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by robjan 5y ago
TikTok is killing Facebook because it's a more compelling product, not because the engineers are overworked.
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by robjan 5y ago
That would be the crime of "Making off without payment"
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Windows is crap because of, not in spite of, it being used by 95% of people and therefore has to be compatible and backwards compatible with everything.
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by robjan 5y ago
iirc Mambo was forked into Joomla which is still used but nowhere near as much as WordPress
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Seems like the "code ninja" of the content marketing world.
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by robjan 5y ago
Most countries participate in the Common Reporting Standard and share residence and tax information with all other participating countries. Strangely, the USA don't participate at the moment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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by robjan 5y ago
That's great until discord changes their business model and reduces or removes the free plan.
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by robjan 5y ago
You type LP/ABC123/MAY25 and pull up the loading list. This doesn't give you information about load factors or overbooking profiles which is the actually commercially sensitive information.
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by robjan 5y ago
People and companies who grind all the time often make stupid mistakes which undo all the "dividend" from excessive work. They then end up spending more and more time firefighting these issues. The only successful companies I hav
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If you're on Windows you can just install XAMPP and it "just works".
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by robjan 5y ago
If you're from an undeveloped country you probably can't afford the huge transaction fees and wild swings in price
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by robjan 5y ago
A very common saying in the crypto world to "no coiners" is "have fun being poor". They are eating their words.
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by robjan 5y ago
I've never had problems withdrawing cash, even in relatively repressive countries. Your credit card was probably blocked to prevent fraud because you didn't tell your bank you are planning to travel rather than your bank trying to
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by robjan 5y ago
A lot of the sustainability hype this year is about how continuing doing what you are already doing is now less impactful to the environment. i.e "continue to drink Coca-Cola since we now use 50% recycled plastic bottle" vs. &quot
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by robjan 5y ago
One thing I learned from an executive at IKEA (not sure if it was a lecture or conference) is that "eco friendly" (use less, reduce waste, reduce impact) is not marketable. You want to demonstrate that your product is good in its
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by robjan 5y ago
Chicken and egg. They would probably make more money if the store was more curated. At the moment it's hard to discover apps in the sea of spam and fake apps. As an example, there are literally hundreds of QR code readers, most of whic
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by robjan 5y ago
I'd hazard a guess that more of us have done this than haven't: curl https://raw.github.com/innocent/script.sh | sudo sh
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by robjan 5y ago
It's one thing to ask her for a comment, it's another to publish that she refused/ignored the request. That's usually reserved for asking an executive about a scandal at their company, not a grieving wife.
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Loss porn gets boring after a while and it's more of a subculture than mainstream. It's more interesting to report on a janitor who became a billionaire trading Dogecoin on their daily commute than reporting on the same person blo
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by robjan 5y ago
Many people are making tons of money in crypto but even more are losing out. But people only post online when they are winning. It's the same as Instagram - everyone seems to have incredibly interesting lives but really most of us work
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by robjan 5y ago
> Chrome? GitHub? NGINX? Do any of these use DDD? These are not business applications, they are general purpose software. A business application is something made to model a business process or an entire business, such as an ERP. DDD is
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by robjan 5y ago
If bitcoin had the same market cap (currently 40 trillion) as all of the cash in the world the price would be higher and the ecological footprint would be significantly worse.
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If nobody wanted to do the job, the salary would increase until people wanted to do the job.
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by robjan 5y ago
You're making the assumption, which many people on this forum make, that everyone wants to work for FAANG
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by robjan 5y ago
The existence of a secondary market helps the business to sell their IPO in the first place. Additionally they can raise more funds by selling additional shares. Additionally the people who own shares own the company so what benefits the sh
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by robjan 5y ago
Cryptocurrency has not solved the problem of a few people owning the majority of the assets. The problem has just been recreated with different people.
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by robjan 5y ago
Stocks represent an ownership in a company. They can be speculated on but that's not the primary purpose.
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Sounds like they were working in an environment will little / no psychological safety
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Signal has already implemented some cryptocurrency which the founder of the foundation has an unknown and undisclosed level of investment in.
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This happens when a high performer enters an environment of low performers. They know there was a reason for you being hired and feel threatened. In my experience, the best approach isn't to attempt to change the world immediately but

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