mkio

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by mkio 8y ago
I just think it's funny how we imagined us using technology in the future (VR and flying cars) and how we ended up using it (posting on social media platforms and discussing these posts in the comment sections).
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by mkio 8y ago
We went from 2D to 3D and instead of playing VR games in 2019 we discuss blog posts of people writing about playing 30-year-old games.
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by mkio 8y ago
Doing customer support for one of the big app stores, you will encounter adults spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on play-to-win in-app purchases and subsequently blaming it on their child to get a refund on a daily basis.
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by mkio 8y ago
Just do it.
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by mkio 8y ago
In Germany you see things like a single person having to do all jobs at once at a Pizza Hut or only three people working at the same time in a supermarket. A lot of customer-facing businesses are insanely understaffed. If your employer does
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Ask HN: What are the best product demos you've seen?
2 points by mkio 8y ago|0 comments
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by mkio 8y ago
Maybe 9,900 of those employees are hired to step in anytime Alexa doesn't know how to interpret a voice command.
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by mkio 8y ago
I use todoist (free plan) which lets you assign todos to different projects. If i wanted to give each project a priority as well, i would probably just add a number to the project's name.
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by mkio 8y ago
I just started using a todo app, instead of the note app i used for years. Now i can give each thing i think of a priority and a deadline. I sort my todos by priority and make sure i get the important things done, before anything else. I st
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by mkio 8y ago
Here's a nice documentary about foreigners moving their startup to Shenzen, where they can have same-day prototypes built and go into production immediately: https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY
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by mkio 8y ago
If you can't find a simple solution, you're thinking too complicated.
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by mkio 8y ago
Check out coil: https://coil.com
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by mkio 8y ago
100k is completely unrealistic for a German software engineer, especially after only a couple of years.
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by mkio 8y ago
This development has been bugging me as well. And while joke comments used to be ignored, now they trigger a chain reaction of joke answers.