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Apple iPad, Apple Pencil, and Notability App. A paper notebook, mechanical pencil, and eraser. A large whiteboard sheet pinned to wall, colored markers, and whiteboard eraser. Each has it's own use case. There is no one tool that appli
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QR Code for more details on topic along side TV News Report. QR Code at Cafe for WiFi Login. QR Code for Payment Bill
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There is no reason to use R when Excel can do the jobs. It is when Excel can’t handle the task at hand, R shines. I am well familiar with R, but for simple data manipulation, quick chart, pivot table, usually resort to a spreadsheet program
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I remember your Show HN. It is really cool what you are doing. Good luck with this project.
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Yes, it is possible. Think of total assets as annuity, annual loan as payment from annuity, and interest as management fee charged by annuity administrator. Back of the napkin calculations: Total assets $100 million Annual Expenses as Annua
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Hardware products used to be supported for 15 years, then 10 years, then 7 years, then 5 years… … Now nobody knows. I guess h/w mfr. saw what s/w vendors do wrt their products, and figured they can you do the same. SaaS is worse,
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Fully agree with your sentiment. As someone who spends significant time in four different countries, it gets pretty old quickly. Google is the most annoying one because the change language setting is not easily findable and typically at the
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Should I bet that this pivot will also fail. I will suggest you go on a road trip outside SV, talk to company HRs, small company and startup leaders, education providers, engineering student, and entry to mid level engineers. Also broaden y
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Stackexchange or subreddit specific to your problem domain.
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I got a honeycomb seat pad, I no longer get numb butt from sitting for a while. Also, an Amazon Basic single monitor arm, much easier to move monitor up and down and sideways.
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A list of books I posted in another thread: * Steve Blank’s The Startup Manual or Four Step to Epiphany. * Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook * Ryan Singer, Shape Up * Jake Knapp, Sprint * Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping * Stephen Wunker,
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My personal experience. I had Laser Eye Surgery 25 years ago. I started wearing glasses regularly about 7 years ago. Your eyesight will deteriorate with time. One of the complications from Laser Eye surgery is the change in the shape of Cor
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/r/algotrading - Trading Evolved, Andreas F. Clenow - Systematic Trading, Robert Carver - Developing & Backtesting Systematic Trading Strategies, Brian Peterson - Algorithmic Trading, Ernest P. Chan - Algorithmic Trading and D
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Checkout strategy in this book. It has a similar strategy but overlays with 200 day SMA and RSI. Larry Connors, Buy the Fear Sell the Greed
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How do you determine who is living close by? Location tracking? User provided location?
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My last boss had Feynman as his physics professor at Caltech. I had read most of Feynman non-physics books and some physics books. When he found out my interest in Feynman, we used to have interesting talk about him over lunch, mostly him t
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I agree that it disproportionately benefits Apple but alternative is free for all like Android and all responsibilities fall on end user (not possible when you have from very young users to very old users, both unsophisticated and sophisti
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Have you looked at Google play store, in comparison? Apple is still doing 100x better job. 100% cleanliness is utopia but I will take an App Store that weeds out lot of contaminated apps than every other app being contaminated in some sort
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I hope multiple App Stores don’t become a thing on iOS. The reason I like iPhone is that I am assured that apps I download from App Store are not shit and curated by Apple. Apple has vested interest to keep apps made available to be clean a
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Actually, it most probably reverse. Python, numpy, pandas, etc are cobbled together with duct tape to do what R does elegantly. There is no consistency with Python ecosystem.
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One’s who come from programming background prefer Python. The one’s who come from scientific or statistics background prefer R. IME, for production Python rules and for data exploration, graphics, stats and adhoc analysis R rules.
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You can teach someone math who already graduated with basic science degree in much shorter time than it will take to teach a math whiz to consider opinions from someone else’s point of view.
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People undervalue other people’s skills and contributions and overvalue their own skills and contributions. I notice this more and more in hiring process. Teams expecting new member to perfect fit wrt hard skills over soft skills. Frankly,
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When do you think Albedo will be available? IIRC, their satellite will not be in orbit till 2024. Did they change their business direction?
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I use LinkedIn to search for background of people and companies, and follow companies that seem to be engaged in something I may be interested in the future. In the past, I also joined groups that interested me but I found majority of them
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How do you think US built their rail network?
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Air travel, That’s how you create flyover states.
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Amtrak needs two things to succeed: - own rail tracks, - own stations and surrounding real estate One to enable punctuality and one to commercialize to fund operations. And, it all needs to be provided using government funds. No passenger t
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Look at BlockFi from end to end not what it offers to crypto holders only. Return in the form of interest to crypto holders in return for lending the value of those crypto to borrowers and earning interest from them. Offer crypto holders ch
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1. Only Accredited investors can invest in private startups. 2. Equity crowdfunding is a way around 1. but only too restrictive- limited fundraising, more disclosure, and follow-on venture/ traditional funding hard to come by. Above is

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