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by madebylaw 4mo ago
Their corporate sound system is sick!
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by madebylaw 11mo ago
I’ve done all those updates at real companies with millions of users. They took from an afternoon to maybe a week of single dev time. If you keep your garden tended, weeding it becomes less of a chore.
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by madebylaw 11mo ago
What complex thing were you trying to do with it?
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by madebylaw 11mo ago
AMIs were still pretty novel at the time I started (around 2007 like the GP). The standard deployment in the blogs/books was using Capistrano to scp the app over to like a VPS (we did colo) and then run monit or god to reboot the mongr
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by madebylaw 1y ago
Where is it “thoroughly debunked” in that link?
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by madebylaw 1y ago
Classic banker tactic, I love it. “Overwhelm them with data”
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by madebylaw 1y ago
This is good advice. As a technical founder I have been through many offer ceremonies and I would always make 2 versions of an offer, one equity weighted and the other base salary weighted. The math should be easy if you’ve already had a pr
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by madebylaw 2y ago
I lived in NYC < 7 years and saw all kinds of crimes. Fistfights, public urination, I’ve been threatened with a box cutter, multiple female friends groped.
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by madebylaw 2y ago
Why does the ban need to be reactive for you to understand it?
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by madebylaw 2y ago
The source is the actual FA dude.
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by madebylaw 2y ago
There wasn’t a will. The guy wrote his GFs name in some form in 1989 and probably never thought about it again.
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by madebylaw 2y ago
Franken UI is an HTML-first, open-source library of UI components based on the utility-first Tailwind CSS with UIkit 3 compatibility. The design is based on shadcn/ui ported to be framework-agnostic.
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by madebylaw 3y ago
They weren’t all willing https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/04/actors-disgust-...
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by madebylaw 3y ago
Well FF is too, so not sure that’s relevant to TFAs claim that we are discussing in this thread.
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by madebylaw 3y ago
Apple makes money from ads in their App Store. Do they make ad money from Safari? I couldn’t find that info.
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by madebylaw 4y ago
Very cool! I have no idea how these projects compare to each other on a technical level, but I'm reminded of the wooden doll choir by teenage engineering: https://teenage.engineering/products/choir
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by madebylaw 8y ago
Maybe domestically? Toy Story 2, Monsters University, and I'm sure others outperformed the original when you compare their global box office numbers. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=monstersinc2.htm (nb
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by madebylaw 8y ago
I am the technical co-founder of a company in the earned wage access space (link in bio). Happy to answer any questions. The main takeaways are: - We are paid back by the company on payday so the credit risk is on the company not the consum
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by madebylaw 9y ago
You can actually go visit the sets used for the Alamo movies here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Village . Stick hot and sticky though :-D
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by madebylaw 10y ago
Does Netflix or Amazon count ;-)
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by madebylaw 10y ago
This investment didn't change their valuation.
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by madebylaw 10y ago
Uber and Lyft are paying their largest referral bonuses in the "mature" markets (major US cities, e.g. $750 in Chicago recently). They are churning and burning part-time giggers who leave after the bonus is earned or the incentive
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by madebylaw 10y ago
Ouch, why did I say anything. Feel like a hater :-/
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by madebylaw 10y ago
I love Kay and you should absolutely read any of his recommendations or at least examine them with earnest. That said, I struggle to remember anything he's created or written that's moved the needle (my needle). I'm honestly
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CFPB takes action against Dwolla for misrepresenting data security practices(cuinsight.com)
2 points by madebylaw 11y ago|0 comments
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by madebylaw 11y ago
Completely disagree regarding the network effect of Uber vs. Lyft. The system is highly network dependent. Most Uber drivers would prefer to drive for Lyft because Lyft pays more (partially why they're losing more money than Uber), but
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by madebylaw 11y ago
Reminds me of a favorite Steve Jobs quote: “When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks a
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by madebylaw 11y ago
Uber has a bit more than an app: http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...
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by madebylaw 12y ago
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by madebylaw 13y ago
The main difference to me is that Amazon has a massive moat (in the Buffet sense) to prevent other competition from building an identical service. What's to stop someone from building a HomeJoy clone and undercutting them even further?

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