vincentmarle

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by vincentmarle 4y ago
That was the dilemma that HBO used to deal with, but they have seem to found a way out of it..
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by vincentmarle 4y ago
Yet another Scott Galloway prediction that went sideways: https://marker.medium.com/how-cnn-can-save-itself-16a854f4d8...
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by vincentmarle 4y ago
Germany has the largest diaspora of Turkish people (~3M), so you wouldn't have to adapt much if you don't want to.
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by vincentmarle 4y ago
True, it would discriminate against smaller companies.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Question: wasn't psilocybin recently legalized in California? How does one get it? Asking for a friend..
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
There was a point in time when FAANG offered the best compensation packages for engineers (Netflix was one of them) - so that's where the term originated from but while it's outdated in many respects (Microsoft is not included, Fa
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
This tweet explains it best: https://twitter.com/sarthakgh/status/1513493127729844229
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Just for perspective on the startups who are trying to compete with Apple and Google: Apple Pay - 1,621,494 customers Google Pay - 1,107,759 customers Bold - 7,593 customers Fast - 1,203 customers Bolt - 581 customers Bolt is next?
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
This meme explains it best: https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1511326650788683777
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
This is the company that made $600K revenue with 500 employees while their CEO was sharing sky jumps videos on Twitter and trying to be a "thought leader". Next one in this space that is questionable is Bolt which has a similar in
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
It’s funny how everyone in here pretends to not care about status, while not realizing that you’re just playing a different status game. I happen to enjoy playing status games and I’m fairly good at it. Even though I’m never the prettiest,
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Manual transmissions are great for anti-theft protection ;)
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Fast had ~500 employees, 30 mil in volume, 600K in revenue(twitter.com)
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
“Netherlands” is not an adjective, the proper adjective is “Dutch”
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
It's a term that mostly white people (and John Leguizamo, for some reason) use. Same with folx.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
I have worked with a few of these "readme" managers, and frankly, they are the worst people to deal with :) I think it's very telling that this person says they're an introvert because people who have a need to write a m
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Nobody said the encrypted messages should be readable. /s
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
I think I found a PDF version: https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/feynma...
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Like OP said: trust but verify. Speaking from experience, lol.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
> But the most incredible thing: when have you seen the public health service being earlier than planned? What would have changed about the pregnancy if it wasn't earlier than planned?
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
The project seems really well put together but until you figure out your ideal target customer (and their needs) I would hold off on pricing it too high. Maybe offer it for free, get some learnings and as you add more value and get more cla
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Basically the lack of cloud functions (need a place somewhere to run my backend code ) and the Hook Events being in alpha. I know you're working on it but for my project these features are critical. When Supabase Functions are live and
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
I was about to throw in the towel after evaluating Firebase / Supabase last week for a new project I'm working on and revert back to good o'l Laravel, but Appwrite looks very interesting and could potentially solve my probl
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
From their readme it looks like you can host it however you want: > Appwrite backend server is designed to run in a container environment. Running your server is as easy as running one command from your terminal. You can either run Appwr
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Nassim Taleb’s books made me throw out everything I learned during my 4 college years in economics: in particular Fooled by Randomness and Antifragile.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
You are neglecting opportunity costs: if you could earn double (appreciation + rent) instead of just appreciation, you're leaving money on the table.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
I've been looking for something like this, but it seems to be missing a crucial feature: automatic SDK generation. Writing and maintaining SDKs is a lot of work for a small team. Great documentation is one part of a good developer expe
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
I really had something else in mind when thinking about sausage links
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
I would take "VC advice" with a big grain of salt...
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
As a founder you have to be a little bit delusional in order to balance out all the naysayers in your life (especially the ones who are closest to you!). It's a lonely game until you "make it" - and then everyone suddenly wan

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