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by lbacaj 8y ago
Really appreciate you checking it out, I’ll get on that bug ASAP. At this time there is no limit to the size, it’s distributed on the backend so could technically do a whole book.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Makes sense actually.. we all need time to think. I thinn walks where one could just let their mind wander are great. If I didn’t spend some time thinking I would’ve never built this thing :) Still though on these busy commutes, especially
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I have built many things in my short career, have worked at big and small companies. In my view iterative development is far harder, maybe even impossible, to do at companies that don’t have the culture for it. Startups have it and most gro
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I read/listen to a lot of books and the only book on there I’ve read so far is The Managers Path, which is about the transition of the software engineer in his/her career. It’s a great book for any software engineer, it’s short to
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Those are all great points. I was not thinking about the anti-trust implications by not allowing folks to send data back but perhaps there is a middle ground. It could also increase transparency for consumers by allowing the opt in opt out
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by lbacaj 8y ago
To clarify, outside of the CDN providers or AWS calls and the big 3 (Facebook, Google, Apple), the vast majority of the calls seem to be to marketing providers or developer tools Branch - these guys provide deep links into phones and tools
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by lbacaj 8y ago
No matter where you are on the politics of all this our immigration system is incredibly broken. There are so many “work arounds” or “hacks”, if you prefer, placed precisely because the system is so badly broken. Whether it’s DACA, or this,
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I believe behind much of this success with Podcasts is that we are actually entering a golden age for Audio content that isn’t music. So I don’t think this is limited to just podcasts but podcasts are riding this wave. I think the Apple Air
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Totally agree with you. I think the biggest reason this is not universal is because not everybody hates their job or working. I get an incredible amount of Joy doing what I do. So much so that when I get home I have plenty of energy to do a
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by lbacaj 8y ago
For sure planning the rewinds by second but even more I’m planning sentence rewinds so one could rewind sentence by sentence and even saving snippets of one or more sentences.. I hadn’t thought about emailing that though, it’s a solid idea
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I think we are definitely already planning the first one. The second one is super interesting.. I’ll have to think about it a bit but it’s a great idea for sure.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I completely get this. Between family, my full time job, side projects.. I had no choice but to listen to some of these books as Audio books.. I ended up pretty much listening to 25+ audio books this year.. the only way to make the content
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I think distractions are just the beginning of our issues, a much bigger factor on how much I can read is Time. As we become adults, with responsibilities Time is incredibly hard to find. Big readers tend to be productive people and as such
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by lbacaj 8y ago
These articles on the “coming down turn” are written in such a way that they seem so matter of fact. The article basically says that they had people study past recessions and therefore the markers are there, but things in the real world don
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by lbacaj 8y ago
As long as your posts are useful and insightful I’m pretty sure it’s allowed. You can reach me right on the website, I put up contact info and it works. Edit: excellent post by the way, loved it and shared it with some friends. That word of
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by lbacaj 8y ago
That’s a great idea, but I’m thinking of giving that away for for free say up to say 1k listens. We’ll see it’s a ton to build as a side project.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I love the idea of being generous and having that come back to you. This notion not only works with products but it works in every other part of life. You may not believe in Karma but the vast majority of the good will we put out there will
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Spotify's acquisition spree in this space is not surprising and Gimlet is just the beginning. In case people missed it they also recently announced that they are setting aside another 500 million for this year for more acquisitions. It
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by lbacaj 8y ago
As someone who has started messing around with different open TensorFlow models and NLP algorithms I believe there’s is a lot of exciting things that AI/ML will unlock, although there is far too much hype right now. Still despite the h
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Audio is getting really hot, I really do feel a lot of folks are missing how important and game changing the AirPods have been. In some ways they are the new iPod for Apple, they cost about the same and I’m almost certain at some point Appl
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Although there is a lot of hype around AI/ML, there are a ton of pragmatic things coming out of the research much like this Live Transcription by Google that I think will be incredibly helpful to people around the world. The thing I am
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by lbacaj 8y ago
At the expense of losing what little reputation I have on HN I will say this: As many others on here seem to be correctly saying, i think this article amounts to fear mongering of vendor lock in. The modern public cloud is very different fr
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Nice, thanks for contributing it’s the most promising cross platform app development I’ve seen so far. I think it’s fine for us to disagree on Mobile vs Web. But I think depends on what his goals are, in my opinion these days Desktop isn’t
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by lbacaj 8y ago
So for something like this I would go Mobile first and I would use this new open source technology from Google called Flutter, you can avoid JavaScript all together and go with Dart, even if you’ve never used it it’s incredily easy to learn
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I just meant economics since the article is about the global economy. I agree there is a large amount of division and political risk in the US. Edit: but still we are far from the world ending.
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Daydreaming about what though? Look at the US economy it’s the strongest it’s ever been. Maybe that’s not a good indicator for the rest of the world? Let’s look at some of the poorest countries? Have they improved over the last 20 years or
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by lbacaj 8y ago
It’s funny that all of these academic, government types seem to be signaling the end of the world. This, at least of late, has been reinforcing for me personally much of Nicholas Nassim Taleb has been saying about these guys; that in effect
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I see a lot of comments on here about the efficiency of Lyft/Uber's and lots of comments about their overspending. The new book by Reid Hoffman, Blitzscaling, was an eye-opener for me as to how these companies operate and what see
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by lbacaj 8y ago
Facts are facts but to me this always seemed like the dumbest idea. I thought it was a dumb idea before the City Bike program was introduced here in NYC then I thought so many people would get hurt with the way Cabbies drive out here. Fast
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by lbacaj 8y ago
I love the analysis that Ben does on so many pressing tech related issues. I agree with the majority of what he said but I disagree that it is that clear cut that Apple’s rent seeking isn’t hurting costumers. While I’m no lawyer either, the

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