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aidanlister

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    Comment #46349486

    This just sounds like you haven’t worked in a team environment in the last 12 months. The ergonomics of doing this in pre-commit make no sense. Spin up a PR in GitHub and get Curso…

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    Comment #44465415

    Oh so exciting!!! I’ve been looking for an alternative to CARTO, their sales reps are awful and their pricing is wildly expensive and opaque.

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    Comment #42024149

    I’m a CEO, I was not given a magic ring to predict the future when I took the role, I make the best decisions I can as a totally flawed human being. Businesses have natural expansi…

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    Comment #41338412

    That’s not “scale”. That’s the opposite of scale.

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    Comment #41217876

    We have bought 200+ macbook pro’s over the years, but when the M3 air came out we started rolling that out to everyone including developers and it has been a huge success. I would …

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    Comment #38210403

    Best is to use recommended despite a few niggles you might have. Second best is shareable.

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    Comment #37235718

    How is it different to loom? Who is your customer?

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    Comment #37193634

    We call it the 3, 7, and 10 rule. 3% on payment processing, subscription management and collection. 7% on AWS. 10% on product support, account management and retention. If you’re f…

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    Comment #36710296

    This argument can be extended to anything, which suggests it might not add any value to the discussion. - You make Microsoft Excel. Someone uses Excel to leak a million people’s PI…

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    Comment #36656615

    Contrarians are so funny, everything is a hammer. A bunch of very smart bankers have spent an enormous amount of time doing due diligence on the company you work for and they think…

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    Comment #34777384

    This is very cool! We just built our own internal billing tool for our company after bad experiences with Recurly and ChargeBee. We are B2B and B2E and ChargeBee/Recurly felt very …

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    Comment #32080052

    I think you’d correctly say he bought the company but has not settled, so he does not yet own the company.

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    Comment #31213544

    Issn’t it just as likely they are tracking you to *avoid* targeting you with ads?

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    Comment #31145376

    That’ll give you visits, not uniques.

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    Comment #30524698

    Approximately 63,000 people. See https://buffer.com/revenue

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    Comment #30371862

    “How do you know if someone has disabled JavaScript? Don’t worry” the joke goes … “they’ll tell you”. There’s always someone in a browser tech thread that has to proclaim their sec…

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    Comment #29974646

    Does anyone know of a compatible ESP32 development board with a built-in microphone and frequency analyser e.g. an MSGEQ7 (for sound-reactive projects)? Here's their list of compat…

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    Comment #29950512

    Apparently triple braces signifies something is jewish, so it is even worse than first glance. What miserable lost soul …

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    Comment #28781705

    This is not true: you don't invest in something with 20% weekly swings to "maintain assets" against 1-3% inflation. You just don't.

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    Comment #24772775

    Why do people want magsafe back? The new USB-C cord pulls out of the wall if you trip over it ... and the little slot doesn’t get filled with metalic dust any more.

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    Comment #23887164

    Okay, you both made a mistake then. Your mistake does not lessen Cisco’s mistake.

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    Comment #23258144

    People don’t know what is fact and what is fiction. Giving 50/50 air time to climate scientists and climate change deniers is on one side presenting facts and on the other total bu…

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    Comment #22919818

    Because an A380 costs $432 million and you need a bunch of them to run an airline, where as a restaurant fit out is ~$1M. You also need to maintain those planes, employ staff acros…

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    Comment #22842134

    Get a piece of paper out and draw a bunch of circles on the left, and a bunch of circles on the right. This is your business team and development team respectively. Now draw lines …

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    Comment #21448270

    I'm not sure what you're understanding what the article claims - Bitfinex wasn't just increasing the price on their exchange by showing a fake price. They created money out of thin…