Leftium

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   by Leftium 3y ago

   Neither. I would bet on learning sales/marketing. I learned this after our company wasted 144+ man months creating a web app no one wanted to purchase, while this nearly computer illiterate person built a profitable SaaS in only 3 mont
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   by Leftium 3y ago

   > It seems like everything that could be done with software has been done. This implies you think selling something "new/different" will be easier to sell. But that might not be true. - Competition is good because it valid
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   by Leftium 3y ago

   https://startfromzero.com "Where Entrepreneurs Get Their Start When They Have No Ideas..." Dane Maxwell teaches/uses a concept called Idea Extraction: 1. Pick a niche. 2. Contact that niche and let them tell you t
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   by Leftium 3y ago

   MailStore Home[1] is a free email archiving program. - It has indexed (read: fast) search + basic reader/browser. - Portable version so you can just copy to USB and share with anyone. - Successfully downloaded 10+ GB of Gmail. (190,000
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   by Leftium 3y ago

   Here you go: https://gist.github.com/Leftium/5e1e31dcab4d747d4d9be721bcf5...
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   by Leftium 3y ago

   I have 3 bookmarklets: 1. I made a custom "Toggle" bookmarklet that toggles between various sites. For example between: - https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/39745425 and https://news.ycombinator.co
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   by Leftium 3y ago

   Joel on Software explained why FogCreek made Wasabi: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/01/wasabi/ Then a blog post on why they killed Wasabi 10 years later: - https://web.archive.org&#x2F
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   by Leftium 3y ago

   Take a look at https://stately.ai/ - https://stately.ai/docs/xstate State machines are kind of like fancy flowcharts. Statecharts are even fancier state machines. Many programs end up creating ad hoc s
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   by Leftium 3y ago

   Is this like EBS? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    This is my userstyle for HN, which properly limits the widths: @-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") { body { margin: 0; } .toptext, .comment { max-width:
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    While very popular and well-known by the tech community, markdown is very niche and unknown to the general public. Fun fact: markdown's syntax was inspired by plain-text email conventions: > ...the single biggest source of inspirati
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    Try Kagi's new "Small YouTube": https://kagi.com/smallweb/?yt
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    "Idea extraction" is a method of doing market research that is taught/popularized by Dane Maxwell. Idea extraction doesn't cost a lot of money and in some ways is probably more effective than companies like Bloomberg or
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    Cooking for Engineers has a unique recipe card format that visualizes how all the ingredients combine together into a single dish: https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/188/Anghelikas-Ts...
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    I experience time drift with devices not connected to NTP like cheap stopwatch/microwave clock/etc, but my all my devices connected to NTP stay synced on their own. For example: - Windows time settings says: "Last successful
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    This is exactly what StrutFit does: https://www.strut.fit/product Live demo (click "What is my Vivobarefoot size? "): https://www.vivobarefoot.com/uk/primus-lite-iii-mens-ss22 Strut says they
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    Some userscripts I wish existed: - open discord thread in new tab (with ctrl-click) - mark YouTube video as already watched with less than 5 clicks
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    I manage my userscripts via Violentmonkey. I have about 6 active scripts: - https://github.com/mnghsn/google-search-sidebar - https://github.com/Zren/ResizeYoutubePlayerToWindowSize/ - https
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    Also take a look at WSV: Whitespace Separated Values - https://youtu.be/mGUlW6YgHjE?t=436 - https://dev.stenway.com/WSV/ And related formats like OML: - https://hw.leftium.com/#/it
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    The extra heat may have some impact, but I think it will be negligible. Other factors like overall laptop quality will probably have more impact. I always install tpFanControl, which effectively reduces my CPU fan speed to 0 RPM unless ther
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    I think your specific question can be answered by this video. It explains how all branching was removed by refactoring an imperative-style function into functional-style. The original code is on the top, the refactored code is on the bo
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes: - https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/23066776 Lost at SQL: The SQL learning game: - https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/35665142 There are ev
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    > my brain defaults to looking for flaws in arguments rather than reasons to support them May be due to how reasoning is a social activity humans evolved to save time and cognitive load via division of labor. 1. An individual's re
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    Clickable links: - https://search-hacker-news-feed.netlify.app - https://github.com/hharpreetk/react-ts-hacker-news-feed
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    Currently using https://www.waveapps.com/ for free invoicing. However Wave doesn't have a way to CC invoices. This caused a lot of confusion when multiple people wanted to receive the invoice, but only one person was s
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    Slow thinker here. When asked a question, I can give a great answer 10 minutes; an hour; a day later. It's not a full day of active thinking, but time is needed to "stew" in my mind for a while. So I give my best answer in th
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    patio11 has interesting insights, but does give off an "angry nerd" vibe Whether poker players are predicting the future or not, I would argue Amazon is doing the same thing: - Each potential customer can be considered a hand with
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    “Why is Amazon trying to sell me an X? I just bought an X. Idiots!” Amazon is not an idiot: > You need two insights here: > 1) Conditional probability is a mathematical technology that does exist. > 2) Buying X is not entirely rand
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    by Leftium 3y ago

    I accomplish inbox zero in seconds with just a few effective email filter rules[1]. - The main filter works on the idea the word "unsubscribe" is rarely used in important, personal emails; but almost always present in marketing em
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    Fork (git client) lifetime license will increase to $60 this Friday(fork.dev)

    2 points by Leftium 3y ago|0 comments