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by busywaiting 7d ago
Usually, when someone talks about "starting from scratch" they mean "starting over from scratch," meaning throwing out something good enough in the hope of building something perfect. This article is more about "f
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by busywaiting 21d ago
> a website is even more viable now, it's better for AI scraping That's not necessarily the endorsement you think it is.
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by busywaiting 5mo ago
I also love that it's a .io domain. Just to maximize the chance that you'll confuse Thunderbolt dot io with Thunderbolt the I/O standard.
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by busywaiting 6mo ago
Lotus/IBM took an extremely flexible, encrypted, document-oriented database with a powerful RAD client platform and tried to sell it as a competitor to Outlook-Exchange. And Outlook-Exchange won, because as terrible as it was (and it w
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by busywaiting 8mo ago
Exactly. Their ten-point scales have no obvious relationship to the underlying measurements, where measurements are even provided, and they rescale the points every so often. (They call this their "methodology version.") I've
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by busywaiting 9mo ago
> The original phrase "The customer is always right" had an important caveat: "... in matters of taste". This is not true. This is fairly recent Internet revisionism with no historical basis, an attempt to "well
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by busywaiting 9mo ago
> The function of the icon is to have distinct shape so you are able to visually distinguish menu items quickly in future (more you use the app). In theory, yes. But if you look at the examples in the article, the shapes are basically al