GFischer

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by GFischer 10y ago
I'm amazed with Snapchat's staying power. I was utterly bewildered by them turning down a reported 3 billion offer (and so was most everyone else), but it seems it wasn't so wrong after all. http://www.slate.com&#x
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Why I Only Watch Movies in Virtual Reality(medium.com)
3 points by GFischer 10y ago|2 comments
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by GFischer 10y ago
While I agree with your statement as-is ( Employee-less retail locations do not currently make economic sense" ), I do believe we'll see a dramatic reduction in employment in commodity retail locations (anything that sells upscale
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by GFischer 10y ago
I usually read the top comment and a few branches, then I scroll down and start reading from the bottom and upvote stuff that might have missed the cut. I scan most comments but I usually don't read discussions that have become too lon
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by GFischer 10y ago
I have one, but it isn't valued much by employers over here. They'd rather hire an experienced manager or a straight MBA. It was a very good experience though and I hope it will serve in the future. It's now being discontinue
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by GFischer 10y ago
A surprising amount of people do :( , and there have been a few very high profile cases where they're found out, like Yahoo's CEO and Uruguay's vice president. There are even cases of fake doctors. http://money.cnn
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by GFischer 10y ago
They also launched extremely cheap in South America, but they basically have no content, so they can't compete with Netflix here.
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by GFischer 10y ago
This is offset in part by reducing or eliminating transportation costs and intermediation. I was reading an interesting article about the farmer's market in my country, production is actually not the largest cost, it's less than h
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by GFischer 10y ago
The company I worked for ended up not doing it (and regretting it). It ends up not being that many people, but extremely high paid consultants (200 to 400 dollars an hour), and extremely high licensing costs. Some projects can go on for yea
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by GFischer 10y ago
No. Software at that scale is humungously expensive. I worked on quoting an insurance policy core (just the core mind you, not the extras), and for a medium-sized insurance company it would reach that amount of money. I suspect a complete r
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by GFischer 10y ago
Can confirm both - I've been writing LOB software for the financial industry in VB6 up until very recently, and stopped because I switched jobs, not because they've stopped writing them :P To be honest, VB6 is much better than som
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by GFischer 10y ago
I feel really old when I realize some of my code is almost halfway there, and the odds are it WILL reach 40 years :( You seriously underestimate inertia at financial institutions.
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by GFischer 10y ago
Second that advice. In my specific case, I had a customer very interested in using my product for a very interesting use case I hadn't thought of, and it only took one pitch (and it was basically cold calling, although we did use conne
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by GFischer 10y ago
I second that opinion. The site has a good technical explanation, but it doesn't have a "value proposition" - why should I, as a manager, buy your product? (I guess it makes calls cheaper? Is it needed for what?)
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by GFischer 10y ago
Absolutely agree with the parent comment. That said, you can look at stuff like the HN who's hiring trends, or StackOverflow trends: http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2016/... http:&#x2F
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by GFischer 10y ago
That's because single payer IS socialism. The problem is that not all socialism is bad :) . We have single-payer here in my country, and anecdotal evidence is that it works incredibly better than healthcare in the U.S. for 99% of cases
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by GFischer 10y ago
Hololens gets around the 2nd limitation, and I believe many headsets already have cameras for seeing around. I agree that the current implementation is cumbersome, but it's getting there fast. I do tend to put VR and AR together, for t
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by GFischer 10y ago
The success of the Microsoft Surface Hub shows that regular web meetings have a long way to go yet: https://convergenttechblog.com/2016/12/22/the-microsoft-surp... Comments here are enlightening: https:&#x2F
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by GFischer 10y ago
To be fair, in my city (Montevideo, Uruguay), government has made a strong effort to spend on poorer areas. The problem is, most of the money (a staggering 80%) goes to pay salaries !!! They aren't helping the poor or the rich, they&#x
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by GFischer 10y ago
The Christopher Alexander solution described in Peopleware sounds like a good compromise, having both individual and group spaces. "People cannot work effectively if their workspace is too enclosed or too exposed. A good workspace stri
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by GFischer 10y ago
I'm using Azure, with the bonus if that if you want you can apply to BizSpark and get 3 years of free software and servers. Uploading an MVP should be easy. It's an amazing service for startups, and it's gotten more Linux and
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by GFischer 10y ago
As other posters have said, you really have to know how to set up a campaign, what keywords to use, how to target, the difference between search and display, etcetera. There are all kinds of people delivering services if you want to run a r
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by GFischer 10y ago
I think the idea is to have a driverless car, with a remote-driver fallback. I don't like that option because there are no downsides for the person remotely monitoring the car (plus it has to be incredibly boring).
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by GFischer 10y ago
Devil's advocate: sometimes organizations change. A change in management can bring a bad boss (not due to "taking the wrong job offer"). I do agree that this approach seems juvenile. I've seen a few cases of bad managers
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by GFischer 10y ago
Yes, you're right :) . I was thinking of a drastically shorter timeframe in case of non-enforced patents, and maybe to be determined by a judge or jury. Say a few years at most, or maybe varying according to the field (doesn't mak
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by GFischer 10y ago
I participated in a workshop where they made groups, and each group had to come up with a really, really awful idea (based on a topic, say restaurant experience), and then a different group had to put a positive spin on it and sell it :) It
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by GFischer 10y ago
IBM's is a sad example of how the patent process is abused (although I guess I should blame the game, not the players). If said patents were filed and shelved for some time, they should hold no validity in court afterwards. Edit: that
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by GFischer 10y ago
There's a lot of friction for both buying remote work and selling. It has to be really worth the other party's time. Not everyone can be a freelancer, that's one of the points behind the theory of the firm. Technological adva
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by GFischer 10y ago
Actually, "black liquor" is usually burned, and some pulp mills are even energy-positive. The main problem is not energy, it's pollution (a huge source of controversy here in Uruguay, we have several huge pulp mills). https:
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by GFischer 10y ago
Congratulations ! It seems you built something people needed and loved :) . Your story is an inspiration to people who think they're too "green" or "new" to contribute :)

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