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by nicbou 11mo ago
My entire stack is meant to let me work offline in random locations. Until recently it was meant to run smoothly on a 12" Macbook. The output is also made for users on spotty internet connections. This comes from years of working while
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by nicbou 11mo ago
This is how I fear my own website will be if the trend continues. Platforms gave, and now they're taking away. At least what you have built will endure. Even if your invested just enough to keep the lights on, you would still have a tr
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I love your website. I stumble upon it again every other year and I'm always amazed by the quality of the content and writing. I was reading your articles on my Windows Mobile phone, ages ago! Have you also had a decline in traffic in
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Show HN: Map of median rent per m² in Berlin(allaboutberlin.com)
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by nicbou 11mo ago
That’s in poor taste. > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Is this an ad or a question? I would say domain knowledge and experience. I've been in my industry for long enough to spot situations where my work will have disproportionate impact. The longer I am in this industry, the more knowledge
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by nicbou 11mo ago
So the news here is that you got a hundred visitors from ChatGPT this month?
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by nicbou 11mo ago
It sounds like a Ted Talk with unnecessarily long poses to let sentences sink in. For some reason I just can't digest this sort of writing.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Thin desires are mental snacking. Thick desires are a full meal. I find it hard because thick desires require a lot more activation energy before it becomes pleasant.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
When I come across this sort of writing I skip it. If the writer can't be bothered to organise their ideas I won't do it for them. I find that writing style oddly grating.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
A blog is a place to share things you care about with others. It's a place on the internet that you own. You choose the topic and the format, and no one can stop you. Above all, it's accessible to everyone, not just those on a spe
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I have been following that website a while. The curation is great, but the UI is annoying. I can’t easily right click or long press to share with Instapaper. I can’t scroll past the ones I have already seen. A list of links would be much be
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by nicbou 11mo ago
The testimonials section is adorable
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I maintain a list of things I have done here: https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence
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by nicbou 11mo ago
They scraped the info. I politely asked them for it. Otherwise I would need to maintain my own bots on top of everything else.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I have just released a map of median rents in Berlin [0]. Now I'm improving it. I want people to enter their search criteria, and get an idea of how rare and expensive their desired apartment would be. This will help people set clear e
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by nicbou 11mo ago
We might live in a different country and serve a different demographic. My guy saved a lot of people from making dumb mistakes. Then again he's good at his job, and if he was not I would wipe his business. Aligning incentives was very
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Right, which works great if your daytime job is fighting in the trenches, but maybe less so if your only opportunity is software development or other mentally exhausting job.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Why not use ntfy.sh?
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Not really. Some things are just complex.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I disagree. It enables more people to build utility software without the pain of writing the boilerplate code for it. This should leave more room for their taste and expertise. That's how it works for me. I'm currently turning a l
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Nope. I built a calculator for that last year and ooooh boy. Now I pipe half the requests to a human because of all the possible mistakes a person can make. It's crazy complicated. Finding that human is also hard because of the pervers
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I got access to around 30,000 Berlin apartment listings from the last year. The end goal to help foreign apartment seekers rate a listing’s price, size and location, and to give people realistic expectations. For example if your search crit
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Certain purchases (like health insurance in my country) should be a conversation, because the options are fiendishly complex and the attributes people typically use for comparison are wrong. The consequences are lifelong.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
In Germany, businesses routinely bully reviewers into deleting negative reviews, so the scores are meaningless. I only trust what friends recommend.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I think that censorship grew because the internet did. When the crowd grows bigger, it becomes a market. Then you get people who are only here out of self interest, and you need rules to deal with them. When the crowd gets too big, the conv
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Not an intolerance of bad content, but an intolerance of bad behaviour. Technical issues are often social issues: bad process, bad incentives, bad faith. Moderation is a social issue that people constantly fail to solve with technology, bec
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I understand what the author is trying to say, and I agree with the second half of the text, but the link between both halves is tenuous at best.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I have already ditched Office a decade ago in favour of Google Docs. It was not a dogmatic decision, I just did not see the value.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Since AI is using my work without permission and capturing the value on behalf of tech companies, I feel like I am an energy slave to AI.

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