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by robbie-c 4y ago
Seconding this! The placeholders are great but I was just curious what the best answers to the placeholders were.
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Yes, if designers are component at all of these things: > tests, observation, psychology and physiology Is that not their job?
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Yeah, sadly you're not guaranteed some of the things that are needed for this to work. I defo believe the story that it took Knuth a day to figure this out, although when you see the answer it's pretty easy to understand.
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by robbie-c 4y ago
I just looked at this for 30 seconds, do you just XOR everything together? Then you could XOR it with all the numbers 1 to n again to get just the duplicate number, as every number would appear in the XOR twice except the duplicate number w
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by robbie-c 4y ago
I think these kinds of people have just gotten more sophisticated. How much money did Sky Mavis raise? How much money did the Luna guy walk away with?
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by robbie-c 4y ago
It doesn't sound like any of these regulations were a success, given Apple still has the monopoly power to extract 26% of the fees taken, and make the process so cumbersome that most developers would probably be better off staying on I
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Yes, we subscribe to a few CS/eng blogs with our company Slack and use the threads for discussions. Sadly https://blog.acolyer.org/ doesn't update any more but that was one of the favourites.
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Really depends on the business. I'd argue that for forging product market fit, there's nothing better than a small team sharing a common space, feeding off each other's creative energy. For later stage companies where you&#x2
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by robbie-c 4y ago
I've also found paying strangers on Monzo to be ridiculously easy, you both turn on bluetooth and go to "pay nearby" screen. You just ask them "Are you <full name>?" to verify, then send money.
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Just a bit more info on free services - when we were starting out AWS were offering $10k credits a year for 2 years or $100k credits for one year. I believe we got access to this through one of our investors, but most VCs and incubator prog
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by robbie-c 5y ago
My first job was for a telecoms startup, this concept is called "glare" there. E.g. I go to touch the screen to make a call, but someone starts calling my while my finger is in motion so the UI changes and I press a button that I
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by robbie-c 5y ago
Here's to hoping this is just a starting point, might be that it's a lot easier to support these models.
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by robbie-c 5y ago
There's other things they can do rather than just more patrols. At my university town in the UK the police would plant bait bikes and watch from afar, arresting thieves after they rode off. I know they caught some, because they caught
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by robbie-c 5y ago
They kind of bootstrapped around this quite well. The first product was a better Google Maps app, which meant they got people's journey data. I wonder if the real problem they ran into was just that public transport in London is pretty
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by robbie-c 5y ago
I wonder how they're doing. Crunchbase https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/citymapper-limited/c... has a Series B for $40M back in 2016, and a crowdfunder for £6.7M in 2021. I can't imagine the pande
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by robbie-c 5y ago
> I don't like GitHub's security screener dismissing this report because of the "social engineering" aspect. Agreed. I get where it comes from, npm isn't responsible for individual contributors getting social-eng
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by robbie-c 5y ago
I believe the user you are replying to was also joking, given that many of Banks' ship names reference the g-word Edit: if not that's even more amusing
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by robbie-c 5y ago
I'm only talking analytics-quality data here, at the very least you would look at the major players and see where they are based. You would at least want to include anyone capable of doing setting up their own power plant specifically
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by robbie-c 5y ago
I skimmed this but it seems pretty heavy motivated reasoning. > However, despite being extremely energy intensive, per unit power consumed, Bitcoin mining is probably one of the most environmentally friendly activities in the world. This
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by robbie-c 5y ago
Good for them. The situation we’re in at the moment would be rejected as a sci-fi plot. We’re at a critical point in human history that will largely be defined by whether we as a species can save the environment, but a section of society ar
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by robbie-c 5y ago
This is interesting. I'm a founder of an app[1] that deals with this ballpark of issue, by providing (among other things) couples with sensate focus therapy, which is a form of sex therapy that has an extremely strong evidence base, an
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by robbie-c 5y ago
"Personal carbon footprint" was an incredibly successful PR campaign by the biggest polluters to shift the responsibility onto individual consumers (who have much less ability to actually change anything). I'm glad to see the
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by robbie-c 5y ago
Blueheart | React Native Developer | Lead Full-stack Developer | Remote (London) | https://www.blueheart.io/ Relationships are hard, getting help shouldn't be. At Blueheart we're re-inventing sex therapy: taking p
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by robbie-c 5y ago
As someone who has trouble remembering which way round Type 1 and Type 2 decisions are defined, I have started calling them Bouba and Kiki decisions. It doesn't help whatsoever but it does wind up my cofounder ;)
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by robbie-c 5y ago
The 2015 MBP was definitely the peak. Normal USB ports, an HDMI port, the non-terrible keyboard, and no touch pad. I basically just want this with modern hardware (not just GPU/CPU/RAM etc, but webcam/mic/speakers have i
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by robbie-c 5y ago
I've tried a bunch of online whiteboard tools to design stuff (where stuff could be system architecture, UI, a business process, whatever), and nothing beats a whiteboard + post-its. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, it's possible,
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by robbie-c 5y ago
This is really cool! Really excited to see what people will do with the JS support
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by robbie-c 5y ago
Apple don't let us do any of that ourselves, so it's impossible to say that 30% is an appropriate fee for doing it. If they allowed competitor App Stores or direct downloads, and didn't ban us from even mentioning other ways
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by robbie-c 7y ago
Nice idea! Planning to make money through affiliate links?
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by robbie-c 7y ago
I have the same Dell Windows/Ubuntu setup. In case this helps you, I found that whilst plugging in a DisplayPort monitor into the USB-C port didn't work, I could get my 4k monitor to work either by going through a USB-C Dock made

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