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carlosjobim
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carlosjobim
2mo ago
> Neither of your proposed solutions are really similar to Immich Yes, I agree. It wasn't my intention to say my solution is any replacement of Immich or its features, I just wanted to contribute different way of doing things in ord
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carlosjobim
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You took a gamble on a lower salary with the expectation that it would be compensated by your company stock going up in value. I told you that there is no such guarantee, the only thing guaranteed is the salary you agree on. Everything else
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carlosjobim
2mo ago
You said that you worked for a low salary at startups and feel scammed because of that. You could have worked somewhere else instead for a higher salary if you weren't gambling. Or if nobody would have hired you for a higher salary som
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carlosjobim
2mo ago
It hasn't occurred to you that your idea might not stand on its own? If your product was amazing, serious and highly ethical investors would throw themselves over each other to invest with you. There are many such investors, but they h
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carlosjobim
2mo ago
Everything which is not your salary is completely speculative, and should be valued at near-zero. That you wanted to gamble on that was your own decision and your own fault. You have nobody to blame but yourself. If you had gotten rich from
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carlosjobim
2mo ago
What a sad comment. How would you know if the commenter is American or white or a man at all? Much less what "he" works with. Or if the interaction happened "around the world" or in the commenters home country? Or if any
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2mo ago
> They didn't have a video to watch. So why couldn't you? You can of course say the same thing about reading books, instruction manuals, asking somebody for advice, and so on. Why should there exist any instruction manuals, whe
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2mo ago
The only thing I wanted to communicate is that "easier than ever" shouldn't be anywhere in the article. Neither should really the part about saving money, but others have mentioned it, so I don't have to. Otherwise I thi
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carlosjobim
2mo ago
Yes, I already pay no dollar per month for storing my photos in a folder and it's not used to train any AI model.
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2mo ago
"it’s now easier than ever" Followed by 300 lines of obscure config commands and server configuration. Great... My solution: I connect my iPhone once or twice a year and import my photos to a folder on my hard drive. Then I delete
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carlosjobim
2mo ago
Here we go again... Finland and the Baltics are "the East flank" when Russia and Germany want to go to war again. Excellent and fun battle fields for them, without a doubt. Far away from important regions and important people.
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They should make the videos in their own language. YouTube has subtitles.
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2mo ago
Why should restaurants and supermarkets exist when you can eat only porridge and eggs? Why should bicycles exist when you can walk? Some people prefer something better and are willing to pay for it.
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2mo ago
The only products which should have any mandatory learning curve are products which actually allow an expert to do something out of the ordinarily, which simply could not be done with an easy to use product. Such as some musical instruments
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2mo ago
All of that has been straight copied from BeOS, which was a real corporation worth millions of dollars and in the cutting edge of technology at the time.
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2mo ago
Sure, but whenever you can make life easier for those who have are having hard time without making life harder for those who aren't, you should do it. For example, no power user benefits from having to use work arounds to make a produc
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carlosjobim
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Designing for the stupid users also makes life easier for the smart users. No matter what you are designing. It makes your product better.
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The Shine 2 theme for Windows 7 still looks better than anything Microsoft has done in the 16 years since it was released: https://www.deviantart.com/zainadeel/art/Shine-2-0-for-Windo... Looks better than MacOS as
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carlosjobim
2mo ago
By the king of England of course.
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Go and visit some places in the world were people struggle for the basic necessities of life and God himself will tell you.
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> What was always surprising to me was how the advertisers just went along with the scam. Talk to them. They can't resist the temptation of throwing in a few bucks (whether that is $20, a few hundreds or a few thousands) into the on
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With a native app your data can be on your machine (or not, or both). With a web app it can't be on your machine. > Plus the privacy invading abilities of native are much higher Your privacy is already completely invaded if your dat
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A real native app practically always has better performance than web apps. And your data is on your machine. And it can integrate with the operating system. And you can do work offline. And performance saves battery. A web app is almost nev
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Then charge a fair price for your work (ie the software you deliver). That's the completely fair solution for all sides of the equation. People who don't want your stuff don't get stuck with the bill and people who do want yo
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carlosjobim
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God made them, as far as I know. Humanity lived in gift economies long before the invention of barter and trade. These are etiquette rules, which have their benefits. Since nobody is forced to follow etiquette, they help you to learn thin
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Yes, I have heard of brain drain. And people here are arguing in favour of brain drain rather than hiring citizens or paying citizens better, because they say that US needs these foreign workers. That's why I ask how it comes that th
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carlosjobim
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No. Card payments offer fraud protection for customers, so they will still be there for online shopping.
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Good to hear that their home country doesn't need any engineers, doctors or other specialists. Then it makes sense that they go to help the USA develop to that same level. A nuclear engineer surely improves his country much more by sen
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The state department only designates foreign terrorist organizations, as far as I know.
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Splitting bills, where each pay a part in the restaurant, fine. Splitting bills where one pays and the other sends him money, not.
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