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mateo411··on My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder
I think you need to have ARR(annual recurring revenue) to have a multiplier like this. I think the company makes money when somebody buys the device, but that's it.

It would also help to know the TAM(total market area). How big is the remote KVM market? That gives you an idea on how many devices it's possible to sell in a given year.

Looks like the device sells for about $400.

mateo411··on What you've got is in fact a people problem
Give the price tag when missing. The argument is we need to fix this in order to insure against this catastrophic event.

Or take the price tag when missing multiply by the probability of needing it over the course of one year. This is a more accurate estimate for the annual cost of not creating the backup.

mateo411··on Meta's Reality Labs loses record $4.65B ahead of Apple's Vision Pro launch
Yes, with a low market cap of 1.22 Trillion and the stock price is up over 20% today. The end is near indeed!
mateo411··on Git commit messages are useless
It's a marketing post.
mateo411··on Nielsen's Ten Usability Heuristics [pdf] (2020)
Internal business applications are going to be a lot clunkier than a publicly available web interface.

The reasons are typically:

1. They are designed for a few number of users, so they can automate an internal task. The application seems complicated and uses a lot of language specific to the domain.

2. Generally under invested in. These are great learning projects for people to do, but it also means the implementation will probably be substandard. Work arounds will be discovered for the known bugs, since the users all in the same company anyway. These projects reduce OPEX/COGS, they don't directly contribute to Sales/Revenue, so they aren't as important for the company.

mateo411··on Airlines will make $118B in extra fees
I fly Southwest too. I like the flexibility that they provide.

If you don't feel like flying today, that's fine with them. No change fees. However, sometimes they don't feel like flying either, and you also need to extend them the same courtesy.

mateo411··on I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars
You should take a vacation.
mateo411··on I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars
I think the author should take a vacation.
mateo411··on Ask HN: How can I compete in a well-established market?
How about writing a JIRA plug-in. You can find an area where it is lacking and write a plug-in for it.

Alternatively, start with an open source bug tracker. But offer to host it, and create improvements for it. It's been a long time, but you can set up something like bugzilla. (There's probably a more modern alternative out there).

Here's another idea. Start ups don't have a lot of money, consider receiving equity from the start up every month. Instead of a monthly rate, you receive shares every month. You will probably need a lawyer to set up this contract and there is probably a problem with this idea. I don't think you can receive ISOs, unless you are an employee, so they might have to hire you too, while they are using your bug tracking service.

mateo411··on Confused Deputy Problem
Let's see.

- Byzantine General's Problem (Consensus in a distributed system)

- Part time Parliament (Paxos Algorithm also reaching consensus in a distributed system)

- Confused Deputy

- Gossip Protocol(Quickly spread state in a distributed system)

- Vector Clocks ( Determine a partial ordering of events in a distributed system)

Many of these concepts were given clever names given by Leslie Lamport who did a lot of Distributed Systems Research.

mateo411··on Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt
Agile can help, but I think a vacation/time off is better approach in this scenario.
mateo411··on Common mistakes in salary negotiation
Not if everybody in the entire industry is paid the same. :)
mateo411··on Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)
Are they any good? Perhaps they knew somebody in the company already, which made it easier to get them into the role.

It also might be an easier time to hire right now.

mateo411··on The office is a theatre for work (2019)
I don't think there is one way to implement these correctly. It's a people/organization problem. It's a hard to get alignment and buy in from enough people in your organization.

OKRs should at least be for a period of time of one quarter. They shouldn't be changing constantly quarter over quarter. When they do change a lot, it indicates that the company is shifting strategy. Companies need to do this from time to time, but it's not a good sign if the company is doing this every quarter.

Engineering priorities shouldn't change week to week based on OKRs, because OKRs shouldn't change that frequently.

mateo411··on The office is a theatre for work (2019)
There is actually a pretty good book about them.

Measure What Matters by John Doerr

It shows the history of how they have worked well at some companies in the Valley. You asked one question about this and now you have to read a book. That's a shame.

mateo411··on The office is a theatre for work (2019)
I think it's really hard to do OKRs correctly. It seems like you are working at a place that is not doing them correctly. I've also worked at places that haven't implemented OKRs correctly.

At the very least it appears that not everybody has bought into the OKRs and alignment has not been achieved.

mateo411··on Where in the USA is this?
Seems like a great picture for Bruce Springsteen's next album cover.
mateo411··on Breakthrough deal to prevent Colorado River from drying up
The cows and the snobbier livestock care deeply about the terroir.
mateo411··on Breakthrough deal to prevent Colorado River from drying up
Most of the water that goes to farms in the Central Valley does not come from the Colorado river. It comes the Sierra and Owens Valley. The farm lands that would be impacted by this are in Imperial County.
mateo411··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
If it's per user, than that won't be economical for TikTok.
mateo411··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
I think TikTok could easily make over $10000 a day from its Montana Audience. Although this law likely violates the 1st amendment, perhaps the best course of action is to either ignore Montana or just cut them a check.
mateo411··on US may default on debt as soon as June 1, Yellen reaffirms
Why is the US economy like a big forest?
mateo411··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
Well, 529s are a good way to avoid capital gains taxes on investments dedicated for education. In your case, they wanted to be extra sure that you would avoid capital gains taxes, so they lost money.
mateo411··on AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
It sounds like you used ChatGPT as a rubber duck. Although this rubber duck can talk back to you.
mateo411··on BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users
100 percent correct.

Ideally you will also partition the data, so your queries can use partitions. Athena charges $5 per terabyte of data scanned, so it's important to get this right.

mateo411··on BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users
Not really.

Athena lets you run SQL queries on datasets in S3. You can do something similar in BQ with external tables. BQ is much faster. Athena will easily be more expensive on larger datasets, because you pay $5 per terabyte scanned.

AWS doesn't have a service similar to BQ in terms of performance.

I think the 3 main players in the Analytics space are BQ, Snowflake and Databricks.

mateo411··on How to Read MySQL EXPLAINs
I didn't know about this. That's really good advice for running EXPLAIN plans on Postgres. Thanks!
mateo411··on A student's guide to startups (2006)
I think that founders have become older since 2006.

There are a lot of people work for a big company for a while, or go into an industry, then go to a start up.

I don't have any data to show this is true, but I suspect that it is.

mateo411··on Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)
Some of this should be updated to reflect current GDPR/CCPA regulations.

For example can download all of your youtube history if you want. That's part of an access request.

mateo411··on Ask HN: What AI startups are hiring?
Ask ChatGPT

---EDIT---

I initially said this to be silly, but then I went ahead and followed my own advice. I guess this is a limitation of ChatGPT.

---Response---

As an AI language model, I do not have access to real-time information about which AI startups are hiring. However, you can explore various job boards, company websites, and professional networks to stay updated on the latest hiring trends and opportunities in the AI industry.

Some popular job boards for AI-related roles include LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed, and Monster. You can also check out websites of specific AI startups that you're interested in working for and see if they have any job openings.

Moreover, professional networks like Github, Kaggle, and Stack Overflow can also be helpful resources to find AI job opportunities, especially for technical roles. Additionally, attending industry events and networking with professionals in the AI community can help you stay up-to-date on job openings and other opportunities in the field.

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