raheemm
Re:Book Review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You...
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:04PM (#49836702)
Even though I'm not a programmer I really enjoyed reading this book review.
Re:A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
on Saturday April 13, 2024 @01:53PM (#40024753)
He is far from disgruntled. He seems like someone who enjoyed his work and his life. Clickbait article but I guess it worked.
Re:A parallel economy is emerging
on Friday June 02, 2023 @10:47AM (#36165833)
Fox News was built by serving the needs of a segment of the market that felt underserved. It’s a very effective strategy.
Re:Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years
on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:54AM (#34248019)
Matt, Thanks for writing this. I’ve also had a long, slow ramp up with my saas (8 years) and it’s great to read stories/experiences like this.
Re:Ancient frieze in Mexico depicts a “time without time”
on Sunday March 06, 2022 @01:35PM (#30579833)
Yah, it's disappointing
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
on Thursday July 01, 2021 @03:06PM (#27703144)
cRIDE | Full-time | NYC / Remote
cRIDE is changing how supplies, equipment and tools are moved within the $15 trillion global construction industry.
We are a funded early stage startup building the engineering team. This is an opportunity to be an early engineering leader and have a big impact on the product.
* Lead Developer - Backend. Responsible for building core services using Node, Python, Postgres, etc.
Lead more & apply: https://www.indeed.com/job/lead-developer-c4cbd78781502a55
Re:Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:52PM (#26282183)
I know of a small business in upstate NY that gets 80% of their sales from FB ads. Without FB, this business which also has a retail store, would certainly be having a lot more of a rough time. And they are not an isolated story. I know of at least 5 other small businesses that similarly generate from 25% to 70% of sales via FB. It's given these small businesses a way to compete against bigger competitors.
Re:The CDC lost control of the coronavirus pandemic, then the agency d...
on Sunday June 28, 2020 @10:01AM (#23668726)
These cuts were made after passing a $1.5 trillion tax cut in 2017.
Re:Coronavirus Causes Damaging Blood Clots from Brain to Toes
on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:35AM (#23080428)
The article cited doctors from Harvard, Brown, Rhode Island, Italy, Dr. Fauci, etc.
Re:How I recovered a lost email from my email client’s memory
on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:48AM (#23059720)
It reminds me that we humans are capable of going to great lengths to resist change, even when it creates shitty outcomes.
Re:Tesla Q1 2020 Update
on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:08PM (#23024315)
Batshit crazy? He just turned around Tesla, in an industry, where the last startup to succeed was over 80 years ago. Buy some Treasury bonds instead?
How the iPod Was Born
Re:Dvořák in Iowa
on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:19AM (#22945219)
Reading this brought me to tears. Tears of nostalgia.
nostalgia, sad and hopeful all at once, when the familiar and the alien mingle, as when we revisit the childhood streets where our friends are no more, or when we return all alone to the site of some joyful memory.
An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus
Re:McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales
on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:54PM (#20529597)
You make a good point. I wonder how is drug marketing handled in places like EU. How do their doctors learn of new drugs and decide which meds to prescribe?
Re:From South Korea to Malaysia, ‘smart cities’ turn to ghost towns
on Friday July 19, 2019 @11:07AM (#20479233)
This article reads almost like a hatchet job.
Legally Enforced Segregation
Re:The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:41AM (#20001319)
I love reading stories like these. They are insightful and funny.
If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive
Basecamp handled a security breach yesterday
Re:Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?
on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:30PM (#18857407)
Solo founder here. You have to have a growth mindset. It is your oxygen.
I was speaking to an entrepreneur today, trying to learn about his industry and sell him marketing services. The guy kept coming up with reasons not to grow. Even when I asked him, what if you had 20 more customers willing to spend $15K (his dream cust), he said he would have problems fulfilling those customers.
This guy does not have a growth mindset. Maybe that's by choice; maybe he is happy with the current revenue, which is fine.
But as a new entrepreneur, a growth mindset is essential. The best way I know to overcome this is to have a coach or even better a coach who has already built that kind of business you are trying to build.
The ad that saved Apple
Re:Companies controlled by PE firms use bankruptcy to shed pension obl...
on Monday December 31, 2018 @09:18AM (#18794565)
When Sun bought Marsh Supermarkets, the company had three retirement plans. One for the top five Marsh executives, one for the store employees, and one for the warehouse workers.
Only the executives’ plan, however, was fully funded under the sales agreement: With the completion of Sun’s purchase, Marsh’s top five executives were to be awarded $14 million in retirement payments, according to company financial documents. Among them: CEO Don Marsh at $7 million and corporate counsel P. Lawrence Butt at $2.2 million.
Meanwhile, the other two retirement plans — the worker pensions — were short millions of dollars.
The ad that saved Apple
How Mining Engineer Became One of the Greatest Marketers of the 20th Century
Re:Instagram’s CEO
on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:33AM (#18066609)
In the short-term, Zuckerberg maybe the CEO, but if he keeps prioritizing ads over product (which he has done with FB prod/privacy), then the long-term maybe dicey.
Just as content is king, so product will always be king. The ads will follow whoever has the best product, and hence user attention.
Re:LinkedIn sucks
on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:37AM (#17968548)
I agree, it sucks. It needs to be disrupted. There's got to be a better way to maintain professional and business relationships. Facebook has co-opted some of that need via FB groups.
I dislike the interface, it loads slow, almost 90% of messages are spam. They tried to be a content hub, but the only content hubs I read are HN, Quora, NYT and random blogs.
Re:Malaysia Resists China’s Investments, Fearing ‘Colonialism’
on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:15PM (#17805921)
The Chinese government deployed a similar tactic in Sri Lanka, building a sea part that is unnecessary, with easy loans, which Sri Lanka defaulted on, leading to China taking ownership. It then deployed a submarine to the port, alarming both Sri Lanka and India.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lank...