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by lincolnq 7mo ago
I've spent a bit of time last year trying to convey my product instincts to the Zulip team and mostly stopped because I felt like they didn't care enough / weren't moving very fast. The basic problem is that the mobile a
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Product in the Age of AI(lincolnquirk.com)
2 points by lincolnq 1y ago|0 comments
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by lincolnq 2y ago
If you're interested in this stuff at all, check out some code. Example: https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/FLT/blob/main/FLT/M... Also check out the blueprint, which describes the overal
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by lincolnq 2y ago
Poe's Law is hitting me in the face right now. This is satire, right? I can't quite tell (seriously! please tell me) If it is satire, it's quite subtle and well done. It references the old reasons why "Agile" was in
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by lincolnq 2y ago
It's actually because replies boost their email domain's reputation. (Mark as spam is a good response, given that it's exactly what they don't want)
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by lincolnq 2y ago
Is that 20x cost... actually bad though? (I mean, I know Datadog is bad. I used to use it and I hated its cost structure.) But maybe it's worth it. or at least, the good ones would be worth it. I can imagine great metadata (and platf
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by lincolnq 3y ago
> "solution to no particular problem" I deeply disagree. While Worldcoin's execution seems questionable at best, the idea seems like a solution to a problem that we (society) definitely have, namely the real-people probl
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by lincolnq 3y ago
Iframes bypass CORS, so the trick is to use an Iframe and figure out (using some side channel since you can’t peek into the frame) whether the iframe loaded the content successfully or whether it loaded an error page.
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by lincolnq 4y ago
…no? Exercising 2h/week (close to the minimum) costs 100 hours per year, at $100/hr that’s close to 10k already and that doesn’t include the attention cost, or anything to do with diet
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by lincolnq 4y ago
Can someone explain more about what happened here?
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by lincolnq 4y ago
I think Wren is doing a pretty nice job (www.wren.co).
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by lincolnq 4y ago
I agree that this is possible, and definitely worth paying attention to. But some hype cycles are "real", e.g., looking at the internet in early 2000, you might have thought it was about to crash or about to be huge. Either way, y
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by lincolnq 4y ago
I agree the modern rules are better. Mogg Fanatic was massively nerfed in the modern rules though, which is sad, because it was such an iconic part of the monored deck. (It used to be able to sac itself and deal 1 in combat trade)
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by lincolnq 4y ago
It took me a while to notice, but there is more text if you click on the images then mouse over the highlight boxes.
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by lincolnq 5y ago
Employees not succeeding at disconnecting from work is often unintentional, and caused by subtle, pernicious effects of middle managers simply existing and following basic incentives (such as "my boss just sent me an email after dinner
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by lincolnq 5y ago
Off topic, but I am very interested in the topic of what other inventions are universal (I've thought about this myself a bit). Do you have a list or writeup?
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by lincolnq 5y ago
In the last few months, for some reason, my (completely unmaintained) LinkedIn has started to top search results for my name -- over my regularly updated personal website and blog (at lincolnquirk.com) when you search for my name on Google.
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by lincolnq 5y ago
If one of my reports were joking about quitting, I would at least consider whether they were in a ha-ha-only-serious mode, and probably bring it up at our next 1:1. I don't think there's as much risk of hurting someone personally
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Wave: Building a Cashless Africa(randle.substack.com)
2 points by lincolnq 5y ago|0 comments
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by lincolnq 5y ago
I’d expect that the ergo costs of using a laptop at all (short key travel, screen down from eye level) would swamp the additional cost of having the keyboard off center. After all, you can just crane your neck down and sideways instead of j
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by lincolnq 5y ago
Nooo don't compromise your vision for hacker news commenters! Great product design is a mix of flexibility and opinionatedness. You have to find your "users" and then build the thing they want. If HN commenters give you crap
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by lincolnq 5y ago
I'm a medium experienced home chef, and I have a Thermapen, and really like it. It's a better thermometer than the $10 one, or even a $30 one. The accuracy doesn't matter very much, but the reading speed does matter, and Ther
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by lincolnq 5y ago
Haha, yup. And if you sign an Android app in CI, Codecov might have had access to your signing keys. Good luck changing those.
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by lincolnq 6y ago
What do you think he should be doing instead?
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by lincolnq 6y ago
I know you are being sarcastic, but I don't know if everyone understands Sam Altman's motivation for running OpenAI the way it's being run. Sam is trying to create AI which causes the greatest benefit for humanity. That'
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by lincolnq 6y ago
Gotta say, I’ve had the Honeywell for a couple years and I’m quite happy with it. I haven’t had any of the problems that the article cites — it works well, easy to clean, easy to refill. I’d be quite confused about whether article has the s
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by lincolnq 6y ago
My instinct is that the overhead is small. You need to add a few C stack frames and do some string conversion on each call, maybe an allocation to store the result. It’s not going to be as quick as doing in pure Rust, but the python-to-nati
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by lincolnq 6y ago
Databases. If you want to be able to quickly do a lot of useful operations on large amounts of data, B-trees and their variants (B+ trees) are the way to go. Using a B-tree, you can find an entry, sort and do range queries by key, and inser
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by lincolnq 6y ago
Hang on though, in the linked thread they said that the fraud was incurred at the point of real users signing up for uber -- when they type uber into the app store search (e.g. an organic install), the ad network fraudulently takes credit
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by lincolnq 6y ago
Funny story about this. A few years ago, someone wrote an @channel, something like “SF office be careful which printer you select, several items from your office have ended up printed in Boston” To which I replied “this sounds impossible” a

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