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by gizmo 4y ago
3.25% for USD card for EU business + 0.5% for stripe tax + 0.4% for invoice + 0.5% for stripe checkout. It really adds up! MasterCard and Visa are mostly to blame here. They haven't innovated at all in the past 30 years and the fees th
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by gizmo 4y ago
Because the business would also have failed if he had started it at any other point in time? This is a simple case of "more money than sense". Even the lessons he learned strike me as wrong. The lessons read as insight porn, the k
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by gizmo 4y ago
You don't have to cynically exploit your customers just because that's what other businesses do. If you can make an excellent product that solves a real problem and charge a reasonable price for it you'll likely do pretty wel
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by gizmo 4y ago
I don't think it's easy at all. Try to come up with an original plot for a hollywood big budget time travel movie. Take the plot of Edge of Tomorrow. I could never come up with that. Ideas are easy when it's just "Grand
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by gizmo 4y ago
Most things are strange, missing, broken for mundane reasons that you can't do much about. The space of new ideas is huge, but almost all new ideas are bad. One strategy I really like is to think of technologies you couldn't build
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by gizmo 4y ago
Because the rich won’t have any incentive to change the system otherwise.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Why would the military be interested in a machine that folds laundry? I mean, BostonDynamics makes cool stuff but lets not kid ourselves.
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by gizmo 4y ago
This seems cool at first glance... but will users understand that this tool basically hijacks your user session to refresh the screenshots? In other words, this tool can only update a google analytics chart if you give it access to your gma
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by gizmo 4y ago
x64 virtual machines on M2 are almost unusably bad for me. Everything else is (near) perfect. Apparently it's somewhat better on Ventura, but I don't want to take the risk of upgrading.
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by gizmo 4y ago
I'm understanding just fine, it's clearly our ethics that differ.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Clearly it's very hard to push for a vaccination mandate when acknowledging uncertainties like "more research is needed to determine which age/gender cohorts net benefit from vaccination". Much easier to push forward bas
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by gizmo 4y ago
But the vaccines are not better for all segments of the population. For, say, a healthy 20yo male, the data clearly shows that a second shot of Moderna has net negative expectations. This demographic would be much better served by fewer low
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by gizmo 4y ago
Internment of innocent Japanese Americans during WW2 has always been repugnant. It wasn't justified then and it's still considered shameful today. It's not "individual sacrifice [needed to] preserve liberty", it was
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by gizmo 4y ago
You could totally cheat the river physics. The game would look better and nobody would know.
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by gizmo 4y ago
I think simulators like these are cool, and there is clearly an audience for it. Maybe, instead of simulating more stuff (rainfall, biomes, lava) you can go deeper into simulation you're already doing. To sell a game like this people n
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by gizmo 4y ago
You don't have to prematurely worry about losing subscribers when you're bottlenecked at getting new subscribers. Even if you have 10% monthly churn because of piracy that's fine because it means your service is good enough f
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by gizmo 4y ago
> I’ve never heard anyone complain about Netflix DRM I'm still pretty salty that netflix doesn't stream in 4K HD in my browser because of DRM even though I'm paying for 4k.
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by gizmo 4y ago
I don't think this concept is hopelessly flawed, but solving your "cold start problem" (read the book if you haven't) is going to be super hard. Also, I would never use your service because of DRM. GOG doesn't do DR
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by gizmo 4y ago
The BNPL bubble burst in 2021 and it's been rapidly downhill since. Turns out that giving people free payment plans for everything only makes sense in a world with 0% interest rates. Who's surprised this blew up? Nobody hopefully.
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by gizmo 4y ago
In every other industry you have to invest money upfront so you actually have a product to sell, and as the software industry matures the table stakes will continue to rise. People are only willing to use half-baked prototypes when they hav
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by gizmo 4y ago
That’s a solution only from a business perspective. Some of these SSO platforms have a “move fast break things” attitude to software development and a security track record to match.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Frankly, you have no chance of making a secure product if you don't have a ton of experience in this area. For single sign on, SAML for instance, you have to get a ton right with security certificates, xml parsing, manifest rules, sign
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by gizmo 4y ago
In 20 years of dealing with customers I've had to deal with maybe 3 people who were real jerks. Maybe my experience is unusual, but my customers come from all over the world. Rich countries, poor countries, non-profits, startups to for
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by gizmo 4y ago
You cannot use webauthn for e2ee apps because you cannot have webauthn manage a public/private key pair.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Thanks! I don't have a great recommendation. About Face by Cooper (same author as Inmates) is good, but only covers inclusive design indirectly. Good design makes products automatically more inclusive, but design specifically for peopl
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by gizmo 4y ago
SQLite has also measured the performance impact for storing larger BLOBs: https://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html The verdict: storing blobs in the database is totally fine. Stable diffusion is totally compute boun
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by gizmo 4y ago
- Build by Fadell - Hard Drive by Wallace - The Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Cooper These three books are some of the best books in their respective categories. All three are about product design in a way. Build is about the developmen
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by gizmo 4y ago
When somebody asks for good and safe investments maybe don't recommend crypto?
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Musk says Twitter "has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May". That's an actual quote[1]. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604626103326253056
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by gizmo 4y ago
With Tesla Musk also made a number of decisions that almost killed the company. The difference is, the mistakes he made were primarily manufacturing mistakes that could be reversed (it was just a matter of not running out of time and money)

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