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kkarakk
7y ago
Every country has a different combination of dating apps that people end up using. Hell if you're in the middle east, different subsections of the population use different dating apps...
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7y ago
Reddit and other anonymous social media sites have "profile rates" where you can just submit your profile and have people point out issues. Lots of people are told they have no problem with their profile and that they should just
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kkarakk
7y ago
It FEELS like a shadow ban, no matter how many people you superlike or swipe right on you'll never get a match. Current time to shadowban seems to be around 3 months
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kkarakk
7y ago
It is, but you should use a new name/profile pic combo to get around the algorithm re-slotting you into your old position. Ideally you'd only use your first name, a couple of new pics and don't link any other account so they
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kkarakk
7y ago
As much as I like the whole "oh we're a boutique business!" model this kinda stuff has been my experience routinely with anything computer related. Don't be the small business/entrepreneur outlier unless you'
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kkarakk
7y ago
just [acquisition synonym verb][madeup/foreign language word].com for eg [get/try/use/make][sutra].com - most common variant is get nowadays. then when you become big enough pay off the squatter to give you sutra.com
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7y ago
>2017
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7y ago
This is cool, i'll have to dig less to see what the original source was for a news report. Also giving more weight to news sources with pulitzers and such is EXACTLY how search SHOULD be rather than ranking up Buzzfeed writers who r
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7y ago
then some "brave" company like apple/mozilla removes the option to disable it
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kkarakk
7y ago
Healthcare, Insurance, Repairs to machinery, Discrimination - There a TON of problems with the gig economy that are being "subsidized" by investors right now.
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kkarakk
7y ago
yup it does, just like contractor employees at amazon/google/tech company of choice don't get any of the nice benefits or perks of working at the client company, these guys won't get anything. Those employees can't
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kkarakk
7y ago
i hate to do this but this sounds exactly like jack ma is the personification of the "i was only pretending to be stupid" meme that is rampant in online culture
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7y ago
harder to automate, which is the real reason why companies don't like pdf. every company/hiring startup is making tools to just feed your word docs into the system and then highlight candidates based on whatever the company val
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7y ago
you haven't dived into the rabbithole of firefox forks yet huh. every hardcore firefox user ends up with a litany of these options on hand coz they do one thing or the other well.
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7y ago
Bingo - every argument about a company's right to money falls through when companies simply don't care about consumers being able to consume their content in a reasonable manner. For eg - instead of making a website available dire
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kkarakk
7y ago
I think that is just your opinion, it is a different kind of product which has direct feedback from an active readership that is directly funding your product. Leads to less snafus like George RR martin who is ostensibly making a product fo
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7y ago
Google is very very very very nice about product sunsetting - generous timelines and no bandwidth throttling. Also photos and videos are part of their core business now, i don't think they'd ever abandon the space unless something
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7y ago
The only time people jump onboard google products is at launch. Being the premier tech company in the world that actually launches things like this brings significant network effects that help boost these products past noise threshold. Afte
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7y ago
RSS feeds are designed for an offline first usecase. Almost no one subscribes to this usecase anymore since mobile internet is just REALLY good MOST of the time. When it isn't - subway rides, long commutes passing through areas with we
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7y ago
No he's not saying he could make better games than AAA if he had funding, he's outright stating that his games are top notch in his niche(as per his belief and shown by his customer's faith in his products)
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7y ago
Limited visuals just enhance your judgement of everything else in the game - as long as you're willing to move beyond the limited visuals. Some people are, despite the tone of the haters.
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7y ago
Except his competition isn't other indie developers,it's fully staffed studios in india/china/europe that earn the same amount of money with 3 or 4 times the developers. He has to be the best in a certain metric(he seems
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>I try to build games for fun and learning so basically you aren't selling your games? Are you even posting them on itch.io? Your constraint set is WILDLY different
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7y ago
It was more obvious in the mobile app - there was an entire tab devoted to messaging. I still don't know how to access it from desktop
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>Apple cares about privacy Card is backed by Goldmansachs, they don't give two hoots about your privacy >It has 1 percent cashback! Straight to money! I don't understand how credit cards work! Yeah if you don't care abo
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7y ago
it's a similar value prop to soylent, which has a hardcore base
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7y ago
well maybe if you were affected by a shake and your phone sent your location to the govt then you could be helped? the only possible usecase for it though
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7y ago
Which is good coz most of these communities are time sucks so consciously having to open an app instead of just opening a new tab is great. Currently i use another browser for this(firefox is for browsing hackernews, chrome is for work sinc
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7y ago
People find different things interesting, the ideal way to find your tribe is to find where your tribe congregates and move there
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7y ago
Your contrived example falls flat because JSON is flat out better for most use-cases and anyone having a discussion about it will probably fit into those use-cases. People don't discuss solutions in a vacuum. Ideally they'd think
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