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by bmpafa 9y ago
If anyone is looking to kick unroll.me, but still has a problem w/ massive subscription piles, I wrote a quick tutorial on Medium about how to unsub from everything at once w/ their product (so you can delete it once & for all
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by bmpafa 9y ago
I had the same experience with Amazon--dinged with no feedback. Normally I'm a sucker for irony, but when they sent me an auto email a few weeks later asking _me_ for feedback (ie, a survey on the hiring process), I didn't find it
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by bmpafa 10y ago
Bingo--half these diatribes against Electron just seem to be making the case for premature optimization.
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I'm embarrassed of code I wrote as recently as this morning -- I must be some kinda gifted.
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I'm an MBA & startup founder, and I don't think it's fair to suggest this is an MBA-only thing. Talk to any startup co-founder or early-stage employee, and tell him/her that Lean Startup principles are wrong, or that
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I have an MBA from one of the top 3 programs, and I see a lot of evidence to support this, but I disagree that it's a lack of conviction. I came from a diff't background than most of my classmates, but the sense I got was that, fo
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I'm probably missing something here, but how does one oversee a downfall as ethically dubious as Zenefits' and retain the confidence of 90% of his investors? I try to be optimistic about venture capital, and I want to believe when
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by bmpafa 10y ago
have i got good news for you: https://vimium.github.io/
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by bmpafa 10y ago
The worst thing to happen to journalism in the past decade is that, somehow, "some random strangers on Twitter said a thing" became an acceptable news story. I think it's worse than useless noise--it almost inevitably implies
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I love the idea of extending it with Javascript. Every service my company uses has an API that'd be (presumably) trivial to wire-in to this, making for a nice alternative to the traditional informational portal.
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by bmpafa 10y ago
Here's an extension that can block sites by domain after a pre defined number of minutes on those sites: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej... Here is more of a nuclear option t
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by bmpafa 10y ago
Promises have been native in node for awhile, so any time you spend in callback hell is entirely your prerogative.
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I think this sort of protest requires organization. Uber's surge pricing (which I assume drivers didn't know would be suspended in time to plan a protest) basically guarantees seamless scabbing, so the opportunity cost of the prot
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by bmpafa 10y ago
That's the best mascot I think I've ever seen. Merits of the language notwithstanding, Go consistently outperforms on `d'awww` benchmarks.
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by bmpafa 10y ago
You have to admire the showmanship: using a language Google created to try and break a Google-made system.
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I regularly read Breitbart and Alex Jones (the ideological yangs to my yin), and they are apoplectic about this push towards fact checking. It's unsettling how readily their audience accepts their claims that snopes et al are liberal r
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I've never worked at Dalio's hedge fund, Bridgewater, but after we studied their culture and performance in grad school, I did consider working there & spoke to a number of their alum (full disclosure: I did apply and was reje
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by bmpafa 10y ago
it's strange that the post we're replying to is 37 minutes old, but we both posted replies at nearly the same instant.
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by bmpafa 10y ago
Just speculating, but there might be some UX justification. If you're reading a length bulleted list, and one of the items strikes you as shareworthy, I think it actually kind of makes sense to make it easy to link to that exact bulle
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I don't run any OSS projects myself, but I can't imagine anyone would fault you if you called-out people who demonstrate the behavior you're describing. If not a direct response to their rudeness, maybe a request that they co
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by bmpafa 10y ago
This is incorrect on several points. Scaphold supports relay and Apollo out of the box and integrates with auth0 (per their docs; I've used neither feature). Subjectively, having played with both, I chose scaphold (over graph.cool and
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by bmpafa 10y ago
Perfect--now I can bone-up on Russian in time for the inauguration.
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by bmpafa 10y ago
> just choosing electron won't make your users happier. Ah thanks, I lost some clarity in a post-write edit. My point wasn't that choosing electron would do that, it was that we should look more at end-user satisfaction and les
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by bmpafa 10y ago
This article, like many similar to it, makes the (imo flawed) assumption that a dev tool ought to be evaluated on only a few variables--e.g., code quality, performance, package size. If writing software is about making users' lives eas
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by bmpafa 10y ago
Scaphold, along with Reindex, are pretty interesting. Don't know a lot about graphql, but it looks like they're both positioning to be firebase competitors. Both would have the distinct advantage (for the user, disadvantage for th
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I use firebase daily for my project. Love these new features in theory, but a little bummed haven't seen analytics or remote config make its way to the web SDK yet (all my projects are webapps). Framing analytics as the 'heart of
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by bmpafa 10y ago
If you use Firefox, that bug won't affect you. But yeah, huge pain, and was difficult to troubleshoot.
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by bmpafa 10y ago
I've been building a startup for the last six months or so, and a big part of our research is understanding agents (US only, so far). I'm not sure if the copy on your landing page reflects your overall marketing strategy, but in m
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by bmpafa 10y ago
A Windows pc for a Mac price? What's not to like.
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by bmpafa 10y ago
Lenovo t4 line for durability, Asus zenbook for power: price If you get a lappy with a 1080 screen (no higher), you may be surprised how well osx runs in VMware. Higher dpi than that and the ui is too small, though. And if you're adv

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