notzane

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by notzane 2y ago
> I learned from a recruiter years ago that the most valuable part of your LI profile is … your connections number. How long ago was this? I’ve been talking to lots of recruiters and the most common points I hear are - add every skill -
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by notzane 2y ago
Jørgen Vig Knudstorp saved Lego
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by notzane 3y ago
The High Velocity Edge had a lot about this subject. The most memorable example was at a hospital, nurses would occasionally pick up the wrong vial. They always noticed before injecting, but there were lots of close calls that didn’t get tr
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by notzane 3y ago
Kindle was pre-smartphone popularity (same year as first iPhone) so it had a chance to become established before it was competing directly. Alexa and other smart home devices are better examples now that I think about it more. Also, looks l
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by notzane 3y ago
Spotify tried this, did not go well for them. Amazon and Meta learned the same many years ago
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by notzane 3y ago
If you have 10+ items it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll need an attendant at some point. Also why lock out the whole system when you scan alcohol? Let me keep scanning and I’ll show ID when the person gets here.
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by notzane 3y ago
Doesn’t work anymore :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894135
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by notzane 3y ago
https://www.askaway.bot/ AI concierge for my parents’ vacation rental. Mostly just pulling info from the guest binder, but I’ve also started using some local guides to give better suggestions. Built with NextJs and deployed
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by notzane 3y ago
There’s been some research showing the effect you’re seeing is real. > We estimate that CGB [carryout grocery bag] regulations lead to an average increase in purchased plastics of 127 pounds per store per month, ranging from 30 to 135 (3
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by notzane 3y ago
I made this extension fully using chatGPT to diagnose some layout issues. It’s super simple but chatGPT was definitely useful setting up the chrome boilerplate (and commenting what each option meant). Make sure you ask it to target the most
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by notzane 3y ago
Building a chatbot for my parents vacation rental. Lots of fun playing around with the new OpenAI assistant features (and nextjs) https://www.askaway.bot/BanyanRose
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by notzane 3y ago
120k registrations * $30 = $3.6 million last year (minus fees). At the peak (July 2020) they did 140k in a single month. https://domainnamestat.com/statistics/tld/tv-TLD_ID-1435
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by notzane 3y ago
.fm for radio and music related sites (Federated States of Micronesia)
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by notzane 3y ago
Lapse as well. And Poparazzi before that. Hard to make money so they never seem to last long.
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by notzane 3y ago
StockX has 1000+ employees and they only do used sneakers and clothes. I remember reading about eBay spending a lot to compete with them a few years ago, seems they lost. It’s valued at 3.8 billion so not an insignificant chunk of eBay’s ma
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by notzane 3y ago
Where was your site? > The following marketplaces have threatened or suspended our accounts and are unlikely to return to diskprices.com without clear policy changes from Amazon: amazon.jp, amazon.nl, amazon.it, amazon.sg.
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by notzane 3y ago
A few nights ago, I spent 30 minutes standing outside of a rental because the August app wouldn’t connect to my AirBnB account. Eventually the host woke up and sent a backup code for the keypad (with the help of phone support—do they have a
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by notzane 3y ago
My company is fully using cloud desktops for engineering except iOS and Android development (we get faster laptops instead).
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by notzane 3y ago
Compare the copy on the landing pages and it’s pretty obvious https://pages.cloudflare.com/ https://neocities.org/
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by notzane 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/538
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by notzane 3y ago
Steve Jobs was the same—here’s a clip of Ive talking about it https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1545415644425752576?s=...
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by notzane 3y ago
I still keep caps lock bound to control even though I don’t use emacs much anymore
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by notzane 3y ago
Brick by Brick is a great book about the history of Lego and how it came back from near bankruptcy. It reads like a business case study—turns out they were saved by a McKinsey consultant. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by notzane 3y ago
This was my experience getting into programming as a kid. I just wanted to make things and the games I made in Scratch were cooler than printing to the console in C++ (especially as a slow typer). I eventually learned html/css which le
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by notzane 3y ago
Their statement explains it pretty reasonably: https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/about-us/news-and-insights/2022/o... > Our investment represented less than 0.05% of our total net assets > Naturally, not
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by notzane 3y ago
BHW SEO forum has a lot of technical SEO discussions