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by ageitgey 4y ago
I started my company in my late 30s, married with a kid. I'm sure everyone has a different strategy based on their circumstances, but this is what has worked for me: 1. Saved money through normal tech job and paid off obligations where
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I made a similar thing for finding people to follow but covering all different kinds of interests and topics: https://getstarted.social/
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This used to be a really common service about 10-12 years ago. Amazon, Apple, etc, all offered 'digital lockers' where you could upload your songs and stream them. These are no longer popular, so not many services are doing this a
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I don't know what Google is up to, but after a year I'm still getting daily spam emails that day I won a Yeti cooler.
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Show HN: Getstarted.social – Easy-to use follow suggestions for Mastodon(getstarted.social)
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I made a similar thing in London as well: https://twitter.com/ageitgey/status/1383381051154726920 The TfL API is really pretty good - no need to scape pages.
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I remember using phrasebooks in the early 2000s in Europe. They were better than nothing, but never as useful as you hoped. If you were totally new to a language and didn't know any phrases, they best you could hope for was to point ou
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by ageitgey 4y ago
Tangentially related, but is anyone else's brain not particularly tricked by these types of current deepfakes? Deepfakes map a different face onto a placeholder body, but often the placeholder body and the movements of the body are not
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My experience is that timing is a huge element. VC groups have teams that specialize in certain areas (biotech, hospitality, crypto, whatever), but those specialties change over time as the business landscape changes. If your pitch lands in
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by ageitgey 4y ago
To be fair, that was a question from a reddit user that you are quoting.
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Just keep in mind that the Shakespeare authorship conspiracy theory is the is the "the moon landing was fake" of the 1800s. The theory first gained popularly thanks to Delia Bacon in the 1850s, over 200 years after Shakespeare liv
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I guess we have both wasted too much time on Twitter:)
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by ageitgey 4y ago
> Twitter seems so persistently corrosive and unhappiness-inducing. Why is it? > These are people using Twitter with good intentions I've seen a few good articles on the phenomenon, but I think it boils down to the fact that Twit
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by ageitgey 4y ago
Sometimes I write comments just to "get it out of my system". If the topic is something I wanted to work out in my mind anyway, it's a low-effort way to do that. Sometimes I comment because happen to know a lot about the topi
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They are also short enough that you can read a whole story in the evening before bed or whatever, which is great! And while I love the stories, I also love making fun of the Victorian science/medicine tropes that pop up in them and how
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We have built databases for both and can compare between them.
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Yep, we have built this database at Turquoise Health. I agree, the data is massive - and don't forget that it is all refreshed monthly!
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I tried it out with an opening from my company and the results were really good. Nice usage idea :)
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NordVPN is a surprisingly slick product for casual users. I use it to access websites for work that block foreign users. The Mac and Android apps are well done and remove the friction of using a VPN. It's not like the old days of fly-b
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I've had multiple M1 Macbook Pros and many x86 (and PowerPC) Macs before that. 1. Performance is great! Doesn't get noisy or hot. Way better than Intel models. 2. Development is flawless. Nothing is missing. Homebrew works just li
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I think that Twitter is very much the tail that wags the dog. Sure, 1 out of 50 normal people may use it, but nearly 1 out of 1 reporters use it. Those reporters often quote opinions on it as if they are representative of the larger public,
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by ageitgey 4y ago
> For instance, for people starting at the extreme West of the line, Reading, it does not make sense to take it to go to London. People still take the fast trains to Paddington and hop onto the Elisabeth Line there as needed. I don'
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Moral: Computers are hard
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I think the point is that not only is the Apple product multiple times more performant, but it is seen as a luxury brand. So they paid luxury brand prices for cheap junk. Depending on your use case, a new MacBook Air is probably at least 2x
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It's really changing this year and Tesla is losing market share to the competition (though the market itself is growing). The competition has finally stepped up. Buyers are opting for other excellent cars like the Kia EV6, the VW ID.3&
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by ageitgey 4y ago
LinkedIn scraping for Recruiter/SaaS sales spam is annoying. But we've seen a similar but more critical issue with phishing attacks based on LinkedIn scraping. When a new employee joins the company, they will start getting texts t
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by ageitgey 4y ago
> Croatia seems rather strange choice. It is not exactly the most popular travel destination. Maybe you just aren't familiar with it, but Croatia is a very popular summer beach vacation destination for Europeans looking to hit the b
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by ageitgey 4y ago
In my neighborhood in London (maybe everywhere in London?), most of the lampposts by on-street parking have charging ports [1]. So you just park near a lamppost and plug in at night. There's a QR code you scan, then you click on a web
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I think they've pretty much completed the toothpaste mission at this point: https://twitter.com/ageitgey/status/1483410675548495874
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In the UK, there is Cazoo (which is a direct clone of Carvana). My experience with them was incredible - I picked out the car and paid for it online and they brought it on a truck at exactly the agreed time. The whole purchase took 20 minut

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