mattcantstop

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by mattcantstop 2y ago
The antitrust issues were a small piece of a much larger puzzle. Microsoft wasn't dead because of anti-trust issues. They were dead because Ballmer took them in the wrong direction. He made lots of money, but killed the culture of Micr
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by mattcantstop 2y ago
What Paul wrote in 2007 could be true, while what you wrote about Microsoft in 2024 could also be true. Microsoft changed. And for the better. The death was short lived, but in many ways, especially in the cultural zeitgeist of software eng
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
That's a problem I desperately hope the US has to encounter soon. Too much demand and we have to accelerate our plans to satisfy all those people on bikes!
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
My wife and I were religious when we were dating and engaged. We did not have sex before marriage with each other. We are coming up on 20 years of marriage in December. I would estimate that we have sex between 1-4 times/week. There ar
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
40,000 deaths each year in the United States resulting from cars, and nobody lifts a finger. The side of a plane pops off a few miles up in the air and everybody loses their minds.
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
One thing that always surprises me is how toothless any anti-trust settlement is. I don't think I have ever seen an anti-trust fine that was so painful that it would deter people from trying to do it in the first place. It almost alway
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
Sounds like a similar move to what 37signals is trying to do with once.com, but with a games focus.
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
GitHub would certainly be on the list now. Not from the public psyche, but in terms of actual impact.
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
When discussing wages and such people imply that it's a balanced situation, because if someone doesn't like the wage they can simply not work at the company. That is theoretically true, but we see pushback on strikes and unions. S
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
9 weeks of severance for a company with 1 billion in net cash is pathetic. We find out a lot about leaders of companies when they go through layoffs. You'll notice they often have much more generous terms of the severance when their em
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
I left the Apple Store worse off than when I arrived. They have a bug in their software when you add a replacement AirPod that makes them unable to reconnect (the case, in my situation). They then pass the pain of that bug in their software
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Apple Bricked my AirPods and now wants me to buy new ones(twitter.com)
62 points by mattcantstop 3y ago|63 comments
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
I had a similar issue with Apple a few days ago. I was running and an AirPod fell out of my ear and I just happened to be by a drainage drain. It fell through the grate. I immediately rode my bike to the Apple Store (still with a working ca
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
And the failures as well to avoid survivorship bias. Sahil wrote a great book called "The Minimalist Entrepreneur" that goes into a lot of depth about finding customers. Also, Stripe Press has a book called Get Together that cover
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
I must agree. I immediately thought "this webpage _feels_ great." Typography, everything. Great work.
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Return to office mandate? It's likely just lazy leadership. Leaders, be better(matthewduff.com)
2 points by mattcantstop 3y ago|0 comments
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
I am exploring an idea for a MyFitnessPal like competitor (different angle with differentiation) after working at large tech companies for about 11 years (LaunchDarkly, GitHub). Looking for an Elixir or Ruby dev to work part time with me on
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
I went to Chichen Itza last year and went to a cenote. It felt incredibly safe the entire time. It was a fantastic experience.
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
I can see how a CEO would look at a long term lease and regret the financial commitment and then see in person as more compelling to not have as much regret. That seems plausible, but foolish, because of the sunk cost fallacy. I can't
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
> git remains dominant despite it being complex because it’s not in the interest of GitHub and most of GitHub’s competitors to support anything else. It seems like if there was a competitive advantage to be found in another VCS it would
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
I think this write up about the price of housing is a worthwhile read. An underrated aspect of this is that people want to live in dense places, and are willing to pay more to do so. Not universally, but it certainly occurs. https:/&#
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
Would Reddit also be open to paying the people who created all that content?
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by mattcantstop 3y ago
Tucker Carlson, in his interview with Ben Shapiro while discussing self-driving trucks said he would lie to spin the story in a different way to achieve his desired outcome. There is no journalistic integrity.
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by mattcantstop 4y ago
There was a billboard on the side of i15 that was a puzzle. I completed the puzzle.
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by mattcantstop 4y ago
I don’t know who you are, but :wave:
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by mattcantstop 4y ago
I was this person! I was eager and kind. But I was incompetent. I was a graduate of the first ever cohort of the first ever coding bootcamp. The teachers were great, but they didn’t check in on me or have evaluations. I left not really bein
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by mattcantstop 4y ago
I’ve been using AI to teach me concepts, and it’s great at it. It can sometimes be wrong, so having familiarity with the topic is important in letting it teach you. But OpenAI knows programming languages really well. It’s been amazing at te
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by mattcantstop 4y ago
I'd love for them to support Apple Watches. I would have switched years ago if they had that support.
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by mattcantstop 4y ago
I have had a lot of issues with my mini-splits. I am a firm believer in the technology, but my Pioneer units have had a lot of issues. I am glad some innovative companies are getting into this industry. I built a passive house that has trip
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by mattcantstop 4y ago
40,000 people are killed each year by cars in the United States. We do need to ensure bikes and scooters are not on the sidewalks. The best way to do this is to build dedicated bike lanes that remove bicycles and scooters from the sidewalk

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