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by dlevine 3y ago
I've been teaching my nephew how to code using Scratch. He told me that they blocked Scratch at school because some of the kids were using it to play games during school. Kind of a shame, because it is a great way for kids to learn how
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by dlevine 3y ago
I'm a bit younger than you, but I was visiting my mom a few weeks back, and found my old NES in some boxes she had saved for me (along with a few of the better games). Thanks to the composite connector, I managed to plug it into a mode
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by dlevine 4y ago
I worked for Dan many years ago when he was an engineering director at Google. He's a sharp guy and has a lot of experience in the industry. I hope he does well at his new role.
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by dlevine 4y ago
Wouldn't it be a 486 SX-33 if there is no FPU?
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by dlevine 4y ago
I have tried a number of things over the years to cut down on my Internet addition. For example: - Getting rid of my smartphone and going back to a flip phone (lasted a year) - Limiting my use of email to a few specific windows during the d
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by dlevine 4y ago
More like 1MB of RAM. Our 286 (which was the first computer my family owned) also had a 40MB Hard Disk, which seemed like plenty at the time. It could run Windows 3.1 with that, although it wasn't exactly fast.
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by dlevine 4y ago
When I was in high school, one of my dad's coworkers had one of these. It had OS/2 Warp in addition to Windows, and I helped him clean that off to reclaim some hard disk space. It looks like there aren't that many of these st
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by dlevine 4y ago
Honestly, the X1 Carbon is a nice laptop. And even if you don't want to run Linux as your main OS, Windows 11 really isn't bad. With WSL2, you can use have all of the benefits of Linux for development while being able to run whate
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by dlevine 4y ago
I have worked for a lot of startups, and the best ones have deployed as often as possible. One company (which grew massively and is now public) allowed developers to push code whenever they wanted. Once your code was merged into master and
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by dlevine 4y ago
I recently bought a cast iron pizza pan ( https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/lodge-bakeware-pizz... ) after my pizza stone broke. I had a lot of trouble transferring the dough to the stone without messing it up, bu
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by dlevine 4y ago
I have an old DSLR (Nikon D90, circa 2008) and hadn't taken it anywhere in quite some time (due to it being big and heavy and smartphones being more or less good enough). However, I had been slightly disappointed with the vacation phot
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by dlevine 4y ago
Something I haven't seen mentioned but am curious about is whether this discovery was facilitated by global warming.
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by dlevine 4y ago
From what I understand, the way it usually works is that LPs don't give the VC funds all of the money upfront. They pay in a portion, and then the VCs have the ability to subsequently make "capital calls" up to the total comm
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Why do product teams need deadlines?(dana11235.medium.com)
2 points by dlevine 4y ago|0 comments
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by dlevine 4y ago
I'm a bit over 5'8". I always suspected that online dating was a bit more challenging because of my height. But when I looked at the numbers, I was doing fine at getting dates. The problem was actually that I wasn't conf
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How product teams should set deadlines(dana11235.medium.com)
63 points by dlevine 4y ago|40 comments
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by dlevine 4y ago
After suffering through the Blackberry Storm and then a few Motorola Phones with the Motoblur, I tried a Nexus 4. I liked stock Android a lot better, but a bunch of my friends and family were using iPhones, and I wanted iMessage. So I upgra
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by dlevine 5y ago
I worked at Google from 2004 - 2007, and I remember hearing this towards the end of the time I was there in a presentation shared by the people ops team. It's possible that this wasn't really followed in the hiring process - doesn
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by dlevine 5y ago
This is interesting. I'm curious how this will be functionally different from using Carta to allow secondary sales. Namely, I wonder who the "others" (other than GM) are. In addition to this being attractive for employees, is
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by dlevine 5y ago
I agree that it makes sense to find a therapist. I would also suggest that you look into joining a men's group. A lot of other men are experiencing (or have experienced) things that are similar to what you are going through, and it can
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by dlevine 5y ago
I feel you, because my story is somewhat similar to yours. I was an engineer for like 20 years, but always wanted to make my own business work. Started a couple of companies, but nothing panned out long-term, and ended up back in jobs after
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by dlevine 5y ago
Coffee Meets Bagel did something similar to this when they first launched. You got one potential match a day, and you either liked or passed. I thought it worked well, but there were eventually some problems. For example, it assumes that yo
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by dlevine 5y ago
Prior to the SAFE, a lot of startups raised using convertible debt, which had a bunch of strings attached (convertible notes typically have an interest rate, a cap, and a discount). SAFE was an attempt to make this simpler and more founder
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by dlevine 5y ago
I spent a while with a 27" 4K monitor. It looked nice in HiDPI modes on my Mac, but I didn't get that much usable screen real estate (I was running it about 1440p). When the pandemic hit and I started working from home every day,
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by dlevine 5y ago
I have been through this before. I don't think all big companies are like this, but there is a bias at large enterprises towards moving slowly and more carefully. Honestly, this is one of the main reasons why big companies buy startups
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by dlevine 5y ago
"All this is ostensibly to combat the slowly, and ever-slightly increasing global temperature." Am I missing something, or does the writer of this article live in an alternate reality where global warming is only a minor problem?
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by dlevine 5y ago
I just upgraded my PSU from 500W -> 750W when I got my RTX 3070 (I'm running a 5600X). Seeing this makes me worried that maybe it wasn't quite enough.
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by dlevine 5y ago
There are some knock-off Topres that are less expensive. For example, Royal Kludge had some boards that showed up on Drop a while back. I haven't used them, though, and they don't seem to have really caught on. I had a CM Novatouc
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by dlevine 5y ago
It is cool to see Intel reclaim the performance crown with an innovative new architecture. After years of stagnation at the high-end, the intensified competition between Intel and AMD is a big win for the customer in terms of both performan
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by dlevine 5y ago
As an introvert, I have found that I do best with situations that expose me to the same people for a while. For example, clubs and groups that regularly meet for the purpose of an activity. There are often many such things at most colleges

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