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People everywhere on the internet are going crazy about Roblox IPO. I initially thought about gambling a small amount of money with Roblox when they go public. But I start to question if it would be even wise for me to put money in Roblox. It just feels its too good to be true as everyone mentions that they're gonna buy the stock. What do you folks' think?

Thanks for this, I might try this one for myself in the future and its assembled in fresno which is pretty close by

im not sure if its beginner friendly, looks like they might need to put demos, but def looks like a really great product

Interesting, thanks ill research this later. these things didnt even cross my mind

Wow!

Some places would charge you a month's rent for each month that they couldn't fill the apartment when you break lease!

Thanks for this, I used to have other resources too about 3 years ago when I was making my own toy blockchain project that takes in a programming language to create smart contracts

let me see if i can still find those

Can you tell me more about the time restriction that they have? Is that about hitting quarterly targets?

Can anyone tell me about non-founder CEOs who has done a great job of creating innovative products for a company without using MAs?

I'm trying to think about if there's any correlation between the two. There are some posts in HN that was about founder ceos but I cant remember the context. I'll have to go look for those

There are always new things that incrementally improves the theming of widgets. Like some people are trying to find better alternatives to material design, but they didnt really catch on

But other interfaces that had bigger improvements recently are audio and haptics

For user experience, to me this is kinda domain driven because of workflow improvements, but there's a lot of things that are changing in almost every domain. And its kinda hard to find out which one is right because an improvement in the UX might not mean better UX for the users. IE: company A does X but company B does it differently

You can even argue self driving is a major improvement in the UI and UX for drivers, including the screen dashboards. IE: tesla adding that ipad screen, and other vehicles are trying to copy it.

Huh, totally forgot about Jim Simons. Thanks for some of the insights, thats a good point

Also thanks for the reminder, funny how following the latest trends and putting my focus onto those kinda made me forgot about all the other hot shots from the past that faded from the spotlight

I agree completely with most of what you said. The whole system of making books having a minimum number of words doesnt help at all.

And I agree with the fiction part, I know and have witnessed people who have been reading fiction throughout their whole life. As an adult, they enjoy and can easily finish a fiction book in one day. But most of them cannot do the same with non-fiction books. I am at the opposite. I can go through a non-fiction really fast, but would take forever and rarely enjoy reading fiction.

I do notice that too, that some books have really valuable insights and can kinda stand the test of time. Some are just like iterations of multiple books out there thats just retold in a different way

In 2019 I've read 100 books. Im not married nor have children, but I might have advice to share

If your goal is to just finish a book, you can listen to an audiobook at 3.5x speed.

Some books are easy, some books are hard. If you pick easy books you can go through them much faster

You have to pick your goals and priorities about what you want from the book.

I mostly read non-fiction books that are not heavy in academics. So most of them are not written to be lean if you know what I mean

Being able to tell people I've read 100 books was pretty cool but it was just a vanity metric to boost ego. It's pretty dumb to be honest. Theres better ways to consume a huge amount of information.

This doesnt apply to domains that require deep knowledge/learning ie: programming, engineering, sciences, math, algorithms, hobbies, etc.

Also things you learn from books are not a rule of law, which Ive noticed that is something people tend to forget.

Do you feel like Ark will be able to perform as well as they had in the past in the upcoming years?

Like how does Ark do it? How are they able to perform way better than other investors? Isn't there a mental model that sooner or later they wouldn't be able to have returns higher than market returns

Disclaimer: I do hold ARK shares and options

Definitely cool! Theres only a very few things that they need to introduce, you guys prob know what it is. Once they do that, a lof of competitors will definitely start sweating...

I love my apple card, but kinda gets annoying on days when i have to switch to an android

im not familiar with this, i havent read much about early employee stock options, what does this mean?

I recently started using tiktok. I cannot believe, how much I love that app.

Im pretty sure there are only a few small things that tiktok needs to do. And a few mistakes they shouldn't do.

When they succeeds in doing those things, and if social media is a zero sum-game, it will kill all its competitors.

I see so 1 language is a more realistic goal

Thanks for the advice

Thanks for this, sticking to 1 language instead

The music lessons are going really well!

I dont think im disciplined at all, its mostly what im interested in. I know most people spend leetcode 4 hours a day after work and all day on the weekend. I used to do that, but i stopped doing that as that's not for me. Now i have too much time

Question for everyone. Doesn't everyone know in the industry what makes great software engineers? And that usually there are only "blockers" that stops you from being great?

Let me give an analogy. If you're paid to play basketball wouldn't you know what makes a great basketball player? If you're playing pro basketball, you can be a great basketball player. The only reason why you can;t be great is because there are certain things outside of playing basketball that you have to worry about.

I guess i'm asking cause it's kinda annoying when people tell me what makes a great engineer. Anyone I know who has been doing this a few years knows what makes a great engineer. It doesn't mean they want to be a great engineer because the trade-offs arent just worth it

Thanks man, i'll add this to our newsletter and blog if its ok? https://www.whatwhatgoose.com/design

Anything that would give me all of this and lets me use android and give me a nice looking platinum card. Or an app that will let me use my apple credit card in android

https://www.apple.com/apple-card/

Please take off the parallax, its really painful to use.

I would love to switch from ios to android. I actually want to move back to an android device. My dilemma is, i want an apple credit card (or something similar) and better cameras compared to apple

Pretty much a good place to get started so you have something actionable is:

1. find out who your users are, and go talk to them

2. your marketing usually will fuel your sales

3. you'll do a lot iteration with 1&2

4. figure out how long your sale cycle will be

5. Usually sales is a full time job, so delegating it to someone might be useful

Advice in this thread is pretty good. im gonna need to write about it later here to remember: https://www.whatwhatgoose.com/product-management

wow this is pretty cool g.j. man pinning this for my list later: https://www.octomoose.com/design

Hey Per, I'm a big fan of your product. I used it as a tool to teach people how to code. I used many tools and scrimba was one of them.

2 questions. can you tell me more about your competition and how you're planning to navigate the market with competitors?

how do you get new users?

how do you keep students engaged to finish the course? people i've introduced into scrimba never finished the course and ended up going to a different course.

Im a little surprised everyone is commenting about Marc's quality of life. And yet fail to mention Ben.

You guys know that they work together right?

Ben literally has a book, and it literally sounds like he has a high quality of life. They pretty much have the same job, and you can infer that they prob have the same quality of life

Anyways, his workout schedule and his reading schedule doesnt really look efficient (unless if he is training to compete or includes shower time / sauna). It looks very inefficient. He has a lot of money, i wonder why he hasnt consider optimizing those instead and have more time on his hands

Nothing really except your hero page button is off center in mobile, but that's about it

It might help to put your register / sign in, in the same page as your landing page.

Also, Im kinda curious on how you got your Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy

I started learning music recently, and another type that I would like to see, is mathematics for music genres, mathematics for music effects and mathematics for music theory

Depends on the role, but usually for software engineers one requirement is to pass an algorithms interview. so being really good at leet code. people have told me they did at least 600 leet code questions just for that specific portion of the interview