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Ask HN: Hiring an external CEO for your business?

2 points·by pengwing·2 года назад·3 comments

Ask HN: Still early, but rapidly expanding areas?

1 points·by pengwing·3 года назад·0 comments

Ask HN: Shortest Feedback Loop in Bioengineering?

1 points·by pengwing·4 года назад·0 comments

Ask HN: How to Solve the Energy Crisis?

1 points·by pengwing·4 года назад·1 comments

Ask HN: How is encryption-based ransomware still a thing?

2 points·by pengwing·5 лет назад·7 comments

Ask HN: What's an interesting DIY genetic engineering project?

64 points·by pengwing·5 лет назад·34 comments

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pengwing
·3 года назад·discuss
I agree with your initial idea, but you lost me at "hourly rate". I think doing fixed prices for fixed scopes allows any agency to scale up to a certain point. (Instead of disincentivizing efficiency through hourly rates)
pengwing
·3 года назад·discuss
The wording of a video title is determined by the rules of copywriting. You try to maximize clicks and gain virality. There is no correlation to the quality of the content.

In terms of website, I am not sure what you are referring to: acquisition.com is the actual website, that is dedicated to buying businesses. There is no paid course, all content is free. Technically the e-book costs 99 cents.
pengwing
·3 года назад·discuss
For some guidance on successful bootstrapping, I would suggest to look into Alex Hormozi (Youtube, Podcast).
pengwing
·4 года назад·discuss
So if I understood you correctly then further lowering the cost of experimentally determining protein targets could be a viable way forward that is completely orthogonal to computational methods?
pengwing
·4 года назад·discuss
Can you provide a list of the top problems in that space? Much rather try to understand them deeply myself and build a company solving them than just getting a job.
pengwing
·4 года назад·discuss
That is not specific to AI and we commonly do not think of it as problem. We call it visionary leadership.
pengwing
·4 года назад·discuss
In refusing to accept that any contribution you make to society is in fact a business, you will be doomed to build a bad business. You will talk about the emotional turmoil a feature request puts you through instead of being proud of your streamlined business processes and your ever increasing MRR.
pengwing
·4 года назад·discuss
This was a very interesting connection between headline and content. Based on the headline I assumed an article about entrepreneurship and tech. Even the first paragraph seemed to support my hypothesis. Snobby academics not getting what technical progress combined with market demand looks like.

Ultimately that was not the topic of the article. Yet, reading between the lines it still confirmed the my underlying bias that lead me to interpret the headline in the way I did.
pengwing
·4 года назад·discuss
As founder and main developer of a product, I feel that both the first suggestion of an aqui-hire and the second suggestion of getting a regular job at MSFT are completely ludicrous. Far too weak.

Framing this as becoming an employee at MSFT directly establishes a position of inferiority. This should have been about a licensing deal with the option to purchase some premium support on top to facilitate the integration. A B2B deal will never involve HR.

You don't have to be a tough negotiator yourself, but then please seek advice from a manager representing you.
pengwing
·4 года назад·discuss
Taking a high-velocity ride in a cage of aluminum? I don't want to engage with that at all. I am so surprised that safety measures such as airbags and seat belts are discussed. Obviously cars are too dangerous to exist.
pengwing
·5 лет назад·discuss
Freelance software development and use an AI generated photo of a person in their mid 30s.
pengwing
·5 лет назад·discuss
Gonna challenge the last part. You can probably make billions with disaster recovery, but I doubt that you can make anything with disaster prevention.
pengwing
·5 лет назад·discuss
Not sure whether I understand your attack scenario: If the database itself has an exploit to bypass the append-only functionality: All is lost, agree. But if some of the hosts are compromised which push garbled/encrypted data to the database, you can recover from it by simply ignoring it as it does not overwrite any prior valid data.
pengwing
·5 лет назад·discuss
Sure, but that applies to any kind of malware and is orthogonal to the actual question of ransomware. Fixing the vulnerability is more often than not simply an update of the vulnerable server software, while recovering the data and bringing the entire IT infrastructure into a functional state is currently the time consuming part.
pengwing
·5 лет назад·discuss
I feel jumping right into __init_subclass__ without explaining why metaclasses exist and what problems they typically solve excludes the majority of devs on HN. Thereby limiting any discussion only to the advanced Python developer echo chamber, while discussion across very different devs is usually far more interesting.
pengwing
·5 лет назад·discuss
How do you handle something highly noise sensitive like baby crying in another room while being on a Zoom call?
pengwing
·5 лет назад·discuss
For some. For others it isn't.
pengwing
·5 лет назад·discuss
Interesting. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Did you do extra-preparation on the extra room that is now available to you? E.g. foaming walls or door to have the same level of sound separation?

Which direction of sound separation is more important to you, incoming sound (not being disturbed) or outgoing sound (not disturbing sleeping people with your work)?
pengwing
·5 лет назад·discuss
So basically there was no dedicated room inside the house for WFH before?

When you use your shed, what are the aspects that you came to value? E.g. is it more about the feeling of nature (because the garden is much closer) or is it more about the sound-separation from the rest of the home? Or would you be as happy with a dedicated room within your house?
pengwing
·5 лет назад·discuss
Was it more about the building process for you or more about the usage afterwards?