rexreed

Can someone explain why offsite, offline, multi-timescale backups don't help in these cases?

In an environment like that you'll be respected a lot more as a consultant and paid advisor, even if you provide generic and mediocre advice, than as an employee providing high quality expertise. Toxic management loves overpaid external consultants and advisors more than their own, much lesser paid internal staff.

Not if you want to build SEO authority on the new domain

Thanks for sharing your insights and experiences! I am a fan of bootstrapped SaaS, just keep it going as much as you can and avoid the temptation to sell early, although I am sure that opportunity will present itself.

Could you have structured the deal in a more cash favorable way seeing as you are paying for it from cash flow? That way it would have been less of an immediate impact on finances. For purchases like this, a revolving line of credit is helpful, even tho there's cost to that, because it lessens the impact on cash flow.

You might want to bring that up to Cory Doctorow, and tell him how he's polluting pristine minds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification:

"Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism "enshittification" in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept[1][2]. The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year. "

Why was getting the expensive buttondown.com necessary and important? I might have missed that in the post.

As a bootstrapped founder of a number of companies this financial model hurts my brain. This approach is still a venture type fast growth model with low margins since you're giving away much of the money to the channels and customers. Is there even much left for development?

70-80% commission to AppSumo and up to 40% to affiliates sounds crazy if you want to fund growth from customer revenues. Sure it works if you have venture backing but totally self funded?

Which used enterprise micro PC on Ebay for $30 would you recommend? Trying to sort thru the trash and other options.

No because this is Intel, not IBM.

IBM's problems are worse.

Some of the financial punchline:

Revenue: $12.83 billion vs. $12.94 billion expected, $110M under expectation, and revenue declined 1% year over year in the fiscal second quarter.

Why is this a punchline?

Because their core business, the Client Computing Group that makes PC chips contributed $7.41 billion in revenue, up 9% and right around the $7.42 billion consensus, so that part is doing fine.

But the Intel’s Data Center and Artificial Intelligence unit posted $3.05 billion in revenue. The result was down 3% and lower than the $3.14 billion StreetAccount consensus, which accounts for pretty much all of the decline in expectation.

The shortfall almost entirely is in the Data Center and AI Unit.

Bellweather?

What level of detail are you looking for? Have you not tried just putting the sensor data into a simple SQLite database and starting there?

They outlived their retirement savings and had to re-enter the workforce. It's just a rat race, isn't it.

Are you also on LinkedIn? I stopped using X a while back and I have a bunch of questions on keywords and the site.

Looks good to me! Is this for video only or can you also upload m4a and mp3?

IBM still wishes we were in the mainframe age where a single vendor had supreme authority and maintenance fees rule the day. You can say that many of today's SaaS vendors have similar sway in their more niche markets but none have the almost complete dominance of their market as did / does in some places IBM.

You are in the minority. Out of 392 people in our internal CoP group that uses Teams on a weekly basis for our checkin, in a poll, 276 asked to switch off Teams to something else, and only 5 people wanted to remain. My guess is that you'd be one of those 5. Sadly in this IT ecosystem, the minority rules.

Here's what I don't get. Almost everyone I talk to hates Teams. But they use it anyways. Nothing is stopping them from using Zoom or Google Meet, or some other alternative. Yes, these other alternatives have their own problems and tradeoffs. But Teams is just substantially worse than these alternatives. I'll take a Google Meet meeting any day over Teams crap.

Nothing is forcing people to use Teams, but they do. It can't solely be cause it's just bundled and free. People don't want to spend any effort to do better? Is the friction that high?

Looks like Red hat might be soon coming.

From the first of 3 previous submissions to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36839603

Truth social. It's not Musk but you know who else it is.

Looks good. Does Iceburg work in a shared hosting environment with limited access to composer?

What are you talking about? This is nowhere near the truth. I have nothing to sell, especially a competing product to meetup. The last thing I want to do is get into the crappy event management business. Go ahead and use Meetup if that's what you want. I shared my experiences as a meetup organizer for well over a decade. Share yours.

There's plenty of alternatives if you're looking for event registration. My preferred at the moment is TicketTailor.com, but there's everything from Eventbrite to Luma to Brown Paper Tickets. Now they won't bring you the community, but you can get community from Discord channels to LinkedIn Groups to X and other social media.

Meetup is awful in that they hold your group hostage and you have no way of moving your members, so if you decide no longer to run the Meetup one day, they will let you walk away, but anyone else can just step up and take over the group and do whatever they want. Even worse than Facebook groups.

> 3. I used to lock my bike to my tool shelf. A thief came along and used my hacksaw from my toolshelf

You locked your bike to a toolshelf that contained the tool they used to steal the bike? That would be like putting jewelry behind a glass cabinet and putting a hammer next to it.

Not really - the NY Tech Meetup / DC Tech Meetups would regularly have hundreds of attendees, and a few others like the Data Community DC ones had quite a few. Even in those larger numbers, sponsors are flighty and often unappreciative.

Some of my own experience: Meetup.com is an awful platform that now has a value-extraction owner who will just make it even worse, as bad as it is now. Don't use Meetup.com. Second, being a meetup organizer is a thankless task. People have no idea how much work goes into the operation, and this article helps show all of that. But after all the work is done, there's no glory for the organizer. There's no loyalty or appreciation, so if you disappear tomorrow, people will just go somewhere else, and few months later forget you even existed.

After running meetups for many years, even big ones, I realized it's not worth it, and I'll never do it again. The same goes for big events, such as conferences, etc. It takes even more work to run and organize those, not to mention the cost, and there's simply very little juice to squeeze.

In the same way that you can take a simple idea like iterative and responsive planning and turn it into a management monstrosity like agile, so too can simple goal setting and alignment be turned into the management and performance review monstrosity that is OKR.

OKRs are a management fad and a performance review bludgeon. They don't improve performance or alignment. The best pre-work you can do on OKRs is to not do them.

Startups dont need OKRs for either performance or alignment and later stage companies that implement OKRs are in the beginning phase of stagnation and descent.

There's some question as to whether the acquisition payment is taxed as income as per an Asset Purchase Agreement or as capital gains as per a sale of company ownership. Which was it for you?

Also, can you recommend or refer the law firm that you used for the transaction paperwork?