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I recognized this guy's name, so skimming over the twitter thread my cynical thought was "I bet ConvertKit is working on a Gumroad competitor", and sure enough, they already have one.
But in any case, what's the procedure they usually follow? I figure if I offer then $200 they'll turn it down flat and dig their heels in further.
There's a domain I've wanted for decades for sentimental reasons. I randomly checked on it a few weeks ago and noticed it had lapsed but GoDaddy had picked it up and was asking $3,500 for it.
Obviously I'm not going to pay that, so I'm keeping an eye on it (through searches on other registrars) to see if they drop the price (I'd pay a few hundred bucks for it).
I haven't contacted them or tried to make an offer yet, cause I don't want to let them know that someone is actually interested in the domain and ruin any chances I'd have just by waiting.
If the binoculars can also be used for wildlife I'd be willing to spend a bit more for them.
If I recall, there was an additional requirement where the ok hand had to be held below your waist, though.
I've seen too many times to count management completely squashing out any passion that employees might have for the company or product. The most common ways I think are micromanaging and soliciting feedback / ideas then completely ignoring it. Both will immediately have your employees checking out and saying to themselves "fine, I'll show up, do what I'm told, then clock out at 5."
They film 5 episodes in a day, and maybe he had to re-record 1 or 2 per episode? I remember thinking that was incredible, and I still do. Even some of the things they re-recorded I wasn't sure why (possibly he mis-pronounced a foreign word I wasn't familiar with).
I guess taking 2 of my favorite musicians wasn't enough, 2020 had to come for the host of my favorite game show.
You compute the bounds along each axis in linear time. The sorting of these bounds can be done in linear time, then you take a pass over each axis looking at the marked intervals, which is also linear.
I'll give you an example from my own life. My dream schools were Duke and MIT. I applied to Duke, but didn't even apply to MIT. Want to know why? Because it cost $40 to apply. Every school charged an application fee, so I had to be incredibly picky about where I applied to stretch the money from my $5.50 / hr part-time job at Chik-Fil-A. I had to narrow my list to 4, and I figured MIT was a long-shot so it didn't make the cut (Wofford, Furman, Duke, College of Charleston; got into all but Duke).
It wasn't until years later that I found out all you have to do is call up the admissions office and they'll waive the fee. You can't imagine how gutted I felt when I learned this. I wanted to cry. I was doing pretty good by then but my mind was filled with the alternate histories that were within reach without me even knowing it.
Somebody is probably reading this and thinking I wasn't poor, I was just stupid. Maybe so, but it's really hard to put yourself in the position of someone who has no resources, no perspective, and no people in their life to guide them through basic things like this (my parents didn't go to college). Sometimes being blessed with a good brain just isn't enough.
If large numbers of people stopped using just Google search and gmail, Google would most definitely notice and feel it hard. Or to phrase it differently, the choices of individual users absolutely can still decide the fate of these companies. This sounds obvious, but is not always true (it would be much harder for individual preferences to dethrone Microsoft, for example).
Do you think PMs should be able to call themselves engineers? They know the work pretty well, many (at least in SV) have undergrad degrees in STEM, they can talk the lingo. They've just never actually written code. Some people would even protest PMs who used to be engineers still calling themselves that.
I think Musk knows things at the level of a technically-strong PM. But I think if you asked him to some basic tasks in structural engineering, for instance, he would have no idea what to do.
(If you want to be pedantic, they were unprofitable for "year", not "years" after IPO)
Solution: Use it as a mixer. Blenheim gin and gingers are fantastic.
Tangzhong is basically about packing more moisture into a dough while keeping it easy to handle. Higher hydration doughs are very sticky and take some experience to work with, but this will let you get something that is like a 75% hydration, but still handles like a 70% hydration dough. (I just made up these numbers, but you get the point).
For my part, I am fairly experienced with handling up to 80-ish% hydration, so I never bother with tangzhong, since it just adds another thing to do and creates more dishes to wash.
They do, however, have a good umbrella insurance policy to cover extra liability. If you have even a modest net worth you should also do this.
And don't invite randos into your home/office.
Probably the biggest is just that they have a bias to be bullshitted (bullshat?). The are constantly searching for the next big thing, so they need these things to be true. They want them to be true. And human nature makes them scared of missing out.
Also, most of the VCs out there are not investing their own money, and have never actually operated a business. This is why they ask the same questions with slight variations, and get obsessed with metrics that may or may not apply to a given business. This also makes them easier to fool, although many make up for this hands-on inexperience with enough years of watching startups that they can "pattern match" rather than understand things from first principles.
Most also develop specialties. You're not going to fool an experienced blockchain VC with the made up or cherry-picked bitcoin numbers. But go next door on Sand Hill Rd and you can probably get away with it.
If anyone is studying Spanish, the animated show Star Wars: The Clone Wars have audio that exactly matches the subtitles (Start Wars: La Guerra de los Clones). Good show with a good mix of action / dialogue that I learned of Spanish a lot while watching.
It was well-established in the comments on the previous article that many numbers were wildly off, so without any sources these tweets bring absolutely nothing new to the conversation.
For really hard woods I get about 30-45 min out of the chain saw per battery. I use it for chopping up fallen trees (I live in a heavily-wooded area) so haven't done firewood exactly. I have 2 batteries and I get tired before I run down the second one.
Its kinda fun how it goes from dead silent to ripping through a tree. Although the bar length is probably too short for your needs. Plus a cord is a lot of wood (to me).
I figured anything that needs a more powerful chainsaw is best left to a professional anyway, so the battery-powered saw acts like a built-in buffer on hurting myself.
Sometimes they don't even get through the first sentence before the person has to stop them with corrections.