Hacker News: codyZ

New comment by codyZ in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

codyZ — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:20:16 +0000

I have no productive words to share other than positive feelings and kind empathy to you @sberens. I've gone through this manufacturing route in China before about 10 years ago and...it has largely been the same. Even with near native fluency in Mandarin and Cantonese did not spare me from this experience. Good luck and I looking forward to purchasing one on your next run - its been on my radar for a very long time!

New comment by codyZ in "Show HN: Startup funding simulator"

codyZ — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:01:25 +0000

This is nothing sort of amazing. Great f*cking work. No exaggeration - this almost brought tears to me...

New comment by codyZ in "Tell HN: Meta is using my 2FA to call and sell me"

codyZ — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 01:11:02 +0000

Perhaps I am an isolated incident and honestly hope for the sake of the community that it is. But they followed up with an email to my personal email tied to my personal email from sign up from @business.fb.com domain per their help center https://www.facebook.com/business/help/372703956148310

New comment by codyZ in "Tell HN: Meta is using my 2FA to call and sell me"

codyZ — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 01:10:22 +0000

I also thought it was a scam call but they followed up with an email to my personal email tied to my personal email from sign up from @business.fb.com domain per their help center https://www.facebook.com/business/help/372703956148310

New comment by codyZ in "Tell HN: Meta is using my 2FA to call and sell me"

codyZ — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 01:07:28 +0000

Indeed it is. I too thought that perhaps it was a scam. But the call was followed up by an email from business.fb.com and per their Help Center, it is indeed from Meta https://www.facebook.com/business/help/372703956148310

New comment by codyZ in "Tell HN: Meta is using my 2FA to call and sell me"

codyZ — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 01:05:46 +0000

Correct - My personal number is nowhere to be seen anywhere on the business account.

Tell HN: Meta is using my 2FA to call and sell me

codyZ — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:08:34 +0000

I run a couple of businesses with ad accounts connected to my personal account.

I received multiple calls this morning on my personal cell that's used for 2FA for my personal FB account. All of them, they were pitching me ads to buy for my business accounts.

None of my business accounts have my personal cell on them.

Edit: Now my personal email connected is getting emails to purchase business ads...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33346568

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New comment by codyZ in "Productivity porn"

codyZ — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 22:31:51 +0000

I think that I actually 'L - O - L' at most three times a year when reading on my computer. "cut off your finger and work even harder." is the best one yet!

New comment by codyZ in "I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time"

codyZ — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:20:42 +0000

Ha! This is good! XD

New comment by codyZ in "Coinbase from YC to DPO"

codyZ — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:53:10 +0000

I regularly tell people this - that Coinbase really could have "died being the hero" but instead has "lived long enough to see yourself become the villain"

New comment by codyZ in "How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)"

codyZ — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:48:40 +0000

Multiple people in my last organization fit this bill. Worse, these bad actors are somehow able to leverage their incompetency to be branded as 'thought leaders' themselves. Its comically impressive...

New comment by codyZ in "Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study"

codyZ — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:23:51 +0000

This is by far the most effective workplace environment and arrangement I have experienced as well, for teams and large companies - almost like physical 'pod' structures

New comment by codyZ in "How to pick startup ideas (2015)"

codyZ — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 04:34:00 +0000

Coincidentally, in my research paper, it's found that one of the deciding factors that VCs and Accelerators choose/invest in companies is actually how much they 'like' people or founders

New comment by codyZ in "16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name their babies"

codyZ — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:24:19 +0000

Fair point, though there's no way that her site would have taken off without the misleading blurb. In an essentially culturally Confucian China, the task of naming a child is commonly relegated to the most senior/elderly person in the family, then education, then preference. No matter how well marketed the site may be, its doubtful it would have taken off if she stated her age honestly.

New comment by codyZ in "Ask HN: Non-tech books that have helped you grow professionally?"

codyZ — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 23:10:22 +0000

Moonwalking with Einstein -Definitely. Also Brain Rules is a good one as well.

I would be cautious with Cal Newport's books and take it with a box of salt, however. To be fair, I only read one of his books (So Good They Can't Ignore You). His intentions with framing the book and its details are great. But I found it hard to trust that he actually believes in some of the things he writes - as opposed to just writing books that can sell well

Ask HN: Where did you learn to Meditate?

codyZ — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 01:21:16 +0000

I'm curious to find out how many people on HN actually meditate, given its 'popularity' with media and how it gets attention on HN.

Also, where you learnt it from, book, online, zen-center, spiritual guru? The specific type of meditation I'm referring to is the inactive, contemplative state where you focus on breathing and not meditative exercises/practices.

Disclosure: I'm thinking of starting a group to travel to a completely remote and secluded Daoist temple in China to stay for a month.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9900862

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New comment by codyZ in "Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93"

codyZ — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:05:36 +0000

I remember reading somewhere that Peter Jackson was directing Lee on how to sound when stabbed in the back...Lee promptly told him No. That is in fact not how he sounds when he is stabbed in the back. He knows...(given his military background)

New comment by codyZ in "Samsung is imploding in China"

codyZ — Tue, 12 May 2015 14:43:56 +0000

I slowly saw all of my Samsung-fan co-workers/partners transition to iPhones or atleast other Androids during my 2 year stay in Beijing. Ancedotal evidence at best but the quality of their phones and the software was subpar. I've had my Galaxy S2 for four years and only had to replace it last week. But their Samsung phones seemed extremely glitchy, would freeze at the most inappropriate times and have random battery issues.

New comment by codyZ in "This bakery will hire anyone"

codyZ — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 16:24:44 +0000

I visited this Bakery twice - once to potentially buy bulk, another time as part of a business case study. All the employees, atleast the ones I observed working the floor, were all happy and smiling. Good for them.

New comment by codyZ in "Why do we care about Xiaomi?"

codyZ — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 16:21:12 +0000

Having worked and traveled extensively in China, I couldn't find a single person that had good things to say about Xiaomi, other than its price. Western media seems to be fixated on this company but I've asked so many Chinese nationals what they thought of it, why they do[n't] have it, etc. All of them said that it constantly froze, dropped calls, etc. Almost always, they have a Xiaomi only as a temporary phone before they upgrade to a Samsung, iPhone, or other

Perhaps there is a bias somewhere, but after nearly 3 years of travel and work there I have serious doubts about this company...