out of the box, no customization needed.

This feels uncharitable. Pinyin is a lot easier to learn coming from a western background. It's also used by many people as the primary input method for typing, and it's reasonable…

I bought an iPad Pro (12.9") in mid 2017, and am already seeing significant slowdown. With 4-5 apps open, it lags when trying to scroll the home screen. I frequently need to kill o…

Do you mean desktop Gmail enables certain images, even if you disable images by default? That's news to me, can you give examples of some sites for whose emails this is true?

No, disabling images breaks pixel tracking. One way to quickly sanity check a mail client's priorities is whether it gives you the option to disable images by default. Some clients…

Isn't the easy solution to this to immediately cancel auto renewal right after subscribing?

If you live in the Apple ecosystem, I highly recommend mweb[1]. It ticks all the boxes I've been looking for: - intuitive UI: lets me see 1) raw markdown syntax or 2) formatted pre…

Hey, I'm a fellow non-college-grad with a ~1.7 GPA who's worked at 2 of FANG and got an offer from a third. The best actionable advice I can give you is: put Caltech on your resume…

> It's the expert who can fall without getting hurt. This is great, I'm definitely using this analogy in the future.