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by kinkora 2y ago
Thanks for clarifying on that error. I am not involved in the wordpress community in any shape or form but am fairly privy to what it is along with the open source world yet.. even I am finding it hard with confusing and/or conflating
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by kinkora 4y ago
I have an M1 now and it is glorious but back when I had the MBA with the butterfly keys, someone pointed me to https://github.com/aahung/Unshaky and it helped eliminate 99% of the double-typing or ghost keys. You will
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by kinkora 5y ago
The 4HWW book changed my life when i picked it up randomly while waiting for my flight at the airport nearly 13 years ago and it's not just because of the remote working bits (i've been working fully remote for the past 7 years) o
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by kinkora 5y ago
yea, not sure what the OP is referring to or what their personal circumstances are but that is definitely not as simple as that from personal experience (i left Australia for 10 months) along with first hand accounts of people I know. Besid
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by kinkora 5y ago
"Every journey of a 1000 miles begins with 1 step" Maybe we should laude and celebrate that at least loads of effort was put into getting all the G7 finance ministers in one place and actually have a discussion + agree to a next
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by kinkora 5y ago
Funny, I had the same thought when I was in my teens and couldn't ever imagined it until Simpsons did an episode [1] on this where Homer got his dream job at Globex and the CEO/Company is the dream boss - provided a fully paid for
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by kinkora 6y ago
my "insider" knowledge from the FB upper management is that Zuck is considering a future presidential candidacy so all of this congress stuff, dealing with political correctness, etc is great training wheels when he eventually get
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by kinkora 6y ago
Pieter Levels (levelsio) of Nomadlist famously gets mocked for using a single index.php and sqlite but does 5 figure MRR. https://nomadlist.com/open He used to get a lot of flack for it and i never understood why since you
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by kinkora 6y ago
You probably hear all the usual productivity hacks like promodoro, start with small things, constantly do it, switch off distractions, etc (which i do too in some form) but let me tell you an unorthodox technique I came up with that was ins
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by kinkora 6y ago
preface - I am directing my displeasure at Apple, not the fantastic team at wine for creating this as an open source project. I love wine and it runs fantastically well on both my personal mac and on my fedora workstation. I run a lot of ol
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by kinkora 6y ago
Interesting story! Side note - i am Australian, have traveled the world and I find it funny in many countries (particularly Asia), everyone thinks Milo is from their own country. They are suprised when I tell them it's Australian and h
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by kinkora 7y ago
I can't remember where i heard this from (it was a podcast) but it was on an economic theory that, if you exclude the internet & computer revolution, humans has not progressed that much in the past 100 years and that we may have en
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by kinkora 7y ago
Not sure if a bit of confirmation bias on my side but seems like there is a recent big uptick of layoffs at Silicon Valley companies? Popular ones like Quora, TripAvisor, Ebay, Mozilla, Uber, 23andMe, etc we hear about but among my own netw
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by kinkora 7y ago
Seems to be almost noise cancelling. The Verge did a hands-on[1] on the feature and was able to cancel out the noise in the room filled with people. [1] Starts at 20 seconds in @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDN2RRaY1po
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by kinkora 7y ago
Perhaps I could have better communicated my feedback and I do apologise for that but I wanted to point out that I did not say there is nothing out there and in fact, specifically mentioned that I could find those repos: > Yes, I know
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by kinkora 7y ago
Myth: Perl 6 has no official "framework" Reality: Yep. The biggest issue with Perl 6 IMO is that there are no "official" scaff holding framework(s) for anything. If I need to spin up a web app? Start from scratch. Need s
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by kinkora 7y ago
Arguments & discussions about google tracking you and how some products are crippled if you disable it (looking at you Maps!!) aside, they at least recently introduced a way for you to delete all the information here: https:/&#x2F
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by kinkora 7y ago
brings to mind the saying, "a broken clock is correct twice in a day"
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by kinkora 8y ago
PIA (Private Internet Access) and am a happy customer for 3rd year running. Why do I choose them? Besides the ease of use over multiple platforms, they are the only VPN (I am aware of) that has held up in court that they do not store any lo
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by kinkora 8y ago
interesting background you have there and yep, i agree on that it is an entirely different challenge trying to restructure the business to handle the bigger spending customers. Anyway, thanks for offer but I'm not in SF!
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by kinkora 8y ago
probably a loaded question (so I apologise?) but why are you reasonably confident for growing a 6 -> 7 figure businesses? what about 7 -> 8 figure busineses? context: i ask because i have this problem right now and find this is a hard
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by kinkora 8y ago
I preface my statement below with a disclaimer that I live in a "developed" or "1st-world" country but have previously lived and experienced other less developed economies. Anyway, it feels to me Gates is fixing a real p
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by kinkora 8y ago
I completely agree that some people pursuing FIRE can be too fanatical about chasing the pot of goal and only waiting until old age to "enjoy". I kind of skirt in the middle (i'm more of a FatFIRE) and think of FIRE more as a
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by kinkora 8y ago
Ctrl-f + "fire" in comments... Nothing?? The author mentioned FIRE (Financially Independent, Retired Early) which, IMHO, a big factor in your happiness at work based on my own experience being on both ends of having money and noth
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by kinkora 8y ago
IMHO i think we need a another acronym for "RE" in "FIRE" because it is a lil bit of a misnomer. Most people who come across the concept of FIRE will inadvertently ask the following questions: • What will I do after i am
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by kinkora 8y ago
That might be true but you also have this bit in the article: > “Mr King is expected to receive a payment of up to $11.3m as a result of the Paddy Power Betfair deal. The firm’s current chief technology officer Robin Spira is due to mak
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by kinkora 8y ago
Not OP and a hiring manager myself once but I will love to compare notes and hear your thoughts on what are the common problems/mistakes you see when interviewing developers or engineers and if you have any general advice. Considering
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by kinkora 8y ago
what do you not get specificaly? I was in the same boat until I talked to someone working directly with youtube and that conversation cleared a lot of my questions. Allow me to do the same for you. :)
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by kinkora 8y ago
Within my finance circle, there is big discussion on why Microsoft did an all-stock deal and the substantiated rumour through the grapevine is that the $7.5billion acquisition was Microsoft's way of releasing a chunk of stock without h
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by kinkora 8y ago
While OnePlus (i've owned all OnePlus phones since OP1) is a great example however there is a common misconception that it was "new" at that time. The OnePlus 1 was almost identical to the Oppo Find 7A in specs, price, etc [1

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