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If you are wondering why Kakoune and not Vim, the OP claims...

(you find following passages later in his post and they don't reflect my opinion)

> A design goal of Kakoune is to beat vim at its own game, while providing a cleaner editing model.

> Kakoune manages to beat Vim at the keystroke count game in most cases, using much more idiomatic commands.

> Kakoune provides an efficient code editing environment, both very predictible, hence scriptable, and very interactive. Its learning curve is considerably easier than Vim thanks to a more consistent design associated with strong discoverability, while still being faster (as in less keystrokes) in most use cases.

No word about the ability to connect to 2x 5K monitors at full 60hz (no other notebook can do this).

Or 4x 4K @60Hz again: (no other notebook can do this).

you are right (I can't edit my original post anymore)

tl;dr because the presentation is super long.

I just picked data which I find interesting and not obvious, there's much more information which I don't cover. Data is in chronological order and often aggregated to less numbers. 700 founders inside and outside of FirstRound were surveyed.

- 7 of 10 say bitcoin is overhyped

- cofounder relationship: 5% fired their cofounder, 5% are strained, 40% collegial, 28% best friends

- 13% sold secondaries

- 61% optimise on growth, rest on profitability

- 52% want to fire up to 10 people, 32% up to 50, 10% more than 50 the next 12 months

- Hardest people to hire: tech, sales and marketing leader

- 90% of mid-level engineers get <1% equity, 64% <0.4%

- Most (55%) of mid-level engineers get between $100K and $150K

- Primary drivers of company culture are tech, sales and design

- Most (43%) people leave between 6-7pm, 10% work longer than 8pm

- 75% could close a round in 4 months or less

- 78% pitched less than 20 investors

- 76% raise exactly or more compared to what they planned

- 55% expect that raising gets harder the next 12 months

- 22% of investors didn’t meet expectations

- 20% <= 30yrs, 32% older than 40yrs, rest inbetween

- Most popular sectors are enterprise, consumer, fin-tech

- 43% web, 29% mobile, 1% VR

> Product Hunt is awesome

Please explain why.

I tried to use Product Hunt as a daily driver for product and startup discovery several times but I could never stick with it, found it quite boring. There is so much media out there telling me about new products or startups every day, for what do I need Product Hunt?

Good question and this will be the biggest challenge. The answer is equity. But be careful before giving too much equity too easy away. You should have a big pipeline of candidates and know exactly what you expect from whom and how much you are willing to give away and on what conditions. At the beginning some might join your venture full-time, some not. Latter ones are easy to get but eventually it might be hard to get them out of the current jobs if the prospects are not to positive or let's say the first round is rather small.

Once in later funding stages (A, B) you have much better financial power and thus, you'll update or upgrade your senior management team anyway.

> Doer-in-Chief. You must be deeply involved in both building the product (observing/interacting with users, writing code, designing product specs)

I slightly disagree here, I would rather start with the Second Job or Phase 2, 'Hiring a Leadership Team and Making Sure They Work Well Together'. The more you focus on finding and setting up the best team early on the better. You can do yourself a prototype, write code or do market research to see if you are on the right track. However, I recommend to setup the founding or leadership team before anything else. Once you have the team in place the project gets momentum and pace will be 100x compared to before. And finding the team plus setting up all legal matters will be a full-time job your first weeks if not months.

> you are not Apple's target audience anymore

recently researched dozens of Windows notebooks and I found two reasons why the new Macbooks might be still for developers:

- Only notebooks which can drive 2x 5k displays + the internal, there is no Windows notebook which can do this; and having two ultra sharp 27" 5k displays is something that might be attractive for developers

- the new MBP 15 is the lightest quad-core 15" machine by far, also not the worst thing

> Photos for sale are identified as rightfully owned by having RAW file details published to the blockchain (actual High Res image is not stored on chain)

Does anyone have a clue, how this should work? Eg, if I just 'steal' a pic and change slightly its brightness, color curve, crop, blurriness, etc. will the system still be able to identify the original?

Otherwise great idea.

> I don't think you know anything about the cause and effect relationship considering you have no idea who I am let alone what is wrong with me knee.

Why are you getting aggressive? You have your opinion, I have my opinion, no need to snap.

> People are different, bodies are different

Ok, I agree. But why do you then generalize yourself few sentences before and tell us that '20-30 miles a week is nothing' and treating everybody the same? I think, I was more differentiating, I said 20-30 miles/week for a long period is already too much for the majority—not for all.

> I wore down cartilage in my knee while running through pain I had been having for a while

Ok, doesn't really make your stance better. Who says that every other runner is so wise and stops running while having a pain? Maybe most of them do the same mistake like you did? Maybe they just want to win, just want to outperform other runners, just fear loosing or just want to prove themselves that they can run more than last week—all while slowly crushing their knees. And maybe it's the dynamics or game mechanics of running itself—it's not that easy to stop.

Sorry, but the cause-effect-relationship is getting even clearer with your last comment. Extensive running can get quickly dangerous and the problem is that the runner might realize this too late.

> Blackmailing people with pictures taken from webcams

How can one blackmail a person with webcam pictures where the person just stares into a screen?

If you mean NSFW pics I don't think they're done with a computer's webcam cam. Nowadays, people use phones for that use case.

> It is not clear that running is bad for the knees

I wrote 'extensive running'

You write...

> Some people can handle 120 miles per week

after you...

> ran 80-90 miles per week [...] I'm really looking forward to knee surgery in October)

Apologies for being a bit harsh but the cause-effect-relationship is crystal clear. Extensive running puts a tremendous strain on our knees. You don't need to be a doctor, scientist or professional runner to know this. And just 20-30 miles/week over a long period is already way too much for the majority. Most will write, 'nah that works great for me, I run that amount for many years and my knees are in perfect shape'. Just wait till you're older and then it's pay back time.

> Add the following token to your HN bio: hnchat:p2z9iJCaT5ZXWlWp5Vua

Smart idea to verify users

Starting companies is much easier with a cofounder. There's more momentum and pace with somebody together. Especially with first time founders, a team is the driving force when starting a venture.

But unfortunetaly every relationship changes or ends at some point--always. Then, it's about a quick and smooth separation without briging the company in danger. But this rarely happens, the separation is usually a tedious process over many months till the company breaks.

So yes, solo founding is better in the long run but in most cases there will be no founding at all because of momentum lacking.

> we started looking at more difficult datasets where reading the entire document is necessary to produce good summaries

Was hoping to get rather some more insights on this.

Because when looking at the examples given, I wonder if we really need machine learning to summarize single sentences? Just by cutting all adjectives, replacing words by abbreviations and multiple words by potential category terms, we should face similar results. Maybe it's just a start or did I miss anything?

Is Carbide kind of a JSFiddle Pro?

Is it just my feeling or are there languages which are preferred on HN?

Indicators for languages which are liked by the HN community:

- Positive stories get many upvotes and are instantly at the top of HN

- Most comments are positive

- Frequent coverage on HN about the language

Indicators for languages which are not liked by the HN community:

- Rants get many upvotes and are instantly at the top of HN

- Most comments are negative about the language

- Rare coverage on HN

Applying those indicators, following languages should have these like-levels (on a range from 1 to 5):

  Python  *****
  Go      ****
  Node.js *
  C#/.NET ***
  Java    ***
  RoR     **
  Ruby    ***
  Elixir  ***
  Haskell ****
  Closure ***
  C       ****
  Rust    *****
  C++     ***
  PHP     *
  Swift   ****
  

This is just my feeling, happy to hear your perception. And this does not reflect my opinion about those languages in any way.

I use Dropbox instead of Drive and Photos.

Gmail is hard to replace because it's well integrated with other Google services, in particular Google Apps with its own ecosystem.

Google Search is hard to replace because of the quality. Bing is ok but not close in quality.

Because of the huge reach of Mad they were popular before but they felt more like mediocre filler content within Mad. Yes the style was distinct but the plot was always the same and predictable. With the games they found their real determination: the visual style, the always recurring topic of the spies tricking each one into a trap--the games were the perfect media for Spy vs Spy, way better than the strips.

And it was more than a handful of games. Spy vs Spy was a strong merchandise running over many years with an unique and innovative gameplay then for many platforms.

My feeling is that Spy vs Spy got their popularity rather through the games than through the comic strips in Mad. I loved the games on the 8- and 16-bit home computer generation and with another human player they were a blast. But I wasn't really that excited about the comic strips. They had their distinct style which was definitely nice but I preferred stories from other cartoonists in Mad.

Getting out is possible but it's quite hard. Whatever you are going to do you won't be able to reach your current income level in the long-term. These opportunity costs and a general insecurity when doing new stuff will pull you back to well paid and secure dev jobs very quickly.

Running your own business or getting into startups as a founder is an option but you need to learn toms of new stuff, so it wont be easy either. Most developers I know who went this path realized after few months that another life isn't much easier and reverted to cushy dev jobs with free lunch and all the perks you could imagine. That's the real problem, it is so easy and tempting to get a well paid dev job. Why try hard if you get free crack around the corner?

I still recommend to venture something new but make sure you have sufficient financial resources and strong willpower to stay on track and not fall back to your current profession. You will learn a lot and tremendously improve your people skills.

Nobody mentions 'meet women' [1]. Maybe too simple but from my perspective an important part in this equation.

Meeting women is a bit like doing sales. it's more of an outgoing activity and being extrovert. So rather the contrary of coding. This is refreshing, gives me balance and a nice change to my day to day life as a coder.

[1] For the sake of verbal simplicity, I use the term 'women' for people of the opposite gender or the gender you are into. And also for the sake of simplicity and decency, I use 'meet' for all kind of interactions.

OT: There are some beeautiful visuals/illustrations around the text

My results were similar on DSL:

  Speedtest 12.6 Mbps

  Fast.com  13.0 Mbps

But differed on LTE:

  Speedtest 40.0 Mbps

  Fast.com  73.0 Mbps

Makes sense but wouldn't they then use the netflix domain? Something like netflix.com/fast? I could image that if providers throttle it would be a mix of IPs and domain.

Since they took this precious domain, I was wondering about the purchase price and if it was worth to buy this awesome domain—we are talking here about a mid six digit at least, rather seven digits.

Then, I checked how much traffic speedtest.net is getting on SimilarWeb: wow, 150m visits per month, I didn't know that speed testing can be so popular.

Conclusion: Yes, it was right to buy this domain and if fast.com gets a large part of speedtest.net's traffic in the long term, Netflix has a neat free Marketing channel.

First, I thought why another speed test, then I saw that they link their results directly to speedtest.net (the reference) and finally, I realized that fast.com is so much faster in detecting the download speed (but lacks upload and ping).

Not bad.

EDIT: And they secured a fantastic domain.

Don't want to be too negative but the entire post could have been shortened to 'put it on Flippa'. Then, the other advice is quite obvious.

Flippa isn't bad but if your side project is good for anything and you want to achieve a better price, do a small M&A process: Identify potential buyers yourself, approach them and keep the approaches synced to create and keep up competition. Also you could combine this manual leadgen with Flippa.

Would love to leave Google Mail but eventually, the ecosystem around Google Apps got so strong, in particular all the extensions for Google Sheets and Google Mail, it makes switching quite hard.

And you get the Google Apps at a good price.