Sholmesy

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by Sholmesy 9y ago
I sleep for 7 hours, my partner sleeps for ~ 8.5. Things I've noted: - My sleep "schedule" doesn't have enough hours in the day. Monday I'm asleep at 10, Tuesday 11, Wednesday 12... etc - Lying in bed when not tired
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Maybe. Curious to what "at worst" would be... For the record I'm not saying they are taking this stance for some charitable reason, I'm saying it would/could make financial sense for them, especially considering the
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Agreed. Apple has been mostly good wrt to privacy in the past, but since they've started to make it a selling/differentiation point, I expect them to solidify their stance. I think it's a genius move. People will begin to und
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Is this not illegal? I'm working in London right now, and have been looking at jobs in the US, but the workers rights seem incredibly hostile, and downright crazy to me...
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Literally every western country that isn't the US.
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
I would say they probably do. I think the OP's point is that those that save often spend or debt-finance a lot of things like phones & cars. I feel slightly jaded when I see people with $1k phones who clearly can't afford it,
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
What in the world. Did not know this existed. Gonna apply for the patent on two-click purchases...
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Good info, thanks. We are a decent sized company now, so maybe that's why we have a rep. I'd be surprised if Braintree offers reps to every 1 man start up though. From a scale perspective doesn't really make sense, and yeah y
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
At my company we use Stripe, and we have a rep that (I believe?) we have a direct line to. We started using them ~ 18 months ago, so maybe something has changed recently, but from my PM's perspective I think they have been quite respon
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Yes, but biologically men are faster runners. We can measure this by comparing times from various athletes/general population. It is very difficult to quantify skill at creating software. I don't know if these two things are compa
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
How do you like contracting? I'm on salary at the moment, but it would take a lot for me to make anything near what the day rates for 3/6 month contracts are paying.
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Hey there, Londoner here feeling quite constrained with salaries, curious where you find 130-150/hr remote gigs. Mostly through a personal network? Or a recruiter? Really curious.
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
It scales "well enough", in that we currently do it, and pay for people to verify the results. In Australia a lot of this work is done by volunteers from the major parties. Edit: I agree, its difficult to scale an attack on paper
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
You can't. Especially at scale (every person validating the software before voting). Paper ballots with a anonymised ledger of votes placed is, in my opinion, the best method.
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
This is such an ignorant statement, it makes my blood boil. People shouldn't be left to die, because they weren't naturally blessed with an adaptability that allows them to be retrained into software engineers. There are a huge nu
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
So, this is something that I would really like to do, mind answering some questions :D? When you say "freelance" are you contracting 'on location', or 'remote'? On location, I can't seem to find anything t
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
You've commented this on like 4 other replies. I'm largely uninvolved in cryptocurrency-politics, but do you have an agenda? It seems absurd that you want your voice to be heard so much that you would literally copy paste your rep
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Nice anecdote, and I'm glad your friend was made whole (and then some), but this is crazy. I wonder how many times the same scenario has played out, and the company continued to spiral into bankruptcy. Separating emotion from $$$ is im
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Same. But I think there are variations on this that work/make money. `/giphy football` could return some relevant superbowl sponsored gif as one of the first N gifs. Kinda like how google gives you 3 "relevant" ads befor
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
You might be right. I've never thought of giphy as just an image hosting platform though. It's more about the integrations with apps that is their edge. Something imageshack/imgur never really nailed.
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
This is my point. Regardless of how silly I think the product is, 200million other people think differently.
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
These are still 200 million pairs of eyes every day on their product. VC funding has looked like a joke recently, but 200million daily users at $600M doesn't seem ridiculous, regardless of how silly/bad the product is.
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
The free users have no skin in the game. If they don't get what they want, they're on to the next one. The paid users see your products value, and use it to solve a problem of theirs. They ask for fixes/features because it wo
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Just wanted to say that project has a great readme.
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Really nice looking app. I installed it and the UI is absolutely amazing. Would love to make this my main music player. I am having some issues though, the audio quality of the playback is suspect. I'm playing back an mp3 file and comp
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
I'm with you. Even without the factor of not being able to afford it, isn't having autonomy over your own purchases and finances a good thing? It's not 'cheap', it's responsible and avoids money getting in the
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Seriously? You're like the first post. There is no negativity...
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Both this and the GP are great lessons in software design.
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Thanks, didn't have my morning coffee!
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by Sholmesy 9y ago
Agreed. This is a non-trival amount of energy. Given the infancy of the technology, it is likely to grow. Edit: non-significant -> non-trivial

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