vincentmarle

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by vincentmarle 5y ago
That’s a great idea, what tool do you use for that?
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I did, but it’s surprisingly hard to use. The first thing you need to do is get to Google’s homepage in the first place (haven’t been there in ages as well) and then once you start typing, the auto-suggest moves the buttons around. You have
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
> Then I watched a designer effectively scan my home into a 3D model with her phone and return it from her assistant’s iPad with proposed changes reflected within thirty minutes. Curious to know which app she used for that?
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
“Here’s another paywalled article discussing the paywalled article”
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
The ban needs to come from TikTok & Instagram et al but you know what happens with misaligned incentives…
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
The EU is becoming increasingly hostile towards cash as well (e.g. no more 200/500 euro bills, bank ATMs are disappearing, ban on 3000+ euro cash payments).
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Sources for this article: Paul Graham, Michael Seibel, Daniel Gross and Hacker News.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
> Apple must therefore pay another 5 million euros. The total of all penalty payments currently stands at 20 million euros. I wonder at which point Apple will start caring about these fines.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
> Serendipity and randomness wins. Randomness you said? ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Sadly, being nuanced doesn’t get you the likes and retweets and follows.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Viaweb's First Business Plan: http://paulgraham.com/vwplan.html
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Did Viaweb also have a pitch deck? https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1492696791434731529?s=20&t=...
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
> order free pickup It may be free for you, but not for the restaurant. They still have to pay a double digit commission for pickups. Consider just calling them to truly support local business.
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This is called ergodic theory, the more you repeat an action that could result in catastrophe, the likelihood of that catastrophe occuring will be close to 100% if the number of events is high enough.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
I did a similar thing and handed in a bogus file to buy me some more time to actually finish the assignment … but then I got an A from the teacher, turns out she didn’t look at it at all!
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Squashing also introduces problems when you are resolving merge conflicts in your branch: squashing doesn’t preserve merge conflict resolution so you end up having to resolve those conflicts again after merging.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
As the Dutch say: a cat that is backed into a corner, makes unpredictable jumps. And Zuckerberg is one really smart cat, with a lot of money at his disposal. So I wouldn’t rule him out yet.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Someone could definitely file an anonymous tip to the USCIS (his full name is on the website). Maybe they can’t find something fraudulent perse (although HACKING is in the title) but could find his defiant tone offensive and could make it v
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
I bet you it doesn't even involve cocktails.
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> People often discuss the standard trendy topics (some recent ones I've observed at multiple parties are how to build a competitor to Google search and how to solve the problem of high transit construction costs) and explain why pe
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> Never give first numbers I disagree: the first one who gives a number is able to anchor the negotiation around their preferred outcome; it's much harder to negotiate up from a lowball number than the other way around.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
Looking at the GIF demo, am I correct to understand that you can view Katherine's screen by clicking a button, even if she's not voluntarily sharing? That seems to be a violation of privacy…
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
So you made a bad hire, what does this have to do with a bait and switch?
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
I second this, I’ve never had an American pancake that came close to a Dutch one.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
It sounds like you were trying to be too nice and were trying to appease both sides; that’s a losing proposition. You are working with adults, and adults should be able to handle bad news (if handled properly), and a good manager should be
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Hey Mr CEO, I have no idea how that bug slipped into production but I see you have a whiteboard here… let me show you how to invert a binary tree.
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A true “servant leader” would cringe at calling themselves leader in the first place. I also have one of those self-proclaimed “servant leaders” on my team, he’s the only manager who has a 10-page README on himself. Also the only manager wh
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Yet somehow the service in the US is 10x better than in Europe.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
> Marijuana is a drug that makes people lazy Not necesssarily true. On the right Sativa strain it makes me incredibly productive.
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by vincentmarle 5y ago
With great parenting apps like these, who needs parents? /s

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