GFischer

12 ms·

91.
by GFischer 6y ago
That was actually the same thing Reddit did, IIRC. Have a bunch of different accounts and post interesting stuff. Nobody wants to join a barren community. That's also why clubs and other social gathering places entice people with free
92.
by GFischer 6y ago
Yep, I see that I tend to agree with the diagnosis of many such books. The solutions, not so much. But they're definitely worth reading.
93.
by GFischer 6y ago
You're discounting the applications far too readily !!! I'm absolutely convinced there's lots of open space for video apps. Heck, maybe the Zoom ubiquity might have removed barriers for entry !
94.
by GFischer 6y ago
My nephew had the same issue, had to work in English, Spanish and German. Fortunately there are several names that work in all three, they ended up choosing Max.
95.
by GFischer 6y ago
80k is a lot of money, but this must suck, especially if you feel like you were an integral part of the company's succcess - some German researchers found that compensation perception is more on "fairness" than the actual num
96.
by GFischer 6y ago
Microsoft has people whose job title is literally "evangelist", which are tasked with engaging with the tech community. They get paid to produce tech demos, give talks, engage with the community, alpha and beta test the latest and
97.
by GFischer 6y ago
I think putting this kind of thing across the table at the beginning is better and can save confusion. I was spared having to confront my cofounder (of a now failed startup) by applying for an incubator that had us sign the split up front a
98.
by GFischer 6y ago
Honestly, I don't think it's that much of a moonshot :) , they're probably starving for things to showcase in the store. You probably need to contact some evangelists and maybe they'll point you in the right track! They
99.
by GFischer 6y ago
I use TreeSize for this problem, which does use the business model you're mentioning. https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free I have not paid for it, but I probably could have been convinced to pay for it AFTER usin
100.
AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified over 100 Politicians as Criminals(threatpost.com)
7 points by GFischer 6y ago|5 comments
101.
by GFischer 7y ago
It´s very sad that Google basically has such a monopoly on online ads that people have to resort to creating their own ad platforms. Maybe that's a space worth disrupting? Google is getting fat and lazy (but still has a scary warchest
102.
by GFischer 7y ago
Maybe some subreddits, but on other subreddits you get actual top people - I´m in a couple of card game ones and I sometimes get answers from a top 50 player. You also get advice from not so good players too of course.
103.
by GFischer 7y ago
I live in Uruguay, and my mother in Canada. I agree that for those fringe cases, healthcare in the U.S. might be better (Uruguay is also bad with tough to diagnose diseases). But for 99.99% of the remaining cases, Canadian or Uruguayan heal
104.
by GFischer 7y ago
I work for the owners of vacation.com , but to be honest the owners have never managed to leverage the domain into a great funnel. They're a multibillion dollar business but not thanks to the domain name.
105.
by GFischer 7y ago
Many LetsEncrypt users are one-man shops or side project owners, they don't WANT another burden like monitoring certificates that doesn't add to the bottom line (yes, I know a non-working certificate will be very painful for a sid
106.
by GFischer 7y ago
This ammendment will mean annual price increases on .COM domains. Verisign and ICANN may agree to amend the .COM Registry Agreement to permit an increase to the price for .COM registry services, up to a maximum of 7 percent in each of the
107.
Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement(icann.org)
3 points by GFischer 7y ago|1 comments
108.
by GFischer 7y ago
First time I see the foxes and lions thing, thanks for sharing. Found this link: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2017/3/6/paretos-two-types-of...
109.
by GFischer 7y ago
I'm using Application Insights, but our tool is very Microsoft-centric. Standard recommendation like mister_hn said is Elastic stack, Logstash and Kibana or Grafana. In a course, I also saw recommended Zipkin and Jaeger.
110.
by GFischer 7y ago
Same for Uruguayans (and almost all Latin Americans), there are a lot more in Miami, NY and San Francisco than in Worcester, Maryland (although I do know of one there haha). Edit: I am impressed, there ARE a lot of Uruguayans in Leominster
111.
by GFischer 7y ago
And Jobs WAS a sociopath. He was also a ruthless genius.
112.
by GFischer 7y ago
I went to a talk by cognitive psychologist Dan Ariely, and he very much agreed: said that he tried to get girls into computer science, in Israel they had a 6-week introductory course, and that class SUCKED at getting kids interested (actual
113.
by GFischer 7y ago
They do that very often. I once drove the wrong way on a one-way street because some troll had changed the arrow's direction. Fortunately there was almost no traffic. Signs get vandalized or stolen all the time here in Uruguay. Mostly
114.
by GFischer 7y ago
That's a good idea. I did the University of Maryland Coursera course and I liked it a lot: https://www.coursera.org/learn/android-programming
115.
by GFischer 7y ago
Google can (and frequently does) link burner gmail accounts with your real e-mail account.
116.
by GFischer 7y ago
Thank you. I agree with your assesment on the "too technical" message. I'll think about your post.
117.
by GFischer 7y ago
Thank you for your advice and taking the time to write this. I'll definitely think about it.
118.
by GFischer 7y ago
Thank you for your answer. It's hard to get one here in Uruguay, but I'll definitely look for those.
119.
by GFischer 7y ago
Thank you for your answer. I've raised it with management at my current company, which is a good one, but not a software company and thus limited in growth for technical team members. My current manager was honest in his assesment at l
120.
by GFischer 7y ago
This sounds like the kind of risk someone running a startup can take.. do you really advocate limiting MVPs due to potential GDPR violations? And English ADA equivalent violations? He probably should think about all these things, for sure.

More ›