Fernando Duran

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@paulg Original article, which explains why it was a take-home english.elpais.com/education/2026…

A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.

@digimobil_es Gracias, he mandado por DM los datos de la cuenta, esperando respuesta.

@fduran ¡Hola, Fernando! Sentimos mucho las molestias ocasionadas. Por favor, escríbenos por privado para verificar tu caso. ¡Un saludo!

Si fallece un familiar con cuenta en @digimobil_es , te hacen imposible recuperar la cuenta y se desentienden

Tried incognito, deleting cookies and extensions, building a new web browser from scratch and cleaning my laptop with sulfuric acid and still @Plaid gives me this screen. Support is a “choose an option unrelated to the problem” bot

@EileenTruax Es más o menos correcto

@KDimitratos As a candidate, I’ve asked the other side of the question: “imagine I’m hired and in six months I quit, what would you think are the most likely reasons?”

👩‍💼When I interview job candidates my last question is always: "If I were to hire you and 1 year from now you were unhappy here and wanted to quit -- what do you think would have had to happen to get to that point?" ➡️99% of the time they say: If my job ended up being different from the job description I was hired for or my job description changed significantly from what I was hired for The other 1% is like: arguing with coworkers, no L&D, no raises, no growth, toxic environment, not feeling heard

@SammyTourani I don’t know if “breeding” but anybody working at a startup will be more inclined to try out themselves 😀

Other than Wealthsimple, Cohere, & Shopify, what other Canadian companies are breeding founders?

@neilsuperduper Yes, need to look at the bright side.

currently bootstrapping in toronto - much lower cost of living than sf, nyc, miami - talent pool is dense - SR&ED credit (up to 40% of salary back on tax) - waterloo grads spawn nearby - sell in USD, spend in CAD

@FounderEric there’s dozens of us!

Bootstrapping a startup in Canada is hell.

@mitchellh @WilliamsonMark From helping regular (smart) people, “fill out this PDF form and email it to us” defeats 90% of users, 99% if pdf has no editable fields (super common). See also “your email attachment is too large”. Setting up a tablet for a senior person is basically impossible.

As the family IT guy its so disappointing how bad of an experience technology is for non-technical people. I had the distinct pleasure of building educational software for kids full time for a summer while in college (s/o to @WilliamsonMark), and I remember they did weekly/biweekly user testing where a group of toddlers would come in and we'd record them using the software in various states and then adjust accordingly. Every single session was SHOCKINGLY illuminating. Like, I expected after a number of these I'd empathize more and build better toddler software one-shot right? Hell fucking no. Every user study was so educational. I learned I simply can't enter the mind of a toddler. Do TV companies, Netflix/Roku/etc. do user studies with elderly people? Do they realize how dogshit and impossible to navigate their interfaces are? Asking some elderly family members to "sign up and schedule an Uber to pick you up for the airport" is like mission impossible. I thought they were exaggerating, then I tried the experience and holy shit man. Try cold finding, installing, signing up, and scheduling an Uber on a 5 year old iPhone with max font size. Its insane.

@paulg 🙋‍♂️ NPS question

If a site or app forces me to answer some unnecessary question before I can continue, I always give a wrong answer. How did you hear about us? Radio. Does anyone else do that?

@crofts Mostly agree but Orient is on par with Seiko (actually better bang for the buck imho)

Fuck it highly niche tier list for my fellow psychos out there

@utopianalien Uno más: no te puedes bañar y guardar la ropa

qué frase en español puede usarse para traducir "you cannot have the cake and eat it too"?

@FounderEric Bootstrapped 😀

How did you fund your startup? Did you have a side-hustle? Sold something creative? Writing a piece on Scrappy Startup Funding Stories. Send in yoru stories here. 👋🏻 #journorequest

@historyinmemes “Le Trou” did it first

One of the most mesmerizing moments in The Grand Budapest Hotel is the prison food inspection scene, where each meal is carefully examined for hidden contraband with precise, almost hypnotic detail.

@PeladoNerd Hmm por llevar la contraria hice: yeshello.me

Straight to nomedigashola.com

@EstebanNavarroS Mapa: Canadá es apellido único

1/12 ¿Sabías que en España y gran parte de Latinoamérica usamos dos apellidos, mientras que en la mayoría del mundo suele ser solo uno? Mira este mapa 🗺️ Hoy te cuento su origen, por qué el del padre iba primero y las curiosidades más interesantes. #Apellidos #Cultura

@UnamunoAgain “Asir” es otra divertida (primera persona singular del presente indicativo)

Todos creemos que sabemos mucho hasta que nos preguntan la 1 persona del verbo "Roer"

@CAPArgento__ Hay como tres partidos interesantes en toda la fase de grupos.

es el peor grupo de la historia de los mundiales

@FrancisRoyCA @1Casual0bserver @JJ_McCullough @Unmade333 There are dozens of us! But seriously, learn French before Spanish in Canada

@1Casual0bserver @JJ_McCullough @Unmade333 There are no Spanish-Canadians.

Everything about official bilingualism in Canada is built on myth. People can’t “just learn” a language they don’t need. Canada isn’t “built on” two equally-sized language groups. Bilingualism isn’t “necessary” to function at an elite level. It’s all just Laurentian folklore.