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How do I growth hack a hyper local startup?
Hyper-local startups can be challenging because you're limited to marketing them to "nearby" customers, rather than anyone who has an internet connection in your space. However, this hands on approach can also be beneficial because you can engage directly with your customers. The hard part is getting people to give you the time of day.

We launched Just Booked (justbooked.com) as the B2C Uber eats, in that we do bulk orders for offices to feed teams. In short, we make ordering office lunches, simple. You can order by platter, or by person whether it’s sandwiches, salads, pizza etc... order with 24 hours notice and have your team fed the next day with a great meal.

With that said, the product is built, I've printed up t-shirts (swag), and 50% off flyers that I've been giving to the receptionist's at offices, however no orders yet :(

Any advice on growth hacking this business would be awesome!

-- Note I'm sure the advice in this post will help others with similar businesses :)
How well do they know each other? Is it possible Rafael (the contributor) wasn't as upset by this as an outside observer?

Linus is obviously being harsh, his words are also preserved publicly as a part of the contribution. He's arguing against the logical fallacy. Had he not swore: would we discuss this?
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Except that software doesn't get tired, and conditions were good. So even if that could trick human drivers those conditions weren't present so do not apply to the case at hand.
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Apple also has something like 250 billion in liquid assets.
And while we’re at it, what percentage of each group prematurely dies of black lung?
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"Meh" candidates can eventually solve the problems given with a solution that works, albeit one that is messy and unoptimized.

"Vastly underqualified" candidates can barely stitch together working programs and are incapable of solving problems that do not have an API call in the libraries they are familiar with.
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There's Microsoft too but I think they have multiple git repos for different projects and maybe don't care for permissions. I've seen Microsoft guys around so they could answer as well.
This nails it. What I don't get is; why don't these companies focus on scaling production for really efficient and cost effective Co2 scrubbers that can attach to any factory exhaust ventilation system and then have governments mandate their installation or face heavy fines and penalties?

Capturing it at its source in industry would be a big start, then we just need to focus on forest clearing which is also a political issue
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> "...and reasonably often dont buy anything at all..."

Yes. But time has a cost. The reality is, leaving empty handed is a loss.

As for bargains, that's the key. Buy big when X is priced low.
>> you will end up being average at it, at best.

What's wrong with being average and making a living ? assuming of course there's place for average people in this field ? someone need to write those simple but boring CRUD.
It could be fun PR stunt for an anniversary or whatever if they started to hand out bars of soap with sticks of gum...
> I am also curious why would 4FMPAS be useful for Deep Learning when all the major performance improvements lately come from half 16-bit/quarter 8-bit-precision floating/fixed point math (you don't need precise boundaries).

This is a claim by Intel. See for example slide 140 of
http://cs231n.stanford.edu/slides/2017/cs231n_2017_lecture15...
Yeah. They need to make it a youtube video.
I don't see the point of a savings account in this situation. Why are all your funds not just in the checking account?
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They are actually going to be shipping a new inspector with the 3.1 release.

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-gets-new-inspector
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Even the 'the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision' is suspect because it is known to be a pretty unreliable detection mechanism.

Besides, it doesn't matter: if the drivers hands were on the steering wheel they clearly weren't alert enough to hit the brakes or steer away from the impact so the point is entirely moot: autopilot was in full control of the car, whether the driver had their hands on the wheel or not to satisfy an alarm doesn't matter.
Sure... educating specifically only the girls is #6 on the list.

Why would they have to bring feminism into that? I mean sure, it's a good thing to educate everyone. But why mix it?

How can I trust all the other points on the list now? What if they are also just pushing some other political agenda?

I can't. They just compromised the list's integrity by that.
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France doesn't have any coal mining anymore, it was totally stopped in 2004 according to Wikipedia (French-only page). You can still see a lot of former "mining cities" (easily recognizable because of naming quirks and the distinctive houses) in parts where there was mines in the past. It seems to me it's still in the culture of some people (especially older ones), but it's fading.

France has a strong nuclear culture (though with fierce opposition from part of the population). Not too sure about the reason, but it might be because France has few resources, but lots engineering expertise. Nuclear also don't have much CO2 emissions and produce cheap electricity.
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OP is just an idiot with either, no real life experience or no empathy, probably both.

"Where I'm from, and in the various countries I've lived in (including the US), I've met plenty of people who for one reason or another couldn't - bar sheer luck - get a job that pays anything decent."

Had I not moved to China from the US I would be one of the "slackers" he is referring to.
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What if there are multiple answers to this question? How do I filter?
Money objectively provides the means to purchase health services, legal services, investments, decent living spaces, etc. [Insert Ethnic Group] group does not objectively mean [insert stereotype].

I think you are most likely confusing the petite bourgeoisie (the vast majority of programmers) with the haute bourgeoisie (the monopolistic owners of our means of production, think Bezos).

The petty bourgeoisie are well off, and look to emulate and think of themselves as similar to a haute bourgeoisie like Elon Musk, but they are not, your 200,000 a year salary is closer to your porters 30k salary and you often work alongside your workers/coworkers. Our owners of the means of production, such as Tim Cooke cornering the high end hardware market, do not work alongside their employees. They view workers in the abstract, as literal numbers on paper.

It is much easier for say people like Zuckerberg and Schmidt to collude, because it’s a lot fewer people to coordinate. And this in fact happened with wage fixing in Silicon Valley between tech companies until they were caught.

I don’t know what the answer is, and it’s especially fraught in a world economy where unionizing in the USA may mean that Google simply highers programmers in Eastern Europe instead. But I do know that government should be leveraged for the people and not for big business, that’s its point and that’s currently not the case.
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Translation: They'll do the big bucks basic research and pretend they don't understand the implications of their work or won't bother to consider the unintended consequences.

In other words: the status quo.
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Why? That seems terribly complicated for very limited benefit. (And it takes a lot more than that to start a cult)
Even if only to prove your point correct with 1 or 2 examples, this would be a great system to create! Let congress feel the pain that so many citizens unfairly feel.
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>> If I have a certain way of expressing myself... Well that's how it is.

You shouldn't sell yourself short. Changing the way you communicate is a huge but worthwhile challenge.

In a different time, I would have been mean to you over your comment instead of offering supportive words. It took as much effort to be nice as it used to take to be mean.
There'll be a link to framagit.org. Links from other parts of the web. When someone blogs about your software, it'll be a link to that URL etc
Buy big when X is priced low.

Unless having lots of X at home will lead to you consuming more X at a faster rate than you normally would.
But we can learn from prior mistakes in each iteration and spring clean the software logic. I know it's a lot of effort to seemingly reinvent the wheel each time, but I like to think it does yield some benefit in terms of efficiency and cleaner logic.
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Try: Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia, Slowakia, Czech Republic. Those are also part of the EU and road quality there varies wildly from the countries you use as your examples.
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While I listen to Functional Geekery on the regular and do enjoy it, I would say Proctor has great guests but the interviewing style definitely has some room for improvement. The thing that comes to mind is explaining for every guest "and... I became aware of you through <some mundane details>" but there is a lot more to what makes me feel the interviews are a bit lacking in energy sometimes.

This one with Mathias Felleisen is an old interview from 2016 by the way, not sure why it's popping up here now.
Corporations being "persons" is merely a legal fiction that enables them to sue and be sued. I hardly see how this causes the problems you claim nor agree that this needs "fixing".

Corollary, money is and has always been a proxy for political power, in addition to being the raison d'etre of the corporation. Would love to hear your plans for weaning our economy off of money.

It's also ludicrous to suggest that "taking the money out of politics" (as if that was something that could be done) would just fix everything.
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> it might but giving general funds are a lot more likely to stimulate consumption than a targeted stimulus like college loans.

And vastly lower on total return. Investing in education will likely increase output overall. Investing in food and alcohol and TV will not.

And consumption will not even be increased if inflation eats the money, which it likely (and historically) will. It will simply rescale the dollar to make no one better off.

>There's problems and it wont go perfectly

Ignoring that it has spectacularly failed and destroyed lives and countries is not simply "problems." Repeating things that have been demonstrated to be terrible ideas is again a terrible idea.

>but we should still try to improve everyone's lives

Then let's use targeted use of scarce resources instead of wishful thinking and ignoring history. Otherwise we repeat ideas that sound good but fail such as rent control. The things you present are not new ideas. They have been tried and failed. Ham-handed allocation of scarce resources is almost always worse than targeted allocation. This is simple economics.

>I also disagree that anyone who tried to centrally plan such a large chunk of the economy has failed.

List a country that has succeeded at planning as large a piece as you're suggesting.

>Look at water and electricity, those are massive industries that are centrally planned.

No, they are not. They are locally planned, compete with each other, trade resources, and have plenty of free-market features to trade futures, trade stocks, and compete. They are absolutely not centrally planned.

Venezuela is an example of what happened when the central government takes over such markets.
And vibration and presence/absence of strong magnetic fields over the time since it was written.
And their food prices are deliberately underpriced so you'll generalize the perceived savings onto their furniture.
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I like shopping for food when I'm hungry. I will buy more food, which leads to less shopping in total.
At my company, a small startup, I recently attended a meeting whose invitation list included 4 managers and 2 workers. From that I can extrapolate that the bullshit to work ratio is 2 to 1. They're working to fix it, though: they're hiring more managers.
And who will manage all that testing? A government entity? Because that would bring us back to the original point.
I personally find Godot's simple UI much less intimidating than Unity's. I have no idea what I'm doing in the latter without reading lots of documentation.
I find this interesting. Like clockwork, this story has been submitted once a day, but received no comments, and few upvotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17253898

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17235280

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17226418

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17219734

Very odd ...

Edit: There are actually other submissions as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17231961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223579

So it's not just one per day, but still, no comments.
For those who have read Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Power Broker, most of this article tells history you already know.

After that part, it's about applying her principles to today's issues beyond cities to entrepreneurship versus large corporations and red tape and how to serve people and their lives.

The article didn't apply her principles to the environment, where I find a relevant parallel: people in traffic jams felt, "if only this road had another lane, then I wouldn't have to endure this traffic jam" so we built more lanes and roads. After generations, people learned that empty roads helped only temporarily, eventually leading people to use them and create more traffic than before the expansion.

The parallel is that people see pollution today and think, "if only a new technology reduced this pollution, I wouldn't have to breathe this polluted air / endure sea levels rising / etc" so we develop new technologies. We haven't yet learned the parallel with roads that more technologies help only temporarily, eventually leading people to use them and create more pollution.

I've overstated things to simplify, but there are shades of gray. We need some roads, but more isn't necessarily better and short-term solutions often worsen the situation. Same with technology, as Jevon's paradox, among other effects, illustrates.

In complex systems, if you don't address the leverage point of the beliefs and goals of the system, changing elements in it rarely changes the system, no matter how wonderful the new technology seems, be it LED lighting, nuclear power, carbon sequestration, space travel, and so on. In a system based on beliefs that we can expand out of any problem, they'll make the system expand faster. In a system designed to serve people, new technologies would help serve people better, but we don't live in such a system yet.

We could use an environmental Jane Jacobs.
While we have Resume Driven Development to contend with, I'm sure there are similar practices in almost any other field.
>no way of attaining it at his house for any price

I bet Amazon jungle doesn't have gbit internet either.
The question is whether OP chose a location without internet knowingly or he was cut off and left stranded.
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To other jobs have such requirements? And also what should you do? Throw away your non-engineering private life so you can find a job easier later at some point?
> It is not about what you do, it is about showing the client we can do it.

This somehow reminds me of the "proof of work" in cryptocurrencies. You are not doing any useful work, you are just showing that you have the power to do it (by burning that power).

I wonder if all the waste from bitcoin mining is just an analogy of similar waste in the corporate world... and ironically, now that human work is no longer involved in the loop, people suddenly care more because the old excuses such as "it builds character" no longer make sense.
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That would be more towards the zero (or negative) sum end of things ...
For extreme overclocking like this I'd expect the voltages and temperatures involved to result in a lot of electromigration inside the chip, wearing it out and causing it to stop functioning eventually.
For example, could you please provide at least 3 (a bunch) examples which are in production?
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I was thinking more along the lines of Mr Miyagi in a Canali suit.
If your friends or coworkers seem off, check in on them.

Everyone needs to know it’s ok to not be ok.
How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker?
I've put 50% my money on amazon and netflix.

50% in us treasury bills.

Plus, 6 month expense kept as cash.

What about you?
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> We can't expect each client to have an ipfs client installed.

Couldn't they serve [js-ipfs](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs)?

AFAIK that would make every user of the web app run an IPFS node.
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>Intel has AVX-512, which is in my opinion one of the greatest innvoation in the x96 instruction set for a long time

how is AVX-512 innovative when it's essentially SSE with 4x bigger registers? am i missing something?
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The bullshit jobs are propably the cause of that value chain factor.

Is the packaged oat really worth 100x more to the consumer?
Maybe it's worth 10x more. That means 90% of the work used to make those was bullshit.
Cheaper? I have no idea what running a particular app would cost. The ridiculously fine grained way in which the big IaaS providers charge for their services is a major reason why I'm avoiding them whenever I can. It's just too risky, too complex and too brittle. Any tiny change can have huge cost implications.
It's a PR hit but certainly not a disaster. Everybody and their grandmother knew that a chip demoed to run at 5GHz is an overclocked hand picked engineering sample, Intel has been pulling the supercooled CPU stunt for decades.

At 250W thermal, the 4 die, 7nm Threadripper AMD announced will have similar cooling issues, a dead give away was that Lisa Su completely omitted Cinebench results - despite those being prominently featured before.

Bottom line is that AMD and Intel have roughly similar products and can easily cover for any performance differences using the large financial margins high end CPUs enjoy. The game then becomes a marketing one, who can keep more of that margin by convincing it's fan base they have decisively won the match.
I'm having a hard time understanding what's fascinating about typescript.

I agree it makes JS better. I agree it's a good tool for its purpose.

But "fascinating" ?

It's hardly the most elegant scripting language down there (Ruby, Python, Kotlin and Dart doesn't have to live with the JS legacy cruft).

It has a very small ecosystem outside of the web.

The syntax is quite verbose for scripting.

It has very few data structures (and an all-in-one one).

Very poor stdlib.

Still inherits of important JS warts like a schizophrenic "this".

Almost no runtime support if you don't transpile it (which means hard to debug and need specific tooling to build).

And it's by no mean the only scripting language having good support for typing (e.g: VSCode has great support for Python, including intellisens and type checking).

What's so fascinating about ?

What's fascinates me is that we are still stuck with a monopoly on JS for the most important platform in the world.
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Intel is in trouble because 1) their 10nm is very late and currently performs worse than their 14nm process, and 2) AMD's multi-chip module Infinity Fabric design for Epyc/Threadripper means they can produce high-core-count CPUs with much better yields (much more cheaply, better profit, less scarcity for highest-end models) than Intel can with their monolithic dies.

Combine these two factors and AMD might have high-core-count server chips on TSMC's (much more on track!) 7nm before Intel even has decent desktop chips on 10nm.
This is a very good question. I wonder if we're just rubbernecking the train wreck that is Linus' management style. All his responses come from A "care personally" perspective but I'm still not sure if this is what you would call "radical candor". Either way stay tuned. I really hope we don't loose Linus to burnout on things like this but some days I wish he was more tactful with his responses (particularly to people that look to be trying to "fix" a problem which is seemingly inline with standards even if said person doesn't realise the real world implications)
You haven't spent much time with the military have you? Swearing is a delicate and beautiful art form, more expressive and nuanced that the dry words of HN.
I involuntarily gasped for air. This isn't someone I expected would die for a long time. Depression is a silent beast, and the stigma around talking about these problems is fatal as ever.

Anthony was inspirational to me in part because, among many reasons, though he lived his life in a very unusual way he was still successful and always adventurous.

The world has suffered a great loss today.
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"Climeworks has also opened a second facility in Iceland that can capture 50 tonnes of CO2 a year and bury it in underground basalt formations. "

Taking Oxygen from our atmosphere (the gas we need to breathe) and pump it underground after we've combined it with Carbon seems like an atrociously bad idea.

Taking CO2 out is only half the battle. We're going to need that oxygen. Pumping it into greenhouses seems better, but not very cost effective: You need to build these machines, then build the greenhouses, then transport tonnes of CO2 to the greenhouses... Seems much more cost effective to build windmills, solar arrays and the like!
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I will sorely miss his show. He had a unique way of communicating what a place and culture were like.