No. It's just hard to believe all people don't get more tired as the day goes on. In fact, eventually, as the day goes on we all get so tired we eventually fall asleep (all of us).
So the nuance is what's your tipping point where you are performing worse due to fatigue.
I start the day tired and wake up gradually until around supper. Then, I eat and do the chores. At around 9pm, I'm fully awake.
When I was a kid, my parents made me go to bed around 9pm. I used to get up every half hour saying "mom, dad, I can't sleep". They figured out quickly enough that sending me to bed early was a waste of time since I would spend 3 hours sitting or laying in my bed waiting, fully awake, feeling like going playing outside.
>Sorry, but you'll never convince me you get "sharper" at the end of the day than at the beginning.
I'm "sharper" at night because that is the only time I can expect to have no distractions. That means other people not being around; typically because they're sleeping. A [ job ] without distraction will always be more productive than [ job ] with constant distractions.
Not to mention I have a 'waking period' of about 4 hours. I'm not mentally checked in until several hours after I wake up. Caffeine helps with this but unlike a large portion of society, I don't rely on caffeine to wake me up in the mornings.
What I find extremely bizarre is that many of these so-called "morning people" need a cup of coffee each morning or they're as braindead as I am. It's almost like they aren't morning people at all and are relying on a stimulant to make them more alert and "mentally checked in".
The number of DNS lookups for SPF records is limited to 10 [1] so that that could be a technical issue that needs to be worked around [2] depending on how many SPF records each service adds:
Sure you could do that, but I think the maintenance cost would by far outweigh any price advantage you could get.
Honestly, Mandrill's pricing with 0.2$/1000 mails puts you at 200 $ for sending 1 million e-mails, which corresponds to maybe 1-2 hours of developer time. Designing, building and maintaining a system that sends mail through 4-6 different APIs will likely be much more expensive.
No reason. It's probably a good idea to implement that even if you don't need the volume, so you can quickly switch if an offering changes or has issues (downtime, delivery problems for an important provider, ...)
This is definitely a factor. Its never been easier to do web design with many excellent tools. Similar thing has happened in game development (i.e. unity, et.al) - technology is bringing the expertise required lower.
The 7% really is not relevant. Getting useful people (for many contextual definitions of 'useful') to care about your success could be a direct reason for your success.
That's really the model of YC overall - the money is just "don't die before you start because of something so simple as money"
> Getting useful people (for many contextual definitions of 'useful') to care about your success could be a direct reason for your success.
That is what it seems like. In the early phases of a company, founders meet a lot of challenges they never could have prepared themselves for. Having a community of people who've gone trough the hurdles give you advice and guide you is what makes startups succeed. The money certainly helps, but it is the condensed knowledge and tried methods of problem solving that really drives YC companies.
A founder's most important duty is to survive and then thrive, in that order, no? Following that, I would argue that YC helps out immensely in other ways more important than financial survival, though the cash helps with the first duty quite well.
It's rude for sure, but from what I've seen (And I don't necessarily agree), the company feels there's no upside. The relationship is already in a negative space and it's unlikely an explanation will make things better.
This situation is horrifying. And if we're thinking of costs - those have only begun. I shudder to think the longterm health effects this will have for years to come.
In all seriousness - haven't they, at some level - always done this? Even in the sense that VCs will take a stance such that "we only invest in mobile".
Sorry, but you'll never convince me you get "sharper" at the end of the day than at the beginning.
I go to sleep as soon as I believe I'm able so I can wake up again. Sleep is a necessary evil, but it is necessary. So let's get it over with.
In the morning, I'm 100% the coder I am at 9pm.