PerfectElement

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by PerfectElement 11mo ago
I agree. HN basically became Reddit.
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by PerfectElement 3y ago
Any tips on how to migrate a very large ASP.NET MVC app (framework 4.8), that is still in active development, with tens of thousands of users, without a complete feature-freeze? Am I able to migrate to .NET 7 in small increments over a long
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by PerfectElement 5y ago
New infections is not a very relevant metric at this point.
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by PerfectElement 5y ago
I sold a SaaS that was making around that amount in ARR. I used an M&A firm that was specialized in selling bootstrapped SaaS businesses. We ended up getting more than 10 offers which drove up the final price and allowed me to choose th
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by PerfectElement 5y ago
I'm seeing some errors in my applications, but most requests are still working somehow.
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by PerfectElement 6y ago
Vegans actually tend to have higher testosterone: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2374537/pdf/83-... “Vegans had 13% higher T [testosterone] concentration than meat-eaters and 8% higher than
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
We are doing 200k+ in MRR and looking to move from Stripe because the cost is starting to hurt, and this change feels unfair. Our use-case is pretty simple (capture card and manage subscriptions) and we don't need all the features the
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
> The most part of diseases of this decade are caused by plant based diets. I'm not sure if you are being serious. Approximately 3% of the US population claim to be 100% plant-based, and you are saying that this 3% is responsible fo
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
I practically stopped having headaches once I started using blue light blocking glasses. Not only at night, but when I first wake up too, specially if it's still dark.
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
I'm sure there are very rare exceptions, but if it's a simple product and it only takes 2 weeks to build it, it probably won't add that much value. If it does, the market is, or will be, saturated with competitors due to the
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
They acquired LastPass in 2015.
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
I follow the same philosophy, but my side-project got out of my control and its monthly profits now cover 12x my expenses. Of course, maintaining it became a lot more stressful than when the MRR was at $10k and I had to hire a small team to
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
I was using Google Places' address auto-complete on a CRM, and most users loved it. Chrome's behavior completely broke this functionality by overlaying their auto-fill on top of Google Places suggestions, with no sane way to disab
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
>For every warning statement on animal CO2 use, I can find a seemingly well done study on positive CO2 capture by regenerative farms (i.e. traditional farms before feed lots). It looks like you are actively looking for data that makes yo
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
Since I believe that being vegan is usually the most impactful thing an individual can do, and I don't have the skills necessary to encourage other people to go vegan, I donate money to people who are good on doing that. So I support s
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
United States Cattlemen's Association.
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
Bioaccumulation is a big issue with fish. Have you tried getting omegas from algae supplements?
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
> It's amazing to me how someone can (almost) exclusively eat vegetables and enjoy it. I think this is a common misconception. Vegans don't eat only vegetables, they eat every type of food, except animal products. It's ver
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
It looks like you're going through a tough period and lashing out on people who chose to have less than 3 kids.
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
Because more people are becoming aware of the negative environmental impact of raising animals for food, or questioning the ethical implications. When meat analogs become cheaper and taste the same as meat, it's likely that it will bec
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
The small bare metal hosting company I use for some projects hardly goes down, and when there is an issue, I can actually get a human being on the phone in 2 minutes. Plus, a bare metal server with tons of RAM costs less than a small VM on
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
Just 2 weeks after I migrated a DB cluster from Azure to Google Cloud thinking things would get better.
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
It depends on what you like to do. Countryside living is appealing to many people.
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
> If you're still doing mutable programming for some god-forsaken reason What is mutable programming? Using mutable objects is something I do everyday. Am I doing things wrong?
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
I grew up using bidets and as an adult moved to a bidet-less country. I've installed handheld bidet sprays in all bathrooms in my house and they work great. Here's a pretty affordable one: https://www.amazon.com/Ab
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
That's a great way of getting an MVP done for free.
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
Here's the definition of veganism by the Vegan Society: "Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any ot
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
You can try to use some common sense. The risk of a security researcher finding out about it, or of a whistleblower coming out is too high. Something like that would not pass a risk-benefit analysis in any stretch of the imagination, specia
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
> 72% of calories come from carbohydrates Not much different from the Blue Zones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
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by PerfectElement 7y ago
The GP implied that vegetarians use the logic "ending life is cruel" as a basis for their stance.

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