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Marciplan··on Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
you don’t sound like a good educator
Marciplan··on Ask HN: Success stories from McKinsey (et al.)
Spoken like a true consultant
Marciplan··on A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months
it was a joke Verge
Marciplan··on 21 Years. 21 Cooking Lessons
very basic advice imo xD
Marciplan··on I made generateaninvoice.com – an invoice maker with a live editor preview
smooth!!
Marciplan··on Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them (2020)
“Wound up like some refugee in a communal space” — you really didn’t need to write that.
Marciplan··on Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
Check Apple’s refurb site :)
Marciplan··on Show HN: I made a tool to create product tutorials
This looks great. The Marketing Website can use some flair/oberall design — but the product looks stellar. Good luck w that!
Marciplan··on Tibia (1997) is one of the earliest and longest-running MMORPGs
This game was so incredibly beautiful and enforced lifelong friendships and also just a general understanding of different cultures around the world (especially because of the poor graphics; it was playable for any kind of computer). I started somewhere in 2001/2002 (I was 11 or 12) and have played it intensively to on-and-off up until I started taking my career more seriously 5 years ago. The game is like crack and I found myself returning to it every now and then and it would always make me forget about space and time.

In the early days playing this game everything was just so incredibly hard. It would just take an incredible grind to level-up and you were always wary if someone came to ruin your day for whatever reason (because if you would be ambushed and die, you would lose up to 10% of your total ex). This also made you take the game super serious and so friends would show up and help out if you did get into a fight, to try and help you. It also wasn’t abnormal to have to “mana sit”(sitting around, doing nothing but wait for your mana — your magic skill - to regain) for hours on end to be able to make runes that would let you “hunt” for half an hour (because you couldn’t buy them in stores)

I found it so incredibly rude of CipSoft (the maker of the game) that they kept “ruining” the game by, well, making it more approachable to newer generations of players (automated aiming, more ways to heal yourself, lower damage dealing to other players, outfits-and-animals, buying/selling items in Stores) but now, working in Product, I completely understand the decisions they made (it’s a business, after all).

I still miss playing this game, the old game, incredibly much and I think there is still a market for an OG versions. The last years I used to play mostly on open-source servers that tried to emulate those OG mechanics. RealOTS, one of the more succesful ones, managed to recreate that initial experience — also giving me lifelong friends again.

Man, what a beautiful game.

Marciplan··on Digital real estate and the digital housing crisis
I get that headlines like this generate clicks, but, come on, what complete nonsense
Marciplan··on Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard
Its transitory
Marciplan··on Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
I've played around with Tldraw a bit before and I just love the simplicity. The maker (@steveruiz) is also just a great human being and fun follow on Twitter :)
Marciplan··on Vscode.dev
I’m excited for it being able to, I believe, do a bit of coding on my iPad :)
Marciplan··on Tether Fined $41M for Lying About Reserves
Why aren’t you against both big banks and Tether doing it?
Marciplan··on Rivian S-1
You drank quite a lot of that kool-aid, huh
Marciplan··on ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors
A Dutch person wouldn’t be “able” to read Optiver in a Dutch way, though :p
Marciplan··on Steve Jobs in Kyoto
What makes you think SJ would appreciate what the ultra-billionaire appreciates, though? :)
Marciplan··on Robinhood to pay $70M for 'systemic supervisory failures'
This sounds like a lot but isn’t this just a tiny hiccup Robinhood had to get out of the way for their IPO?
Marciplan··on Ask HN: What's the most rewarding investment you've made in your career?
This is glorious advice to give. Thank you. Going to try to talk to my baby sister about this :)
Marciplan··on Next.js 11
Isnt that what happened to Gatsby oO
Marciplan··on What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour
Genuinely curious: why haven’t you helped him try to get these bugs and issues resolved?
Marciplan··on I Was Paralyzed by Severe Depression. Then Came Ketamine
I know you’re trying to be helpful, but please do realize everyone has a different sensitivity for addiction. Just suggesting OP should then get it elsewhere can become the opposite you’re trying to do
Marciplan··on Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (2019)
The one that immediately jumps to mind (it’s a while since I listened to it) was where they interview a Dutch MLM-guy and just report his wild stories as facts, without having spent time to have others vet it. It’s a fantastic story, but framed as a journalistic piece which it was not.
Marciplan··on Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (2019)
Haha, no, everything about OneCoin is a scam. I just don’t think the podcast is made from journalism, rather sensationalism.
Marciplan··on Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (2019)
This podcast had such insane production quality —- but also a sincerely huge lack of journalism. So. Many. Holes. In every thing they “report”.
Marciplan··on Robinhood Files S-1
I buy stocks every month (of what I can “miss”) and do that via an app. I wonder why that is “the wrong way”?
Marciplan··on Robinhood Files S-1
Why am I doing it wrong?
Marciplan··on Why has no one made a better Goodreads
Readng.co is a very good one :)
Marciplan··on Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme
I wish I understood half of your words :)
Marciplan··on Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
I am likely very dense but —- at what point does a (public) company have the fudiciary requirement to sell the company? I mean, I believe you, but I’m curious when that becomes the requirement :)
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