melvinmt

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by melvinmt 10y ago
> Removing filler words from normal speech gives you clearer speech, not a sermon. Orators use far more tricks than avoiding filler. They exude emotion. Oration is a performance, and for most people it does not come naturally. I'm a
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It would be interesting to also see YC's perspective on the idea/company/founders. Why did you choose to fund them?
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Have you ever heard of a thing called the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act"? Even the act of disclosing a vulnerability to the company itself can be misconstrued by paranoid big corps as a "security breach", hence the possi
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Look at it this way, you could also have been "rewarded" with a 30-year jail sentence. Please don't mess with big corps.
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I'm confused, are Zenefits/Zenpayroll the same company?
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Funny how all the UK headlines just mention that Khan won from Goldsmith, but outside of the UK the news focuses on a "Muslim mayor".
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Price discrimination at its finest. > "If you can pay, you have to pay us. If you are a philanthropy stopping pedophiles, we will give you the same product you would get if you are wealthy special forces unit in a very wealthy count
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> it does mean they weren't spending all of their time trying to figure out where they were going to sleep or where their next meal was coming from. This is also a crucial concept in understanding why the poor stay poor: they simply
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Just a FYI: The pictures stopped working here: https://www.candyjapan.com/mini-assort
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I would recommend to look into a well organized boilerplate repo to learn how to structure larger projects. Here's one for react/redux/react-router: https://github.com/davezuko/react-redux-starter-kit
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<div id="react-root" style="height:100%;"> Made with React apparently. Interesting.
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The €500 note is quite big as well (would not fit easily in a wallet), here's a comparison: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/27/article-1246519-08...
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Goldman Sachs just started to offer 1.05% on savings: https://www.gsbank.com US inflation for last 12 months as of March 2016 was 0.9%.
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Nothing is a worse conversation than an engineer trying to rewrite all the code for no business critical reason. I definitely understand that working with crappy offshore code is a pain in the ass (doing that now!), but if it works, it work
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Go to any Hackers/Founders meetup, and you'll be swamped with non-technical people trying to meet you.
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Brace yourselves, Google is launching something social again... This is why I have mad respect for Zuckerberg. He's willing to place gigantic bets (Instagram/WhatsApp) when and where it matters.
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Sounds similar to the position that Skype was in a decade ago. Telcos in Europe hated Skype and tried everything to block it or making it slow (deep packet inspection) but when the iPhone came out they couldn't stop the mobile web re
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Line 17 will make you furious.
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It comes in quite handy when you're dealing with sites that attempt to hide content behind a paywall, with just a front-end solution... #nevertrusttheclient
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Looks like you guys are right: "WhatsApp Web connects to your phone to sync messages." I.. did not know that.
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> WhatsApp publicly stated that it does not and has not retained any message content once messages are delivered This does not make a lot of sense. If they don't retain any message content, then how am I able to browse all my me
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Apple not big enough?
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According to all the VCs in my Twitter feed: chatbots.
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It's definitely super hard, but not impossible. You should read [1] how Rocket Internet expands in developing countries: they hire their own couriers who go out, deliver and take cash at the door. This way they solve both the distribut
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by melvinmt 10y ago
TestFlight/Crashlytics still have the 100 devices limit. The answer is actually to get Enterprise distribution if you need to install it on more than 100 devices.
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> I've read (or heard) that your sleep cycle is 90 minutes down to deep sleep and back, so it's best to get up after some multiple of 90 minutes because that's when you'll have cycled back to the lightest sleep. That&
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I'm a 1099-consultant and whenever a payment comes in, I just update a spreadsheet and transfer the amount to a separate savings account. It's not that big of a pain really, just takes a couple of minutes, but it would be nice to
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Your dismissive tone is concerning. Because your Wordpress site doesn't load, we can't learn about your "Passport" service, so you're wasting 10,000 prospective customers.
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Here's the Telegram iOS code by the way: https://github.com/peter-iakovlev/Telegram
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European Parliament to host blockchain conference(finextra.com)
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