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by donmatito 9y ago
my answer was not about discussing Git. I was saying that it seems healthy to have a system that tracks errors and corrections
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by donmatito 9y ago
Isn't that EXACTLY the problem solved by cryptography, ie I can reliably know that only supplier X could have signed the message with the public key of supplier X ?
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by donmatito 9y ago
I feel like a private/closed blockchain would defeat the purpose. I want a future where a public blockchain would act a repository of everything that has happened to the final product throughout its history, on top of which application
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by donmatito 9y ago
no need to shill here. I don't know which projects will end up successful, I am however convinced that some of them will be
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by donmatito 9y ago
I don't know. What about Git ? Errors happen, then you correct them, but you can see the error and its correction, and it's considered quite healthy, right?
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by donmatito 9y ago
I have read somewhere else a very interesting way to look at token projects. There are merely incentive for protocols that could have been baked into our browser. For example, we could have had an identity verification protocol, bound to
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by donmatito 9y ago
No but it certifies who has entered the info, right? That might be part of the solution here
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by donmatito 9y ago
Haha no I initially purchased all the tokens in supply-chain related fields, but I sold them a while ago at a loss. It doesn't matter - I still think these projects are very relevant for the future. I do not have the answers to your ob
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by donmatito 9y ago
Coming from a logistics background, coordinating tracability data is painful within a company , even with help of ERP like SAP. But when you need tracability across an industry , it becomes almost impossible. I had professional experience
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by donmatito 9y ago
Coming from a logistics background, coordinating tracability data is painful within a company , even with help of ERP like SAP. But when you need tracability across an industry , it becomes almost impossible. I had professional experience
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by donmatito 9y ago
Whereas government policy papers could massage figures and make optimistic projections, the prospectus, which provided financial information for potential investors, could not bend the truth. “A government paper was one thing,” said the for
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by donmatito 9y ago
The bot is freely usable at https://www.facebook.com/botremindme (it also had a landing page, but, smart me, I did not renew the domain and now it's squatted by a porn site). I need to take an hour to open source the c
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by donmatito 9y ago
While I most probably don't follow the tactics of GTD (haven't read them and don't want to) I aggressively follow a strategy that really works for me : reducing cognitive load. I make a point to commit nothing except the task
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by donmatito 9y ago
While your comment certainly points a flaw in their approach, it is not something that cannot be addressed with a little bit of manpower/insider knowledge/more data. They have demonstrated a proof of concept that hunting bots on T
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by donmatito 9y ago
> That style of explanation can actually make readers dumber about what happened because it leaves out counterexamples. Thank you for writing this
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by donmatito 9y ago
I had the opportunity to attend a fireside chat with d'Agostino at The Family in Paris. Someone asked that very question. The answer was they view pitching one's product as a perfectly valid answer to questions such as "what&
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by donmatito 9y ago
You may both be right. There is an increasing amount of scientific evidence that screens (TV in particular) and junk food (sugar and saturated fat in particular) are severely impairing brain development in children, leading among other issu
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by donmatito 9y ago
Couldn't access the website - too many pop-up! Hopefully the HN comments made me want to try DDG again
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by donmatito 9y ago
As the joke goes Programmer : chooses her variables always different, with a name as explicit as possible Mathematician : chooses her variables from a handful of greek letters
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by donmatito 9y ago
Thank you for ruining my productivity
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by donmatito 9y ago
B2B Sales can mean a lot of things... from very low-touch to involving a lot of in-person time. To help you better, we'd need to know more about your product and your market.
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by donmatito 9y ago
It's odd only if you have not tasted it. Once you have the experience of work with a sense of purpose, working without it (if you're skilled enough to be in a position to choose) looks like an odd life choice.
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by donmatito 9y ago
You say you envy them but I'm not sure you really do. Working without feeling involvement or purpose in what you do is mind-numbing. Of course lots of people have to endure it, and some find solace in hobbies/family. But if you ar
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by donmatito 9y ago
It IS self sustaining, thanks to very low churn and very low but steady growth thanks to some content marketing and presence in directories. I'm sure spending more time on sales would increase the revenue, but not sure if that'd b
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by donmatito 9y ago
I think you're onto something. Go make the next billion-dollar company :-)
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by donmatito 9y ago
Not a bad idea! thanks. However it starts to be a bit too involved for a side project :-D
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by donmatito 9y ago
Curious - what other alcohols?
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by donmatito 9y ago
Well, direct sales is a bit difficult because my core target is "Agencies that use Slack, of which clients use Slack". So I need to convince a layer of users (let say 10% conversion) and they have to convince another layer (10% ag
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by donmatito 9y ago
Me too :-) Lots of people around me were dismissive of the early days of Smooz, that it would never be a "real business". My big goal is 1000€ / months. Not a billion-dollar company : just a life step I'd be really proud
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by donmatito 9y ago
At first, probably, yes. But then you start to optimize for different things, because the interests are not aligned : you want "engaged eyeballs" on your service, which may or may not be best for the user. Hence tactics like gamif

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