mrisoli

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by mrisoli 25d ago
My GF works with energy infrastructure in Colombia and they have lots of issues with people stealing copper, I didn't verify her claim but she said despite not having natural sources of copper Colombia had significant export volume of
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by mrisoli 7mo ago
Wehad a junior engineer do some research on a handful of different solutions for a technical design and present the team, he came up with a 27-page document with 70+ references(2/3 of which were reddit threads), no more than a few hour
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by mrisoli 9mo ago
I feel the same way, if all one is doing is feeding stuff into AI without doing any actual work themselves, just include your prompt and workflow into how you got AI to spit this content out, it might be useful for others to learn how to us
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by mrisoli 1y ago
He doubled down on his opinion by sharing a sequence of posts from a X account that denounces "woke activism" in the software industry and open source projects. He criticised the political activism in open source projects, then, i
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by mrisoli 1y ago
I also left my home country about a decade ago. I was already expecting a lot of gambling site ads, they took over the soccer tournament sponsorships almost completely anyway. But what I found out when I came back in the last 3-4 years 100%
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by mrisoli 1y ago
Multiple parties that eventually devolve into a two-party system, for decades it was PT-PSDB until PSDB imploded, now it's PT vs whatever the right/center coalesces into(MDB for decades, PSC after that, now PL). In fact it's
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by mrisoli 1y ago
Interestingly, I've spotted a few places in Portugal already accepting Pix as a form of payment, catering to a large demographic of Brazilian immigrants and tourists.
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by mrisoli 1y ago
Varies by country, but yeah, in general Credit Card options in Europe are pretty bad, here's my research on options in Spain: Sabadell: No fees no perks for CC Bankinter: No fees no perks for CC Ing: No Fees no perks for CC BBVA/S
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by mrisoli 1y ago
Which confused me, as someone from Belo Horizonte who started uni just around that time. As far as I knew, Google was generally known one of the highest paying companies by far back then. It's benefits were unmatched because the SV-sty
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by mrisoli 1y ago
Having worked on presentation software, it's more complicated than what it looks like in its surface. First, considering the base/generic case, you can't really beat Powerpoint, Keynote and Google Slides, they are somewhat fr
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by mrisoli 4y ago
Or in other words, "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
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by mrisoli 4y ago
Sounds like every startup ecosystem
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by mrisoli 4y ago
What seemed quite common for me was(working in European startups): Company gets investment from american investors, investors either recommend synergy with products or bring some trusted executives, new executives bring in their own crew es
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by mrisoli 4y ago
Nitpicking your comment but that's not Olympic archery, olympic archery doesn't include compound bows, only recurve bows(also the Olympics specifically uses 70m distance only).
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by mrisoli 4y ago
Chrome is core to Google's business so it's worth it advertising, they also advertise the Pixel phone a lot in high-end places in global cities because they need to gain market share for mobile browsing and phones against Apple. A
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by mrisoli 4y ago
Because it's easy money(and as others said, to stay employable). If someone created a framework yesterday there are few experts, and they won't judge experts by years of experience, if you're a relatively new FE in the job ma
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by mrisoli 5y ago
Spain salaries can be ridiculous, there has certainly been a boom and some startups are paying well for senior roles as competition heats up, but I consistently get recruiters pinging me with 30-40k openings for senior positions.
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by mrisoli 5y ago
> The people at the end of the line who are flipping NFTs do not fundamentally care about distributed trust models or payment mechanics, but they care about where the money is. This is ultimately the issue, some people want to grown thei
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by mrisoli 5y ago
Assuming you can objectively measure someone like this, either by LoC or delivery times, this is the wrong way to approach any project. Having a 10x engineer(or even worse, a 500x engineer in this alleged case) is a huge risk for the compan
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by mrisoli 5y ago
Not OP but I worked in Sweden for about 9 months before moving on, here's my take: Maybe related to the local culture, AFAICT Swedes in general avoid conflict and whenever I questioned something at a meeting I was acknowledged and then
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by mrisoli 5y ago
I picked up a lot of conversational english because the TV Show Friends was on pretty much during the entire afternoon when I was a teenager and I would spend most of my time after school watching it. Since I spent a lot of time in english-
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by mrisoli 5y ago
I always thought about this, but not about Coca-Cola, since people actually need to want to buy it to acquire it, but Visa and Mastercard have huge advertising budgets, notably for events like the World Cup and the Olympics, and I never met
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by mrisoli 5y ago
It also had a competitiveness to it by using a points system in photos, it was quite clever and it rated photos based on a wide set of criteria, including pose, framing, you'd get multipliers for having groups on the frame, it was quit
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by mrisoli 5y ago
Not sure what it's like these days but back when I starting university Google had just acquired a local company and setup their first Latin America office in my hometown(Belo Horizonte), salaries were probably a fraction of its SV coun
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by mrisoli 5y ago
I think it's Google Podcasts, barely any efforts on features for the app, seems like they just made it because there needed to be a podcast app, Keep, while not given much attention by Google, is still easily accessible within Gmail.
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by mrisoli 6y ago
Worst one I can think of is ConvertKit's rebrand that was so bad they went back on it(kept the new logo, but reverted the name change because it had some religious meaning), then again, it's not as big of a brand as TransferWise.
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by mrisoli 6y ago
It's very unfortunate that restaurant websites are often so terrible that sometimes they don't even include a proper PDF to check the menu, I can imagine it really makes it impossible for people with special needs to get the info
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by mrisoli 6y ago
A previous employer used it when they wanted to move away from ActionScript due to flash EOL approaching as the goal of transpiling to multiple platforms was appealing, performance was not the best however and they ended up moving towards a
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by mrisoli 6y ago
It's a matter of perception, especially in poorer countries like Brazil, why would anyone pay money for something that was previously free? Good example of this is WhatsApp, IIRC it was free for a year then charged $1 for lifetime acce
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by mrisoli 6y ago
IMO it's a no-brainer to choose complex technology, the incentives are much more attractive. Go the simple way and it works, you get paid and off to the next project, if it doesn't work, its your fault. But on the job experience w

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