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by polote 6y ago
How can that comment be the best HN comment of a link of a KeepassXC release ?
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by polote 6y ago
In fact this link was better, the html version is just low quality images without even selectable text (contrary to the pdf)
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by polote 6y ago
> Data from market research firm Datanyze suggest that YouTube is four times the size of the next-largest platform I have a hard time believing their figures, Youtube is only 4 times bigger than Vimeo? Well Vimeo is making 100M visit per
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by polote 6y ago
> Sampling shouldn't be feared Well I would say the opposite, sampling should absolutely be feared. In a lot of case sampling is not an issue, home page, or popular page but in others, including checkout pages, , product pages, and
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by polote 6y ago
You can be profitable in some areas and still fund at loss other parts of your business
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by polote 6y ago
You also have the ip,user agent, referer,... when using Javascript
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by polote 6y ago
Two HN marketing powered companies fighting against each other. Cloudflare Analytics is server side, we all know that server side analytics is good to get number of GET requests but is almost unusable for anything else. But in their case it
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by polote 6y ago
> Or wonder why we think we can succeed where so many others have failed. But, before you do, think on this. I’ve spent the last five years of my life dedicated to bringing this vision of hiring to fruition because I believe, in my heart
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by polote 6y ago
Honestly I have seen Retool being used, and see developers love it. But the one thing I hate about Retool is that anything that a developer does on Retool is tech debt. You want to do a quick form to manage an app ? Let's build it on R
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by polote 6y ago
> Coinbase blocked approximately 5,670 transfers, valued at approximately $1,294,000.
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by polote 6y ago
That would be the case in which the customer wants to self host everything, but the company is only willing to let the customer self host the data. So (a) would not be so much a big deal for the customer
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Ask HN: Has anyone ever let customers host only the db of your app
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by polote 6y ago
From my figures on 100k visitors from a few days ago it is 21% for Firefox an 40% for Chrome, not bad
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by polote 6y ago
It's the second pool chance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23483538
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by polote 6y ago
It's experience from having a few posts reaching the frontpage and seeing how contents published on the newsletter finally reach or not the frontpage
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by polote 6y ago
On HN it all comes down to having 5 people upvoting your post in the first 30 minutes, so of course there is a lot of luck in here. The rule I follow when I want to publish one post is this one: - Publish it one time first and see if you ge
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by polote 6y ago
Here is the HN discussion of the article described : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793546 I'm not seeing any top comments talking about GPT-3 or anything that he talks about
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The only way to be productive(blog.luap.info)
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The only way to be productive(blog.luap.info)
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by polote 6y ago
> people stop using your service. Well the only competitor they have is Indeed, and Indeed belongs to the Recruit Holdings Group, like Glassdoor ;)
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by polote 6y ago
It is not only reviews companies it is any company in which revenue is not aligned with the company's product objective, you find the same things with dating apps for example. One way to solve that, is to stop offering free service and
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by polote 6y ago
> The stock market does price != value of the company. Stock market price == PERCEIVED value of a company. No it is not, it is the price some investors are willing to buy at, which when the market is rational and there is no bubble is
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by polote 6y ago
it does actually, when you reinvest profit you don't make any profit. They reinvest the money before it could become profit, mostly by hiring more sales
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by polote 6y ago
How many developers tried to impress a CEO and how many went through the recruitment process? There are actually plenty of examples of people having landed a job thanks to a very good cover letter or something similar
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by polote 6y ago
so this guy starts by explaining that he doesn't want to work for any company and then complains to not be hired by recruiters? that doesn't make sense, why do you apply to jobs if you want to work for yourself?
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by polote 6y ago
in the last ten years the exact opposite happened https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_phase-out
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by polote 6y ago
> biofuels "Allocating 10% of arable land to biofuels would allow a net production of something like 4% of the present consumption of oil products." https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/renewable
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by polote 6y ago
This is not the case, wind is not enough, the production depends on the strength of the wind "In particular the occurrences of wind blowing below à 8 m/s (4 Beaufort, blue line) are far from being negligible, and that winds of 7 B
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by polote 6y ago
so you have to include it in the cost, and...
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by polote 6y ago
You can't compare nuclear and wind/solar, how are you going to power the lights at night when there is a no wind ?

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