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by mrisoli 9y ago
Eastern Europe became some interesting version of a developer boot camp or farm system. Locals can get a cheap education and a nice job at either a startup or BigCo engineering office, where a salary is very high compared to local averages.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
> It's pretty amazing how such a small colonial power stayed under the radar for so long. I'm biased because being Brazilian the history of the Portuguese empire wasn't exactly under the radar for us, especially during his
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I have a feeling Snapchat is set to go through a sort of "chicken and egg" problem. Is most of its content geared towards Snapchat's very specific demographic or is their app engineered towards those users' engagement? W
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I have the same feeling, regardless of whether his claim makes any sense or not, "meme-fying" the company and the underlying subject only makes his argument less substantial IMO.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Thanks for the link, but how cringe-worthy is this Twitter? I find memes to be very discrediting to one's claim and the Goolag bus stop felt like trying to meme out a serious issue.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Are you sure? Of course, there are many search engines, but Google is an actual verb, people Google as their first reaction to a lot of things, I'll concede they have a lot of competition in other fields, but searching web content and
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I partially agree, had this been kept as an internal firestorm they could have some other solution(offer placement somewhere else within the company or another company), I have personally seen this happen elsewhere.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Can you elaborate on how that is going to happen? Not trying to flame, I can see a world where people use BTC for everything, but I am confused at how that will happen with current valuation. BTC is worth thousands of dollars, so if everyon
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by mrisoli 9y ago
It is okay to have your beliefs, but don't come outright saying your travel habits are better than others, some people want to enjoy comfort and luxury while traveling or otherwise and there is nothing wrong with that. There is a reaso
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by mrisoli 9y ago
What I dislike about this world is how US-centric it is, I have yet to see good recommendations for people in Europe. In fact, I mostly see the opposite, changes to Lufthansa's FFP have been largely criticized on relevant communities(F
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Far from that. I am a Brazilian in Europe, cable packages here are terrible, can't get any of the bigger European leagues(and of course, nothing from South America), I have relegated myself to just catch up with the news and watch bigg
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by mrisoli 9y ago
That's the part I don't get, he argues for a lifestyle business being better than a startup and advertises travel and hobbies. So the premise seems very clear, you can earn enough money with a lifestyle business to enjoy life with
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Despite HN having a very critical readership it still falls victim to the biggest problems in internet journalism: click bait headlines and controversial topics(as in "...better than a startup" in a startup-centric message board).
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I am not a Digital Nomad but an expat, and IMO it's not just about being able to open up to strangers but being welcomed by them, I've had people literally tell me they just expect me to leave after one year because that's ju
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by mrisoli 9y ago
As an expat(who doesn't know how long until I might move again) it's not just about gaming IMO. Anything you buy is just more weight to move to the next place. If you enjoy technology and novelty it hurts, think about all interest
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I am very curious how much money the broadcasters are making with this strategy, and how much money the leagues or ESPN are letting on the table by just allowing this to happen. Football(soccer for Americans) is definitely the worst offende
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by mrisoli 9y ago
True, Uber's decision of allowing cash payments in Brazil(because a lot of people can't get a credit card approved) was met with a very negative drivers' response due to increased robbery risks.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Fellow Brazilian here and I don't carry a lot of cash with me because that was how I was raised, mostly my parents taught me to be scared of being robbed with a lot of money. Even though I am not living in Brazil ATM I still act like t
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I used to do something similar, I had quite a few bad teachers in college on some very interesting classes, I would cut class to go to the lab and study the same subject being taught there.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
That's what I meant when they were ironically the smallest players in this club by this measure, both Microsoft and Apple are big players with products and services which are not so intrusive as Google/Facebook/Amazon. Just c
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Isn't the answer to this question if you swap Amazon for any of the big 5 a sound 'yes'? Amazon owns the commercial aspects of many people and continues to grow in that regard with the Whole Foods acquisition. Facebook owns a
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by mrisoli 9y ago
As a Ruby/Rails guy, here's my experience(summary): I came to Ruby from Java, I wrote Ruby code like Java code at the start, it runs, but it is bad, once I really learned to write Ruby code it became a billion times better. Same t
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I'm trying to do that, already done some in my company(including my previous one), but I am having difficulties transitioning to local groups/meetups, this is mainly because I have an extra issue: I am an expat who doesn't sp
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by mrisoli 9y ago
IMO it's a chicken and the egg thing, they probably got some quality early users(similar to what Quora did) and those brought in more quality content users, soon enough more people were getting in just because that's where the kno
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by mrisoli 9y ago
As someone who has an on-off interest in ChromeOS but with little to no knowledge about it, does vim/neovim work? I found some vim version on the chrome web store but it is last updated on 2014 and pinned to 7.4 which was a bit disappo
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I didn't know about lists(not a hardcore Twitter user) until this thread then I went to check it out. First thought was, great feature, but I had the same issue with batch editing, then I tried using lists through Tweetdeck and it is m
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I have the same feeling, I consider I don't usually need a picture(or a bunch) of a place by itself, these days you can Google better pictures of anything TBH, but pictures of you and the people you're with are unique.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
For me the weirdest was the Coliseum I think, I took a few pictures myself then started wandering around, looking at the details, trying to see a little bit of what I couldn't get in history books or Google. After a while, I started no
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by mrisoli 9y ago
> Will browsing your phone anticipating the next notification become a dirty habit that others will shun you for? It is already frowned upon in some social circles, occasional browsing is okay but some people can go completely off realit
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I think they observed the wrong people. AirBnB's supply comes from property owners, not hospitality employees(i.e. hotel workers). Uber, Lyft, Postmates and similar supply comes from driver and courier time spent on the platform, not c

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