gatleon

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by gatleon 6y ago
This is my understanding as well. I found this video puts together a nice history lesson on how it changed forms and a little of the why as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMVfrvsIfAo&feature=youtu.be
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by gatleon 6y ago
I've been using Roam daily for the last month. What I like about Roam is the markdown, the ease of creating bidirectional links, and the automatic daily notes. The daily notes feature particularly eliminates friction for me. I just sta
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by gatleon 6y ago
I'm in agreement. I personally really like https://pinboard.in
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by gatleon 6y ago
I've wondered recently if this simple (but powerful) feature would be enough of a differentiator for a search engine challenger to gain serious market share. Imagine if Duck Duck Go offered that by default?
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by gatleon 6y ago
How are you implementing it in practice? I would like to implement it myself but at this point it requires a fair amount of effort to do so. Are you aware of any retail solutions that are similar to buying into an index - some sort of drago
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by gatleon 6y ago
> Most international trade was historically priced in dollars for two reasons. The second was, until recently, the unique speed and breadth of the Fedwire system. > The first is the American consumer. When Americans buy, we spend doll
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by gatleon 6y ago
i use devonthink. i keep a www group (~folder) and add web archives and bookmarks to it. it's become a local internet for me. i first search there for anything i found useful or interesting in the past. that cuts out a lot of the noise
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by gatleon 6y ago
Great story. I just wish the title was in BTC rather than USD.
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Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates?
266 points by gatleon 6y ago|249 comments
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by gatleon 6y ago
> If you have cash going into this downturn, now's the time to start plotting where you are going to invest it for maximal gains If much of this money is effectively going into the stock market - either via credit to public corporat
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by gatleon 6y ago
i'm working on an auth tool for developers. it's a crowded space. i'm differentiating my tool by focusing very very strongly on convention over configuration. it won't be nearly as configurable as services like auth0 but
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by gatleon 7y ago
It reminds me of how the Wordpress team works. I cannot find the source, but from my memory, they use long form writing in Wordpress to build Wordpress. Each team member writes up what they are working on, publishes it to an internal Wordpr
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by gatleon 7y ago
I like this idea of how "one's workflow is how one thinks". There is a great little book - Daily Rituals [0] - that goes into many artists' and scientists' daily habits. The habits are very much along the same line