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I have regained a lot of focus by using the Unread filter. I don't think it's on by default, you have to go into settings. I use it to mark the events in my day where I go to slack…

Lendio We're a two-sided marketplace for small business loans with an expanding portfolio of services related to small business finance. We've facilitated 300K small business loans…

My father-in-law holds degrees from Stanford and Harvard, and has similarly struggled to find a job as he's grown older. When I referred him to an open position at my company, his …

I wonder if all the traffic from HN every few years justifies the continued existence of these sites to the owners (unknowingly, not sure how granular they might be in their traffi…

True story -- I got hired at a startup, and sometime within my first few days we went into a team meeting. The Chief Product Officer plugs his computer in to present, and Slack is …

I feel like the email they sent is a master class in misleading. The feeling and subtext make you feel like nothing is happening or you'll be better off: > To build for the future …

Kind of goes without saying, but the flip side of having all of these tools under a single opinionated umbrella is that if any piece of it sucks, people are going to drop the whole…

Agreed. For the non-technical world forced into video-conferencing due to the pandemic, Zoom _is_ video-conferencing. It's the most well-known product to the general public, and th…

Inspired by Marty Cagan is a great book.

Fascinating. Do you suppose there are businesses that actually could keep their employees but are just throwing in the towel because their human capital will be easy to obtain afte…

Ironically, this leads me to trust the rest of the reviews on their site. Maybe they're not all fake.

Nitpick on the title used for this post: academical is not a word.

Most important question: Will you still be able to see user-submitted phrases explaining the npm acronym? (See upper left-hand corner of https://www.npmjs.com/ )

I didn't pursue the idea in any meaningful way. My idea was basically expert advice codified into a flow/tree, available on demand through a mobile app. E.g., my kid is behaving ba…

I have had basically the same idea, after feeling the problem myself as a parent of young kids. There is so much garbage on Google. Social science is always going to lack the conse…

This is a bit cynical (and borderline paranoid) but what if the reason for the rewrite was to remove privacy-violating code that was becoming a greater and greater liability? Also,…

Source for these claims?

As the father of a newborn, grateful to hear this. Do you have a source?

I understood the point to be that to do all these things well is very difficult for a single product / company. I worked at a startup where our solution was to replace five other s…

Was hoping there _weren't_ any but didn't want to verify. Thanks!

To me, saying there is nothing new about Instagram, is like saying the combustion engine is the same thing as fire. I can see what you are saying on one level, but this company and…

Yes, in some senses, but completely different in others. The availability of it to nearly everyone, and the sheer volume of content are unprecedented. It's also way more visual. Ph…

I've done all my developing on a MacBook. This makes sense now. Thanks.

Somebody fill me in. What is the strategic value to Microsoft of making their own terminal? Especially when there are apparently so many out there. Also, why are there are so many?…

Turned out our backend team just had a graphql type def that was wrong. That resulted in a nullified value, and the server logic following that treats a null value for the timestam…