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Tech Downturn Fuels LSAT Boom(lsat-tutors.com)
3 points by blakewatters 3y ago|1 comments
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Plus, Minus, Equals Success(lsat-tutors.com)
3 points by blakewatters 3y ago|1 comments
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by blakewatters 3y ago
Learn how the plus, minus, equals framework can be applied to hacking your way into law school
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by blakewatters 4y ago
Legit tactic
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by blakewatters 4y ago
The most concerning part of this post is that you could get drunk enough to watch shitty lifetime movies and describe "those shits are fun"
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by blakewatters 4y ago
Agreed. This is aligned with what I was throwing on another thread. Your behaviors were not aligned with your identity so one of them had to go. Sounds like you picked the one you really cared about. Kudos
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by blakewatters 4y ago
I beg to disagree. Self-hatred is always negative and certainly does not correlate with any particular behavior. Does being hooked on doughnuts and ice-cream go hand-in-hand with self-hatred? What is so special about alcohol versus porn or
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by blakewatters 4y ago
There is this lesson that keeps coming up in my life again and again that I believe is true, applies effortlessly to matters of substance consumption, and generalizes out to life in general: think in reverse. What you want to do is have a c
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by blakewatters 4y ago
Your problem is very simple: you are working on bullshit. Across your entire description of your situation you never once mentioned what it is you are actually working on but called out the income you hit and frameworks you are playing with
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by blakewatters 4y ago
There is no intrinsic value to being in a management, leadership, or even a founder role. It's really a shame that we have embraced this nonsense of uplifting and celebrating roles and titles over contributions and outcomes. Nobody giv
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by blakewatters 6y ago
OCSP exists because CRLs don’t scale as you build an ever growing list of revoked certificates
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by blakewatters 7y ago
Okay, I will bite. What you need my friend is a strategy. Are there features that if delivered create outsized economic returns? You need to invert your thinking. Nobody gives a shit about you, your product, your company, your mission, open
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by blakewatters 7y ago
The analysis I have read here is far over-indexed on the technology and privacy aspects. Pushing a new messaging platform involves a fundamental change in consumer behavior and this in turn requires engineering, product, design, and marketi
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by blakewatters 9y ago
There is a fundamental disconnect here in the analysis and attribution of malice and disregard for social duty. Building a product and company is a messy affair. You have to earn your way into having a perspective and responsibility to soci
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by blakewatters 9y ago
Uber's valuation is entirely driven off the idea that they will reap monopoly profits in a market that is exploding. Like PayPal, Google and Facebook before them the wager is that they are going to be dominant and collect all the profi
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by blakewatters 10y ago
Blake from Layer here: I've reviewed the updates from last night and I don't feel like the tone was out of line. We were simply trying to provide our customers with complete transparency about where the issue was and where we were
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by blakewatters 10y ago
Thanks for the link. We are taking a look at what Algolia has done here and will likely put together a public infrastructure overview page for Layer as well.
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by blakewatters 10y ago
Blake from Layer here: We are forthright with all our customers about our current deployment configuration and the roadmap timelines for evolving into a deployment with higher availability characteristics. There is real complexity in operat
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by blakewatters 10y ago
Hey, Blake from Layer here: we regularly undergo architecture and deployment reviews with our customers. We are fully transparent with the current deployment configuration and timelines for revisions. Last night we lost a race to evolve our
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by blakewatters 10y ago
Hey, Blake from Layer here: We were not at all trying to finger-point our issues at Google, only provide our customers with up to the minute transparency on where we were with the availability issue. We have received direct feedback from ou
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by blakewatters 10y ago
Blake from Layer here: I'll definitely share your feedback with the product and marketing teams. Here's my version of a summary for a developer-centric audience: Layer provides a comprehensive platform for adding rich messaging ex
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by blakewatters 10y ago
Blake from Layer here. Have you taken a look at our developer documentation on developer.layer.com? I felt like we did a pretty good job of presenting the product capabilities. Our homepage and the developer documentation speak to different
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by blakewatters 11y ago
Hey guys, head of engineering at Layer here. If you actually try to go down the road of building a platform for other developers then you are very quickly going to discover that you need to build a bunch of other stuff totally separate from
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by blakewatters 12y ago
Hey saarons -- Blake from Layer here. This is a big challenge that we are actively discussing internally. With Atlas on iOS, we had the luxury of a gold standard reference UI thanks the ubiquity of iMessage. On Android, as you so aptly poin
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by blakewatters 12y ago
Hey - Blake from Layer here. We're big fans of JSQMessagesViewController and a number of our early access developers built their UIs on top of it. The biggest difference between Atlas and JSQMessagesViewController at the moment is that
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by blakewatters 13y ago
I think you are missing the point of the free tier and fundamentally misreading the target economics of apps running on Heroku. The free tier gives you an opportunity to try out the platform very quickly for free and perhaps host an early w
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by blakewatters 13y ago
Very cool. I would recommend resizing your badges to match the size used by most other services on Github. See how the Kiwi badge is much larger than my other badges: https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit/
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by blakewatters 13y ago
You cannot use `isKindOfClass:` to introspect an array like this. Most of the toll-free bridged foundation classes such as arrays/dictionaries/sets are implemented as class clusters.
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by blakewatters 13y ago
I recently reimplemented some of the caches within RestKit using a `NSMutableDictionary` guarded by a dispatch queue instead of a `NSCache`/`NSMutableDictionary` + `NSRecursiveLock`. The general idea is that you use a concurrent dispatch qu
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by blakewatters 13y ago
We do this in GateGuru already. I think you are underestimating the scale needed to produce statistically significant models across airports (or even within one across checkpoints). MyTSA even has trouble with the crowd sourcing and they ha

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