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by jdvh 4y ago
I got a Mazda for this reason. Physical buttons for everything and carplay for navigation+spotify. Best of both worlds. Infotainment has touch screen when stationary, but while driving it can only be operated by voice and console buttons&#x
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by jdvh 4y ago
Hydroelectric is the worst for catastrophic failure. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure Nuclear reactors are extremely safe by comparison.
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by jdvh 4y ago
It’s by no means a given that wind/solar will be a major source of energy for the long term. If we’re lucky advancements in wind/solar and energy storage will make it a big part of our future energy supply. If we’re unlucky we’ve
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by jdvh 4y ago
This is slightly offtopic but windows 95 ran on 4mb of ram. 8mb was considered luxurious at the time. Visual Studio 6, launched in 1998, ran fine with 16mb of ram. It had almost all of the debugging features we have today, and it worked fla
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by jdvh 4y ago
Getting harsh feedback isn't so bad, really. You get that kind of feedback either because people think your MVP is something it's not or because of quality issues, and you can fix both. A bad landing page filters out people who ar
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by jdvh 4y ago
I think the core issue is that: - Calendars are good at appointments but bad at everything else. - Day planners are good for jotting down what you're working on and for revisiting what you did last week/month, but if you put anyth
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by jdvh 4y ago
We're working on an outline app with task management/planning functionality. With end-to-end encryption and multiuser/teams support (you can see other users type like Google Docs). Early beta signup at https://thym
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Durable Tech(80daystartup.com)
2 points by jdvh 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdvh 4y ago
Poorly insulated houses are windy with the windows closed because cold air drops. Air close to the windows gets cold (a single pane of glass doesn’t provide much insulation) and the cold air drops to the floor displacing the other air in th
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Perils of Caching(80daystartup.com)
2 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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DIY JavaScript Error Logging(80daystartup.com)
1 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdvh 5y ago
I agree that companies have a responsibility to listen to and address customer complaints. The problem is that a small percentage of customers create the bulk of the customer support burden. With phone support this gets even more skewed. Yo
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Magical Thinking(80daystartup.com)
1 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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High Conviction, Low Conviction(80daystartup.com)
1 points by jdvh 5y ago|1 comments
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Don't Let Mistakes Cascade(80daystartup.com)
2 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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Your App Needs a USP(80daystartup.com)
3 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdvh 5y ago
The cloud is so much more expensive than dedicated that you need far greater than 2x spikes in usage to make it worthwhile. For instance a video game that suddenly goes viral and you need to scale up 1000x overnight. All cloud providers hav
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by jdvh 5y ago
Solving self-driving in a select group of cities with permanent 5g connectivity, hi resolution gps, and 30k worth of sensors is a massively easier problem than solving “Tesla fsd”. For this bet cars can deal with unusual circumstances in al
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Calculating SaaS Pricing in Reverse(80daystartup.com)
3 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdvh 5y ago
Plain text is so compelling because it's as simple as it gets, you can bring your own editor, you own your own data, and you can use version control. Text+ is compelling because you can have images and some kind of formatting. You want
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by jdvh 5y ago
What's the attack surface of a git linux account that doesn't have a shell and can only log on through ssh with a key from whitelisted IPs in a firewall? Compare that attack surface with that of a complicated web app like gitlab.
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by jdvh 5y ago
This service update only applies to people who self-host. Servers managed by gitlab are patched by gitlab staff. If you're going to self-host I think you should at least --consider-- self-hosting something with a tiny attack surface in
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by jdvh 5y ago
Either go with a hosted solution or take the time to learn linux server admin. Linux hasn't changed much in the past 15 years, and I don't think it will change much in the coming years either. With web stuff you have to keep up w
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by jdvh 5y ago
It takes about 30 minutes to set up your own git server. You can easily create your own git hooks to send email notifications on "git push", or to trigger CI or deployment. I get that gitlab is tremendously valuable for bigger tea
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Insecure Defaults Considered Harmful(80daystartup.com)
2 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdvh 5y ago
I was a semi regular on BoS maybe 15 years ago. It was often interesting, and I remember the focus on desktop apps. Tons of SaaS skepticism.
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by jdvh 5y ago
We're building a todo/planning app https://thymer.com . It will have a free version for individual users (and paid for teams). Although it doesn't have a kanban board (at this stage), our goal is of course to offer
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by jdvh 5y ago
Tables can be arbitrarily complex, just like html, so yes a line has to be drawn somewhere. Spreadsheets and slide presentations can be copy-pasted as file attachments. That's fine. You can't have a table look the same in every ap
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by jdvh 5y ago
We have a binary and universal format for plain text (utf8) that is extended all the time with additional emojis. But it seems almost unimaginable that we ever get a binary text format that also allows simple semantic markup, like emphasis,
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by jdvh 5y ago
My approach is really pragmatic. You're unlikely to mix enums that have nothing to do with each other. The only issue in those enums that you could possibly get mixed up. For those you can just use non-overlapping integers for the valu

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