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by MortenK 13y ago
Seems like a case of misaligned ideas of what constitutes an environment like Valve. Of course there will be a hierarchy any time humans are involved. The idea of Valve's workplace, is that the hierarchy will establish itself naturally
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by MortenK 13y ago
"But even then, if the startup is considering remote workers, this is far less appealing than a full-time, M-F, salary based employee." That depends on who is managing the remote workers :-)
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by MortenK 13y ago
If you are an IxD or UX guy, you really owe it to yourself to read "Designing interactions" by Bill Moggridge. In it, Doug Engelbart is interviewed for an entire chapter regarding how he and some other guys designed the mouse. Ver
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by MortenK 13y ago
It's definitely possible, here's a real-world example. A highly valued employee in a (relatively) small, software development house had a very varied background. He had been dabbling in tech, but really came from all sorts of manu
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by MortenK 13y ago
Many do the transition by having the former employer become the first consultancy client. There's also agencies that can help you, though this will typically get you into the role of a contractor, basically a hired temp, than of a cons
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by MortenK 13y ago
This would have a whole lot more credibility if you had actually done something yourself, rather than doing the same as everybody else, which is to say nothing at all except writing a bit of indignant text on a website.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Just data. Working with "big data" is just boring old business intelligence in 99.9% of the cases.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Very cool. Somewhat nauseating, but cool :-)
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by MortenK 13y ago
Fear mongering at its best. "Cyber-kinetic attacks", give me a break
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by MortenK 13y ago
With a metadata based file system, the metadata must describe the content in a variety of ways for content to be searchable. Problem is until computers can understand what a certain document is automatically, it's up to users to manual
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by MortenK 13y ago
That's a good observation. I didn't consider the cost of converting signups to paying customers though, as in my experience, the cost is little to non (when talking the type of SaaS products in the report). But in a scenario where there is
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by MortenK 13y ago
Really great report! It's based on 100 SaaS companies, and concludes very differently from this blog post: Requiring credit card for signup results in 50% lower retained users after 90 days.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Could be interesting to test a "block user" feature where enough blocks within a time span results in a temp or permanent ban. An inability of new accounts to post for a couple of days, might also curb the drive-by behavior.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Thing is the two strains that caused widespread panic, avian flu and swine flu, had a mortality rate equal to the standard flu. I.e it wasn't any more dangerous than what we deal with every winter season, yet people all over the globe got s
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by MortenK 13y ago
You seem to be infatuated with the notion that "video games people" are some sort of genius level software mavens, who can breathe fire and walk on water. The boring reality is that the majority of game developers, excluding outliers like C
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by MortenK 13y ago
And it's amazing how much fear a little innovation can create.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Well it is Robert Scoble. The guy is more easily excited than a puppy on adderall.
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by MortenK 13y ago
Build a basic version and see what traction / feedback you get. Don't be afraid of people ripping it off, it doesn't happen. Everybody capable of ripping off your idea will have plenty of their own, that they'd rather pursue. The people I k
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by MortenK 13y ago
You actually created an account, just to put down the op and share that you made 1300 bucks yesterday?
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by MortenK 14y ago
Those ads don't appeal to me either. But if they are aiming at a teen to mid-twenties demographic, which I'd imagine they are, it seems fairly spot-on.
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by MortenK 14y ago
I just started a customer on Smartsheet.com, it is actually more or less exactly the above. There's webforms for data submission, special column types (contact dropdown lists, checkboxes etc). It's been running for a few weeks only, but so
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by MortenK 14y ago
Agreed. R&D is notoriously hard to estimate and high-risk projects require tight risk management to allow proper progress monitoring. And yes it also depend on the organization as most organizations don't even keep records of initial vs
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by MortenK 14y ago
Past performance before a project start is the average of an organizations output in whatever estimation measurement is used (story points, function points, etc). Some of the most reliable up-front estimates are based on such past performan
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by MortenK 14y ago
True at project start, but the further you progress the more realistic the estimates will be. Half-way through, you can do much, much better than being caught with a 20% effort turning into 50% effort situation. However, if you start by doi
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by MortenK 14y ago
If you consistently have the "last 20% takes 50% of the project" situation, then your scheduling is based on wishful thinking rather than past performance. No method guarantees project success, as can be seen from plenty of failed high-prof
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by MortenK 14y ago
Or you could apply proper, professional project management methods to make sure the last 20% doesn't take half the time of the entire project.
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by MortenK 14y ago
If you are considering starting out with weight lifting and muscle training, get some proper instruction from an actual strength trainer, rather than a random CS prof. While "hacking your body" sounds appealing to CS people (work smarter no
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by MortenK 14y ago
Try this article out: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou...
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by MortenK 14y ago
If it's that easy why don't you do it? Surely a self-proclaimed 1 in a 100 programmer could bang out a product ripe for aquihire in the time it took to write all these "don't care, but still" posts?
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by MortenK 14y ago
Maybe because they like the app more than they fear identity theft.

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