marklubi

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by marklubi 3y ago
So good to see some actual Startup News on here. I miss the old days of this site when things were more optimistic and less click-bait.
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by marklubi 3y ago
I had a similar experience but with an intern... well, actually two. One was technically savvy, would go overboard with technical solutions, always had an answer or workaround for everything, and rarely would listen to any advice given. Wa
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by marklubi 3y ago
I won't "loan" (give) any friends more than a couple hundred dollars. It might be couched as a loan, but I will never ask for it back... Whether they pay me back or not makes for an interesting measure of the friendship.
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by marklubi 3y ago
I would also like to be able to automatically hide anything that ends with "study finds" or similar
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by marklubi 3y ago
> the headline really smells like it's trying to make the "people are getting dumber" case. It's from Big Think, so it's likely clickbait. There's so much clickbait on HN lately that I've started checki
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by marklubi 3y ago
Having interviewed quite a few Gen-Z's coming out of coding camps, their unrealistic salary expectations are out of control. No, I'm not paying someone straight out of coding camp $200k, let alone $150k.
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by marklubi 3y ago
> I stick around for those rare diamonds in the rough. It used to be that most posts were worthwhile. Sad to see what it's devolved to. I'm aghast at how many comments these days are against a startup/company doing well.
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by marklubi 3y ago
> 6 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago Current time: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:07 PM UTC Why is this showing up on the front page? Serious question. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thedrive.com This has the articl
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by marklubi 3y ago
The only thing worse than having to increase prices, is going from free to paid.
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by marklubi 3y ago
Turns out that giving it away for free and making it up with volume isn’t scalable
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by marklubi 3y ago
> Yes, there are lots of apps that do absolutely nothing until you log in. Having had my own app in the store for > 13 years, and shipping hundreds of other updates for various apps (if you follow any major sports, you likely have som
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by marklubi 3y ago
Obligatory Dead Butterfly reference: https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
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by marklubi 3y ago
I've recently been driving a car that has touchscreen controls for turning on the heat, heated seats, adjusting the temperature, and more. My biggest pet peeve with it is that I have to 1) wait for the system to "boot" and be
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by marklubi 3y ago
For those that don't know the backstory on this, it was put to a statewide vote as to whether we should introduce wolves back into the environment. Meanwhile, there were already wolves in Colorado > Colorado has had confirmed or pro
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by marklubi 3y ago
They just want to give free money to people, and expect that it will work our for all involved.
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by marklubi 3y ago
Back in the 80's, my dad invested tons of money into a top of the line computer (a 386), plotter, software, and training, when CAD was first a thing. He did one project with it and roundfiled the whole thing because there was no art in
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by marklubi 3y ago
Why do they care so much about teaching sex related things to children? K-6 doesn't need to be exposed to it. This is stuff that would be R or NC-17 rated if it was in a movie.
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by marklubi 3y ago
Ok. So, are you going to tell us what Hyundai it is that you own that's so quick?
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by marklubi 3y ago
As you stated, it's not available yet, so they're full of it.
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by marklubi 3y ago
> Even my Hyundai can beat some 911 trims to 60mph No, it doesn't unless you've made some mods to it. The current lineup of 911s are all at 4 seconds or less.
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by marklubi 3y ago
> That means the government de facto owns all land. Do they not already? Try not paying your property taxes. Do it long enough and they'll take back 'your' land.
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by marklubi 3y ago
"Science is real, study says." At some point, people stop blindly believing in the constant click-bait headlines.
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by marklubi 3y ago
It is insanely impressive! Last time I dipped my toes in these waters was high school >25 years ago. I was doing my best with an Amiga Video Toaster and Lightwave 3D. There was so much I wanted to do and just simply couldn’t because the
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by marklubi 3y ago
I haven't found any other collaborating articles, but this one says that it was an empty gas carrier. > The prospects of a growing wait reportedly prompted one company to bid a record $4 million for one of the open slots bringing
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by marklubi 3y ago
I don't really have a reference to gauge if it's slower or faster, but I would say that it mostly just feels normal. If I had to pick one or the other, I would say that it feels slower... maybe more like tedious since I can't
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by marklubi 3y ago
I've never felt tired in a lucid dream, so the thought of going to bed in the dream doesn't make any sense for me... I've always been wide awake in them. There are some benefits to it if you're able to harness it. I&#x
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by marklubi 3y ago
If someone's never had a lucid dream, I can totally see how it could be alluring. As someone that has lucid dreams nearly every night, it's just so tiring. You never get any rest. I wish I could make it stop.
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by marklubi 3y ago
Now we have n+1 problems
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by marklubi 3y ago
They tried with the 3rd party apps. I still have the developer phone they gave my company to port our app. It was a fun project, and the live tiles and flat style provided a lot of inspiration that resulted in the next version of our app f
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by marklubi 3y ago
My 15 year old son has been having a blast with the Flipper Zero

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