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Which anecdotally is what I've noted playing poker against phenomenal losers (and also in a few poker blogs) - it's all about the moment where their "life" hangs in the balance and the final cards haven't been dealt yet. The results don't matter, wins are celebrated just because they allow to play longer.

Location: Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, looking to relocate to Europe, where I'm a citizen

Technologies: Typescript, NodeJS, ExpressJS, NestJS, NextJS, React, Rxjs, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL, AWS Certified Practitioner (all the basics + Pipelines + Lambda + ECS), IaC (AWS CDK & Pulumi), Git, Docker, API Security & scaling, C#, Java

Resume/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s4i2lbc3ym4nkm8/Fernando_Piancaste...

Email: fernando@cellide.com

Software engineer focused on leadership and process automation. For the past 12 years I have been leading teams, designing solutions & architectures. I mostly work on backend with APIs built on NodeJS & AWS but I keep in touch with React web & mobile. Love teaching juniors and coding best practices. I'm out of practice with C# but used to love .NET.

My immediate family is planning a move to England so I'm open to it as well.

In terms of preparing against your opponent, at their level and with enough time to think over the board, one has to know so much theory about many lines, that as white you're forced to find "novelties", which are brand new or mostly never played lines that might never come up in the game, in the hopes of throwing your opponent of their preparation. With black, you have to prepare a few opening lines and know them so well as to avoid surprises and maximize chances of at least a draw. This takes a lot of time and energy and memorization becames a huge factor. When you face many opponents, the ROI of deep studying a few lines doesn't pay off against people who have a myriad of styles, so memorization plays a lesser role; and you play many tournaments so having a few bad ones isn't such a big deal, comparing to playing for WC.

Oh, I bought the vision. I'm impressed with what's available at launch, even.

Personally, yes, I'm much more aligned with Kable value proposition. It solves pain points I have today and by experience (authentication schemes, how to throttle calls, how to monitor etc).

Congrats on the launch. Very appealing product.

I thought RapidAPI.com would be a direct competitor, but their site changed a lot. Have they pivoted from monetizing an API, directly? If so, then I'd definitely keep Kable on my radar.

Revenue streams.

These network contacts provide $$$ to those companies. They're low effort, easy revenue for them. Privacy for customers be d*mned.

I once met a senior-level dev who worked for a company, they wouldn't have their own app on his phone, due to those invasive practices tracking his behaviour.

I don't think it can just be a "gentle" nudge, it is a massive body and must need a rocket-level thrust to do so, but really, I agree with the idea. Why not?

Dock a custom Dragon with thrust capabilities, put in a higher, more stable orbit. Doesn't even has to be circular, just so we can visit it in the near future.

>> Snap Layouts, Snap Groups and Desktops provide an even more powerful way to multitask and optimize your screen real estate.

> So you've added some features to the way I drag windows about a screen?

Hey, if they added PowerToys' "Fancy Zones" built-in, that's already a good enough reason for a version bump to me...

+1 about South of Brazil. USD 1k with BRL as it is, it's more than enough to get an entire middle-class apartment for yourself and pay for all utilities in any neighborhood. (I'd not recommend largest southeast cities because you could feel "back" in L.A. traffic).

As I've experienced trying to rent a place in SF, in Brazil even largest cities are _waaay_ easier. You'd have to talk directly to an owner (since it would be difficult for you to prove income) but it wouldn't be a problem finding them and renting for less than a year.

Language will not be a problem, there's a startup scene if you feel like talking shop, and plenty of places to see and visit. You'd have all the infrastructure to stay for a long time.

Not equivalent, specially if you know what is like to suffer burnout.

The choice becomes "either I willingly quit, or suicide starts to become attractive".

Burnout is _strange_ because the person suffering reaches an unbearable state before the company complains about a lack of performance (to a point of firing them).

This phrase from Morphy and your story about your grandfather reminds me of this "Maybe I can win a pawn" scene: https://youtu.be/pOzaIcZwpwQ?t=60

This is what the mentor in the movie means: some become good, some foolishly pursue nothing. The game can be addictive. But to be great is the rarest thing.

Polgar set out to turn their children into prodigies, but it could have been any field.

They all descibre chess as been what they were introduced and chose to pursue [1], but they were educated in many areas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r

HN is not pursuing 10%/week growth, "engagement" etc. It doesn't care for bots, viral posts, there's a small, definable ruleset and largely enforceable.

It naturally attracts people interested in its themes and subjects, and doesn't try to cater to everyone needs. Hell, it isn't even trying to be beautiful or having any order other than chronological timeline and upvoted posts!

No wonder it hasn't become a toxic wasteland.

It would be a deterrent to hire ex-KBG, ex-military, family members of key politicians...

The basic difference:

In an IPO the company puts private shares in the open market and gets money from it, priced at the IPO price. Whoever has (private) shares now has public shares and can trade whenever they want.

In a Direct Listing the company often already traded shares "openly" but not in a "public" way, but now wants it listed publicly so retail investors can trade it, and there's no immediate need of capital so the objective isn't to get a funding from offering shares in an IPO.

That was hilarious! And it's such a cool project. Just copy & paste this entire post in a Kickstart page and watch the money pile up. Seriously. (but omit the "liar" part)

Consider this: you only cited US stocks, that's not exactly open to the whole world. Bitcoin is much more accessible, (arguably) converts to local fiat faster than US$ -> local, and having gains of 100% or close to it in a span of a few months is nothing to laugh at.

IMHO master meaning mastery over a field will still be fine.

Master meaning owning someone is the usage under review.

You gave three examples where master means expertise on the field, not ownership over someone.

I bet someone, right now, is creating a pitch for a brand change to LEADERCARD.

Someone, somewhere, is drafting this, prototyping a new logo desing.

Just waiting to happen.

> Uber is not an "essential service".

I agree given no other contexts, but let me refute anecdotally: Brazil for instance has become socially and economic dependable over Uber continuous success. Current situation goes like this:

- Brazil has about 1 million rental cars. Uber drivers have already returned 80% of their vehicles [1][2]. Rentals are down 90%. As cities are beginning to announce harder lockdowns, these will only go further down. [3]

- Rental companies stopped buying new cars for at least a year [4]. At least that matches the fact that almost no new cars are being made since March.[5]

- Rental companies buy directly from manufactures, they're almost half of their sales [6]. And app drivers are a big chunk of their customers.

- Car manufacturers are a big slice of every State's taxes they're in. Less car sales, thousand more layoffs. (lacking links here, sorry)

IMHO, to sum up: at least here, to any politician or car-related executive, Uber success is critical.

[1] https://www.jornalcruzeiro.com.br/sorocaba/locadoras-de-carr... (pt-br) [2] https://www.bol.uol.com.br/noticias/2020/03/23/coronavirus-s... (pt-br) [3] https://www.infomoney.com.br/mercados/sem-servico-160-mil-mo... (pt-br) [4] https://www.uol.com.br/carros/colunas/autodata/2020/05/15/lo... (pt-br) [5] https://revistaautoesporte.globo.com/Noticias/noticia/2020/0... [6] https://www.blogdaslocadoras.com.br/locadoras-de-carros/reco...

Sadly that interview didn't reveal that much, only that he left not by choice, and "still hurts him".

The only somewhat objective info about it was that he didn't have a defined role in the company anymore.

> But alas, Foursquare simply had no way of making money.

Their revenue is 100 MM/year. [1]

You may not (like me) like their pivot then, or business focus, but they do run a successful business.

[1] https://www.owler.com/company/foursquare

I think this post can give you some inspiration: https://firstround.com/review/how-superhuman-built-an-engine...

Second it.

If right now you're bootstraped, no revenue from SaaS yet, you and your cofounder are on your own and consulting, if related to your product, can give you 2) and 3) but more importantly 1), at a far bigger payout than you'll get from an early MRR.

This advice is opposed to common YC advise "don't lose focus, consulting IS losing focus" and I agree, but right now you're not funded, not accelerated, not incubated or anything and you're trying to finish your product. Stay afloat and don't burn your savings to the ground.

One more advice: finish your MVP soon, and at some point, early than you imagine, tell your first customers that's the version you're putting in production right now and it'll be like that for a while, because waiting for that customer(s) that "will definitely buy once we do X and Y" will KILL your roadmap and KILL your startup. You'll be doing features after features, won't focus on your core features and propositons, and won't discover what is your killer feature that you must polish. That's what will keep your first customers with you.

Try Brazil: smoke made it to southern states, ~7700 miles

https://www.correiodopovo.com.br/not%C3%ADcias/geral/fuma%C3...

Well, the author is now running for a US public office position. So I personally take this article as just another form of content marketing for his new public persona.

I do not agree this _might_ leads us in a better direction.

What we'll continue to see are rising sects of flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, cultists, polarization and deniying of anything not-in-my-bubble, a complete lack of trust in journalism and media, and futile attempts of fact-checking while we're all drowning in fake news shared endlessy on unsuspecting users. It takes a lot of effort to show something was manipulated digitally, and you'll have to fact-check by yourself, that doesn't scale at all.

That'a well-worth read to everyone that enjoy reading about QA finding bugs, even if not interested in games Finding quest-related bugs is a nightmare in open-ended games...

And if you see httpsterio's comment, that's 0,01% a day, 3,65% in a year, which is huge. Insurance must be crazy high to accept that level of risk on average.