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by ak39 13y ago
"Viable" is a characteristic of your product such that it looks and "feels" close to the real deal (but isn't!) in the hands of the customer. (Think viable as "fakable") "Minimum" is the least am
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by ak39 13y ago
An MVP is a tool to test whether your idea has steam. The key idea about MVP is to NOT spend too much time/money before validating your product's reception with your target market. If the tool/product you're making only
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by ak39 13y ago
"The idea of MVP is your idea of the minimum set of functionality that represents a [complete] product that you want to test out to determine if you have something that's worth something to someone else ... [in a completed state].
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by ak39 13y ago
Thanks. Just a naive suggestion (will this work?): Why not introduce some sort of a 2-phase commit with the original transaction and the newly inserted one on the block-chain? So, before the block-chain transaction is committed, check the
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by ak39 13y ago
Agreed. For those interested in finding out what transaction malleability is: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-bug-guide-transaction-mallea... <quote> What is transaction malleability? It’s an attack that lets someone
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by ak39 13y ago
In my experience I've noticed that lack of discipline is related to two things (both of them subconscious). Lack of discipline strikes me when: 1. I can easily predict what the end goal of any of my current project is ... and it is l
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by ak39 13y ago
What are the main reasons why a home brewed authentication solution is considered a bad idea?
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by ak39 13y ago
Fair enough, but to what end, in your mind, could this author be attempting to exploit our empathies for?
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by ak39 13y ago
I think the point being made is that we use OOP to provide a natural abstraction of the real world to the end user. In this Towers problem: it would be like building the Towers game for an end user to play with - not solve it for the user.
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by ak39 13y ago
Yes, this is a good point. Agreed fully. There's a hint of at least two tenuous causative implications there: if you're successful, you ought to think twice before wasting time blogging (ie. blogging by the CEO adds no value to
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by ak39 13y ago
The "trick" is to get generating as soon as possible. Even moderate revenue matters - not only because moderate expenses have to be paid, but because "generating revenue" as a mindset needs to be cultivated and honed.
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by ak39 13y ago
Well, their USP (unique selling proposition) is that they are secure and that they respect your privacy. From a functional/feature point of view, F-Secure's "Dropbox" is probably identical to their competitors'. Ca
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by ak39 13y ago
>Rock star is just a label they slap onto the job description ... ... often to arouse the ego of possible candidates. I can't imagine why any recruiter wouldn't see the deliberate attempt at patronising candidates when they adv
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by ak39 13y ago
That's it. No doctors needed. I just chatted to my doctor siblings about this over lunch ... they shot this idea out the water on the premise that it is indeed gimmicky and they wouldn't use it to make any substantial changes to
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by ak39 13y ago
Mzungu means white man, surely. In Nyanja (Central Africa/Zambia) at least.
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by ak39 13y ago
Just got this: http://www.builttosell.com/ by John Warrillow. How did I hear of him? My copreneur and I were discussing the idea of giving shares to our sole employee as performance incentive. She didn't like the ide
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by ak39 13y ago
I agree. Well said. There may be a positive correlation between brilliance and assholism (I'm not advocating that we tolerate this, btw), but I'd definitely not superimpose the magnitude of that relationship for the other side&
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by ak39 13y ago
I didn't think there was anything wrong with the title but had you chosen to title it: "Reaching the Fuck It point: Experiments in Speed" perhaps folks would have realised that the message was not really about attempting to
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by ak39 13y ago
This is the single most inspiring comment on HN is a looooong time! I just love those moments in life when the absurdist in you, the one thinking of taking runs at windmills, convinces your otherwise cynical and pessimist self to STFU and &
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by ak39 13y ago
I also liked that line. Being a father of three, I can attest to the profundity of that statement. It makes me smile though. Because there is hope yet. I have found that as time passes, two things happen: 1. Your children grow into crea
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by ak39 13y ago
It actually sounds better - innocent as a verb. :-)
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by ak39 13y ago
Right. Since we are all in favour of being critical (which is all good), can we only look at some of the main points Bogdanor compiles against Chomsky which he parades them as hoaxes. This in order to see who the true hoaxer is (Chomsky o
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by ak39 13y ago
<Quote> Excellent! I always wanted to read a completely unbiased (and totally not cherry-picked and wasn't compiled by a fanatical detractor) resource on Chomsky's collected works. Clearly, this is it. </quote> We
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by ak39 13y ago
Define "Anti-American" please.
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by ak39 13y ago
I've read before that Twitter uses NoSQL (or non-relational databases) and that each tweet requires a copy to be pushed to each follower every time someone tweets (same for updates or deletes). I am of a very much traditional RDBMS m
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by ak39 13y ago
Yip, my thoughts exactly! :-( Evernote Clearly for Chrome solves the need for a login quite nicely. http://evernote.com/clearly/
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by ak39 13y ago
Also coined the term 4GL. Truly a legend.
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by ak39 13y ago
Absolutely! This sort of jingoism at corporate level, the sort of moral imperative front-facing cleverly marketed idealism is the new religion, I swear. I can understand when a company puts itself "out there" with "Being the
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by ak39 13y ago
Initial trust is always free. Candidates all compete for this initial implicitly transacted form of confidence. Then the electing public play the wait & see game. If the incumbent reneges on the promise, trust is understood to be brok
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by ak39 13y ago
False dichotomy. The problem is not Democracy vs every other non-democratic system, it's in the implementation details of the current versions. We just need to refactor Democracy Version 1.0. Far from a rewrite. And where do we begin

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