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by dfex 3y ago
Let's see: - Millions of monthly unique users [1] - Super Addictive product, multiple visits per day [1] (if you're anything like me) - No revenue to speak of Valuation - probably $500M+, because nothing in VC valuation land makes
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by dfex 3y ago
Why did the previous <holder of this position> leave?
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by dfex 3y ago
I use a Trackpad (left hand) and a mouse (right hand) all the time. I find moving through documents with the trackpad (two-finger scroll) and switching workspaces (three-finger swipe) much more natural on the track pad, but use the scroll-
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by dfex 3y ago
I picked up a skateboard for the first time in 40 years and decided to relearn the sport. After a year or so, I built a 4 foot mini ramp in my back yard so I can just take a break in the middle of the day, duck out and have a quick session
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by dfex 3y ago
This should be on a billboard or carved into the side of the Santa Cruz mountains in Silicon Valley!
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by dfex 3y ago
groan thank you - completely missed this
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by dfex 3y ago
Great to see someone still experimenting with alternative UI paradigms - the video looks amazing! Sadly it doesn't seem to launch on an M1 Macbook Pro - the process(es) start but no application/interface appears
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by dfex 3y ago
I have a very large project from one client, with another to follow when it is complete, but I also take on smaller jobs from a few clients in parallel. I find bouncing between these a good way to keep motivated and diversify my week. All
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by dfex 3y ago
So much this. Sometimes by the time you've documented or broken down the task in sufficient detail to hand off to a third party, then reviewed and revised the work several times, you realise you could have done it yourself in the same
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by dfex 3y ago
Background: I'm a solo operator with a consulting business > * What types of activities, both business and personal, have you found to be effective to pay others to do? When I started out, I undertook all tasks myself. Not just bec
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by dfex 3y ago
Populous playing out on my coffee table would be awesome. And it would probably be one game where the pinch/tap gestures would work pretty well in lieu of a controller.
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by dfex 3y ago
This. I went down this path to solve the 2 monitor issue, and ended up finding the ultrawide monitor (with Magnet[1]) a much better experience. For what it's worth, using the built-in HDMI port on the M1 Macbook Pro and either: * a ch
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by dfex 3y ago
I can't find any solid reference, but a small "assemble yourself" toy my daughter received for Christmas recommended applying grease to some cogs during assembly and mentioned that the grease itself could not be included in t
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by dfex 3y ago
I will pay GOOD MONEY, one time for games that entertain me without the aforementioned bullshit, but it appears I am not the target audience for most App store devs. Thank you for this!
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by dfex 3y ago
I think the Minidisc[1] is what you're after - 68mm×72mm (2.7in x 2.8in), 80 minutes of audio/~300MB of data. I'm always confused by my desire for slightly inconvenient physical formats like this to make a comeback - I suspec
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by dfex 3y ago
Greetings from a fellow interface junkie! I am noticing more and more how underwhelmed I am by the current status quo of human/computer interaction - everything seems so homogenous now, and after being heavily inspired by Alan Kay and
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by dfex 3y ago
Such a great sport - got back into it several years ago, and while I haven't progressed all that much (I'm more of a roll around parks guy than a pop an amazing trick guy), I do enjoy it immensely
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by dfex 3y ago
well played
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by dfex 3y ago
I've had an idea bouncing around in my head for the best part of 15 years which I wanted to turn into a business. Like many people in this thread: I had a comfortable full-time gig, a young family, bills to pay and a healthy fear of t
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by dfex 3y ago
Now if they could just set Tofino free as well, we could get back to interesting networking developments...
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by dfex 3y ago
The counter culture and the "slow" internet still exists, but you won't find it on the front page of a Google search, or by visiting the same megacorps property over and over again (with the possible exception of YouTube, whi
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by dfex 3y ago
On behalf of retro geeks everywhere, thank you for your service! Love your work! "None of this makes sense, and no regular person will ever need to use this" Fortunately, this is not a site for Regular People™ Someone should make
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by dfex 3y ago
Any news article that begins with "Florida man" generally gets a 10 automatically
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by dfex 3y ago
I think you mean APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority), not ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority). You call ACMA when someone is interfering with your licensed radio spectrum, and from experience, the service is e
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by dfex 3y ago
ChatGPT is providing the "answer" with the "strip" reference and being completely contradicted in the next answer by Greg Brockman, the former CTO of Stripe, who was, you know, actually there.
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by dfex 3y ago
I've always (only half-jokingly) offered clients like this the opportunity to buy Gift-Cards (in $10,000 denominations) - I'll issue them in this financial year to soak up budget under-run, and they can spend them (or not) wheneve
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by dfex 3y ago
No, I'm not. Here is the Australian Standard for Caravan and light trailer towing components, Part 1: Towbars and towing brackets https://store.standards.org.au/product/as-4177-1-2004 There are thousands of these
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by dfex 3y ago
Aeroplanes are complex, but you can bet your life there are standards for those. And cars? Wow - I'm not sure which country you live in, but there are probably as many safety standards for road vehicles as there are for planes! To co
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by dfex 3y ago
I think it comes down to to a couple of things that software doesn't have that most other disciplines do: Standardisation - in the big 'E' Engineering world, there would be a recognised international standard for Web Apps tha
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by dfex 3y ago
Your comment made me smile - so true! Or inevitably, someone would be running a DHCP server on their machine for their home network and plug into the (flat) LAN, and somewhere mid-party, suddenly half the machines would drop out as their le

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