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Freshworks is a product-led company, and its co-founder spoke about it at length at a conference, which has since been turned into a blog post: https://archive.is/267gb (origin link is MIA: https://saasboomi.com/how-startups-can-use-product-led-growt... )

Some key points:

- Product led growth makes it easier to launch a start-up. Global market, nice product features, some word-of-mouth publicity. That’s all it takes to launch a product led SaaS business.

- Product led growth is not just a go to market strategy, it's a complete business growth strategy. Product led everything, from product management and design to marketing and sales.

- The products must be built for the end users... Even if you are targeting a business, you need to remember that it is an individual who is going to use that product. And it is for these actual users for whom the product must be designed.

- When it comes to corporate buy vs team buy, team buy is much quicker and frictionless. Having a product that can be purchased by a team on their own is the best for product led growth. The scaling can come later when you have multiple teams within the same organization using your product.

- Each sale is a small ticket sale but this also enables people managing just a small or large team to decide whether they want to buy your product. As this decision is based on experienced value and not some perceived value promised by a sales guy, the success probability is really high.

- There are two things that product design teams need to ask themselves. One, can the user start with the product without any training or help video? If the answer to this one is yes, you are in a good place... Two, do I need to send the user outside the product for any information? If the answer to this one is yes, you are in trouble.

- The product led marketing has to happen inside the product, once the customer has signed up. Each and every aspect of the business must be thought out according to the user journey.

Disadvantages:

- On the face of it, product led growth sounds so doable that most startups begin with a very grand vision of what they wish to achieve. Whereas in reality, they need to start small and gradually step up to reach their grand vision.

- Churn is the biggest problem in product led growth. Churn rate is a good metric to judge how good your product execution is.

- Another disadvantage of product led growth strategy is that product execution must be stellar. If product experience is not great, users will move elsewhere.

Pivoting to Sales-led:

- Product led growth is capital efficient. It is very easy to go from 0 to 100 million in ARR. But beyond that sales led growth is more effective because the brand is set and it is easier to move to enterprise level.

- Once you have used the product led growth to find that wedge into the enterprises, you can consider sales led growth. The point to remember here is that demands on the product team increases dramatically once you pivot to sales led growth. You are no linger thinking of single workflows or single teams. Your focus must shift enterprise wide and there can be no compromise on API coverage, customization or integration.
Yes that is correct, thank you.

e.g. I get equity funding in my company. Now: accountant needs a contract like a share note to create a line of equity on the right hand of the balance sheet.

But in the future, the system is linked to a token sale and the shareholders are automatically updated.

Or, I am making sales of lets say NFTs on my platform, then the revenue on each transaction is automatically linked via the same NFT contracts to the revenue line. The ETH fee is directly attributed to the costs line etc.

The whole thing creates an auditable statement that can be used for data/regulatory audits/dashboards/getting crypto financing etc...
No, you can't use a 3D printer to make explosives.
Support forum said that unforking is impossible
There is also https://request.network but gilded looks more complete on fiat currencies.
>The results of the General Resolution is:

> Option 7 "Debian will not issue a public statement on this issue"

Really, the best possible outcome. Supporting either letter would have divided the Debian community in an angry and useless way.
From what I've skimmed, the author blames sales-focused companies for being too obsessed with capturing value. And this is a bad thing.

He also blames product-focused companies for being too obsessed with delivering value. And this is a bad thing.

His silver bullet at the end seems to be that the company should be marked-focused. Which appears to be shorthand for both delivering value and capturing value. Ie, being sales-focused or product-focused is bad. Instead, you should strive to be BOTH!

It seems analogous to me telling NFL coaches that being defense-focused is bad because they won't score very many points. And being offense-focused is also bad, because they will give up too many points. Instead, they should focus on BOTH!

Maybe I'm being naive, but this seems a tad obvious, and not all that useful.
This article is nonsense.

"The first such factory to be discovered in Spain also contained working 3D-printing equipment that could manufacture gun barrels in only two minutes, Spain's National Police said in a statement."

Either the author is an idiot and something is lost in translation or Spain's National Police are a bunch of idiots. You can't make anything in only two minutes with a 3D printer, and you can't make gun barrels at all.

This is propaganda fear-mongering about 3D printers.
> I used it until 2012.

That means that you've missed the train of modern PHP and frameworks completely. It's not fair to compare old school PHP with modern lang like TypeScript
Just thought I'd add that Aussie Costco also have Pork Butt.
What do you classify as a web app?

React and other frameworks help you manage the state of your UI without having to worry (As much) about efficiently re-rendering the UI.

Redux and other state libraries help you manage the global state of your JS app so your entire app can easily access and update common data.
Historical Performance Benchmarks
Yes, $20 in tolls for us too, only go 3-4 times a year. The meat, seafood, cheese and nuts make it worth the trip for us.
The problem is that people make lots of claims towards the direction of "stock options are always worthless" when they should say more like "stock options are often worthless but sometimes can be ridiculously valuable". Startup game just provides high returns to small minority, and some people after couple of negative experience seem to decide that everything must suck then and spread it around in here and other forums.
2 Minutes to print a barrel? Is 3D pring really so far already? Somehow I can't believe this.
I do, at home or the gym, but I'll admit I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone else do it.
Are you using packgage-lock.json/yarn.lock?
This roadmap looks pretty complete - https://request.network/en/invoicing/#roadmap
http://archive.is/wErpB
> There's no need for dSYM during regular development workflows.

I'm not sure that's true. I was not getting line numbers in backtraces in a Rust program I developed because I copied the executable to another directory. I had to add a symlink to the dSYM directory to make it work.
+1

The books by Soviet authors always seemed so much less verbose than those from the West. I particularly appreciated this, as I had - and have - poor English ability (like many other Indians), but was nevertheless forced into an exclusively English based education (also like many other Indians).

There are gems like Spivak from the other side, but I find it much rarer. Even papers are annoyingly verbose - almost as if to compensate for general lack of novelty.

(forgive the rant).
http://archive.is/oG8nT
I'd like to read that blog post, but your link 404s.
I'm not impressed with codecov in general -- I've got them on an open source repo, and the reported results seem somewhat random. I've got pr's that only add test infra, and it complains that less than the target pr code coverage %age has been hit with tests, when the PR was strictly "more testing".
The problem is evaluating the size of the bid. Salary is only one part of the equation and people rarely get wealthy on salary alone. There are multitude factors when evaluating the "bid" of the company and to actually understand what is valuable and what is not is the difficult part.
Hmm.. I guess, but it doesn't matter. With dual screens there is a split right in front of me. My chair swivels so I can adjust my body to make looking left or right comfortable. I've never really thought about it and don't think it's a problem. When I read a book I don't fold it back on itself, both pages are visible at once.
Tesla with Autopilot now approaching 10x lower chance of accident than average
I don’t think blockchain has much real world value in a legal sense.

We’ve been running various pocs on it, with major and minor suppliers, crypto-people? (not sure what to call those techie/artist/idealists or what they call themselves) and the universities for the better part of two decades now in the European public sector. We’ve never been capable of finding a reason to use it. I do get the argument about stuff like land ownership in more corrupt countries, but you it still sort of turns into an utopian dream, because no-one in those regimes really care if you’re right. All the proof in the world doesn’t stop people with guns from taking your positions.

I think Maersk and it’s containershipping business, and it’s blockchain based proof of container authenticity is one of the few examples where the technology actually works better than anything else. And that’s mainly because Maersk itself is big enough, and has big enough legal support, to refuse containers that are tampered with. Sort of like the corrupt government situation, but inverse.

For finance it has no real value for legal purposes, again because trust is sort of worthless when your authorities aren’t with it. You can’t deny it’s “get rich quick” schemes of course, and it’s extremely valuable for white-washing money, dealing with black-Market goods and various forms of fraud. Which isn’t really value to dismiss, considering how big a GDP international crime has.
What’s on My iPhone?
This. At a scale of a small company, everyone could benefit from it the way they want and you get transparency and include them in the discussion.

It doesn't really scale when you are bigger though.
This is a very concerning trend. The reliance on external tools is causing them to be a much more frequent attack vector.

SolarWinds, the Github actions thing, this.
I don't think there's a problem that an antitrust intervention could help solve, rather a lumbering hierarchy where the people who make the decisions don't understand or care enough about the niche.

Microsoft wants to attract developers from other platforms: Windows native code supporting no package managers that are all of good, general and fast is just the kind of situation that will make developers who come from other platforms hate the time they spend with theirs.

Microsoft's real interests don't seem to be the problem here: Windows losing its best package manager only hurts what they want to achieve.
3D printers make shapes, not substances.
Gold mining btc mining isn’t the best comparison. For your 5X number. You’ve still got to ship and store the gold which undoubtedly has additional environmental costs.
Ugh! I made a mistake. My monitor was 1600x1200 which is 4:3. Not sure why I thought it was 5:4.
Didn't know dmd did that.
This isn’t really the situation GP was talking about. The company offered early employees stock. At some point obviously they have to draw the line and stop doing this. GP felt they were ripped off only after learning not that they missed the boat, but how close they were to being on it. The company wasn’t unfair to them, especially since GP agreed to a certain wage and the company was willing to pay that wage.
Glad to be up to date on what's happening in Iowa
That was my takeaway too so if you're naive, you're not alone.
Correlation is a pretty fickle thing. Multiple hedges make for a nice diverse portfolio. So yeah, I consider gold a good component as well. Why add bitcoin as well? Because it makes for a nice bet.

We used to all rely on bonds and bills to stabilize our portfolios but central banks have killed that.
Awesome project -- bookmarked. Once thing I'd love would be to load test the CPUs, get a baseline, and just divide that number straight into the price/minute or hour and come up with a simple number. The formula probably won't be that straight forward but I'd love to be able to characterize CPU price/performance in a single number and use that to compare.

For those out there that may not know, there's also an EC2 instance specific site that's pretty useful (it's been around a while and I use it often):

https://instances.vantage.sh/?cost_duration=monthly

Evidently it's not sponsored by vantage (? or maybe the people who made the original site spun that into a company? not sure), but it's pretty useful.
I spent today patching a binary which was compiled in the 80s - an infocom interpreter of all things - so that I could play hitchhikers's guide to the galaxy on a single-board computer.

So yes, people will probably keep doing things like this long after you think programs are obsolete.
The thing to realize: this is normal.

People are weird - all of us.

We get into our own head-space, and we interpret the world differently than others, sometimes objectivity falls by the wayside.

Sometimes someone is truly working is rear off advancing the mission, but but that nobody really noticed, or if they did, that it didn't matter because 'hard work' isn't necessarily the only management requirement. They get upset because they didn't get the promotion.

Lashing out at 'management' is the easiest, most common thing for any worker to do, often there's a basis for concern, but just as often people don't recognize how inherently chaotic it is the higher one treads.

The moment you're in a leadership position, you will constantly be challenged by at least one 'hard case' of some kind or another.

Once simple rule to help differentiate: if they are making a fuss about the product, or something that will help the company/team, then there's probably good faith there. If the fuss is always about themselves or their career, that's not good.
That's exactly what a bonus is: part of your salary that your company can at it's discretion not pay you. Marketing and HR has spun this into the sham that it's some kind of additional benefit, but it's not. It is directly at odds with the individual employee's end of the risk / reward trade off, and he should almost always reject it in lieu of some other form of comp.
I think most treadmills have a guard just under them, not behind them. At least at every gym I’ve been to that’s the case.
I see two sides to this:

1- the internal accounting system. This is not really different from the traditional world, it can be done with most accounting services already. The company I work for (OneStream) focuses on consolidation/planning rather than low-level general ledgers, but handling crypto would just require to use a custom currency (I think we allow up to 7 or so). Managing exchange rates can be done in actual code, so you’d just set up some api calls to decide how you want to calculate those rates and be on your way. I honestly don’t see anything crypto-specific here. The only annoyance would be seeing loads of “0.00000...” in a naively-setup system, but that can also be dealt with trivially in most services.

2- external integrations. This is really where the hole in the market is, I guess, and probably what motivated you to explore the space. Services that will automatically pull your transactions from cryptocurrency exchanges and similar hangouts, might be thin on the ground today; I honestly don’t know. But consider that, for the likes of Xero, because of point 1 above this is basically just a bunch of plugins that are fairly trivial to write, should they decide to steer. If they solved “legacy” banks, they can solve online banks pretty quickly.

So, would a product focused on 2 be successful, in a market already crowded that can probably self-extend to crypto fairly easily? I’m skeptical, personally, but I might be wrong. I’m also skeptical that significant numbers of businesses will go “cryptocurrency-first” and look for such a service. Cryptocurrencies are more like commodities than actual currencies, and I bet no company is “gold-first” in 2021.
How Developers Choose Names
What a sweetly nostalgic trip back in time through these comments. Misha, Irodov and many other Russian children books are such a treasured time from my childhood.

If anyone has any scanned copies of Misha, I’d be very grateful if you can share please!
Maybe hire more generalists, make it easier for people to move around the company, have a 2D team structure (i.e. maybe you have a signal integrity team and a PCB layout team or whatever, but then you would also have a subset of each working together on the CPU Card team). There's probably a name for that.
Maybe plastic surgery, dermatology, rheumatology, and psychiatry don't, but other doctors are going to be splitting weekends and call among the members of their group. For specialties that have fewer doctors nationwide like vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and neurosurgery you can expect to be on home-call every third night and covering the weekend every third weekend. You might have to come in to operate every other call, and on the weekend you'll have to round on all of your group's patients on Saturday and Sunday and operate if anything operative comes in.
When will there be another implementation of Rust? If there's ever a GNU implementation, I might be willing to try it.
> They don’t record their salaries in number of cows just because they’re in the cow business

:) You owe me a building, not just a keyboard!
You forgot the most obvious alternative, the police are deliberately lying.

They found "nine ammunition magazines, two silencers, two pieces for rifle barrels". I consider this to be state propaganda disguised as news laundered through REUTERS.
> could manufacture gun barrels

One hopes this is more than the mere suggestion that it could be used to make gun barrels. Otherwise everyone from hobby machinists to CNC shops had better watch their backs.
Honestly, you lost me with just the second sentence of this:

> Jurgen has a headache that won't go away.

Ok, I'm intrigued.

> He knows his fellow scientist Simon is watching him, waiting for him to be careless and kill another rat.

Uhhh wut? I'm totally confused, and to be honest "why is he killing rats" is not really a question where I'm on the edge of my seat looking for an answer.
New CRISPR technology offers control of epigenetic inheritance
It isn’t. They’ve confused a 3D printer with a lathe.

I’m guessing Reuters is uncritically repeating the police’s story. It’s in both the police and Reuters’ best interest to make this a sexy modern story about 3D printing, rather than a boring story about raiding a basic machine shop turning out unregistered firearms. Which feels approximately ten thousand times more likely.
I used to work both with Go and PHP.

At first when I started digging into Go I thought that eventually I'll replace platform for all my future PHP projects. But it never happened.

Every time I should implement business logic and info exchange with database I immediately became frustrated with so much boilerplate code of Golang. In comparison, writing such code in PHP is real breathe.

But suddenly I've got used to Go speed and want to get the same benefits for my PHP APIs. So I've implemented my own framework with low latency and hight throughput in mind. It beats many Go frameworks on TechEmpower Benchmarks! Now I feel like I found epiphany finally :)

https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
> I guarantee you the vast majority of all hiring managers everywhere

You're qualified to speak for a majority of hiring managers everywhere?

Maybe you meant in a relatively small geographic area, in a relatively small number of companies? Maybe some of the same ones that colluded to keep salaries low by making illegal agreements amongst themselves?

The problem with most discussions on this topic is that everyone thinks their own experience is universal.

Incidentally, what you're assuming is that your internalized reality (of being allowed to resign at most twice per career) is real for everyone. It absolutely is not, which is why you're getting downvoted.
My experience with “sales-driven” is sales people selling things that don’t exist, ill-defined, and delivery dates that are demand based. This leads to all corners cut, products that can only be sold once. In other words, sales-driven companies are a way to turn your company into a consultancy.
I'd put that as a difference between hobby projects and work projects. For work projects, there is some amount of time that can be allocated to continual development. The project itself has value, and needs to stay up to date, and so sure, it may use the framework of the day.

For a hobby project, if I personally don't have fun with it, then nothing gets done on it. If I decide after a few years that I want to pick a project up again in order to add a new feature, the last thing I want is to find out that framework X needs to be replaced with framework Y, and so the two weekends I had expected becomes two months of weekends to rewrite the whole thing.
That's because it's false!
This looks like a nice addition to the Rust cookbook. It seems a bit more structured, and I actually like that it gives XP for completing the chapters.
Sadly the front page is subjected to manual steering from HN mods. This is most likely how we get submissions like this to be successful here.

https://drewdevault.com/2017/09/13/Analyzing-HN.html
https://oeis.org/A27

Looking at the URL, they got 26 sequences in (including the 0 sequence) before someone added the counting numbers.
You can't make gun barrels on a lathe in two minutes either. Unless you started with a gun barrel.
That's really great to hear. My numismatic life v1 was well before the Internet was a thing, so here in v2 I'm eager to explore.

What are the best communities in your opinion? I've started with /r/coins.
程序员的副业 004：PPT 卖课挣钱的正确流程
sscache has pre-built binaries on their releases page. Or you can do:

cargo install --no-default-features

To avoid building support for all storage backends. You can then add back any backend you're actually using.
Removing stuff is harder because it requires a deeper understanding of the entire system. You can usually add things with only a localized understanding of a part of a system.
Yeah, the message is to elevate the company's perspective to be aware of both sides of the transaction in which it takes part.

Life is always a game of balance. It may be obvious that you have to balance giving/taking as a business, but I've never seen business leaders talk this way. My experience is inline with the article in that businesses seem to go all in on one or the other as opposed to harmonizing the 2.
"the guy who sponsored the fellow who did get promoted managed to get my ranking knocked down so I wasn't competing with his fellow for ED."

You're working at a toxic place and putting your own self worth up to them for measurement - this is not healthy.

People out of school until age 35 sometimes have a hard time truly separating their work from their professional identities, something we could all work on.

So sorry for your losses, I wish you well.
Yeah, it's kind of hilarious how little they claim to have found. And that's after trumping it up as much as possible, I'm sure.