georgel

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by georgel 17d ago
From one George to another, this is the way. My close friends don’t bother with Venmo or the like.
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by georgel 20d ago
Work only allows the tools they buy. So at least for me, I am stuck with Claude. At home for personal projects I am a fan of DeepSeek v4 Flash.
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by georgel 21d ago
> controls all of the early incorporation infrastructure You don't need to rely on Stripe to do anything. There are other payment gateways, and you can file things yourself (or hire someone). Do they make things very easy and access
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by georgel 22d ago
The creator of the Overcast podcast app grabbed 48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaVznUB6wss
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by georgel 22d ago
MacOS 27 drops Intel support, but 10 years of updates is a long run. The 2015 MBPs were so good.
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by georgel 22d ago
I really like what they did with the MBP redesign, reminds me of the PowerBook G4 Titanium aesthetic. The hardware to me is great, but the OS has gone very downhill. If I had a Snow Leopard era-ish build of OSX + modern security I would be
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by georgel 22d ago
I have an M2 Pro MBP 16GB, compared to the latest MBP issued by my employer a couple months ago, I see zero difference in real world performance. Can’t speak for Office on Mac, I have not used it in over a decade, but for typical full stack
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by georgel 22d ago
I had the OG white Zune. It was the same price as an iPod ~$250. The reason I chose Zune was the Zune Pass. A precursor to Spotify. Plus growing up in the Seattle area, I knew other people who had them and we would trade songs.
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by georgel 27d ago
On the topic of translation/ language learning, I still find Google Translate better for when I need to type emails in Russian (my older family who only speak it) as far as grammar is concerned than what LLMs spit out.
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by georgel 1mo ago
Feature bloat definitely made their API and product docs harder than the early days. Stripe Checkout would have saved my teams days, but I agree, they need to go back to their roots and make the 99% use case very easy.
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by georgel 1mo ago
My middle school circa 2004 in CT started at 7:30am. Similarly I was on swim team and we started practice around 5:30am in a Seattle suburb.
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by georgel 1mo ago
Right there with you. All the products I have built are not interesting to the HN or ProductHunt crowd. I don't even bother in those channels. Anyone reading this, find the places that are actually relevant to your customers. I get a l
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by georgel 1mo ago
I wish BDR's and AE's could just answer the important questions I have for them in the first call. I have wasted countless hours of my life sitting in sales meetings, when my wallet is already open. It really shouldn't be tha
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by georgel 1mo ago
The comments on cold outreach on HN are always going to be negative. I assume the majority of us here are developers and go to insane lengths to block "spammers". That said, even YC (can't find the exact Dalton + Michael epis
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by georgel 1mo ago
I had these exact buttons come from DeepSeek for a demo landing page, it went down a path it called “memphis design”.
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by georgel 1mo ago
Circuit City was a popular misspelled domain back in the early 2000s.
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by georgel 2mo ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/peta-closes-godadd...
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by georgel 2mo ago
Once I learned this exists, I blocked it from ever being requested. And I check my payroll settings to never report income.
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by georgel 2mo ago
Claude Design outputs like this.
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by georgel 3mo ago
This has been the case forever in corporate environments, even before AI. I worked for 3 years on an app that in startup land should have taken a couple months at best.
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by georgel 3mo ago
https://xkcd.com/641/
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by georgel 3mo ago
That was fun. LineRider vibes.
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by georgel 3mo ago
Must be nice to have dirt cheap electricity. PG&E rates are 0.26 to 0.62/kw for the EV plan. Source: https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid...
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by georgel 4mo ago
The coworking space I was at back in 2013 held regular weekly meetups in the common space. Sometimes cool tech was shown off, but a ton of promo talks was common. I won't say no to free pizza though.
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by georgel 4mo ago
It was such a nice feature too, but very easily and quickly abused.
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by georgel 4mo ago
The circle is complete: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by georgel 4mo ago
Some of us care. Standing up and saying the product is crap leads to being asked to leave (fired). Or ends up on deaf ears, and the product is hated by people. Been in both situations, it doesn't seem there is a winning position.
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by georgel 4mo ago
It's been around and available as an API to devs since at least 2021 in iOS. The problem was even on the best iPhone at that time, I could never get it past ~0.8x speed and after 15-20 minutes the device would heat up so much the displ
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by georgel 4mo ago
I'll agree they were all great, but I liked the change to force-touch more. The uni-body pre force-touch trackpads clicked on a hinge from the top and you would need to press much harder in that area.
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by georgel 4mo ago
St. Louis is like this as well.

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