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by polote 6y ago
Once again this post follows the usual strategy to make sure to fail your startup https://blog.luap.info/how-to-make-sure-to-fail-your-startup... These people are very motivated, are able to start new projects and working h
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by polote 6y ago
> how do I pick out good information when I don't know the field Search HN threads on the topic, read people who agree and people who disagree then make your own opinion
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by polote 6y ago
Reversible ac are more energy efficient that heater, x3 I think
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Why I'm Against Anti-Doping [video](youtube.com)
3 points by polote 6y ago|0 comments
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by polote 6y ago
This is a pretty hypocrite thread. The guy is successful, has a lot of money. He starts a company thinking that because he has the best product he is going to win the market. Things don't go as planned. Blame the VC and competitors for
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by polote 6y ago
> In the current environment, a bootstrapped company should ideally be: (a) niche (and therefore outside the traditional VC market crosshairs) (b) profitable from day one. The fact that it is bootstrapped prevent it to operate without be
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by polote 6y ago
> Their brand is so tainted in the US that they're renaming it. If they changed the name because of how people perceive them, they would have pick a name which is different than the current name, not the same name changing only one
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by polote 6y ago
Well the biggest luck event in this case, is that there was a dredger pretty close to the ship. If you dont have a dredger and you need to ship one there we would have wait much more time
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by polote 6y ago
There is no way the only reason was because of the wind. I mean if because of strong wind boats become uncontrollable we would have this kind of event pretty frequently. So it is clearly something else, (which may have been emphasized by a
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by polote 6y ago
You can see it in this video https://mobile.twitter.com/EgyProjects/status/13764078774438...
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by polote 6y ago
My biggest complain so far of Prosemirror is that everyone is recreating the same things. Prosemirror core intentionally doesn't handle a lot and is easily extandable. But as result everyone is recreating the same Plug-ins. Wondering i
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by polote 6y ago
Yes, but that doesn't change the point. The fact that MSFT has been able to build a product as good as slack is an anomaly. (and they apparently didnt succeed on the video/audio part as you said). Usually big corp like MSFT are no
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by polote 6y ago
It really depends on what you are looking for. If you are searching on a term that is used by business you will get mostly shitty content. But if you search for things that make no money, for example. "diff with prosemirror" or &q
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by polote 6y ago
> Does this 3 month period apply in reverse Yes (in France at least) it is on both sides, unless both sides agree to shorten it > face some sort of repercussions (financial, I assume)? I'm speaking for France. This is a tricky su
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by polote 6y ago
> The majority of “influencers” are young women, Just to add on that. "Though women make up 77% of the influencer market, male influencers are paid almost 100% more. " [1] And 88% of female influencers are less than 34 years ol
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by polote 6y ago
> While our log analysis, conducted from March 5 through March 8, confirmed that this was a rare issue, it could not rule out the possibility that a session had been incorrectly returned but then never used. This was not a risk we were w
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by polote 6y ago
It could also be the opposite, rent stable => population not growing
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Notion is not a knowledge base(blog.luap.info)
3 points by polote 6y ago|0 comments
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by polote 6y ago
and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078988
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by polote 6y ago
So Ayden is valued at 100 times revenue. Per the article Stripe is bigger than Ayden and growing faster, so Stripe must be worth more than 100 times revenue and less than 95000/684 = 138 times revenue. So comparatively to Ayden their v
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by polote 6y ago
Leading a round of 600M at a 95 valuation, They did not even took 1% of the company. Is that still leading ?
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by polote 6y ago
2015
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Notion is not a knowledge base(blog.luap.info)
2 points by polote 6y ago|0 comments
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by polote 6y ago
Yes exactly. I'm not even sure XPath was faster than iter on a tags. But I would need to check on that one
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by polote 6y ago
I had the exact same problem as you two years ago. I as very bad at design and drawing. So I decided that I would try to fix that. So I bought a book [1]. Basically you start with easy shapes, like an Apple, and you learn steps by steps mor
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by polote 6y ago
> Okta is built as a top down sales organisation whereas Auth0 is built with a developer first bottoms up acquisition strategy. This allows Okta to get the best of both worlds. Good luck with that. The CEO of Okta will have to be very ve
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by polote 6y ago
> It’s missing many aspects of the environment. I'm curious of what is missing > Second, is that meant for building a full blown client or is it meant for 3rd party integrations, like plugins? It is certainly not for plugins, as
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by polote 6y ago
Check that https://developers.google.com/docs/api/reference/rest/v1/doc... You have the full specification of Google docs documents and API to edit any kind of blocks inside
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by polote 6y ago
When I was working on a link parser in python for a crawler. I had two choices: 1. use some form of regex 2. use libxml and find links 1. was faster than 2. by a factor or two Does a link-only parser would have been faster ? Yeah probably b
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by polote 6y ago
> The competitive advantages of owning both the application and the data are so high Honestly this is wrong. Google drive has API for everything, Notion is working on an API, Confluence has API for everything, Trello ... Any serious text

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