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Customer Acquisition When Broke
When starting the project eight months ago I did not think that the hardest part of the starting a business would be the customer acquisition. I thought it would be technical challenges, design of the app, testing, etc... imagining that once launched the customers would pour in. Boy was I wrong!

So, the app ( https://cogency.io ) is launched! Now what? How do you let the world know that you had created a .. in your mind.. "kick-ass" service? Here are the attempts

Google Ads - Failed w/ a few signups but none converted into paying customers

Mass mail - Sent approx. 100K emails that unfortunately b/c of the shady email service we used ( not mentioning their name not to give them more publicity ) that prob was already blacklisted...so from 100K, 30+K bounced and the other 60+K emails most likely ended in peoples' spam folders and thus were never opened. I am deducing this from the fact that I received ZERO signups.

Tried email some business folks directly ( as a personal email ) asking them to check out my app and possible give some feedback ( preferably critical ) ... nothing either.

Started posting on twitter, but I just try to be positive about what I post. I did come across some successful strategies where the folks just keep "bitching" about how hard it is with their startups .. but I do not want pity.. I think I have a good enough product that would benefit a lot of people!

So, the question is.. how do you get the world to get to know you w/out sinking huge amounts of cash into advertising?

Seems like a herculean task!
They cannot scale to achieve the airplane QoS, stop this insanity.

Planes not only are faster, but they require far less infrastructure, and we can stack vertically and spread horizontally their routes, having multiple parallel trips without sacrificing precious land.

How many hours does it take to travel by train from Italy to the UK accounting all of the stops? A multiple of the 4 hours trip that a plane does.

It’s like asking whether bicycles can replace airplanes for continental travel. Theoretically yes, practically no.
Gary V and Mark Zuckerberg talk web3 and the metaverse
> except for this year (they did 5%).

my employer said rsu price increase was inflation adjustment. There is no adjustment to base pay.
It's pedantic because you're ignoring the post and getting hung up on a word. Driveway guy gets all the profit when he's done paying for gas and the loan and insurance on his truck. He could do those things with a surplus, or it might mean he's going to starve and lose his house that month. What exactly is your point my dude? Are you saying driveway guy is an arch-capitalist?
What's an example of more detail that they could have given? They gave plenty IMO but I'm curious if you can think of any extra detail because it sounds like you think they gave none
15% until they’re making more than $1m/year.
Could you share a link to the Panama guy? (Asking for a friend.)

Edit: Got it, this one as per the other comments: https://youtube.com/user/JMEMantzel/videos
Hm, I think this isn't possible with React. You'd have to impose lots of constraints on how a component renders. Currently it's basically anything goes. IMHO, the result just wouldn't be React anymore.

In fact, Angular works exactly like this. Only the DOM nodes that have bindings/directives attached are updated, the rest is static during a component's lifetime. Though all this still involves tons of runtime framework code.
> 2. The swappable port system is actually a lot more useful than I expected.

I'll second this. I was momentarily annoyed earlier in the week when I reorganized my desk, and found that the USB C port was on the "wrong" side for my cable-management. It took me a moment to realize that this was (for once) a solvable problem.

I've been running Linux on mine for about a month now and love it. It's easily my favorite laptop I've ever owned.
K6 ? AFAIK "Wintel " is not a joke. MS only cares about intel.
Not to mention it takes reactivity to new heights while adding amazingly little actual syntax.

When property changes, the fetch refires, loading appears until the fetch resolves then it displays whatever array someFetch resolved to.

I came from Vue and that plus the way Svelte does stores (literally nothing special about them) was a breath of fresh air.

<div>
{#await someFetch(property)}
<div>Loading...</div>
{:then data}

{#each data as item, index}
<div>{item}</div>
{/each}

{/await}
</div>
> Regardless of the politics of this case, I think it's time for anyone involved in public office to have basic tech literacy or be removed

Everyone says this about their industry or area of expertise, the most common being technical (tech) and financial literacy (finance) plus something out of the grab bag of biology, foreign policy, military strategy and developmental psychology.
NYC is probably a local maxima, where everywhere around it is more expensive to live with less opportunity for panhandling / social services, and it is a long uncertain hike from there to somewhere that has weather as mild as the San Francisco bay. I also imagine that the social services in the south east are less desirable because of their politics around taxing less / spending less
Rural Fibre Internet-on-Demand
>yet people who live in cities with large homeless populations will tell you how disruptive they can be. In NYC, a homeless person getting in your subway car ruins the entire ride.

I dunno man.

I've ridden Boston and DC light rail systems pretty extensively (and NYC to a small extent) and never had an obviously homeless person ruin my ride. Heck, I can't even think of a specific instance where one did anything of note.

My coworkers on the West coast however...
...And I forgot about the side of ethics: electricity does not come from the energy harnessed by playing kittens and natural rubbing of sheeps in pastures. When computers can consume 0.3 or 3 instead of 30 or 300, it is just better - even a thousand times better.
I'm with you 100%... I'm holding out for a 15" Ryzen Framework laptop
It's not Linux-specific but you can sign up to hear about the Windows one (click the "Get Notified" button on the home page) and I'll let everyone know if/when there's a Linux version.

Fair warning I haven't even tried getting it to run on Linux yet... but I've been meaning to try it out, if only for the profiling and debugging tools! (rr looks really cool!)

In theory it runs everywhere because Electron, but my gut says the difficulty with supporting other platforms will come down to compiling and packaging. That's been the biggest hurdle with Windows so far anyway.
If there's a shortage and buyers willing to pay a premium in one segment, it affects all other segments because at least part of manufacturing capacity is interchangeable (with switching costs, but those are bearable if someone wants to pay) and it becomes profitable to randomly shut down production of various niche parts to save some car manufacturers arse, or have essentially a bidding war between those niche parts or car parts in order to discard any customers which aren't willing to pay increased prices.
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Would you guys be interested by a Stripe Atlas for the rest of the world?
Hey guys,

I have been working in the DTC space in more than 7 countries in the middle east and Europe and gathered quite a lof of experience in creating companies, bank accounts, organisation of the legal system, taxes and more like logistics and co

I wondered if you guys would be interested by a sort of dashboard where you could create/manage all of that in a few clicks?
Yes, it is false. Anyone in the space can tell you how stable things have been for years now.

Plus, there are a lot of people writing JS. It’s not a tiny community fracturing itself over different ways of doing things, and becoming destined for obscurity. It’s tens or hundreds of thousands of developers. In a community this big I’d say having a few choices is a sign of health.
yes. All "modern" buildings have this "look at me!" design, but they are crap for residents.
Each one of us burning one tire is a large scale toxic waste issue. Same thing with wood fires.
I would still blame the industrial zone in this case. If it is unsafe to live within 5 miles of the plant they should own all land within 5 miles of the plant.
Car companies are just few percents of MCU market. A car may have a lot of MCUs, but that's probably less than 30 per economy car. The entire car industry is a drop in the ocean for The Big Semi.

On other hand, I've seen very expensive STM32s being used in near semi-disposable goods.

Car companies are doomed because they required special "automotive grade" MCUs, which are usually just very long running die series with a lot of testing.

Being on old die users, they can't share the benefit of much larger mainstream MCU die batches. They are now in the end of the queue waiting for big batches of dies for mainstream MCUs to finish manufacturing.

IMHO, lots of auto parts uses automotive grade MCUs without any particular necessity. It's just because they were well moneyed, and they can. Some Mercedes car literally have one MCU per button, which just sits on CAN bus, and blinks an LED.
Reminds me of the Viñoly office tower in Amsterdam, although that has a straight crack spiraling around the building:

https://www.brandveiligmetstaal.nl/upload/Image/projecten/pr...
It's a little disingenuous to suggest that rail is a one-and-done affair.

The UK does have plenty of track: 20,000 miles worth, along with 6,000 level crossings, 30,000 bridges and viaducts, 2,500 stations...

Track needs constant maintenance through ballast redistribution and compaction to maintain track geometry; the rail itself needs to be ground regularly to maintain its shape; points systems need to be maintained, as well as signaling systems, earthworks and embankments, even vegetation.

Network Rail spends billions of GBP every year maintaining the railways.
The best way to drive a wedge between young and old developers is to negatively attribute something to a specific age group.

So keep going, you're on the right track.
Luckily for those people, interest rates are at record lows as well. So even if you are in a variable-rate loan, you're still making it out ahead right now.
P5.js[0] for animating stuff quickly.

[0]: https://p5js.org/
Again, entirely possible.

This is why we collect data across tens of thousands of people in clinical trials, rather than hoping for anecdotes to be submitted.

Some people get mild COVID. Some get severe. Statistically, the vaccinated are a lot less likely to get the severe sort.
You're on hacker news. The first rule of optimization is to /benchmark and profile first/ and then work on the part of the problem that will give you the biggest wins. Don't just work on the imagined problem, because you will usually be working on the wrong thing.
I went through the same experiences! I have a 40 acres homestead and that means plenty of custom projects.

After a while I was tired of ugly solutions, so I've been forcing myself to make them pleasing to the eye.

I was largely inspired by a youtuber, channel name Pask Makes. Everything the guy makes is highly functional and also so, so good looking. Better than I can achieve, but I'm working on it.

Highly recommend checking him out for inspiration, although most of what he builds are shop projects (tools etc).
Also creates a steady state where actual taxes are slowly increasing due to bracket creep.
I'm sure you can find a few anecdotal counter examples but generally speaking people don't behave that way on the east coast, homeless or not. And when they do it's more likely to be a drunk on game day than a homeless person.
This is one of my favorite Peter Thiel talks, the uploader certainly didn't seem to think so haha.
Stripe is under 3%, and at scale the prices go down rather than up.
At which point you could just forget the train and take a bus. Bucharest has buses to practically anywhere in the EU.
Well, it definitely looks like it will be pretty gay! :)
You forgot that the engineer got paid from day 0, plus 1% equity. While the cofounder got the idea, filtered it among all bad ideas, pitched and mounted it, and was on 100% risk. I have the same discussion with my employees, they want 100k$ per year from day one with guarantees of permanent employment, then they want equity.
Laugh all you want, but I genuinely believed that XML standards, yes those 'design by committee' standards like XForms, XProc, XPath/XQuery 3.0+ and just general web standards like XHTML 2.0 could've been the future and a backbone of something that a lot of people could use and not just as customers.

Not by writing XML by hand without proper tools, but using something built upon this, on an extensible, inter-operated web. Think using modern XMPP for messaging, instead of a zoo of messaging apps that can't talk to each other or Yahoo Pipes on steroids. But that's not the universe we live in and that's not the no-code we're talking about.
Agreed. It hurts environment reproducibility. It's best when the same binaries flow from environment to environment. That way you know that the binary you built and was tested by QA in the QA environment (not branch) is the exact same build moving to Production, not some entirely fresh rebuild possibly affected by unintentional merge conflicts or hidden integration problems.
It’s not new but an old idea which is a bit of a fad. People will try to take it too far and then realize it’s not good for everything but the idea rightfully should get some increased mindshare.

Code, especially these days, can get quite insanely complicated and pretty far from being a concise description of appearance and behavior. Fiddling with frameworks and libraries and language features instead of doing the thing you’re actually trying to do has gotten to be too much and no-code fad is the response.

It should also be an implicit call for “hey lets try to reduce complexity” but that is rarely listened for.
Congrats to Backblaze!

It seems to have a good "IPO Pop" (going up in price), but not too much. Enough to be reasonable and increase hype, but not enough to suggest they were underpriced and therefore left money on the table.

At a ~$630-million valuation, this is a smallcap (just a bit larger than what most would consider a microcap). Looking at the business model, I'd think there's a lot of room for growth here, more so than some companies that already are considered largecaps.

Small is good, because small means more growth potential. Its harder for a $100 Billion company to grow than a $1 Billion company to grow.
This depends on the state you are in, and other circumstances, such as are you using company equipment/time to create or publish it. There are many cases that claims are made beyond what is enforceable. You really have to consult with a lawyer from your state to know.
depends entirely what you're using to browse files
I wish that there was a breakdown by gender as well. It seems somewhat incomplete as is.
It's also really easy to use with typescript.

The last place I worked was a React shop, before that I did most of the frontend as well and used Vue, Current place uses Svelte and I'm really glad they did/do, the continual surprise is how Svelte makes easy things easy and hard things doable.
Correct. We measured how long it took to integrate changes in the core libraries into the consumers (multiple PRs) versus doing it on a monorepo (single PR for change). We ran them together for a couple weeks and the difference was big.

The biggest differences were in changes that would break the consumers. For this cases we had to go back and patch the original library, or revert and start from scratch. But even in the easy changes, just the "bureaucracy" of opening tens of pull-requests, watching a few CI pipelines and getting them approved by different code owners was also large.

Now, whenever we have changes in one of the core libraries, we also run full tests in the library consumers. With tests running in parallel, sometimes it takes 20 minutes (instead of 4, 5 hours) to get a patch affecting all frontends tested, approved and merged into the main branch.

Also, everyone agreed that having multiple PRs open is quite stressful.
Recently I could still save money on Lenovo, Dell, and even some HP business machines by ordering the No OS (freedos) or Linux options. I haven't checked in two years because I haven't needed a new machine. You just don't see it as often in the consumer space when microsoft is subsidizing the cost of windows to remain the ever present option.
A Starbucks coffee is like $5 Canadian and I find even that to be ridiculous.
How much of the AI is really automated, NLP AI and how much of it is human-augmented Amazon Mechanical Turk-level Human as an AI (Augmented Intelligence or Pseudo-AI)?
You're right, for most EU countries it's indeed 2 years.

> The Directive offers a 2-year legal guarantee of conformity, from the date that the item was delivered to the consumer. Most countries have implemented a 2-year guarantee of conformity but six countries apply a longer duration, with 4 of them taking into account the expected lifespan of the product.

https://www.evz.de/en/shopping-internet/guarantees-and-warra...
> Argument is the externalities of carbon emissions have (negative) value, so a tax would bring those two things in line and encourage that only people who really need to fly do so.

If we charged $100-200 per ton of CO2, which is supposedly more than recapture would cost, that would only be about $1-2 per 50 miles. From the numbers being quoted here, it sounds like that would do very little to bring prices in line.
Miami Will Start Giving Some of Its Residents Free Bitcoin: Mayor Suarez
Began "The Dawn of Everything" about a week ago, still on chapter 3.

Chapter 2 was very, very good. Worth the whole book alone. It begins with by questioning "why did Rousseau wrote about inequality if 100 years before no one in western culture cared about it"? Then he goes to show how the themes of liberty and social equality came from Canadian First Nations criticism of western culture. It is very well argued, solid and mind-blowing.

Sometimes the book gets too much into petty fights. I didn't like its takes on Yuval Harari's "Sapiens" or Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel". But that's a matter of my personal taste.
Your logic is circular.

No one should work on monorepos because...
monorepos are bad because...
git can't easily handle them and we shouldn't fix that because...
No one should work on monorepos...

Clearly there are reasons people like monorepos and it makes sense to update git to support the workflow.
I went through every 990 from the Sergey Brin Family Foundation and see no donations to the EFF in any of them (from 2014-2019).

Happen to know of a source for Yasha's claim?

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/472...
Skilled jobs aren't that fluid though. Many of the new EV jobs will require very different skills from the jobs they are displacing. I wouldn't assume that laying off a bunch of auto mechanics will fill a bunch of electrical engineer jobs any more than I would expect it to fix a nursing shortage.

There are things the govt can do to help that transition though, such as free job training and economic support for laid off workers. I understood the OP's point to be that the govt has a responsibilty to pursue these types of policies, and I totally agree.
These changes are meant to make it easier to read and understand command-line incantations (and to make them more explicit, which is always good), because the command-line paradigm, being text-based, imposes an unavoidable trade-off between ergonomics and understandability/ease-of-use. It sounds like you prefer ergonomics - although I wouldn't be surprised if most users would prefer ease-of-use.

Of course, if one doesn't write a CLI to begin with, this trade-off doesn't exist - you can have your cake and eat it too.
Shame it wasn't

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The date of the document and when it is add could be different.
Also no note about the document in default file system.
Actually 30% for the first year of a subcription and 15% for any subsequent years of that subscription when it comes to auto-renewing subscriptions.
The publishers who made Shakespeare a global phenomenon
I'd say when ES6 landed. I used to hate JS, but since ES6, I think it's a pretty good language for building frontends.
> The “standard” doesn’t tell you what directory structure to use inside /etc to group related config files. The “standard” doesn’t tell you where an HTTP server should serve its files. Everyone just does their own thing which makes upstream docs incorrect and useless for newcomers.

The FHS, does actually answer both of of those questions. Files inside /etc/ should be grouped in subdirectories[0] andd the HTTP server should serve user-specified website files from /srv[1] and normal distro-provided files (such as the apache test page) from /var[2].

[0]: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s07.htm...

[1]: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s17.htm...

[2]: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch05.html#p...
ISA is largely irrelevant these days. The Wintel cartel helped stave off ARM's relevance, but now that war is over.

That isn't what I'm talking about. There are other architectural innovations that could be made except for the fact that they work badly on Windows. Such as Threadripper's NUMA configuration, which isn't even particularly exotic.
Exact, because the local residents drive to the local train station way more often than to the local airport. I think that’s a factor 10 difference approximately. Probably different figure for big airports hubs that serve mostly connections of course.
The issue is not only the syntax, but the semantics. What happens to the scope when you nest #each expressions? Does it work with iterables (like for..of), or it behaves like for..in? I don't use Svelte, and I don't know those differences by reading the code. To me the nice thing about JSX is that is straight forward with JS semantics:

const a = <div prop={expression()} />

is a DSL for:

const a = factory('div', {prop: expression()})

is only a DSL to create tree structures (React is another story, you can use JSX without React).
For someone to buy it someone has to sell it, no?

The adjacent property is already owned and already being spoiled.
You're half-right. There are a lot of noncommercial or personal infringements that are being overprosecuted by either zealous litigants or outright fraudsters. However, at the same time, there are also a lot of artists who misrepresent or misunderstand what they actually do and don't own. The kind of people who will scream about how "the Internet is public domain" on one end, but also that someone with money "stole their idea". Likewise, there are also artists that are genuinely getting ripped off, but don't really have the means to fight back[0]. This is more common than you think, and I feel like this book is aimed at that group of people.

[0] This is why you have lots of bots that steal Twitter art and resell it as T-shirts or NFTs.
In an ideal world this would be a great solution, but on earth I think this would invite a whole host of corruption, similar to the carbon offset trading. Not combating the problem but making everyone richer.
The largest size of the fanciest coffee you can get (mocha chocolate frappucino whatever) is still like $5.50 in the middle of San Francisco, and I'm sure cheaper elsewhere. A regular Starbucks roast is 2 bucks, actually on the cheaper side compared to other coffee shops.
Spaces are a pain in the ass when you're using CLI so I'd rather enforce a no space policy
Nope. Most mortgage rates are fixed for the full term of the loan (typically 30 years).

If you can afford the down payment, it’s a great time to buy a house. (Even better would have been a few months ago, before inflation started to kick into high gear).
The price of electricity is going up.