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by harryf 6y ago
The problem for them is the “we threw amazing design at this so it’s better” sales pitch stopped being convincing in 2018. Good design is nice yes, but it doesn’t change the fact that email is email and email is broken. Email continues to s
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by harryf 6y ago
Remember wandering up to the Zynga booth at LeWeb years ago - perhaps 2010 - and asking them if employees at Zynga ever wondered if what the were doing might be evil or if the games were actually any good. It was unfair as the booth was act
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by harryf 6y ago
Ah Threema. Threema is a perfect example of why successful global startups can't happen in Switzerland today Apologies upfront to anyone at Threema reading this but I have rant a little (PS: I live in Switzerland although I have no con
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Migrating 45M Doodle.com users to Keycloak(youtube.com)
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by harryf 6y ago
The petition says... > D400 (for 40 metric tons) instead of D125 (for 12.5 tons) ...but D125 is incorrect! It should be B125 (e.g. see https://www.wrekinproducts.com/british-standard-groups-and-c... ). Has humanity reach
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by harryf 6y ago
Thanks for explaining! I wish these types of takeover announcements didn’t always assume the reader already knows what the product / company does
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by harryf 6y ago
Exactly. What's nice about this approach is it factors in the "behavioural economics" of developers. As the author puts it... > At the end of the day, everyone needs to get work done, and if they see a code-path already be
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by harryf 6y ago
You think GDPR didn't accomplish anything? Companies around the world had to implement it to be able to do business with the EU, as one of the largest trading blocks by GDP. That means anyone storing any kind of consumer data had to co
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by harryf 6y ago
Personally I find their video player annoying from a UX perspective (although I only use browser, mostly via old.reddit) and the performance erratic (from Switzerland). I'm guessing peering is a factor for example this post https:&#x2
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by harryf 6y ago
Well v.reddit isn't really working for them e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/fqbcat/i... or https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/8oa1
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by harryf 6y ago
Codemasters are ancient! Amazed their still around - I remember some of their ZX Spectrum Games as a kid in the UK
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by harryf 6y ago
Sorry but I strongly disagree. In fact I’ll come out and say its perhaps one of the worst ways you can measure productivity. At best you’re measuring _activity_ not productivity. You just turned a group of smart people into headless chicken
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by harryf 6y ago
Wow - first time I've seen that. Some are a little over-eager... Hangouts for example basically continues as Google Meet. What I wonder is how many startups were effectively killed by these dead products, either by destroying a busines
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by harryf 6y ago
If I was going write a response to this it would be with the title "The Open Web is dead. Long live the Open Web" People often look to Tim Berners-Lee for thought leadership on the web, as the pioneer of hypertext and now director
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by harryf 6y ago
Hmmm perhaps the speed-o-meter is the wrong visualisation though - it makes people want to have the dial far across to the right to have "maximum achievement". Could be a better visualisation would be a spider plot? Something like
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by harryf 6y ago
The real question to me is whether FaceBook and Google are _deliberately_ complicit in creating devisive bubbles through recommendation systems or whether that’s just an unfortunate byproduct that’s unfixable? In Taiwan they have social med
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by harryf 6y ago
The GSuite apps (when you’re paying) tell you who looked a spreadsheet, doc etc and when they did it. Missing is how long
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by harryf 6y ago
Only one really... which is where this might all seem a lot less impressive ;) But here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mQOad1cb-A
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by harryf 6y ago
Honestly I “nerded” it. There’s a bunch of “how to” videos on YouTube plus I was anyway watching a lot of comedy. The pattern I’ve seen when people start standup seems to go like this ... Extroverts who are comfortable in front of people te
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by harryf 6y ago
Yes - standup comedy. I’m 47. Started 2 years ago, background mostly “nerdy” and not hyper social. Have done some paid gigs and performed for crowds of up to 150. And at 38 learnt rock climbing ... got quite far with that until was stopped
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by harryf 6y ago
Sorry but this is utter bullshit. In the toxic melting pot that is today’s public opinion, the lesson learned is never admit you’re wrong EVER. The moment you publicly express remorse you are done. The master of this is Ricky Gervais eg ht
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by harryf 6y ago
Me too. I’d love to get a copy of this for my daughter
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by harryf 6y ago
I know but I get paywalled for some reason when I link directly to the article, and not via AMP
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by harryf 6y ago
Back when Yo was initially on the hype curve we created a clone for Switzerland called Hoi (a Swiss German way to say Hi) for a joke - link to some press we got below - one of the guys in the picture wasn’t even really involved we just incl
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by harryf 6y ago
Thanks for saying that. I haven’t used GraphQL but when I read about it I was like “Isn’t this basically RPC again? Like XML-RPC (for those that remember that) and SOAP?” To me the acid test, since getting burnt by both XML-RPC and SOAP has
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by harryf 6y ago
There’s a joke I make with colleagues for a fantasy startup we’d call Micromanagr. The pitch “The problem with micromanagement is it doesn’t scale... until now” Jokes aside micro-management has its roots in insecurity and lack of being abl
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by harryf 6y ago
Also Glen talked about why he's so upset with journalists at the moment with Joe Rogan this week - https://youtu.be/vk1rSvnvXoY?t=262
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by harryf 6y ago
Not directly related but here's a crazy thing I ran into recently - Hitler and the Nazi's basically popularised Anti-Smoking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_... > The German m
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by harryf 6y ago
This is also an interesting case for github. youtube-dl is popular enough that this just might annoy enough people to find an alternative way to collaborate on it. Meanwhile github becomes “that platform that might kill you project”
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by harryf 6y ago
Depends where you are. Prefab houses in Germany have become quite normal. This article for 2018 says 20% of new houses in Germany are prefabricated. Meanwhile the Swiss are developing robots that build houses... https://youtu.be&

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