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by Lewisham 12y ago
This is needlessly reductive and misses the point: the issue isn't saturation, the issue is that OP hasn't identified the USP of the product. Zuck knew full well that the USP of The Facebook was helping students get laid (or at le
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What Color Is the Dress?(galaxykate.com)
1 points by Lewisham 12y ago|0 comments
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by Lewisham 12y ago
One thing that this article doesn't mention is that Mountain View is soul-crushingly boring. It would be one thing if it was a place of character and interest that was being eroded (I can sympathize with some elements of the SF communi
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by Lewisham 12y ago
Because Congress never votes for a reform of tax codes because the lobbying from Intuit and HR Block et al is too strong, while there's no lobby for the populace at large to say "This sucks."
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by Lewisham 12y ago
I can't help but think that between this and the Android Visual Studio integration, we might see Android app compatibility on Windows Phone, much like the Blackberry app play a couple years ago. It would certainly put the jumper cables
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by Lewisham 12y ago
This article does a very poor job at elucidating exactly why Horvitz thinks AI will be a benign thing, and the source material doesn't make much of it either. The headline doesn't match the content. I personally subscribe to The M
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by Lewisham 12y ago
It's not clear he/she didn't notify a secondary person, who would have likely had the same knowledge he/she did. Given the same knowledge, the same push might well have happened.
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by Lewisham 12y ago
A true root cause would go deeper and ask why is it that an engineer could solely decide to roll out to all slices? Because writing code which contains a large number of checks and balances is generally orders of magnitude more expensive
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by Lewisham 12y ago
Yes, this. I have my @google.com address, and my @gmail.com address.
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by Lewisham 12y ago
Read state shouldn't be overloaded with "still to ToDo", otherwise you don't really know how many ToDo items you have vs those you haven't triaged yet.
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by Lewisham 12y ago
You'll still have to go in and out accounts as you do now, but Gmails "Send As" feature came over, so that might help?
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by Lewisham 12y ago
I'm not a PM so I can't speak to the decision itself, but I don't think grafting on the Inbox workflow to the Gmail interface would have worked out. It would have made both of them very muddled, and given the impression Inbox
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by Lewisham 12y ago
I've been using Inbox at El Goog for a while now, and I am happy to answer questions (in between dealing with a newborn...) FWIW, I really like it, and use it exclusively for my work and personal accounts. Inbox functions very much mor
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by Lewisham 12y ago
Google's track record of interacting directly with developers is really good: public issue trackers, public mailing lists, monitored Stack Overflow tags... What track record are you speaking of? What could devrel be doing better? Discl
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by Lewisham 12y ago
I'm an engineer on Cloud SQL. Support is much, much different from the wider Google reputation in Cloud[1]. We have a long leash to talk directly to people, and we do: Cloud SQL team, at least, monitors the google-cloud-sql tag on Stac
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by Lewisham 12y ago
I do believe there is something here. I know Grahame Devine from the Santa Cruz circuit and met him a couple of times. He was serious about his one-man band independent iOS development, and he seemed very happy about staying in Santa Cruz.
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by Lewisham 12y ago
If we take "diversity is better for tech companies" as a truism (which I would), then all this means is that part of the hiring budget should go to increasing the pipeline by getting diversity candidates interested in CS when they
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by Lewisham 12y ago
No, not really. They pay about market in Silicon Valley. I believe Apple pays more, for example.
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by Lewisham 12y ago
I personally haven't found the paycut from Industry to Academia to be as minimal as he implies, at least in Computer Science. I am making easily twice as much working for Google as I could have hoped for landing a tenure-track position
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by Lewisham 12y ago
Yeah, I'd quite like an `or die;` equivalent, as I've run into the same thing as you: scripts that can't do anything if the chain of commands fails anywhere. I have written functions that do the same thing: xOrDie(), but it&#
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by Lewisham 12y ago
I would guess it is the `if err` lines and other such gofmt artifacts that expand the LOC. Go is higher-level, but it's not terse. It's deliberately pretty explicit. IMHO 100 lines of Go might well do the same as 100 lines of C, b
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by Lewisham 12y ago
It's going to be a selection bias of: 1. People who are fit (or want to be) 2. People who are technical (or are interested in quantified life in general) Technical people who commute from SC to Silicon Valley have far less bus options
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by Lewisham 12y ago
So there is evidence that people will go looking for intrinsic motivation. The famous example is that of a car builder as described in relation to Flow Theory [1], where this guy on an assembly line would try and make a game out of his smal
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by Lewisham 12y ago
So I have some experience in this, having researched gamification quite heavily as part of my PhD thesis [1]. Note that I am going to talk about gamification as described by Zichermann and as used in this article, not about "gameful in
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by Lewisham 12y ago
I wish I remembered where the study was now, but I remember reading one which said that girls were naturally curious about STEM careers, up to around 12, when it starts to tail off dramatically. The theory was that societal issues begin to
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by Lewisham 12y ago
It worked gangbusters for T-Mo last time, and let them buy up a whole bunch of spectrum, so fingers crossed it happens again.
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by Lewisham 12y ago
After weeks of public outcry over the proposal, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the agency would not allow for unfair, or "commercially unreasonable," business practices. He wouldn't accept, for instance, practices that leave
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Show HN: Irresistible Apps – Motivational Design Patterns(amazon.com)
1 points by Lewisham 12y ago|0 comments
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by Lewisham 12y ago
Having lived in NZ for a couple of years working at Victoria University of Wellington, the other piece of the puzzle is NZ suffers from crippling brain drain: their best and brightest students immediately head over to Australia where they c
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by Lewisham 12y ago
For me, the Chromebook killer feature is that it's not got any state: if I borrow someone else's Chromebook, or demolish my own and get a new one, everything I have is back again. I am sick and tired of having to worry about backu

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