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It's often much cheaper. Take a look at What Microsoft offers with their Office 365 subscription plans or Zoho One.
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Amazing extension. Thank you.
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Maybe we can also start moving away from feature-limited Saas offerings that are so damn proud that they focus on One Thing And One Thing Only when customers want just one affordable app to handle all their work and not fifty-eleven ones th
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Falling into a trap = an analogy for the cognitive bias that is loss aversion.
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A lot of the times a company that seems to be a first mover is actually part of the Nth wave of a particular tech. Facebook wasn't the first social network but it might seem like it if you define the market narrowly enough. Google didn
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Don Norman explains this in the latest edition of The Psychology of Everyday Things (amazing book on product and design, btw). Sometimes, it can take centuries before tech goes from idea to everyday reality in the hands of ordinary people.
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Many of us also fall into the trap of thinking that There Can Only Be One Product and if someone beats us to launching it, well then the game is over. In reality, you can even launch products that compete with big boys like Facebook or Goog
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≥ So it is no surprise that Muslims will attempt to take possession of, or destroy, everything that belongs to the Jews. The battle for the ownership of Jerusalem is not a religious one. It is not based on anything holy, anything to do with
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Chat becomes highly memetic in large channels but that's part of the fun and highly engrossing. It's like being at a concert and becoming fully immersed with the rest of the hive mind. Many religions base their practices around th
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People got lost using maps all the time because they were and are difficult to read.
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You make zero sense. If you can't trust a map, what can you trust? Or should it be less reliable because it's an app? People aren't stupid, it's we - devs and designers - who have designed apps that confuse and deceit th
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Sounds pretty successful for something you worked on for just a month and only exposed to the world for a few days. Most projects never see these numbers because they never see the day of light. You seem to have high expectations for this p
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Very cool to have all GPT-3 based projects gathered like this.
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He is an VP, great communication skills is key to his success, that also includes understanding his audience. Like in, maybe I can write about diversity and inclusion without referencing my horrible antisemitism because holy shit that would
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Here's what I think happened: The Powers That Be took a short look at this drama and decided that no, this is not the hill to die on. They never are. Being perceived as tolerating antisemitism because VP Weirdo keeps getting "misu
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This is the easy solution, just fire the guy and go back to being a Happy Corporate Family. But then again, he seems to be lacking in leadership skills if he keeps getting "misunderstood" regarding his manifesto. Protip: your VPs
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I like talking about this so I hope you indulge me, did you base your design on any specific research or works on procrastination? It would be interesting what the state of the art has to say about the causes of procrastination and potentia
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> The second reason is philosophical, and perhaps more important: I’m told that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t think Facebook content-makers should get a cut of all of Facebook’s revenue. And that while he’s happy Facebook content-makers are gi
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You're probably right about preventing procrastination. The pomodoro technique is often recommended because it prevents procrastination from happening within small time boxes. But then again, how would I as a procrastinator reach this
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The problem with actionable anti-procrastination content is that they have too many steps and to little immediate action. As procrastinators, we've marinated our anxious brains to develop sophisticated techniques to ignore any and all
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Your next step should have been your previous step, i.e. make sure there is a reasonable demand that your app can satisfy: * Did you speak to future customers to figure out if their pain points are real, i.e. they are ready to pay you? * Di
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The horror of having to be in space with Bezos of all people. I think I would prefer a deranged Sam Neill.
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This simply doesn't work. I've tried every tool and trick available and sooner than later the feed becomes filled with drama, politics and random noise. Partly because humans are inherently social and political, partly because Twi
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You know that decades of anti-union propaganda is still in effect when individuals are convinced that working together with other individuals and pooling their resources to improve their working conditions is a bad thing. Of course when com
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Billionaire worship is indeed pathetic but these nuckleheads literally drive down costs so the rest of us knuckleheads can do a miserable family subby during the long summer years when Earth is scorching hot - literally on fire - due to cli
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Maybe we should all skip cloud platfoms and CDNs and buy a bunch of Casios instead.
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The post is about teaching CS, not learning it. They are related but different disciplines.
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Maybe you are right but where UML created busy work, Copilot will literally do your work for you. I can even imagine a future where management makes it policy to Copilot first to save time and money.
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≥ These three example pieces of flawed code did not require any cajoling; Copilot was happy to write them from straightforward requests for functional code. The inevitable conclusion is that Copilot can and will write security vulnerabiliti
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lmfao, pedagogical education is its own discipline and becoming a competent teacher takes proper education and training. Googling how to teach ain't going to do shit for you.
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