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by lukestevens 7d ago
Who knows, maybe he can try and blackmail them too[0] to get his way. It's worked out great so far. [0] https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt#102-wp-engine-fi...
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by lukestevens 2mo ago
Indeed. Is there a word or phrase where the outcome of your actions is the exact opposite of your stated goal or motivation? Closest I can think of is destroying the village to save it, and I think that's very much the territory we&#x2
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by lukestevens 4mo ago
That's a very interesting comparison thanks. Hard to believe one is 87g and the other is ~800g and there's not much in-between!
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by lukestevens 6mo ago
As a dabbler in startup punditry (I've written a couple of books on startup positioning), I find Jerry's take very thought provoking. The crux of the issue for me is what Dr Iain McGilchrist highlighted — we attend to the world in
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We Have Learned Nothing(colossus.com)
89 points by lukestevens 6mo ago|58 comments
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by lukestevens 6mo ago
Welp, my bad. Apologies!
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by lukestevens 6mo ago
Really? In that case I retract the statement and will ponder what AI has done to my ability to assess this kind of writing!
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by lukestevens 6mo ago
But it is AI! Or, at least, it's been run through it. (Staccato sentences; Not X. Not Y. Z...) It's a shame for a personal reflection. It's hard to imagine what the (I'm guessing) Claude-isms add that improve what would
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by lukestevens 8mo ago
The most egregious bug/s I've encountered in recent years is the utterly cursed tab management in iOS Safari. A couple of times a year it will just nuke all my open tabs (450-500) and present me with a delightful blank screen. Bef
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by lukestevens 8mo ago
The emoji picker refusing to be summoned drives me up the wall. There's a dedicated key for it! And yet...
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by lukestevens 10mo ago
Thanks, I'll check out Arq! I use BackBlaze's backup service too, but want something local.
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by lukestevens 10mo ago
I've used Time Machine for years with a cheap HD hanging off an old Airport Extreme, until today, incidentally. MacOS had started warning that this approach won't be supported in the future. After upgrading to Tahoe, Time Machine
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by lukestevens 1y ago
Please don’t pollute HN with AI slop.
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by lukestevens 1y ago
They followed up with another post to answer that question: https://howtogrow.substack.com/p/the-physics-of-sales-part-2
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by lukestevens 1y ago
I don't mean to be rude but this idea that there's some decisive, authoritative data vs. sketchy anecdotal claims kind of drives me up the wall. What data would or could exist in this case beyond the hundreds of calls the author i
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Show HN: Founder Vision (Book) – Positioning and Narrative for B2B Founders(lukestevens.co)
1 points by lukestevens 2y ago|0 comments
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by lukestevens 2y ago
'The best posture is the next posture,' as they say.
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by lukestevens 3y ago
Fellow OCD-ish charge watcher here. Has worked great for my aging iPhone. What grinds my gears though is the AirPods. I have AirPods Pro that I want to last a long time, but out of the case the earbuds are always 'on' and drain ba
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by lukestevens 4y ago
Yeah, in this case, from memory, the spec author had a list of class names from a scraped HTML data set. He looked at the most common classes — nav, header, footer, and so on — and declared they should be made native elements. Which would h
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by lukestevens 4y ago
A decade ago, in an act of extreme futility, I wrote a book about HTML5. I did the mailing list archaeological dig to discover the logic behind these and other new (at the time) elements. There really wasn’t any. The spec editor just made t
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by lukestevens 4y ago
Reminiscent of the extremely cool ‘wearable tech’ art of Ikeuchi Hiroto: https://www.instagram.com/_ikeuchi/
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by lukestevens 5y ago
That's really fascinating, thanks so much! I like the sound of your two cycle pitch approach -- kind of putting 'measure twice, cut once' into practice. And I admire your ability to wrangle a larger betting table & bring
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by lukestevens 5y ago
> (Of course, we don't do Shape Up in exactly the way described in the book: rather than cargo-culting, we've tailored the process to fit our business, which is a very different business to Basecamp. Happy to offer more detail
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by lukestevens 5y ago
Unfortunately that scenario only works if there’s a ‘fair’ long/short game beneath the fraud, but the fraud is such that that is not the case: Remember Folks: Don't short Tether, once the exchange leaks your position to their bud
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He wanted make his revolutionary code free. But Ali Ghodsi is now a billionaire(forbesindia.com)
16 points by lukestevens 5y ago|0 comments
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by lukestevens 5y ago
If you think the Boing 737 MAX disaster was caused by those idiots in marketing calling the shots then you just proved engineeringwoke’s point.
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by lukestevens 5y ago
It’s a strange pattern [0]: [Sophie Zhang] joined Facebook in 2018 after the financial strain of living on part-time contract work in the Bay Area had worn her down. When she received Facebook’s offer, she was upfront with her recruiter: s
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by lukestevens 5y ago
Process Street, maybe? ( https://www.process.st ) “Process Street is a simple, free and powerful way to manage your team's recurring checklists and procedures.” No affiliation, just interested in the same problem.
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Migrating Notion's marketing site to Next.js(notion.so)
3 points by lukestevens 5y ago|0 comments
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by lukestevens 5y ago
Yes, I'd love to see a more robust approach to novelty decay rates (to make up a metric) in A/B testing, especially around engagement. You'd think that would be of interest to the business to know that X "successful&quot

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