goodJobWalrus

it's the same book as in the article.

Can you comment on what you found out?

> Ramasjang is entertainment, not a replacement for parents or school. Parents are expected to know when to switch it off (but just in case, the characters go to bed at 8.00pm, and are shown sleeping until the morning) rather than pretend that it is self-improvement.

yes, I grew up watching mainly old American cartoons (like Tom and Jerry), and I don't remember them being particularly "educational", and it was well understood that we are watching them for entertainment, and the last one was at 7:15 pm on our television.

In the interview, you said that you had 10 paying customers before you even started coding or had a company. My question is:

How did you get those people paying you, and how much they paid? Since you have a monthly service, surely they haven't been paying your usual monthly fee for all that time while you were coding?

> Looking at ten thousand published BuzzFeed listicles over a period of three months I found a statistically significant difference in the performance of odd-length listicles compared to even ones.

They published at least 10,000 listicles in 3 months! now, that is what I call a soul-crushing job (writing those articles)

I wonder whether she actually used the word "frolicking" when reporting. I mean, imagine calling the police b/c someone is frolicking.

> A Winnipeg mom was doing the dishes while her three kids, 10, 5 and 2 , played in their fenced-in backyard. A neighbor called to report “unattended” kids frolicking and Jacqui Kendrick was visited by a child protective services rep. The rep asked questions about what Jacqui’s own childhood was like, how she punished her kids, and where they slept. She even looked in Jacqui’s fridge.

Oh crap, I thought Canada was better.

Out of curiosity: What cultural reasons?

> One-Month Sabbatical Every Three Years: Every three years, employees are eligible to take a one-month-long sabbatical.

For some reason, I keep being surprised how a month long vacation is called "sabbatical" in American terms while in Europe everyone gets 4-6 week vacation every year, and it's not that rare to take it all at once.

4 days summer work week is nice.

Watching Lazy Sunday again made me go check whether Mapquest still exists. It looks weird now.

Wow, I just assumed all the pictures were his (w/o reading credits) since it's basically a photo essay. Off with his head!

Yes, I am usually assumed to be male here, and addressed as such. I don't mind it really, and I understand why it is happening tho.

Honestly, I don't understand your question. I am not using HN for hiring leads, so I don't understand how skillsets of HN users are relevant to my question.

I am not looking to draw conclusions, just to get an answer to my question.

Is this from Charles Duhig's or Gerd Gigerenzer's book? I remember reading somewhere this exact thing.

Wow, I am about to have a baby any day now, this is scary. I really hope they are better in Canada with these things.

How many can we vote for? I voted for 3 of them total (voting as I was reading through), but now I wonder whether only the first one will count.

I guess that should fall under "your life...you decide..."

Sure, but when you handle used tampon, you don't have to actually touch it. Yes, for me it's just gross.

Would you carry an extra cup of your own blood, mucus, tissue pieces, piss and bacteria in your purse, though?

Would you use a menstrual cup, if you menstruated, Steve? If other women are anything like me, that thing will remain a very niche product.

Chip cards with contactless ability work great for speed, but I'm not sure about safety and fraud thing. It's also a matter of having people trained. I rarely need to use swipe, so naturally it takes me longer than entering pin.

I was thinking many times how it would be great to have that available.

I think he meant _reactive_ , as in:

showing a response to a stimulus. "pupils are reactive to light"

acting in response to a situation rather than creating or controlling it. "a proactive rather than a reactive approach"

So, I use VPN, and order my stuff to arrive where? If someone doesn't ship to Russia, they don't ship to Russia, how can VPN help there?

I wonder what will happen with that letter of intent for the investment in that boom sonic plane startup. Was that investment announcement somwthing legally binding? (I didn't follow that closely)

Why lockitron didn't work out?

or they couldn't come up with a better A, and RPE just doesn't have a same ring to it.

I love the first video. The apartments are lovely, lots of light, a lot of thinking about the usability and comfort went into it. If I was single in my 20s I'd love to live in a place like that (as opposed to same dingy 800sqf with nasty wall-to-wall carpets in a generic apartment complex somewhere in middle America, which is what I actually did).

Passage no, but TC report says they were contribution margin "positive", which, they way I understood it, implies it should cover fixed costs, otherwise it is still contribution margin-negative (vis-a-vis fixed costs)

So, the passage explains what contribution margin is, but TC is talking about being "contribution margin positive". How would you understand the second term?

From wikipedia:

>> Contribution margin, or dollar contribution per unit, is the selling price per unit minus the variable cost per unit. “Contribution” represents the portion of sales revenue that is not consumed by variable costs and so contributes to the coverage of fixed costs.

So, positive contribution margin should imply they covered all the fixed and variable costs, the way I read it.

But then, why do they need to shut down? It looks like their def on "contribution margin positive" is something else after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contribution_margin