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Re:Part II: The failure points from $5M to $100M in ARR on Thursday January 12, 2023 @09:02PM (#34363058)
Love this article. Thank you for sharing. Read it and felt seen and less isolated as I reflect on some of my own similar mistakes. My colleagues loved it too!
Re:Rethinking Mobile App Monitoring on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:20PM (#30518735)
Looks very cool! Thanks for sharing Ben. Wish I had this when we were building caffei.net
Re:Wobblepaint on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:01PM (#25009100)
Evan - tried emailing you but both your inboxes at Intoli are full. Interested in your residential proxies!

Ask HN: Yelp has blocked 90% (n20) of our legit 5 star reviews. What do we do?

Hi HN,We are a small business primarily serving seniors. Yelp has chosen to show a 1 star review and a 5 star review, for a total of 2.5-3 star average. This hurts our prospects greatly, as a customer-service oriented business who competes with major US telecom carriers.Many of our seniors have created Yelp accounts for the first time in order to give us reviews. We have been in touch with ~6...

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Re:The Secret Lives of Fungi on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:38AM (#23165482)
Totally insane. Think about the bandwidth it might be able to support...
Re:The Secret Lives of Fungi on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:37AM (#23165475)
No way! Nice! Keep me posted on them please :)
Re:The Secret Lives of Fungi on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:36AM (#23165471)
Yes! Please see my edit in a response (guess I took too long 'fore HN prevented me from editing op)
Re:The Secret Lives of Fungi on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:41PM (#23162040)
Yeah thank you -- I have a squirrel box fan pulling 1800 CFM out of the room, but this is a legit risk for sure
Re:The Secret Lives of Fungi on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:31PM (#23161398)
Edit: sorry, I mean 7 miles in one INCH^3 of soil!!
Re:The Secret Lives of Fungi on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:28PM (#23161376)
Agreed! I spend a couple hours a week packing bags basically and have found it as a way to relax.

I read Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Stamets and subject myself to public shaming on /r/mushroomgrowers, got spawn from North Spore (though there are other several good ones I can recommend if you email me, would probably not recommend going straight to inoculate/spores as you need a more sterile env), bought a fog machine from a mini golf course, racks from home depot, using wood pellets (which come pasteurized as a side effect of pelletization, compared to pasteurizing yourself which is a huge PITA unless you can do it with lime in bulk imho), and a raspberry pi controller to monitor humidity to turn on/off fog machine

Re:The Secret Lives of Fungi on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:27PM (#23160105)
My roommate moved out, and we couldn't fill the room in the coronavirus world, so we started a mushroom farm making a couple hundred pound of oysters per week and haven't looked back:

https://heartymushroom.com/

Stamets taught me that one cubic meter of soil has 7 miles of mycelium! I think we have a lot to learn from the digestive tract of nature :)

Re:Asking Questions on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:55PM (#22731661)
Love it. Thank you for sharing. Reminds me of some Asimov: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531911/isaac-asimov-asks-...

There must be "ease, relaxation, and a general sense of permissiveness." which sounds like an environment that would be conducive to basic questions.

He goes on to say "isolation is required" (for having creative ideas) and maybe that's because it is a way for him to avoid the adult-being-and-always-sounding-smart-forcing-function... even as costly as being alone from a team may be!

Feels like some tall shoulders probably agree with you:)

Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:31PM (#22540562)
I implemented this in Swift w/o using the Foundation library a few years back if anyone wants it: https://github.com/wittedhaddock/bytepress
Re:Bot can beat humans in multiplayer hidden-role games on Sunday December 15, 2019 @03:11PM (#21798657)
What do you mean by advantage?
Re:How do wombats make cubed poo? on Sunday September 15, 2019 @10:35AM (#20977374)
They received it on Thursday and wore Wombat costumes to match... right after someone else received one for the amount of saliva produced by small children per day
Re:Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died on Friday July 19, 2019 @08:02PM (#20483397)
I appreciate you friend

I would like to consider this and get back to you

Re:Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died on Friday July 19, 2019 @06:27PM (#20482954)
RIP Professor Best teacher I've ever had, he let me audit all his classes and took me/my ideas seriously at all times. And would grade my papers even though I was never an official student, or his his words "a paying customer." First Minsky now Patrick. RIP and perhaps they are both back in touch. ;(
That pesky 5% can be really pesky though. Though if they naturally resort to POTS, like I would suspect, I have seen that compensate for potential shortcomings.

In the same way that a speech recognizer with 99% accuracy sounds amazing, and is a great technical achievement, is all the while still really hard to use if it misses 1 out of 100 phonemes...

You don't have to imagine! We're $15 a month for unlimited talking and texting, and each gigabyte is $5. Or in other words, we beat Google Fi by $5. Support is our marketing budget, and it works rather well :)

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