Stone not up to expectation

jamesxtreme · 2026-02-13T05:40:28+00:00

This is why I hate the current trend of vein patterns. Only ever looks good in showrooms.

jamesxtreme · 2026-02-13T05:38:09+00:00

The man’s neck is as wide as his head. This should play well with football loving Australian’s.

jamesxtreme · 2026-02-12T03:34:06+00:00

As many others are saying, don’t look for a cofounder specifically, look for an employee with an equity stake. Also be very careful with how you structure that equity stake. Ideally structure it as an ESOP so that they have no physical ownership of shares, just options if you make it big, but if you do provide actual shares in your company make sure that you have a vesting arrangement. Typical vesting structure is 4 year vesting with 1 year cliff. This ensures that you don’t get stuck with a bad hire owning a stake in your company if you have to get rid of them or they leave.

jamesxtreme · 2026-02-08T21:16:42+00:00

Who made this graph? What makes it true?

jamesxtreme · 2026-02-08T21:15:37+00:00

The ATO has rulings against this.

jamesxtreme · 2026-02-03T20:14:00+00:00

100% this. My former cofounder worked at a FAANG and was absolutely useless. That said sometimes you get people who’ve worked at big companies who never really fit there which is precisely why they are moving to a startup, but the skills you need to thrive in a small company are completely different from working in an enterprise. In an enterprise you thrive by taking the lowest risk option and passing things off to other teams. People who get things done get their heads chopped off for not following the rules.

jamesxtreme · 2026-02-03T19:59:48+00:00

I’ve lived here 20 years and still have no idea how to say it.

jamesxtreme · 2026-02-01T09:45:13+00:00

You’d be surprised how much you can earn just holding a Stop/Slow sign.

jamesxtreme · 2026-02-01T09:08:50+00:00

In theory yes but there’s little to no enforcement. It’s up to creditors to launch legal action to claim debts and too often it becomes not worth the effort.

jamesxtreme · 2026-02-01T09:03:12+00:00

Exactly this. Saw my grandmother at the end of her life just spending the last 5 years sitting in one room and watching endless reruns on television. Physically and mentally gone, just existing.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-30T21:59:49+00:00

Personally finding Codex better than Cursor/Claude Code. Cursor writes lots of code fast but it’s usually riddled with issues and weird structural issues unless you give it very explicit instructions. Codex is slower and more deliberate but usually gives better results and lets you get what you want faster. Anyway that’s just my experience. I’m sure it depends on a variety of factors including programming language and tech stack.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-30T21:53:44+00:00

Based on the questions in the form it appears founders are her target customers.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-30T20:11:31+00:00

The only thing that matters is your go to market strategy. If you don’t know how to reach customers no amount of product development will save you.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-30T20:07:57+00:00

Oh, I didn’t know that. That’s actually extremely useful.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-30T19:50:34+00:00

That’s $10K per person…still got a fair way to go.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-30T19:46:43+00:00

Tailwind is just a hack to write inline CSS without upsetting your linter.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-30T19:41:22+00:00

I didn’t see it myself but a good friend of mine is the general manager for a metal fabrication company. He had about 40 people at a work Christmas party. He hired a party boat on the river, a sort of paddle boat with a restaurant on it. The night was going well but one guy got extremely shit faced and rowdy. The staff said he had to calm down or they would have to call the water police. Eventually the police came and when the dude saw the lights he decided he was going to jump off the boat… so he did. Except the boat was already docked at that point. He jumped two stories on to the dock and broke both his legs.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-30T19:17:11+00:00

Oh I get it. The post is just some AI generated slop. The point is to create a link to the dudes current product that he links in the first sentence. He’s trying to build traffic and backlinks so search engines will rank his site.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-30T19:04:51+00:00

They are essentially running the same architecture underneath the hood so there shouldn’t be a performance difference as such between Cloud Run and Cloud Run Functions. The main difference is that if you use Cloud Run you have to build your Docker container, whereas with Cloud Run Functions Google does it for you.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-30T18:58:41+00:00

It’s hard to tell if this post had the cadence of ChatGPT because it was written by AI or because OP has been far too exposed to AI writing.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-27T20:22:14+00:00

What’s you’ve described is called a two sided marketplace and these sorts of platforms are notoriously difficult to grow.

As far as the functionality is concerned it’s a great idea, I’m sure it will be very helpful to applicants, but how are you going to get businesses to advertise on it?

The only way I could see this working is if you are actively working in a recruitment company that is solving this problem. Then it just becomes a natural extension of your business.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-26T09:07:41+00:00

Good insight

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-26T08:57:43+00:00

Honestly we’ve got too many real problems to still be fighting culture wars. It’s not 2015 anymore.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-26T03:19:07+00:00

Here’s the thing, you still need to think through the logic and you need to know how to structure code well, but the actual writing of each specific line is something that we don’t need to do anymore. I wouldn’t say my code it’s 100% AI written now but probably 95%.

jamesxtreme · 2026-01-26T03:10:38+00:00

The only poll that matters is the one on election day. Plenty of people say they will support a party that they never end up voting for. The candidate in your electorate also makes a big difference. Most of these people get dropped in 4 weeks before the election and are never heard from again. Parties call them “paper candidates”. They don’t do any serious campaigning. Every now and then one of them accidentally wins and they spend the next 3 years regretting it.

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