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johnmax

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    Ask HN: Why not just quarantine old people and risk groups?

    I am curious to hear your Corona solutions? My suggestions: 1: Only quarantine old people and risk groups (>65y or pre-conditions of lung/heart). They get free delivery everything.…

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    Comment #20286249

    Hey, we are a startup in Germany. When are you going to come to Germany/Europe?

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    Ask HN: How do banking fintechs like Revolut justify their bn-$$$ valuations?

    Hey, we are evaluating banking fintech ideas (=startups, which deal with banking services, examples: Revolut, N26, Brex, Scalable Capital) and every time we calculate market sizes …

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    Comment #19431458

    Great, thanks for the numbers and the advice.

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    Comment #19431392

    Will definitely need to check this out. I come from the mobile world, and my experience is, from myself and others, that cross-platform solutions always brought more pain than joy.…

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    Comment #19431331

    Wow, AutoHotkey looks cool - maybe it is nice for doing a first prototype. Yes, I would check the focused windows, but also would take screenshots to evaluate (with OCR/NLP) whethe…

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    Comment #19431263

    Yes, it's a good point to do such market research. Will need to carefully structure the ads, to not skew the results (e.g. because users from one platform are cheaper per click, an…

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    Comment #19431229

    Thanks a lot for the numbers. Do you have any view on whether those percentages still hold, if you only look at (e.g.) startup employees or freelancers or other customer groups, wh…

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    Comment #19431209

    Interesting - I didn't know about that possibility. Thank you!

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    Comment #19431197

    Yes, I totally agree, I would first build it for me and work with it. Right now I use a Mac, but I have used also Windows in the past, and - if I decided to code in Windows - then …

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    Comment #19431179

    Thanks a lot for your feedback - eventually, if it is successful, I would launch it for all possible platforms. So, getting to paying users is not a priority for me at the beginnin…

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    Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows 10?

    I want to create a productivity app, which runs in the background, and reminds me to work on my most important tasks, when it thinks that I am not. The goal is to create a Minimal …

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    Comment #16535478

    very true, need a study which shows which activities/rules are really effective, including people-were-able-to-stick-to-them

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    Comment #16528244

    If there was a method to fight such abusive patent trolls, I would immediately donate! It is the exploitation of a bug in the government source code, and it should be fixed..

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    Comment #16523455

    I would add that the founder stories we read about are, even if true, only the 5% which turned interesting. 95% may have been boring failures

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    Comment #16515920

    when i hired product managers, the most critical point I looked at was “building something that users love”. If you can prove this, you are ahead of average (of course you also nee…

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    Comment #16512709

    if we followed your reasoning, you are able to provide anything illegal at a website, simply by hosting it in a country which you dont really target (eg isle of man). thus, courts …

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    Comment #16509627

    personal taste: i am missing reading about the root cause of the problem in the first paragraph. have spent 5 minutes reading and nothing yet.. stopped altogether

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    Comment #16509245

    for me this is the same flavour as mindfulness (= concentrate on the present, as this is the only thing that truly exists, in contrast to the past or the future). to learn mindfuln…

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    Comment #16508985

    this has tremendous potential. think about running research on the consolidated data with regards to treatment effects/drugs, depending on patient characteristics

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    Comment #16500332

    I was in a similar situation: (1) I did one thing at a time, based by a tutorial which involves exercises (eg coursera princeton blockchain or coursera andrew ng machine learning).…

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    Comment #16500018

    couldnt agree more. i have had several big deals in the pipeline, one of which i closed. in retrospect the effort wasnt worth it. the deal consumed many months of our focus and wor…

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    Comment #16491209

    How long where they down? Couldnt find it anywhere.