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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
Are they grandfathering customers in to the pricing that they signed up under? This looks like a product from a very small team doing price discovery. Is your stance that they should need to take 10 years of annual pricing changes to discov
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This feels right to me on the hardware front, especially about laptops and desktops. Their basic form hasn't even remotely changed over the past 30 years. There have been improvements – smaller, lighter, more powerful. There have been
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
Lots of people – even very smart people – like guidance around what expectations are. This can be doubly true in some environments, like certain corporate environments, where the official policy is not in line with what leadership actually
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
This is definitely my second favourite truffle documentary after 2021's Pig.
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
Most (all good?) authors will prioritize good reader experience as one of their own requirements, so a good reader experience comes naturally downstream from being author-first.
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
Very important line from the FAQ: Q: Is this still developed? Yes, it is used and developed. Just not very actively. Most importantly Shrugs does not yet support “XOXC” tokens, which are often required by company Slack installations. We are
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
I’m just a guy who built a thing that people want to use and have questions about, not an org to fix. I think many people who “suffer” from lots of requests are the same. I wish I could charge enough for my help to justify a personal secret
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
There are two different types of "receives a lot of email". The first type makes up the bulk of the people who receive a lot of email, and that's the type where almost all of the email isn't actionable. Newsletters, rece
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
I think the problem is that what is important to the sender is not necessarily important to the receiver. I am not Travis of Uber, but I do have expertise in a domain such that I frequently get people reaching out to me to solicit advise or
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
I'd bet it's a combination of these things. I know a few people with moderately successful podcasts, and the core thing is this: getting prominent people on your podcast is easier than most people on the outside expect, and harder
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Should we forbid Catholics for the same reason?
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As someone who quit smoking using vapes, and has recently kicked vapes after a good five years – it's all in the vape. If someone was selling you based on "cloud-size", they were the wrong person to be talking to. They were a
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
The point is that 5% (or 10m phones) does not make sense for Apple to continue to build, but that has no relation to whether it's worth it to another company.
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
I had some early model MSI Wind Netbook. What a great little machine. They were nice and hackable – I remember replacing the Wifi module with an OS X friendly model and getting a nearly perfect Hackintosh experience for a few hundred bucks,
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
Just a tip on the dock moving from monitor to monitor – this is most likely intended behaviour that you're triggering by accident. I agree with you, it's annoying, and it shouldn't work like this, but it does. That being said
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
Even if this was true (nearly everyone who has studied Musk says that although he may not lead day to day engineering, he is gifted at figuring this stuff out)… It is clearly non-trivial to rally a group of people, funding sources, and, er,
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
As a non-designer, I don't have the skills or the vocabulary to say whether this is true or not, but at first glance Apple and Teenage Engineering seem to share little in common. Can anyone who knows better enlighten me?
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
Check out https://storeleads.app – should have close to 100% of public Shopify stores, plus other platforms if those are interesting.
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by blairbeckwith 4y ago
Anyone can claim to be a writer, but it seems obvious that he actually _is_ a writer. See: the book he wrote. Writing also _can_ be more than just fluff, but it doesn't need to be. It may not be your style, but long form, not-concise c
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by blairbeckwith 5y ago
If the engineers and product team were effective, there would be more product development. If the marketing team was effective, there would be more user growth. If the sales team was effective, there would be more revenue. If everyone was m
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$1599.
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If you view every minute an interviewer is doing actual work as harmful to the world, then wasting said interviewers time would be even more of an ethical good would it not?
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by blairbeckwith 5y ago
... I've never seen a monitor with USB ports not on the back.
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by blairbeckwith 5y ago
The premium version of Unread[1], an iOS and iPad OS feed reader has this feature. It's also a generally beautiful reading experience. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unread-an-rss-reader/id1363637...
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by blairbeckwith 5y ago
Funnily enough, Tiny is in an adjacent market to this via one of their companies, Supercast[1] [1] https://www.supercast.com
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This feels like gatekeeping writing unnecessarily. It's a fairly common sentiment among writers that writing is painful. "I don't enjoy writing, I enjoy having written", etc.
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This is almost certainly an example of the Seinfeld Is Unfunny trope[1], where older things seem boring and lame today, because the state of the art has moved forward so much, even though they were completely groundbreaking and genre defini
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That is not practical for many people who wish to be a part of society anymore. See: rollout of virtual vaccine passports, etc.
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That strategy will last ~15 minutes until Google is doing the same thing. Then what? I would argue that what Google is doing already is way more privacy-compromising than this.
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I am sure OP's service is great, and not to distract from it, but you may also enjoy Sanebox, which has been unsexily solving this exact problem for ages

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