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by mful 8y ago
God forbid someone spend thousands of hours building a free app in the tech stack they are familiar/productive with...how inconsiderate!
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by mful 9y ago
I don't know that this is true for all users — there is logic to asking for payment details when motivation is highest, which is often before putting in a couple hours building a page. Putting down a credit card might also improve cust
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by mful 9y ago
As someone who also had a longish path to learning to work hard, the answer for me was simple: practice. Gains in focus time (for me, anyway) are incremental, so it’s not like you wake up one day and can focus for 12 hours straight. Accept
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by mful 9y ago
> A big part of our mission has always been helping our users achieve their missions. Do these types of PR lines from companies that make productivity tools actually resonate with folks? At Dropbox’s scale, they probably materially incre
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by mful 9y ago
First off, congrats on launching! Second off, some website feedback: - I'm part of your target audience (freelance consultant), yet struggled to figure out what this is/why I benefit from it. I'd change both the banner compan
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by mful 9y ago
I'm getting a little sick of the level of entitlement in tech conversations — every firm must adhere perfectly to some set ideals or else the most vocal members in the community turn the conversation into an end-of-the-internet melodra
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by mful 9y ago
> Do I want my team to value the number of tickets closed, or do I want them to value our critical business KPIs? How does this look in practice, in large organizations? Is everyone empowered to freelance on whatever they think will impr
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Ask HN: Best books/resources to learn about blockchain tech?
2 points by mful 9y ago|1 comments
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by mful 9y ago
I’m unable to confirm, but based on Maloney’s committee memberships, this appears to be introduced in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Here is the membership list for those who would like to to lobby the appropriate represen
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by mful 9y ago
> most "entrepreneurs" are not making new things, but finding new ways for others to advertise existing things What a bizarrely reductionist lens through which to view Snapchat and I guess consumer apps in general — Snapchat is
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by mful 9y ago
The 30% cap on calories from fat is pretty ridiculous in my view. Even if you don't buy into the idea that fat is healthful, there is plenty of science that indicates it is, and so at least CIFA should not regulate fat content in this
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by mful 9y ago
4 questions: 1. Why email-gate it? With so many UI kits out there, I won't give my email just to try another one. 2. What are you going to do with my email address, were I to sign up? 3. Can this be used via some kind of package manage
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by mful 9y ago
Also full of dramatic, unsubstantiated claims such as: > Now staff morale is in the toilet, the user experience is a mess, the subscription models are unappealing, competitors are growing rapidly and musicians are fleeing to other upload
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by mful 9y ago
There may be a better solution than an independent committee, but an independent committee is far, far better than the "whoever is in power creates districts in the way that most entrenches the governing party" system we have toda
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by mful 9y ago
Is there any other evidence of this? Based on this tweet + replies, there isn't sufficient evidence to say gender is the most likely cause of the price disparity. For example, it seems at least equally likely that the price disparity i
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by mful 10y ago
There is something voyeuristic about how the creators portray the subjects in the story. For most of the subjects, they signed off the same way that anyone signs off on being portrayed in any piece journalism (I presume). But for John B, a
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Was the Art of S-Town Worth the Pain?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by mful 10y ago|1 comments
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Fact Checking Won't Save Us from Fake News(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by mful 10y ago|1 comments
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by mful 10y ago
Nate Silver had an excellent response to this on one of the "Model Talk" editions of the FiveThirtyEight Elections Podcast[1]. TL;DR of the problems with Taleb's critique: 1. "Volatility" in the model is not random
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by mful 10y ago
Compass | Philadelphia, PA | ONSITE | Full-time | Full-Stack Web Developer At Compass, we are building a marketplace that connects small business owners with web designers. Unlike a traditional marketplace, project management is handled thr
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by mful 11y ago
Really interesting take on applying (self-described) entrepreneurial thinking to basketball. Some of my favorite quotes: On Intellectual humility: > Lifelong learning is where it’s at. To walk down that path requires a deep-seated humili
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Sam Hinkie on how to think and his resignation from GM of the 76er's [pdf](espn.go.com)
1 points by mful 11y ago|1 comments
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When Political Parties Splinter(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by mful 11y ago|0 comments
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by mful 11y ago
The title here is misleading -- the article barely talks about Duolingo's marketing strategy, touching briefly on word-of-mouth and gamification... This is really just a fluff piece about Duolingo and the founder...
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by mful 11y ago
Do you have a source for that? My understanding is that (a) utilization of dietary vitamin D is significantly lower than naturally produced D (from sun exposure) and (b) vitamin D is one of several micronutrients produced from sun exposure.
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by mful 11y ago
I use Soundcloud for hours every day, and would GLADLY pay a Spotify type premium for it. As others have noted, it has an incredible amount of music that exists nowhere else (including a lot of non-EDM), but it is a great listening platform
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How We Built a Tech Company Without Tech(medium.com)
12 points by mful 11y ago|2 comments
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by mful 11y ago
By default I reach for Skeleton[1] on side projects, which is similar in a lot of ways, but I really like the way the grid looks/functions in Milligram. Also, defining pairs of CSS classes to accommodate the user rounding in either dir
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by mful 11y ago
I am not in the UK, but looked through the course. The info / pictures make it look like a great intro -- do you know if the curriculum is published anywhere?
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Ask HN: How to get started with Typeface design?
13 points by mful 11y ago|6 comments

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