fipple

43 ms·

451.
by fipple 8y ago
Small comfort. The bar for explicit opt in is very easy to dupe someone into. I know, it happened to me, and I’m a power user.
452.
by fipple 8y ago
You could say the same about Github/Gitlab themselves... that they mash together git and JIRA and .plan etc.
453.
by fipple 8y ago
It’s also cute that it has phi-thousand upvotes.
454.
by fipple 8y ago
No, you typically transfer cash from a store once a day, and if 95% of your transactions are card, then you now have only 5% of your takings in your till at the end of the day.
455.
by fipple 8y ago
But most driving in America is suburban. So if Waymo builds something that only works in the suburbs (and just literally pulls over and tells you to get out if it approaches a city boundary) that's still a bonkers market.
456.
by fipple 8y ago
If Ted Turner is who they’re talking about it’s mainly useless land and he doesn’t even own the mineral rights.
457.
by fipple 8y ago
There are no jobs out there because it’s not a good place to urbanize. Settlement usually requires some combination of natural resources, navigable waterways, fresh water, protection from weather, protection from attack, or other inherent t
458.
by fipple 8y ago
Not really, because it’s not near any jobs.
459.
by fipple 8y ago
Yeah, by putting the trash they create, into a garbage bin that mounts to the floor of my car... I am a target customer for this and no amount of head-shaking is going to make me feel bad about it.
460.
by fipple 8y ago
Do you have kids? Kids cause huge amounts of garbage to pile up in cars.
461.
by fipple 8y ago
The Amazon FBA fee includes shipping cost which is greater than manufacturing cost for zillions of products.
462.
by fipple 8y ago
In what language do those produce different results?
463.
by fipple 8y ago
I also have an emotional reaction to seeing books destroyed but the bottom line is that many products in this world see demand reduce precipitously, rendering them obsolete. There simply aren’t many ways to use a computer monitor from 1985
464.
by fipple 8y ago
"Diversity" is just overrated completely, as a concept. The highest-performing company in America, Apple, has close to zero race or gender diversity, and if you peel back one layer, it has very little diversity of thought" as
465.
by fipple 8y ago
Overall the gTLDs are a good thing because some of them will become legitimized alternatives to .com for consumers, and thus weaken the power of domain squatters.
466.
by fipple 8y ago
There's Android, YouTube, 510 Systems, and the constellation of acquisitions made to create Google Apps, at a minimum.
467.
by fipple 8y ago
My solution: 1) Delete all my time waster apps except Kindle 2) Keep at least 3 books and 2 audiobooks in progress at once 3) any time I want to kill time, read the books
468.
by fipple 8y ago
It's not "of course" obvious that trees "share information." That's pretty cool if true and not something that all or even most plants are known to do.
469.
by fipple 8y ago
LOL. What's next. "Have opioids been overprescribed?"
470.
by fipple 8y ago
Yes, this awful engineering team built an incredibly successful company/product. I wish I was as awful as them.
471.
by fipple 8y ago
Counterpoint: I joined a company in a senior role and had a private office. I started getting more and more depressed about life and thought it was the company. I was planning on quitting when due to a hazardous condition in the building we
472.
by fipple 8y ago
On my old car I could both read and write any value to the car without looking at the controls. That's important -- if I was feeling cold, but the temperature was set to where I wanted it, I'd turn on the seat warmer, as I knew I&
473.
by fipple 8y ago
I've been served Thermomix food and it was extremely unimpressive. I don't know how easy it was to make though, since I didn't participate in the cooking. I can just say that if it's any harder than microwaving it's
474.
by fipple 8y ago
Amazing how uncomfortable humans are with ignorance. Are we alone or not in the universe? Is there life after death? Is existence infinite? We'll never know. I wish we could be OK with that. "I don't know" is a toxic p
475.
by fipple 8y ago
If these companies signed an agreement with a vendor that allowed them to cut off service with 15 minutes notice, they deserved everything they got.
476.
by fipple 8y ago
Oooh.. I'm glad they screwed over well-funded companies with multi-year contracts. Now at least they're going to get the shit sued out of them unlike when they go after regular users.
477.
by fipple 8y ago
What is the value of Github’s source? Seems like Gitlab’s source is almost as good. The value of Github is the community, which isn’t really impacted one way or the other by open sourcing.
478.
by fipple 8y ago
Everyone says they’d prefer an IPO but a lot of them change their minds when a man puts a $7.5 billion check on the table.
479.
by fipple 8y ago
I don’t think we’ll ever hear about other life forms nor will they hear about us. It looks like the time between a society building advanced technology and it self-destructing from overuse of that technology may be only a very small window.
480.
by fipple 8y ago
The private equity guy is making all the money but he is not killing the industry. The industry is dying because people don’t pay for ad-laden newspapers that they leaf through carefully every morning. 184 journalists at the Denver Post?! T

More ›