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by smugma 4y ago
That’s terrible. Better to go into a black hole than to expose shitty CRM gone wrong.
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by smugma 4y ago
Apparently a 16 year old made up the joke and it was published in Punch in 1844. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccavi For those who don’t get it, peccavi is Latin for “I have sinned” and it’s a pun as Napier conquer
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by smugma 4y ago
Apple went from using roundrects to squircles a decade ago: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/circling-square-desig...
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by smugma 4y ago
My main issue with the BoE was competence. There was a lack of competence across the board, but If I had to give a more specific reason to recall them, it was their incompetence with respect to re-opening schools. Their incompetence around
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by smugma 4y ago
In the last 30-40 years the cost to attend UC has gone up significantly (when I attended in the 90s tuition went down to $3,600/yr, it’s 5X that now), but the top schools are still world renown and the next tier have arguably moved u
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by smugma 4y ago
It cost me $3000+ to move <1 mile in SF. This didn’t include any unpacking etc. $320/hr for 4 people, 10 hours plus tip. Guys worked super fast but being on a top floor of a Victorian with tight stairways and multiple beds and couch
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by smugma 4y ago
New hires won’t have vested equity that is blocked, so I don’t understand the relevance. It’s also not clear that Twitter would be able to block sales once you are no longer an employee; my guess is that they can’t.
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by smugma 4y ago
I accidentally walked through a Rio favela one evening. Never ran into anyone and didn’t realize it until the next day when I was looking at a map. But I believe by most accounts, that was foolish and lucky. Crime, including robbery and kid
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by smugma 4y ago
counter-examples: all of FANG/MAGA, even when you exclude founders Satya: 1992, CEO in in 2014 Tim: 1998, CEO in ~2009 Sundar: 2004, CEO in 2015 Andy: 1997, CEO in 2021 Ted: 2000, CEO in 2020 They were all senior executives well before
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by smugma 4y ago
I did that a lot with the first child. Was hard to do with two (jogging double strollers are a thing, but bulky and best with twins or similar aged kids). When we had a third, I took my first (who was 6.5 years old) on bike rides with the y
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by smugma 4y ago
UK government seems to be supporting it (AI qualifying for copyright): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31920524
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by smugma 4y ago
Most credit cards let you pick your payment due date.
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by smugma 4y ago
Credit cards give 1%+ cash back plus are interest free loans as well. You have 30 days to pay your bill and on average a purchase will be made 15 days into a billing cycle ie 45 days total. So BNPL is not a compelling offer for those who ha
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by smugma 4y ago
That's exactly what the Harvard case study approach is supposed to be about. They are mostly open-ended but guide towards being a success or distress story. I remember case studies that discussed the FANG that I worked at before busine
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by smugma 4y ago
“Contributors were from sectors including the creative industries, tech industry, pharmaceuticals, the third sector, academia, and legal and IP professions. More than 60 people participated in the roundtables and shared their experiences an
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UK Government Reoport on Copyrights for Computer Generated Works(gov.uk)
13 points by smugma 4y ago|4 comments
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by smugma 4y ago
“For computer-generated works, we plan no changes to the law. There is no evidence at present that protection for CGWs is harmful”
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by smugma 4y ago
Thank you for this comment. It encouraged me to read it to my two kids (~8) last night. I actually only got about half way through it. The younger one got bored and it actually started making me choke up. I loved the story as a kid but as a
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by smugma 4y ago
You're being pedantic but not actually using a common definition of chemical. Perhaps "chemical substance" might apply. AOED definition of chemical: a compound or substance that has been purified or prepared, especially artif
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by smugma 4y ago
Isn’t the mass sprawl of Houston directly connected to its lack of zoning regulations?
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by smugma 4y ago
100% agree. But… 1. On the buy side, crappy big companies with procurement etc. may not have “actual engineers” deciding things. Maybe for something like Cloudflare that’s likely to sit within an actual technical team’s mandate 2. Not 100%
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by smugma 4y ago
I agree that this is a free ad/recruitment. However, it’s easy to see how more conservative businesses see this as a risk. They are highlighting their deficiencies, letting their big important clients know that human error can bring th
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Personal mobility drone (eVTOL) for commuting(newatlas.com)
2 points by smugma 4y ago|0 comments
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by smugma 4y ago
Then why do dads love telling the same bad jokes over and over, and laugh every time?
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by smugma 4y ago
It’s hearsay, as even the article says it was Dye who did the firing. I’ve read many articles/interviews where Jony talks about being “hurt” by something. As in, he puts everything he has into these creations and certain things he take
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by smugma 4y ago
My team often does the reverse of this. We need something built and it goes into project planning for the next year (we plan out bigger features a year out, with flexibility to squeeze in smaller features every month). Sometimes those featu
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by smugma 4y ago
My French friends/coworkers like to joke that it is the French pastime to complain. It really is a cultural difference, so much so that sometimes I need to explain to American colleagues that Marie/Marc/etc. isn’t particularl
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by smugma 4y ago
Apple Music Sleep is its own genre: https://music.apple.com/us/curator/apple-music-sleep/1558257...
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by smugma 4y ago
I’m surprised Spotify doesn’t have home grown white noise sounds, and then pushes people to those “songs”, makes them short with 0s hapless playback, and then pays itself rather than a music label.
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by smugma 4y ago
Apple has acknowledged the challenges of searching for and browsing classical music. They acquired Primephonic to address this, but no results yet. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/08/apple-acquires-classi.

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