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by phgn 5y ago
When it does turn out to be "spammy mail ad crap", doesn't it backfire? Note that I have no idea what kind of letters he sends.
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by phgn 5y ago
Seems like many other people are still getting value from the tool - which is great.
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by phgn 5y ago
They are funny indeed - using public election funds (meant to give each party a chance) to put up jokes. Whether you think that's right or not, it's hilarious.
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by phgn 5y ago
For me, the novelty of this tool has worn off. You have to select "answers" to all kinds of specific issues, even when you don't know any details or care about something. Like "we should stop burning coal" - obvious
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by phgn 5y ago
Does he mention why he's building this? I understand that handwritten letters might receive a bit more attention, but doesn't it come across as unprofessional? It would for me - I would assume they don't have the money to p
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by phgn 5y ago
Yes I understand that, and think your approach makes a lot of sense. I was just trying to counter the "why native app" argument here - people looking for a power-user tool likely appreciate a more persistent app compared to a webs
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by phgn 5y ago
This may be more of a power user tool, you also wouldn't pay $49 for the app right? What interests you about the app compared to searching directly at Namecheap etc?
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by phgn 5y ago
Also I assume you do WHOIS queries for availability checks right? The protocol doesn't work over HTTP in browsers.
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by phgn 5y ago
Note that DNS zone files don't include all registered domains, only ones that have DNS records. Depending on domain extension, a significant number of desirable short words are registered but not in the zone file, or held by the regist
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The Next Chapter of Readwise: Our Own Reading App(blog.readwise.io)
3 points by phgn 5y ago|0 comments
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by phgn 5y ago
"Making decisions takes a lot of mental resources, so we tend to lean on mental shortcuts (heuristics) to decide what to do." Using those mental shortcuts to convince people makes a lot of sense (if persuasion is your goal).
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The Psychology of Persuasion – using people's mental shortcuts(theschoolofmomentum.com)
3 points by phgn 5y ago|1 comments
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by phgn 5y ago
I don't believe that, would be way too scary. Do you have a link?
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by phgn 5y ago
Savings allow you freedom from having to earn money, the opposite of debt. For example, you can temporarily "retire" for a few years and do what you want without pressure. Either directly or indirectly, I think having debt limits
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by phgn 5y ago
They are antifragile in producing the current class of consumer electronics? I agree that optimized supply chains and economies of scale are generally fragile. If other types of devices become popular, they'll have inertia other innova
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by phgn 5y ago
I only know anecdotally that we were rolling it out to engineering at Uber, and I see it at my current company as well. It has good selling points for management to "improve productivity", and usage spreads easily once someone in
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by phgn 5y ago
This is HN, what do expect? :)
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by phgn 5y ago
That's a good point. I personally got numb against people not paying attention the past year, doesn't mean everyone is. It's just an easy way to reclaim time. I agree the better solution is to trim meetings.
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by phgn 5y ago
As engineer, I just continue working on other tasks in every single meeting. For me that multitasking works, and I don't have meeting fatigue at all. Then again, I'm not the main decision maker most of the time.
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by phgn 5y ago
Looks interesting! You may want to consider renaming the tool, it's overlapping with getclockwise.com, which is quite popular.
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by phgn 5y ago
I'm feeling the same way, also can't stand all the self-gratulating content on these sites. But if you remove the status game, why would people engage with the site instead of only posting their own questions? Shallow social valid
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by phgn 6y ago
A domain availability check based on DNS seems ideal, but a surprising number of domains actually don't have DNS records, so there are false negatives. For WHOIS I guess the biggest concern is recursive / thin whois servers not op
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by phgn 6y ago
Yep that website is useful as well, with more details about each registry. Mine is more focused on finding available extensions for a given name.
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by phgn 6y ago
Thank you! That's the main thing I wanted to solve, having a simple site to see available domains and where to best buy them. Glad that's resonating.
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by phgn 6y ago
Almost all of the deactivated top-level-domains are brand names or for countries that no longer exist. I think for global TLDs that investors payed money for there is a low risk of them disappearing. .land specifically seems to be owned by
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by phgn 6y ago
Do you not think some of these domain extensions are providing value to people (like incorporating a "cool" domain name into branding like crisp.chat, frame.work or magic.link)? You don't have to use their TLDs.
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by phgn 6y ago
In case you are wondering what whacky top-level-domains there are right now (there are over 1000), I'm working on a faster search & categorisation of them at https://domain.garden . While some extensions are just absurd,
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by phgn 6y ago
There also was a free audiobook version of this article on The Daily recently, that I enjoyed hearing: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/podcasts/the-daily/tree-c...
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The tail end – most time with loved ones is behind you (2015)(waitbutwhy.com)
1 points by phgn 7y ago|0 comments