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by melvinmt 9y ago
Ah, missed that :)
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by melvinmt 9y ago
I thought this was already common knowledge? I remember reading about this about 3 years ago. Specifically in this article about coffee naps http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6074177/coffee-naps-caffeine-sc...
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> it takes less than an hour to get a Delaware LLC on the Internet Setting LLC's up is easy (even setting up a C-Corp is considerably easy) but for me the problem is always to maintain it and file taxes and other stuff on time etc.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Yeah it took me a while to figure out that this wasn't a plugin in Sketch.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
They have the same thing in Istanbul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrobus_(Istanbul)
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> my Software QA Engineer background + no CS degree implies I have no technical skill It's OK to leave stuff out on your resume if it's not relevant (and maybe even harmful) to the position you're applying for.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> So how can Lemonade be 80% cheaper? Well, it's just sugar, lemon, and water...
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by melvinmt 10y ago
"Talk to my lawyer."
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by melvinmt 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the author hasn't encountered real sociopaths yet.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
"When Spiegel travels between his company's scattered outposts, he normally has a Range Rover with a private driver transport him from building to building. The former employee described it like the president arriving: a black car
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Very interesting to see what they think of their competition: > We face significant competition in almost every aspect of our business both domestically and internationally. This includes larger, more established companies such as Apple,
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by melvinmt 10y ago
If there is no room for syncing up and every issue is to be taken offline, one should question if it makes sense the stand ups should be kept in sync. In my team we do standups asynchronously over Slack, it's a great and non obtrusiv
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by melvinmt 10y ago
In the context of YC, here's what pg thinks about domain names: "If you have a US startup called X and you don’t have x.com, you should probably change your name. The reason is not just that people can't find you. For compani
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> take them to the court On the base of what, though? It's well known that the USCIS is mostly self sustained (e.g. minimal government funding) so that money has to come from somewhere. I believe the thought is that getting a visa&#
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Ah, I almost forgot about GitX, my first git GUI client before I started using git gui itself.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Instagram had around ~50 million users and 13 employees when it was acquired by Facebook.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
1) Innovation is not necessarily a primary goal in itself (at least, not if you're a business). 2) What you're struggling with is the distinction between technical problems and adaptive challenges [1]. Purely solving technical pro
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Interesting. The phrases I typically use for Google Search are also not considered proper English grammar, but are highly effective in getting the results that I want. I wonder if that's the case as well here.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> the Udacity "Self-Driving Car Engineer" nanodegree That looks like a great course by the way, thanks for sharing.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Great post, I bookmarked it (and your website as well). I'm also looking for more success stories / use cases. I'm personally not very convinced about automated conversational interfaces, but Messenger does provide a great op
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Have you tried the recently announced Newsfeed Ads for Messenger to drive traffic to your bot? https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2016/09/12/new-mes...
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> When is the appropriate time to intervene to ask if everything is ok? Where I grew up (The Netherlands) this simply does not exist. If you need something you ask the waiter and only then they'll come to you. Likewise for the check
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> Starting salaries of seven figures are not unheard-of Seven figures? For grad students?
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by melvinmt 10y ago
1 year later: "When you told me about your side-project, you didn't tell me it was going to be successful. Thus, I must change my mind and sue you."
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*than
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> The part that looks like BS in Hollywood hacking to me is the green "matrix" text. Wait, you don't use green "matrix" text?
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> Now your site and your monitoring is down. Much better to outsource to people who obsess over doing this right and making sure they are properly redundant. You make valid points about redundancy and levels of reliability but keep in mi
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by melvinmt 10y ago
"My extension that blocks website content seems to block website content…" That's how I interpret complaints by adblock users.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> Uber collects your location data from the time of trip request through five minutes after ends trip ends, including when the app is in the background. We do this to improve pickups, drop-offs, customer service, and to enhance safety. M
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by melvinmt 10y ago
This was actually one of the more insightful comments on this page…

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