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Alexandre Testu

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atestu··on YC Top Companies List
Techstars is another one (Sendgrid, Marketo, Pillpack)
atestu··on “If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there'd be riots in the streets”
But the pension funds invest in businesses too
atestu··on Show HN: Noticeable – Easily keep your audience updated on what's new
In Safari 11.0.3 it's a blank page as well. Just a blue bubble in the bottom right hand corner, no console errors
atestu··on Niagara Falls without water in 1969
You're assuming they actually look at their traffic stats after all this time!
atestu··on Draggable JS – a lightweight, responsive, modern drag-and-drop library
ooooh got it, thanks. Not used to using force touch on the web.
atestu··on Draggable JS – a lightweight, responsive, modern drag-and-drop library
I'm on Safari 11.0 (macOS 10.12.6) and none of it works…
atestu··on My smartphone as a shortcut helper
I use Alfred as a Spotlight replacement and as a clipboard history manager mostly. I don't use remote because I haven't delved deeply into it like you said. It's one of those "one of these weekends when I have time" and I've been telling myself this for years at this point.
atestu··on My smartphone as a shortcut helper
This is something that Alfred has implemented quite well https://www.alfredapp.com/remote/
atestu··on Tesla seeks to raise $1.5B to fund Model 3 production
robo-journalism?
atestu··on IBM z14 mainframe
Starts at $500,000 according to WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibms-latest-line-of-mainframe-c...
atestu··on How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters
Build a reward system… reputation might be enough?
atestu··on Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari
They showed this on iOS Safari today:

> Siri now suggests searches in Safari based on what you were just reading. And when you confirm an appointment or a flight on a travel website, Siri asks if you want to add it to your calendar.

Search for "Smarter about you." on this page: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-11-preview/ Looks like it's done on the device though, End-to-end encrypted with your other devices.

atestu··on Scuttlebot peer-to-peer log store
What's the difference between scuttlebutt and scuttlebot?

From the repo…

> There are already several applications built on scuttlebot, one of the best ways to learn about secure-scuttlebutt is to poke around in these applications.

I'm very confused.

atestu··on Whatsapp: Video Calling
In whatsapp the URL is hit before you send the message, you can see the image/title/description pop up when you paste a link
atestu··on Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community
Given the local aspect of this I think it's more a craigslist killer than an ebay killer. And Craigslist is successful in part because it's not very regulated.
atestu··on Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx
Amazon will go from using many competing companies to using their own shipping service… maybe you have a different way of looking at it, but that's less competition in my book.
atestu··on Are Index Funds Eating the World?
Robo-investors offer you a portfolio of funds (could be a mix of mutual and index) run by companies like Vanguard.
atestu··on Links sent privately through Facebook Messenger can be read by anyone
That would be more worrisome given that Whatsapp is supposed to be encrypted end-to-end.
atestu··on Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Takes $1B Position in Apple
That used to be true, but he's had a stake in IBM since 2011 (which he just increased)
atestu··on Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
If you like this, you should check out http://twitter.com/internetofshit (I am not the author)
atestu··on Node.js v4 Release Timeline
On nodejs.org, it says "Current Version: v0.12.7". Can someone explain why this discussion is about "v4"? I'm missing something…
atestu··on Longevity in JavaScript Frameworks
I completely agree with you on knockout. All versions are backwards compatible, just change the version number and you can enjoy the new features, I'm very happy I went with ko over angular (of course angular does more things so it's not a fair comparison, but things I do not need).
atestu··on Infidelity site Ashley Madison hacked as attackers demand total shutdown
You still have to put a photo of yourself though! (I'm guessing?)
atestu··on How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News
Why doesn't she just subscribe to a newspaper? The main reason her experience is so bad is she's getting her news for "free" (paying with her accidental clicks).
atestu··on How to get actionable leads from Twitter in real time
Did you actually do it? It did take me less than 5 minutes.
atestu··on Snapchat Said to Seek Up to $19B Value in Funding Round
You mean like Facebook?

EDIT: Facebook 2004 to 2009 for a $10B valuation, Snapchat 2011 to 2014 for the same valuation.

atestu··on A Y Combinator Company Copied Our Design and Data Viz: We've Arrived
Hey I made the CB Insights design. I completely agree the viz is standard (the treemap was my first d3 viz actually!). A lot of people are stopping at the charts and saying "well it's just a bar chart and a treemap, get over it!"

To me the fact that the entire layout outside of the chart, even the copy is exactly the same is the main offense. Even the table below the chart (when you click to see the data) is exactly the same. It would have taken them 20 minutes to just shuffle things around, but no they just replicated it.

We put a lot of time in figuring out the best way to present information so that users don't actually have to spend a lot of time to get answers. They skipped that part and stole our work.

atestu··on Photos Preview
I agree. I'm a lot more comfortable being charged (and the new pricing for iCloud storage is pretty reasonable). For comparison Dropbox only gives you 2GB free.
atestu··on JavaScript in 2015
gotcha, thanks!
atestu··on JavaScript in 2015
What is the difference between this and require.js for loading modules? I feel like I'm missing something
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