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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
Yes, the tragedy of the commons. The only way to win is not to play. It may not be rational, but I refuse to do something bad just because the alternative is somebody else doing something worse.
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
That's an easy one: your product is good only for some people, who happen to have the problem you're solving. You could tell everyone about it, but you'd reach a lot of people for whom wasting time hearing about your prod
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
Spoken like a marketer / salesperson. I am indeed a developer and run a successful, bootstrapped software business. I agree that you need to initially get the word out that your product exists at all. However, this can be so targete
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
> Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for another trade organisation, the Advertising Association, says that "all advertising plays a crucial role in brand competition, drives product innovation, and fuels economic growth". You know what
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
You're essentially on call 24/7, so better get used to it. If you travel, securing a solid Internet connection is your priority, and your family needs to understand you can be called away at a moment's notice. And if you&#x
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
Interesting and useful -- thanks. My understanding is that, at least for residential installations, the city sends an inspector to check things before you're allowed to turn the system on. This would appear to avoid the first-party i
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
Citation? It's not intuitive why that should happen -- potential short-circuits?
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
No worries, feedback of any kind is always welcome, and direct if diplomatic feedback is the best -- which is exactly what you wrote. :) Let me know if you'd like to chat directly at any point, we love talking to our users. > 1) I
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
Hey, thanks for the feedback on Reviewable! You make some really good points: > Steep learning curve Guilty as charged. I think it's cohesive and efficient once you learn it but the learning curve is quite steep. We keep trying t
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
Housing is very, very far from being a commodity.
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
When I was doing my undergrad at the University of Waterloo in the '90s, my first co-op (internship) placement happened to be at OTI -- a (some might say "the") Smalltalk shop. Smalltalk was very much a niche language even a
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
I just poked around the Treasury site. It's a maze of little corridors all alike, but this one has some relevant info: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/planning/plan_education...
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
Note that the tax-free educational expenses apply only to higher education and have an AGI cut-off, though. Read the fine print!
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
> GCP, on the other hand, won’t even accept debit card - only credit That's not true in my experience: I've been paying my GCP bill with debit cards from three different banks for years. (They were branded as VISA or Masterca
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
I've heard good things from our customers about spr for GitHub ( https://github.com/ejoffe/spr ). It extends git with useful commands and hooks directly into GitHub PRs. We'll be adding some direct support fo
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
Probably not, per Wikipedia: > According to Stephen MacFarlane, a professor of international relations, "It gives signatories justification if they take action, but it does not force anyone to act in Ukraine." [...] Regardless,
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
Reviewable | UX Engineer | 100% REMOTE (overlap with US time zones) | Full-time | https://reviewable.io Hey there! Reviewable is a code review tool for GitHub pull requests that makes the process of serious reviews thorough yet
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
Reviewable | Lead Product Designer | REMOTE (US only), full-time | https://reviewable.io Hey there! Reviewable is growing quickly and we're looking for an experienced Product Designer to help us continue to delight develop
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
At the moment? At least every person under 12, which is ~15% of the US population (and presumably similar elsewhere in the world).
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
Reviewable | UX Engineer | Remote (US preferred) | Full time | https://reviewable.io Reviewable is a web app that makes code reviews of PRs more efficient and thorough -- think "Google Critique for GitHub". We're
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
> Simulator supervisors report that pilots from that point onward have strictly avoided kangaroos, just as they were meant to. Won't fix; working as intended.
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
My 2 cents: I run Reviewable ( https://reviewable.io ), a reasonably successful app for GitHub. It precedes Marketplace so I handle billing directly with Stripe, but when Marketplace recently reduced their fees to 5% I looked in
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
Drop me a line at piotr@reviewable.io and we'll chat!
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
Thanks! I agree that I suck at marketing and would love to hand that job off to somebody with more skill. :)
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
Starting in 2014 I built Reviewable ( https://reviewable.io ) because after getting used to Critique at Google I couldn't stand the workflow of GitHub's PR code reviews. Reviewable gives you interdiffs (even when rebasi
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
I really wanted to like it, but I couldn't figure out a good way to use their (web-only) scene editor while keeping and editing source code on my own machine...
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
And as it happens, Reviewable also deals with this perfectly fine. In fact, it appears that most any code review tool save GitHub is perfectly all right with amend/force-push...
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
<plug> You might want to check out Reviewable ( https://reviewable.io ) if you haven't yet. It addresses your complaints about comments on GitHub and many more besides, while remaining as integrated with GitHub as feasi
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by piotrkaminski 5y ago
IIUC, you're looking for true diffs between revisions with different bases. If so, Reviewable deals with that automatically, running 4 separate diffs in the background and integrating the results so that base-only diffs are hidden by d

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