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by alanlammiman 5y ago
My team is working on this right now - a web browser for making browsing fun. What do you think would make the experience better for you?
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Yes, Real Estate can be a really flawed inflation hedge, and the relationship between rental yields and interest rates can also deviate sharply from conventional wisdom. Here in Brazil, although inflation is typically in the 4-10% range per
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Interesting. Zoom has held its own well against Teams, but I'm not sure Notion has reached comparable escape velocity / sufficiently strong network effects yet. With well-funded Coda on one side and now Microsoft Loop on the other
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Gosh, you'd think that after CAMBRIdge AnalyticA, and to a lesser degree liBRA, CAMBRIA isn't the best name for the new headset...
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
I've often found the need to refer to Facebook, Apple, Google but excluding Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft (ie in the context specifically of consumer internet, mobile, social but not ecommerce, b2b or streaming), but have shied away from
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Related question - any NoCode platforms good for mobile native apps?
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
I am surprised that at ~100 comments the likes of Notion, Coda, TiddlyWiki haven't come up. Wouldn't you consider Notion and Coda NoCode? TiddlyWiki I see as more experimental so that simply might not be a 'sensible' pla
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
it's not an article. It's a book review.
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Agree. Whether a business (or solution to a problem) is interesting, ingenious and innovative is a completely different matter from its being a good business. iirc warren buffet once said, "if it takes a calculator to figure out if it&
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Not sure if the article is telling the whole story, but if so this seems really unfair for society and really good for company owners. Because it's one thing when a big conglomerate takes on financial debt in a subsidiary - the banks a
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J&J separated liabilities into subsidiary which declared chapter 11(wsj.com)
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
True, but in this specific case I wouldn't be programming or creating content. It was management.
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow. You're saying the previous employer doesn't want the laid-off employee to get a new job? I guess that would vary ex-post (eg depending on the reason for the firing, and the industry - a professional ser
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
That varies by jurisdiction and this wasn't in the US. Even if free were illegal it could have been minimum wage. But I think you're right in that it doesn't fit in well with established processes (HR, etc)
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
yep. Brazil too. AFAIK there is only one Apple store in Sao Paulo (though there are Apple resellers too) but Samsung has stores in virtually all high end malls. Xiaomi had a pilot store here too. The context is that Brazil has high import d
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
The concept of having colleagues essentially pay for your salary during a probation period is inane. But if it were your former employer, it could essentially be a type of severance / outplacement benefit. The 'skip the interview&
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Right, I was going to mention the Houthis. Afaik, that's a tribe / ethnic group, and although according to wikipedia 'houthis' in the context of the yemeni civil war is actually shorthand for a specific political/mi
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
there actually are a couple of antifa groups on there
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Great idea! I'm not surprised it works well, because when hiring, I have never received something like this, and so it would definitely stand out.
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Yes, certainly depends on context. If it's a job that involves a lot of clear, compelling communication, such as management, marketing or even design, it makes more sense than for 'pure' programming. Having said that, unfortu
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
In fact, one reason property is scarce and prices are sky-high in London & South-East England more generally is restrictions on new development. In other words - the lack of a properly free market rather than free market excess. London,
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
I often ask for cover letters. Sure, the extra few minutes it takes to write one hopefully filters out a few people who can't be bothered, and it's also a way to test people's English. But actually the main reason is I genuin
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Arguably it gets worse. At $10mil you're on their radar and get a lot more rejections.
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
yep, you need due process. Other replies referencing metoo and MLK make an excellent point - that mass movements are usually a response to 'due process' that is in practice deeply flawed and biased to the point that it is ineffect
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
I still have the beginning of the Mavis Beacon text used for our weekly typing test at school seared into my brain: "It was so nice to see you the other day at the annual general meeting...
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
a blind trust
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
exactly. this is so basic, it's staggering that the article doesn't cover it. I realise hbr isn't a peer reviewed journal, but it's pretty disgraceful that a publication that carries the name of what is claimed to be the
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
well afaik the founders havent spoken or written publicly for years...
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
In Brazil it is close enough to 100%
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
I think it would be possible to come up with a web3 defined as big interesting improvements on the web that justify that version number increment without having to dive into a web3 defined as crypto, dapps, etc

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