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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
Last time I visited Brazil some 5 years ago, the courts would ban Whatsapp every couple months. They were in bed with telecom companies that hated that Whatsapp made many of their services free.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
Brazilian here. Unfortunately I wouldn't call them independent. They simply represent the other side. Brazil is not as united behind Bolsonaro as the media makes out to be.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
previous EdTech founder here. can only agree. It is a weird business. I think it boils down to this: most students don't care about learning. They educate themselves for other reasons. So if you make a good learning tool, it only will
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
I think the major question is not whether they will invent something else. they are reliant on Ads and will remain so as far as I can tell. the real question is: is the ad model overvalued? I think so for the following reasons: ad blockers,
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
why is it that all search engines still look like Google in the 90's. Can't the UI become fresher? also I think SEO really ruined the search experience. do you have plans to use other ranking factors? Maybe social upvoting or so t
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
is the site down?
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
8.3% cause everything is fine and Covid will be gone next week... right?
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
We even use Discord instead of Slack.
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Ask HN: What is the best tech stack for privacy?
2 points by gavribirnbaum 6y ago|3 comments
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
I loveee the concept of drawing rooms with a mouse to enable spontaneous conversations. the site is incredibly wordy and doesn't drive a CTA, but that is really nice. when can I use it?
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
Server farms are weird concept to me. I feel the infrastructure the internet is build upon is a bit archaic and could use a more rewrite. not sure how though
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
still don't get it :D for dummies explanation?
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
nice. for me the real challenge is organizing what I learned from each user interviews.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
So other engineering has more regulation? Great benefit... I'm good with our SE freedom.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
bro utm source on a HackerNews "roast my idea" feels super dishonest tbh. plus if you're at the idea stage I doubt you need Analytics.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
it is a digitalized version of a college lecture is a terrible format in the first place. instead of taking the liberty of the internet and of the online world, it just brings the old methods that don't even work offline into the onlin
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Ask HN: Any current Thiel Fellows here?
14 points by gavribirnbaum 6y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What Is the Next Plastic?
3 points by gavribirnbaum 6y ago|2 comments
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
Staging was a bit of a nightmare where I worked. We even had this silly google calendar where PMs competed for time at our staging server. Will give this a try.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
Update: fixed
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
Will do today! Thanks for sharing.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
Yes. SM-2 algorithm just like Anki.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
Our tool does everything Anki does, plus it let's you organize your notes and decks in one place and create them collaboratively with others in a group. It also lets you set a daily learning goal to hold you accountable to learning.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
What wasn't working? Sorry your experience was negative. We want to fix everything soon. We truly just started, but brutal feedback helps, so thank you :)
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
You can try it with a dummy account for now. It is ok.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
We are thinking of leaving Couchbase. Most of the new code is PostGres. What was your experience with NoSQL like so far?
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
That is true. Thank you. We want to empower ourselves enough to invest back into product and make it awesome. Specially during Covid we need to figure out how to stay alive without necessarily fundraising.
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
Update: removed Hotjar
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
Update: we removed it, and are replacing it with feedback people tweeted at us (not friends), and feedback we got from here and Reddit :)
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by gavribirnbaum 6y ago
All flashcard you create are tested with SM-2 Spaced repetition, so we already have that :)

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