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by RickS 9y ago
Counter question: why wouldn't they be? Either their methods work, and of course they should be secret, or their methods don't work, and it's unproductive to help them shorten the list of attack methods they try.
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by RickS 9y ago
It isn't my IG stories (the snapchat competitor) are, at the moment, ad free, as is my feed. Facebook is certainly guilty of that, so I'm off there too.
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by RickS 9y ago
> You (metaphorical you) really are slower than the younger, headstrong kid It pains me to think that others are put off by this. My old self was indeed much faster, and had plenty more stamina, but all that means I could make the wrong
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by RickS 9y ago
Depends strongly on the purpose of the page. If it's meant to be customer facing, and your customers can't write a for loop, .com (or your country's equivalent) is really the only legitimate choice. SMBs trying to sell to mom
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by RickS 9y ago
I think that does facebook a pretty severe disservice. Facebook was, in many ways, the anti-myspace at a time when that was a very welcome development. The lack of profile skinning, the real name policy, and by extension the reflection of a
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by RickS 9y ago
The literalness of "cold hard cash" is going to be very important here. Into a digital account somewhere as USD? Fairly easy. As a million bucks in literal physical cash? something tells me that would be an absolute shitshow, sinc
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by RickS 9y ago
Central collaborative areas with offshoots of private offices. I've worked in one in the past with a common area and ~4 3 person offices attached, and it was pretty great. It's a style recommended by the book Deep Work
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by RickS 9y ago
This is such a cool idea! I love the UI you came up with for blending sounds. It's so immediately obvious how it works after seeing/hearing the demo vid. Super awesome.
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by RickS 9y ago
Exec and management types, if you're reading this: Private offices or hub-and-spoke office styles are an unbelievable competitive advantage. I write this as I hear the laughter from an unrelated standup, and the drivel of no fewer than
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by RickS 9y ago
Trust trust trust trust trust!! This is the single biggest piece of feedback I see for landing pages in user tests. Customers need to feel like it's safe to proceed, whatever that means for your product (signup, buy, etc). Lots of thin
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by RickS 9y ago
>These beliefs are no longer plausible. In fact, they’ve become ridiculous, because there’s not enough work to go around, and what there is of it won’t pay the bills I've turned down like 40 candidates lately for a job that pays at
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by RickS 9y ago
TL;DR: Split test a niche website, slam it with paid traffic, network like a mofo, make it easy to get in touch with you. Good advice, in the abstract, but it feels like this post is hyping up the golden path, and totally ignoring the reali
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by RickS 9y ago
>lots of companies require a Linkedin profile to submit an application and some companies go as far as requiring an FB profile It baffles me that orgs do this despite the insane signal it sends to candidates. You're basically filter
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by RickS 9y ago
Anecdotally, both as a hirer and hiree, I'd say the answer is no, it's not important. I can't think of a time a social profile has made or broken a hire on my end, and I've been hired despite having a locked IG, a mostly
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by RickS 9y ago
I've been through a lesser version. Ended up negotiating a payment plan that got me 4.5k on 7k, which, as these things go, is a huge win. The people saying you're lucky to get 20c on the dollar are dead on. 1) Do not assume that 3
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by RickS 9y ago
Meh. It's toxic in the way development is toxic. There's a ~5% group of pragmatic systems thinkers, and a long tail of dudes on craigslist building vuln heavy PHP crapware for 25/hr. But everything in the world is like that!
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by RickS 9y ago
Cool - is MCC identifiable as part of the auth process, in the way my parent comment describes (conditional auth based on MCC)
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by RickS 9y ago
Hey - I previously worked on a prepaid debit platform that worked slightly farther from the metal here (post-processor). I'm interested in two pieces of data we couldn't get there, but that I had really high hopes for. 1) Dynamic
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by RickS 9y ago
Not sure about sodium content, but green yucateco is my household staple, and secret aardvark from portland is one I found recently and is perhaps the best hot sauce I've ever had. It's so good you want to eat it by the spoonful.
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by RickS 9y ago
max/msp might be of interest, then: https://cycling74.com/products/max/
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by RickS 10y ago
On the one hand, you're right about using a brand name as shorthand for what that represents. But you're missing a point that's true of the startup metaphor but not of the mercedes one: "uber for x" has been absolut
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by RickS 10y ago
At home, yes, often. At work (in an open office) absolutely not, it would be exceptionally rude and distracting for my coworkers.
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by RickS 10y ago
> I agree that the UI is terrible but keep in mind that IB is very very specifically targeted at active stock traders and institutions, not regular people I understand what you're saying here, and you're right. Large parts of I
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by RickS 10y ago
> 1. Robinhood Gold interest is 6%. Interactive Brokers is 2.4% [1]. Why do you think there is such a massive difference, and would anyone benefit from paying it? I've used IB (and don't use robinhood). The IB GUI is a fucking
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by RickS 10y ago
"Show user's total karma" would also be a helpful bit of info, since the assumption (a la reddit) would be "karma for that particular post"
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by RickS 10y ago
> I really want to understand the human(s) who wrote that. How do these people operate? Picture a scummy 20 year old college guy who chases what he wants without considering that the other side has no interest. "Ask first? Why? They
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by RickS 10y ago
> KBB has a separate (supposedly more accurate) pricing service specifically for dealers. This is correct, in my experience. My credit union had a set of data that was supposedly KBB but had totally different info (and lower numbers) tha
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by RickS 10y ago
It's irresponsible of the article to imply that the fault is with $SNAP here. I suppose "people with no finance experience lose money buying stocks they saw on the news" makes for a less interesting headline.
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by RickS 10y ago
Here's the link you get after they try to harvest your email: https://www.winwithoutpitching.com/manifesto/read-it-online/...
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by RickS 10y ago
That would pollute the test, IMO. As things like JCPenny's failed pricing experiments show, price-consciousness and deal-consciousness are two different things, and can lead to some stupid behavior where customers only buy overpriced g

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