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The answer is: he didn't understand the business. There tens if not hundreds of competitors, and yet the tour operators still taking bookings over the phone. That tells you a lot. …

Not mentioned in the article: the market which this person was trying to enter is saturated with competition. These tour operators are bombarded with pitches for these things every…

Hats off to the engineers who pulled this off. This is not the first time someone has gotten PG running in a browser though. Here's another approach: https://github.com/oguimbal/pg…

For those that can’t access the article, here’s the key sentences: “In recent weeks, however, more data has become available, and it suggests that the true picture is less alarming…

Amazon's co-mingling of inventory facilitated large-scale theft by enabling stolen goods to be sold along-side legitimately sourced items. One has to wonder: at what point does Ama…

Has anyone found similar good-quality mathematics videos for young (elementary school age) kids?

This feature is a big plus for parents. It's hard to appreciate how hard it is to protect kids online if you don't have kids yourself. I get that those without kids will find it in…

For anyone interested in these - their consumer chargers are here: https://www.myinnergie.com/us Unfortunately, their "buy now" button links to Amazon; I don't trust Amazon not to …

There's another really difficult challenge for hearing-impaired people not mentioned here: it's mentally exhausting to follow online meetings, even with captions. Hearing impaired …

This is also the case in US. Contract formation requires that the signing party has an opportunity to read the contract. If the contract is subject to litigation and the signing pa…

I think the author might not realize the substantial difference between working in a tech company (the HN audience) and in supporting roles in non-tech businesses. I have worked in…

The heavy-handed updates forcing frequent reboots are the deal-breaker for me. It seriously pisses me off to come back to my machine only discover that all those editor windows I h…

As a counterpoint, I found "Accelerate" to be just ok. It is essentially a rehash of all the popular software and methodology best practices blog posts and articles we've all read …

In my experience it's the loss (or masking) of high frequencies that are the most problematic for understanding speech. The most important sounds in speech are consonants, which ar…

This is good news for Groovy developers since the Groovy project seems to have run into significant roadblocks with migrating to Java 9+. I'd recommend most other developers on the…

Looking at this, I can't seem to find any examples of Wiremock being used to test async callbacks, which is one of the more challenging things to get right. Can anyone point to som…

It's called: a distributed monolith

Why would a small business want to be part of some marketplace that just reduces their margins, commoditizes their business and and forces them into a race to the bottom? Marketpla…

The main point they author is making is: "the prevalence of a single, monocultural aesthetic that seemingly almost every startup and tech company and would-be industry disruptor ou…

While the article provides a basic definition of various types of pricing tactics/strategies, it doesn't address important questions such as which pricing strategies work best for …