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by owenwil 8y ago
I made a similar switch from VS Code to PHPStorm and had a remarkably similar experience. When I started using a proper IDE, I really began to get comfortable with the inner workings of what I was doing–debugging the frameworks I was using,
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The state of moving from macOS to Windows in 2019(char.gd)
2 points by owenwil 8y ago|1 comments
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by owenwil 8y ago
I missed something in here that seems important: you don't handle VATMOSS? Or are you doing that with Moneybird?
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by owenwil 8y ago
Freelance contractor - UX writing/technical product marketing Location: Amsterdam, Europe Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: UX Writer / technical marketing - I help technology companies make their technology a litt
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Low-cost airline WOW collapses, cancels all flights(cnbc.com)
2 points by owenwil 8y ago|0 comments
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by owenwil 8y ago
I highly endorse Cushion for this purpose - it helps you estimate revenue, and understand how you're tracking so far. It's the only good solution I've found that helped avoid 'freelance anxiety' leading to bad busin
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by owenwil 8y ago
Nvidia GeForce now has millions of users. What does "not taken off" even mean? I play Fortnite in GeForce now basically all the time.
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by owenwil 8y ago
Lab settings? What school is buying hardware these days? The majority in my area are either investing in Chromebooks and dropping purchases of their own devices, or making kids buy Chromebooks.
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by owenwil 8y ago
Have you used the 5,400 RPM iMac? It's incredibly laggy out of the box. Even booting takes 1-3 full minutes. It crunches just opening apps. With all that other hardware, it's just a waste: you're drinking an i7 through a stra
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by owenwil 8y ago
It seems to me this product is on life support and Apple is simply doing performance bumps to avoid big capex expenses on designing/tooling for something new? It ships with a 5,400 RPM disk, an outdated display technology, omits T2 chi
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by owenwil 8y ago
I'm in the industry in the Netherlands, and as far as I've heard, they think it isn't even the same game. I guess they're about to be surprised.
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by owenwil 8y ago
I honestly don't understand this in the context of Figma, and especially considering how coy they're being about what this means. I have heard from my own network that the 'web version' of Sketch is not designed to subsu
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by owenwil 8y ago
Even if it's for everyone, the point is: it's egregious. Even more so when Apple competes in the same space.
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by owenwil 8y ago
This is a pretty smart move, considering that rumors point to Google's "game streaming service" being available on every device that runs Chrome, without additional installation. That would mean a launch across: * Windows * M
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by owenwil 8y ago
I believe this is their point: Apple deliberately leaves those features unbuilt in order to give itself a market position that others can't compete with
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by owenwil 8y ago
The claims in here are pretty wild, particularly around how Apple has favored its own products: - Apple blocked Spotify from working with Apple Watch - It blocked Spotify from building apps for HomePod - It blocked Spotify from building app
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by owenwil 8y ago
I posted this thing on Twitter, but just to be clear about what's going on here: they've replied and said their terms of service were not really intended to be harsh, they don't want your content, and that they'll revise
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by owenwil 8y ago
Plenty of blogs are in Google News too, so I'd love to hear the logic there. But, also, that's fine if it's not allowed! Google just needs to make the rules far less opaque. Why are some op-ed blogs allowed in, and not others
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by owenwil 8y ago
This is interesting, actually, I had noticed the same thing. I've been downvoting particular topics from their 'briefing' section and it seems to cause... well, nothing to happen. I asked, and they said it learns over time, b
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by owenwil 8y ago
That would have been news when it came out, and it's a manually selected featured story. What's your point?
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by owenwil 8y ago
You can read about the process here: https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/4078...
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by owenwil 8y ago
True! Though I believe that for this specific segment it's really important that Google is a little less opaque. This isn't a popularity contest or anything; it's genuinely just gatekeeping.
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by owenwil 8y ago
The point is that Google News is inherently broken because the system in which it approves news sources is broken. If every headline had to do gymnastics to explain the precise, painful point, it would make headlines just annoying.
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by owenwil 8y ago
For many blogs (after talking to others) all it takes to get listed is hiring someone who knows someone, and the majority of sites in Google News are never reviewed again once they're reviewed. I can understand why it should be limited
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by owenwil 8y ago
I mean, that is if Medium doesn't run out of money in the next ~18 months. It's been a savage series of pivots to get to here, and even then, I'm not sure if it's actually sustainable.
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How does one appear in the Google News carousel?(char.gd)
321 points by owenwil 8y ago|156 comments
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by owenwil 8y ago
It really depends what 'passive' is defined as, but I can share some: - Recharged - $2720 / month. I write a briefing once a morning about the technology industry, about 350 people pay to receive it + sponsor something withou
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by owenwil 8y ago
For those just discovering Notion, it's one of the most liberating tools I've ever used, because it offers just enough complexity to configure it however you want, while still remaining simple on the surface. I just love that I ca
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by owenwil 8y ago
There's a reason nobody really does this: there's just no money in it. Nylas mail is a good example of this: it offered the ability to self-run it and pay them for the license, but nobody really did. I wonder what they would need
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Fortnite has become the new 'third place' for millions(char.gd)
2 points by owenwil 8y ago|0 comments

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