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by ivanmontillam 1y ago
This is great advice. > I've seen folks wanting big changes and we sit down and draw things up and surprisingly it looks like the old roadmap. I've found myself doing this also. It also helps to reason through new nuances fou
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by ivanmontillam 1y ago
You're experiencing firsthand what's to be in the process of company enshittification. What I can deduce is that the company (as PG would put it) probably is "default dead" if it needs so many investment rounds. Since th
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
Yes, it was for me, too. I should have read the sample version first, and I asked for a refund then. Yes, the book is well written and up to No Starch Press's standards, but I don't think it deserved the blanket title "The Ar
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
But isn't that a significant conflict of interest if they are public service employees? If they are truly people-oriented as they oath when they join public service, why allow them to own stock at all?
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
> Is this really the case? If a company is giving you an offer, presumably they want to hire you. In my opinion and experience, I've seen recruiters respect you "harder" if you're not a pushover; that reflects in th
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
> if you “win” a negotiation through power then you will likely find later you lost when you get paid back for winning through strength. Could you please provide an example of said scenario? > if either party feels that someone won
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
One of the greatest gems I got from a blog post once posted back in HN (I can't find it anymore, unfortunately) was about a guy getting a job at Google (or ex-Googler), and he dropped the following (I'm paraphrasing, of course):
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
I agree, if you extract the "timeless fundamentals" from each one of these paragraphs, it will remain relevant anytime, anywhere. As long as human nature remains, the advice will still be valid.
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
One of the sentences at the very start caught my eye: > I thought to myself: why is there so little actionable advice out there about negotiation? There's a wealth of actionable negotiation advice if you know where to look, like H
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
> Gumroad’s licensing is still small business friendly and protects another Gumroad clone from being launched. That's fine and dandy, but that doesn't inhibit me from rewriting the code from scratch and creating a clone mysel
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
Yeah, except for office files (documents, spreadsheets, slides). They become cloud shortcuts, they don't exist on your disk "physically." Don't rely on that for backups. Google Takeout converts them to actual, solid file
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
> I don't understand. You don't control any Mx records. Yes, you do (on your own domain). > You have an account with some company. You might lose it just like you might lose your Gmail account. Yes, but if you use your o
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
I say the same thing about Zoom meetings. My job used to be (not anymore) Tech Support Specialist, and I needed to use Zoom most of the time to take control of the device and make the changes. We also used heavily the voice call feature so
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
It matters because on your own domain you control the MX records (Mail eXchange) servers. So, if Mozilla Thundermail were to disappear, you can switch servers on the MX record to another email provider with little downtime if done correctly
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, but I 100% agree with your comment. > Nobody wants IPv6. It's been 30 years now and we're what 60% complete? By any metric this is a massive failure. Yeah, this is a massiv
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
I couldn't upvote you more than once. I agree wholeheartedly with your point. Government-funded open source like this, creating alternatives is a good idea. Taxes put to good use!
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
Well, it's kind of the same thing with P2P money exchanges. Legitimately you may need to exchange crypto into fiat, since there's no "regular" exchange that does that. The trick is that for it to escape regulation just h
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
As per their website, the account is local to the phone. It just cannot be backed up, unfortunately.
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
It's not an issue of sideloading or censorship in iOS. It's a product decision related to background apps (they kill the running process with no recourse to bring it up again on its own).
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
> First, there is the technical challenge. My understanding is the weights can have a lot of fluctuation, especially early on. How do we actually determine how much influence a given piece of content has on the final weights? Well, Bin
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
Business and tech idea: make it so that it's like Spotify for AI. Everytime an answer is drawn from "certain learned weights," make it so that the source of that knowledge is paid cents per volume.
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
I'd believe you're better off working on yourself. Maybe do toy projects for your potential portfolio, learn an additional skill (AI?), and build many weekend projects until something sticks.
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
Yes, but it's perceived as abusive when two of the most feared devils come into play against you in a two-flanked attack: Network Effects and Vendor Lock-in. I feel cornered when my social circle all use iPhones and then they want to
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
Maybe it's time for Framework to start doing printers too.
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
I live in the south of South America. Apple doesn't have official stores around here like they do in the U.S., so Apple doesn't enjoy of the market forces like other vendors do. Just to single out an example, Samsung here takes de
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
This is a fair question. I also get nitpickity about it. Not because some organization or some person is Russian, then it must be under the control of Putin. Pavel Durov is Russian, and I don't have reasons to believe he syphons my dat
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
You're right, though I consider that the workaround and not the actual solution. Also, some apps cannot be disabled depending on the vendor. e.g.: Weather (which launches random notifications from time to time), Radio, etc.
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
If you read the 2nd paragraph of the very article you cited, you'll also see it says: "Doomscrolling can also be defined as the excessive consumption of short-form videos or social media content for an excessive period of time
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
I deleted social media apps (IG, TikTok, Reddit, etc.) from my phone a few weeks ago (about two weeks ago perhaps). The only one that I wish could be deleted is YouTube (because of YT Shorts), which comes with every Android. For now, I&#x27
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by ivanmontillam 2y ago
Kagi is fighting the good fight. I admire them, though I'm not yet a customer. I stumbled upon their Orion docs, I find the following concerning: Orion is a free, lightning-fast, privacy-protecting browser for Apple users, open t

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