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by thinbeige 9y ago
Slightly OT: Everyone wants to become a CEO or VC. But the truth is you don't want to. You'll miss the times when you were a naive intern who could mess around with just everyone you met both on a private and professional level. O
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by thinbeige 9y ago
The HN title is editorialized. The original title is 'Delete Hate Speech or Pay Up, Germany Tells Social Media Companies'.
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by thinbeige 9y ago
Slightly OT: This reminds me of Glassdoor. Glassdoor is more subtle but has a similar business model. Pay for the 'employer branding' package way more than 600/year (rather per month) and you get rid of the worst employee fee
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by thinbeige 9y ago
There are two major problems with public speaking: 1. Many do public speaking for the sake of public speaking. To prove themselves something. That they can publicly speak. This is wrong. You need to have a clear goal. Your speech is an enab
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by thinbeige 9y ago
How will you scale (if intended)? Why I ask: Wondering if bots or customer support staff can really support this use case.
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by thinbeige 9y ago
OT: Do the video calls work on mobile?
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by thinbeige 9y ago
Well written post and a smart idea to generate affiliate revs. With that amount of Amazon links you in that article you should have a click-through of more than 70% and a conversion on Amazon around 10%.
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by thinbeige 9y ago
Difficult decision. You can 1) stay and try to transform the team by training them and/or switching the devs or 2) leave. It's hard to give a recommendation without knowing the team. However, choosing the first option is a long, t
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by thinbeige 9y ago
Also check out YAML for Gmail (yet another mail merge). There is also a good solution for Thunnderbird.
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by thinbeige 9y ago
Agree on Emacs. Tried to get into Emacs few times because I am not the biggest fan of VimScript (I use it quite often though). So, I thought that it's worth learning Emacs with a proper Lisp underneath. But I failed everytime and gett
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by thinbeige 9y ago
Yes, size does matter. AMP limits injected CSS size and AMP sites heavily outrank non-AMP sites on Google's SERP.
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by thinbeige 9y ago
Why I still prefer Snapchat: 1. After launching the app I am right in the take-a-picture mode. With Instagram I need one or two touches. 2. Different DNA, different circles 3. Pics to one or several people is way better and faster than on I
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by thinbeige 10y ago
Think the same. Biggest annoyance of Android are the millions of permissions which every app asks for and which allow perfect fingerpinting. Phone number, all device accounts, wifi access names, mac adress are some examples. I know that one
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by thinbeige 10y ago
> but the UX is still lacking a lot I disagree. I moved from a MBP to a notebook with Arch and i3. The UX of a tiling window manager such as i3 is in my opinion much better and more efficient than the floating wm on OSX. There is no real
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Ask HN: Does HN cause depression?
37 points by thinbeige 10y ago|22 comments