Roelven

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by Roelven 2y ago
Getting so tired of the war metaphors in attempts to describe software development. We solve business problems using code, we don't make a living by role-playing military tactics. Chill out my dudes
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by Roelven 2y ago
Regardless of your job or responsibilities, if you are new to a certain domain, find users or customers to talk to. If you can't talk to them directly, find colleagues who do, and ask to be a fly on the wall. Meet at least 10. Write do
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by Roelven 4y ago
I've got two IKEA FLOAT Led panels on my ceiling, each 2400 lumen. The panels can be adjusted in Kelvin (2200 to 4000) and are dimmable, so when it's evening and I need to get some work done I turn them a lot more yellow to not me
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by Roelven 4y ago
I've been running a pi-hole on my home network for years and I love it, it consistently blocks about 19% of outgoing requests. Some of the benefits for us are: - It disables (and hides) the annoying ads on our Samsung smart TV -
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by Roelven 8y ago
A book I keep coming back to (re-read every two years or so) and recommend others is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". It has shaped my thinking on 'what is good' or 'what does quality' mean. As an e
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by Roelven 8y ago
I'd like to add https://soverin.net/features here as well. It's similar to Posteo but offers unlimited aliases and more storage. Servers hosted in the Netherlands.
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by Roelven 8y ago
Just browsing the papers linked in the article you can find some relevant things: [Effects on trees and plants] The microwaves may affect vegetables. In the area that received radiation directly from “Location Skrunda Radio Station” (Latvia
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by Roelven 10y ago
This is an increasing problem in advertising everywhere. If we keep using attractive skinny people in our product shots, photo shoots and marketing communication, we will push a growing disconnect between that and actual, real people. When
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by Roelven 10y ago
Head of PM here. I lead 3 PMs in my current position at Styla.com and have taught product management at General Assembly courses. I myself come from a self-taught programmer background and found myself questioning the product strategy or de
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by Roelven 10y ago
Happy to see there is an increased interest in this topic. I've been reading a bit about hydroponics lately which was sparked by IKEA's indoor gardening product line [1]. I think there are definitely technological advancements bei
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by Roelven 11y ago
Styla GmbH | Berlin, Germany | Full time | ON SITE At Styla we're building an infrastructure that automatically creates online magazines. There are a bunch of challenges ahead in terms of algorithmic design, machine learning and client
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Connected toys of the future have no screens(kickstarter.com)
3 points by Roelven 11y ago|0 comments
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by Roelven 11y ago
This is a terrible article. Meditation is a great way to get to know yourself better or solve problems, I would not compare it to "tripping balls" in any way. If you want to learn more I recommend reading about it on http:/&
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by Roelven 13y ago
Happy to see the guys behind Violet are not giving up. I believe they're on to something but the branding / language choosing is indeed poor. Whatever they launch with now will surely be extended, I'm hopeful that they'v
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by Roelven 13y ago
I'm surprised and happy to see a big outlet like the Rolling Stone doing such an extensive feature on the meat topic. Yes, they present it completely biased and it's clear what the motivations of the publisher here are, but I thin
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A recent collection of resourceful articles about product management(roelvanderven.com)
1 points by Roelven 13y ago|0 comments
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by Roelven 13y ago
Is this a Lift.do viral?
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Show HN: A bookmarklet to get your current viewport width in em(roelvanderven.com)
2 points by Roelven 14y ago|0 comments
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by Roelven 14y ago
Reading this article for the first time, but now I understand why it used to be mtve.com for so long...
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Organizing your music discovery(roelvanderven.com)
1 points by Roelven 14y ago|0 comments
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by Roelven 14y ago
This is hilarious, thank you.
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by Roelven 14y ago
I completely agree! Users should be better educated about the risks they put themselves to, but we all should also be aware of the crazy social engineering exploits that we expose are precious machines to. This article made me certainly thi
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by Roelven 14y ago
I like the idea but I fear for the lack of quality. Whenever you have "outsourced" n-to-1 projects to platforms like Mechanical Turk you know you need something to guard the quality of the input that people are entering. It's good to get po
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by Roelven 14y ago
+ the great thing about nzbmatrix was to use their API for the searches. You could then have a local process download the actual files after doing a request to nzbmatrix.
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by Roelven 14y ago
This is a bit of an old discussion. I think it's a fair tradeoff for content-centric companies to have feedburner (now google) rewrite those links to get some very useful stats in return. This was already happening pre-acquisition and only
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by Roelven 14y ago
Holy f this completely blew my mind
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by Roelven 14y ago
Agree, Facebook will easily recover but Zynga has a bigger blow to deal with. Already shows by their stock value dropping 13%.
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by Roelven 14y ago
I had to dig up this article again: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/142550 On how we all told each other that blowing into the cartridge actually worked, but it didn't. I used to do it as well of course, I'm amazed by how that "
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by Roelven 14y ago
Me too, totally feels like the glitches are actually real, my nintendo dusty cartridges nightmares came back to life
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by Roelven 14y ago
That's possibly the lamest and poorest user experience I've ever come across.

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