kwanbix

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by kwanbix 6y ago
30% seems a crazy high number in my humble opinion. For the companies that can, that cost gets transferred to the purchaser. But for those who can't, for example Spotify who has to compete with Apple Music that has no %, it gets absorb
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by kwanbix 6y ago
One difference, if I am not mistaken, is that Sony and Microsoft loose money on each console sold, at least on the first years, so they make money by the % to developers. Apple makes lots of money on each iPhone sold.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
draw.io is great, however, isn't the question about what type of diagrams do we do instead of what software do we use to do diagrams? I am confused.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
I am a user of PaintShop Pro 7, love it. Bought PSP8. Hate it. Anybody can recommend something similar to PSP7 which is having issues with Win10? Tried GIMP but too complicated. Paint.NET too simple.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
Is crazy that Microsoft had an app chat for years (Messenger not exactly the same) that basically died and now they are buying another chat app for 10b! Not to forget what a mess they have done with Skype UX.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
I don't know what the macbook touchpad does that you like so much, as I have not owned a macbook for at least 10 years, however, I think nothing can match a ThinkPad trackpoint.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
Nothing is freely available. Somebody is paying for it. In my case, I pay 800 euros per month, and then we can use it "freely". What you surely meant is universally available for all.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
My first computer was an original IBM PC XT. It had 8088, 640kb or RAM, 20MB Seagate HD, and a 360kb dd. Software was so lean that we would use smartdrive (or something like that), to use 360kb of RAM as a virtual disk and copy the games th
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by kwanbix 6y ago
What do you mean dogs don't need meat?
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by kwanbix 6y ago
For Latin America, the best option is MercadoPago (Market Pay)I believe. I have no relation to them by the way. It is from the same company that created MercadoLibre (Market Free) which originally was a clone of ebay. MercadoPago is a clone
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by kwanbix 6y ago
The big difference is that you can say President USA is this and that and nothing will happen to you. But speak badly of the Chinese government and you would end up in a shithole for life. Or worst. Or say something bad about the N Korean l
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by kwanbix 6y ago
I just use it to connect to my friends and family, I think the only thing is they cut the connection at 45 mins but that is it.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
LogMeIn did the same. They became popular because they have a great product that was free to use for personal matters. So I had it installed on all of my family and friend's computers to use it occasionally when they had trouble. Then
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by kwanbix 6y ago
With totalitarian governments, you never know. Look what happened to Alexei Navalny. Look what happened to Sergei and Yulia Skripal in UK? Again, I am not saying the other governments are saints, but I feel you have much more options in dem
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by kwanbix 6y ago
Of course (almost?) no government is a saint. However, China is a totalitarian non-democratic government. I would fear the Chinese government much more than the US or UK governments, for example. But I might be too naive.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
Move to Bitwarden. It has a great free version but if you want to support them, you can pay 10 USD per year. Less than 1 dollar a month. Really reasonable.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
100% agree. The problem of knowing too much. I recently joined a great team that has lots of different services that do things. Some people explain to you how things using names of things you don't know about, they don't realize t
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Ask HN: What flow/techniques/tools do you use to keep up with multiple tasks?
5 points by kwanbix 6y ago|2 comments
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by kwanbix 6y ago
But if you are in, "in progress" for example, how does anyone knows it is done if you don't have the two columns? More so in your case where you do handovers.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
I always wonder why most implementation of kamban use only one column per step, instead of two as explained by Eric Brechner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD0y-aU1sXo&t=535s
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by kwanbix 6y ago
Sadly it was killed by so many bad decisions from Borland. It was really a great tool. Maybe if Microsoft had bought it instead of "just hiring" Anders Hejlsberg?
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by kwanbix 6y ago
For desktop? I am not sure what we have is superior. Unless you count, which was designed by the same guy who did Delphi.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
3 seconds takes LibreOffice Write to load on my "old" ThinkPad P50.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
They were bought by Microsoft when they released a version of FoxPro with "rushmore", that made it many times faster than the competion. I still remember the adds. http://www.foxprohistory.org/rushmore.htm
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by kwanbix 6y ago
Do you have numbers to back what you are saying or you are just pulling numbers out from thin air?
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by kwanbix 6y ago
I am not saying it is easy to make money. But the jump from free to next tier is too high for what it brings, basically nothing in the case of duolingo (no adds and for kids unlimited "lives"), and I use the same resources, only d
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by kwanbix 6y ago
you can send it to different pick up locations.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
I am positive that you can send to a bank account. If you use the app, the fee is around 3 euros or 5.
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by kwanbix 6y ago
One problem that I see with SaaS vendors (and I am working on my own SaaS), is that some of them are delirious with their pricings, in my humble opinion. For example Duolingo. Love Duolingo. My kids use it. So we want to support them, but t
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by kwanbix 6y ago
I send 1000 euros per month to another person on a monthly basis using an app called Remitly. It charges me a fixed fee of 3.99 IIRC. It arrives within the hour to her bank account. 24 hours at most. There are many others like it, Azimo, an

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