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by mbesto 4y ago
> After all, half a week is burned, minimum, at the beginning and end of the sprint on process paperwork When you start a 2-week sprint how do you magically understand what you're planning to build if you don't do any plannin
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by mbesto 4y ago
I like Zelle, but this is not comparable to the system I've used in the UK. - Limits how much you can send - Identity is based on email or phone number (what?!) that then needs to be managed/tied to the bank account. If you switch
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by mbesto 4y ago
I mean, yes, thats literally what it is. Hilariously we attribute waterfall from Royce[0] in which he visually shows a waterfall like process, only to describe it as an iterative process (and essentially agile scrum). > still makes proje
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by mbesto 4y ago
Any good websites online to get them from?
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by mbesto 4y ago
> "I know there are scams in the cryptocurrency world and am too lazy/disinterested to figure out which parts are the scammy parts, so I'm just going to cast the whole space as a scam and feel smug about it." As an ex
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by mbesto 4y ago
> as gone to a 3 days in the office Tuesday through Thursday and wfh Monday and Friday This is the way. People can debate all they want about in office VS remote, however there is VERY clearly some level of preference for employees wheth
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Build it somewhere else Reminds me of a Ben Shapiro quote: Let's say for the sake of argument that all of the water levels around the world rise by, let's say, five feet over the next 100 years. Say 10 feet over the next 100
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Chevy. Kia. Ram. I'm pretty sure every single one of these just outsource to Aptiv (fka Delphi Automotive) for electronics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptiv
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by mbesto 4y ago
.NET's terminology is as clear as mud: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51390971/im-lost-what-ha...
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by mbesto 4y ago
> news feeds filled with ads. The OP's point wasn't about ads but about the algorithmic newsfeed. The newsfeed is designed and optimized to make you like scrolling. So, yes people do like to scrolling but hate it when they re
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by mbesto 4y ago
> blog post It's a blog...it IS marketing.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> useful than per-day numbers Useful for what exactly? You're basically accusing the company of inflating their numbers (??) as if they are deliberating lying about their scale.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> We are running more than 850 voice servers in 13 regions (hosted in more than 30 data centers) all over the world. This provisioning includes lots of redundancy to handle data center failures and DDoS attacks. We use a handful of provi
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by mbesto 4y ago
What a myopic comment. > 50k/second Yes, 50k/second for every minute of the day 365/24/7. Very few companies can quote that. Not to mention: - Has complex threaded messages - Geo-redundancies - Those message are real-
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Async: "When you get a chance can you update XYZ, not urgent" - doesn't require a response For common tasks this should be in a system then. Otherwise this is essentially the major pitfall of chat. IMHO anyone using Slac
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by mbesto 4y ago
Been using for 6+ years now. Around ~10 APs purchased. I've never looked back. I think the mixed reviews are from HN where people are complaining about their security posture (for good reason).
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by mbesto 4y ago
Probably true, but it's also almost entirely impossible to know for sure whether a product has longevity. Yes, this is why branding is important (see Tumi or Briggs & Riley for examples), but it's very difficult to actually
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by mbesto 4y ago
> They just don't last. Two words: planned obsolescence.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> I love this comment. Thanks. I was once told once a CEO does three things: (1) sets the vision of the company, and (2) manages the energy to get there and (3) coaches subordinates to execute on the agreed upon vision.
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by mbesto 4y ago
Super interesting insight and generally agree with the gist of what you are saying. > Any weakness in any of these skills is an existential threat, and you don't know for sure what will hit you this year. Hard disagree with this con
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by mbesto 4y ago
> As of 2011 From 2001 until 2011. Where is the number now? Also those are all public...where are the ones the CIA knows about?
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by mbesto 4y ago
> You're arguing that crypocurrency is a form of stable currency that can be trusted. Actually, I don't think the parent comment was saying that. They were just listing out the defining features. > This argument, frankly, se
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by mbesto 4y ago
> building a business from scratch Please do tell. What exactly do you mean "from scratch"?
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by mbesto 4y ago
> As of 2011, the number was 40. Is that high? Low? How many is that versus successful terrorist attacks?
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by mbesto 4y ago
I think I agree with you sentiment, but let me ask this: If terrorism was being stopped, would you even know it? Said differently, maybe it is working. If it was, what would be the way that you would know that it is working?
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by mbesto 4y ago
At some point someone is purchasing the asset for $1B. If both instances get purchased for $1B, then why do you care how they got there (assuming they both did it legally)? You're being tricked into thinking there is "one way to b
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by mbesto 4y ago
Agreed, and yet the OP "despises" this.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> I truly despise this “method” of building a business I used to think this way and then I realized "whats the difference between a company that raises $100M to put it all in sales & marketing, and one that raises $100M to acqui
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by mbesto 4y ago
Psychedelics for mental health: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/health/psychedelics-mdma-...
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by mbesto 4y ago
> It is 14 years old Curious - what version of Rails is it running on?

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