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by wdewind 4y ago
Hey Matt, Not sure if you remember me but we talked about Lean Designs many years back (back then it was called jMockups). Excited to this next step for you! Congrats and good luck!
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by wdewind 4y ago
Sidekiq by Mike Perham is amazing. I’ve scaled multiple businesses on it’s back.
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by wdewind 4y ago
I wished this too, and got close enough by buying the Hue remote switches: https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/p/hue-dimmer-switch--lates... It turns out there are really only 3-4 different temperatures I use normal
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by wdewind 4y ago
How do you handle scraping 1000+ different store websites at scale? Isn't it an enormous amount of work just to maintain the scrapers?
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by wdewind 6y ago
N=1, maybe people aren't experiencing the same thing, but I was hoping to move all my whatsapp chats over to Signal and never expected anyone to care because I've watched the internet do it's thing for the last 10 years. Muc
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by wdewind 6y ago
> "Generation Kill" by Evan Wright which was turned into a mini-series on HBO) I haven't read the book but I've seen the miniseries many times, it is one of my favorites. It has a TON of great lessons about how larg
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by wdewind 6y ago
I wonder if this has to do with getting less blue light. After I started using flux I found myself getting exhausted and unable to focus after around 3-4pm especially in the winter. Bumping flux back to only after work made a huge, notice
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by wdewind 6y ago
I don't think it's subconscious. It shows up obviously in bezel thickness and radius of corners. When they release a new product the bezel is thick and the corners are very round. As they are able to reduce the bezel size, they
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by wdewind 6y ago
Exactly, this stuff needs to be monitored either intensely for 24 hours (or maybe even longer), or periodically for longer periods of time (days, weeks, months). What they did doesn't really give us useful data other than "direct
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by wdewind 6y ago
Did you read my entire comment? Feel like I addressed this here: > We already have small pilot studies showing this stuff that have the same problems. Repeated science is often underrated, but these results are uncontroversial, they are
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by wdewind 6y ago
I don't mean to be negative but this is another useless nutrition paper. It shows effects we already know about, and it doesn't show them in more convincing ways than previous studies, and it then it misinterprets the relevance o
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by wdewind 7y ago
> The fake news sources will have you believe that their lies are of equal stature as others' facts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
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by wdewind 7y ago
Right, and my point is this is the exact same argument the church, and other centralized publishing powers at the time, made about the printing press: Imagine there being competing interpretations of God? How could we form a community? Wo
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by wdewind 7y ago
> every idiot now has an amplifier the strength of which allows them to reach the rest of their country, including all like thinking idiots
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by wdewind 7y ago
Honest question for you: how is this different from criticisms of the early days of the printing press?
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by wdewind 7y ago
Yes there is a real lesson about the pragmatic impossibility of true decentralization in email. Specialization of labor is a useful thing, it turns out. That being said: the fact that is a protocol and not a proprietary standard does have
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by wdewind 7y ago
Sendgrid puts a huge amount of money and resources into maintaining both technical and political legitimacy. They have relationships with other major senders and receivers of email, they follow every single rule to the T, they aggressively
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by wdewind 7y ago
Basically you don't. It's a really big challenge to create a consistently non-blocked email sending service, especially if you host on a big cloud provider like AWS. Sounds like you are using the Gmail API. To be honest that&#x2
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by wdewind 7y ago
My experience has just been that SES is a little less user friendly to setup and debug. It's not a huge deal, you'll probably be fine.
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by wdewind 7y ago
Not OP but I've spent a lot of time setting up email sending for SaaS apps. It shouldn't be too difficult, just use a third party provider like sendgrid and make sure your DKIM and SPF records are setup properly and you should be
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by wdewind 7y ago
> In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer sati
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by wdewind 7y ago
I have some questions about this model. Big ask I know but I am wondering if you'd reach out to me to discuss your interpretation of it (contact info in profile). I think there are some missing pieces here, and I'd really like t
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by wdewind 7y ago
This is the part where the people who brought us PRISM tell us how the real problem is facebook and they are the solution. Ok.
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by wdewind 7y ago
> What % of the population can play video games for 16 hours a day? Honestly not a ton. It's really really difficult. Even pros struggle with substantially fewer hours than this. > video game addiction is substantially worse th
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by wdewind 7y ago
I have a hard time thinking of anything you can do for 16 hours a day without having detriments to your health. If you think about it this is probably at least one big contributing factor to the evolutionary benefit of sleeping 1/3 of
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by wdewind 7y ago
Thanks for sharing and glad to hear you're doing better now. > She doesn't realise that without that escape I wasn't far off suicide. That addiction gave me enough time to sort out my life and figure things out. This is hu
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by wdewind 7y ago
Sure I can buy all that, but It's Complicated, and I'm sure you know some runners who are running when they shouldn't be. For instance, I know of someone who had both hips replaced at the age of 25. This was probably primar
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by wdewind 7y ago
I mean pathological from a death avoidance stand point. For instance, if you are a marathon runner you are running far more than is necessary to contribute to a longer life span. I'm not a runner, but as a weight lifter I lift far mo
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by wdewind 7y ago
Diablo is orders of magnitude less successful than Fortnite (or even Overwatch, by the same company), and I'd argue the reason is exactly what you are talking about: it's just not a very good game and the things you can get out of
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by wdewind 7y ago
This article addresses moral panic and so it may seem like it is not an extension of it, but I think it basically still is. People have tried for decades, through scientific research, to quantify harm caused by video games and have failed

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