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by polote 6y ago
There is mostly no competitor to Tinder, as the Match group (who owns Tinder) is trying to buy any dating app that gain significant usage. The only big one resisting is Bumble, which is owned by Badoo.
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by polote 6y ago
Personally I'm not here to tell you what to do, you are old enough to know what you have to do. I like to read original content on HN (and I accept that this is not the case of everyone) so I don't really like when a topic keeps c
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by polote 6y ago
You didn't want to just share your perspective, you know this subject is popular on HN and you are brute force publishing your article until it reaches the front page (its the 4th time you are posting the link) in order to create an au
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by polote 6y ago
that was not the case, I ended being the one plotting the flame charts as no-one wanted to do it
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by polote 6y ago
in my previous job, as a PM, I was creating tickets all the time to work on the speed of the app, but the developers didn't not want to work on them, they were saying the users don't care. The reality is that they didn't know
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by polote 6y ago
at best 1% and most of the time -50%
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by polote 6y ago
What you are getting from HN at your current age with your experience, is not the same that what your young self would have gotten from the same content
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by polote 6y ago
> A common refrain in arguments that we don't need laws to protect privacy is that the market will take care of it Seriously, who has ever been successful at defending that idea ?
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by polote 6y ago
Zoom has a similar thing if I remember correctly
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by polote 6y ago
> Are you sure it's not just a regular customer and not a DDOS? Please be respectful of OP, he put a few weeks working on the issue, it is not fair to tell him that you think everything he tells is shit, only because you don't
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by polote 6y ago
I think what they are trying to say, is that if you have a huge max_length it is possibly because you accept any type of text, and you felt the number was high enough. If you use postgres, you want to restrict the length (even if it is 5000
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by polote 6y ago
> A taller Model with many fields [...] It may be time to split the Model into multiple Models with a OneToOne relationship. Never understood that advice, what's the point of complexifying your model because a class has too many att
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by polote 6y ago
Divisibility by 13, 3 days ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25165323
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by polote 6y ago
I think you have the wrong understanding. There are plenty of reasons one can prefer to work at the office instead of remotely. It is not because you like it, that anyone is liking it. We are all humans we are different. This article is an
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by polote 6y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if one only can make marginal gains with those 110M Strava is a social network. Like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit. The day you have hundred of millions of users you stop the bullshit with premium f
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by polote 6y ago
One new guy trying to tell the world that there is a process to start a successful business, there is not. Sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. Some succeed more than others, but they never always succeed. I wish you good luck for you
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by polote 6y ago
I don't want more people using Linux. Linux is great the way it is today. More users will make everything worse. Guys please stay on Windows.
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by polote 6y ago
Lambda is a product for big non agile companies who want to show they can be agile. If you are a single developer there are barely any reason to use it
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by polote 6y ago
I find this very funny. You have made a mistake? then starts this algorithm and you are all done ! > that you are sorry about the harm/damage/waste/confusion your mistake caused (being specific would demonstrate understand
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by polote 6y ago
> Unfortunately, we're kind of hostage to it. The day you decided to go with Stripe you started being hostage of them, but this is not a bad thing, this is business, you choose a partner, they are allowed to change the terms if the
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by polote 6y ago
> And it sounds like the early employees get nothing, other than not getting fired immediately. Why early employees should get anything from an acquisition ? If they don't have stocks, they shouldn't, that's how it works,
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Goodbye USA(larrysalibra.com)
4 points by polote 6y ago|1 comments
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by polote 6y ago
> they make living abroad as an honest middle-class expat a total nightmare There was a guy a few days who wrote an article about giving up on his US nationality exactly for that purpose https://larrysalibra.com/goodbye-u
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by polote 6y ago
I don't believe it, if you have postgresql package update can't be a breeze. Every major version you need to manually convert the database
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by polote 6y ago
I can't buy it, European citizens almost all have to wear masks and we can clearly see that this measure alone doesn't seem to have an impact on the epidemic as the speed of the increase of cases is more or less the same that what
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by polote 6y ago
how do you want strava estimates to be reliable? they can't take wind into account they can't take the efficiency of your bike, they can't take your shape (which influence the air resistance) into account that can't be r
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by polote 6y ago
> but these are not novel challenges anymore. You clearly underestimate the complexity of turning 4 keywords into 3 links that answer these keywords. This is so hard that even Google is not very good at it. But Google is way better than
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by polote 6y ago
I disagree with you There is probably going to be another search player willing to pay to be the default on Apple, with the increase of usage, due to being the default, they will make more money, with more money they will be able to improve
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by polote 6y ago
> The fact that copyrighted works were included in the readme shows it was intended for that use How could that be true? if the YouTube link in the test case was a video of farmer on his truck would that show it is intended for that use
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by polote 6y ago
Personally I've switched to keepassXC the day I had to read my password db from python, I could not make it work with keepassx

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