laurentb

i'm at a loss here as to why people bother installing these kinds of apps (the focus time apps overall i mean) to prevent them from doing something? if i have this on, can't i just simply kill the process through the task manager and be done with it? genuine question here...

bearing that in mind, i'm curious to understand what was the rationale from YC to have them into the W18 batch from a business/revenue standpoint?

i believe the Revolut fee takes into account the Transferwise one. i haven't used it with enough money on the revolut side of things to be able to notice anything.

just FYI, Revolut uses TransferWise underneath on a few of their currencies, so you're effectively using them both ;)

happy customer of both to be honest and would recommend both happily

what's the R word you mention? (serious question)

and about $150k is made of only 3 people being rewarded interestingly enough.

good thing it's the same here for Google data studio...

powerBI cloud has a free tier and does not require a subscription to try afaik: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

in either case, you can work with spreadsheets stored on your computer, but in any case just like Google, you'd have to upload it to work with it.

the pro version doesn't tie you to O365 either even though it uses the same platform

Deliveroo raised $100M (~£66M) back in November '15, that's $27m short but still. source: http://uk.businessinsider.com/london-startup-deliveroo-has-r...

I kinda had the same with my old samsung omnia 7 running wp7, then 7.5 then 7.8, no lags.

I currently sport the 520 (the cheapest of them all, and obviously lowest in terms of specs), and upgraded to 8.1 two days ago, incredible that every update doesn't slow things down, everything is snappy

almost all of France's carrier offer ulimited SMS as default. then comes MMS then voice.

I'd venture and propose that one of the biggest reason WhatsApp (and before that BB and why the blackberry platform had an appeal to mass consumers) worked so well is for a simple reason yet none is going to easily admit willingly:

WhatsApp lets you see if the person you texted to has read your text or not in a non intrusive way.

Also not to forget, WhatsApp started when iMessage didn't exist and Facebook messenger either, it wasn't even giving a delivery confirmation. Only BBM did, only on blackberries. And here comes WhatsApp who does the exact same thing only much simpler ("are you on whatsApp? yeah! give me your phone number, i'll add you" instead of BBM pushing their PIN system...) and it comes working for almost all platforms. when it launched, it sure worked on Blackberry and iphone.

either way, if you stick to the idea of an entirely french version, fr.reddit.com/r/football will lead you to the american football subreddit, but for a french guy they would expect soccer to be there...

It's still gread that they provided a multilingual UI, but as a whole, us companies could always use to understand the foreign market a little bit better than just providing a UI translation...

I can only imagine the nightmare of manually selecting subreddits for each languages though!

to most french people, it's the actual content being in english that isn't helping...

jeez., basically this list is all about reverting to the old stuff without really suggesting anything new both UI-wise/UX-wise or the fundamental aspect of what to expect of an OS in 2014/2015....

I'm not an expert, but the way I see it, It's kind of like having a horse competing for a race.

You can make sure the horse is physically prepared, in good shape, has been properly trained and has been thoroughly inspected for any needed medication, but you can't and won't ever be able to ensure that the horse you're caring for will 100% of the time finish the race first.

Sure, you can use some shady tactics, drugs, or anything else, but that's temporary and is bound to be corrected unless there's some stuff going on with the judges...

same goes with SEO. As a dev, you can only guarantee so much. You might hit the jackpot, you might use dirty tactics to get to the number one spot, but in the end, what you can confidently guarantee only allows any given website to be in perfect shape to be in the starting blocks. The rest is up to you.

wtf is that supposed to mean?

Somehow, I keep thinking that what we lack, is what our elders used to do back then (and I'm not just talking about our dads/mothers and grand parents here).

Whenever I read about a famous writer like Jack London or others, It seems like one of the most common traits between them is their attitude towards learning.

They exercise, read the classics of those that lived before them, but they also write (much like we do today with our blogs and such). And they write about their own self, their journey. Essentially, they were already keeping track of themselves, in order to better themselves without outside judgement.

It seems to me we kinda skipped some part and are just beginning to re learn what was common back then...

In the end, the most helpful thing you can do about your mental health is to question your own self, on paper.

Maya (the 3D animation software) has had a radial menu with a gesture feature for as long as I can remember (4.0 I think). The beauty of it is that you can just use the menu slowly, or as you get familiar with the movements of your mouse (or stylus), just draw the movements and be done with it in a matter of seconds.

I've seen a friend of mine working on a detail model 7 years ago and he wasn't even thinking what he was doing. Just naturally drawing the path to the option he wanted (and god, the maya marking menu is damn full of options and context sensitive even) and boom, job done.

The ux for a Radial Menu (or also called a Pie Menu) is incredibly intuitive and allows for beginner and power user usage.

It's gross, not net salary, in the end, it equals to a minimum wage salary =)