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by asaph 8y ago
> Most candidates don't know what the goal of our interviews are. First rule, it is not about finding an optimal solution or any solution at all. Believe this nonsense at your own peril.
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by asaph 8y ago
Network effects are valuable to users too. Are we sure we want to stifle them?
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by asaph 8y ago
And if that doesn't happen then he proposes breaking up the tech giants, which solves the problem how?
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by asaph 8y ago
> “If you put a drop of love into Twitter it seems to decay but if you put in a drop of hatred you feel it actually propagates much more strongly. And you wonder: ‘Well is that because of the way that Twitter as a medium has been built?’
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by asaph 8y ago
I don't think windows used to be more reliable. It used to crash all the time. Do you remember the blue screen of death[0]? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death
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by asaph 8y ago
I've always had a problem with the scrum concept of team velocity i.e. assigning story points to tasks and then measuring how many story points a team delivers each sprint. The idea that this yeilds any predictive power is flawed. It&#
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by asaph 8y ago
> Windows 10 is buggy. Android is buggy. iOS is buggy. Let's not pretend bugs didn't exist in the pre-agile/scrum era. Bugs have been around as long as software has been around.
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by asaph 8y ago
> ... the reality is troubling, because much of what is done is faux-agile, disregarding agile's values and principles. This is a problem with "agile" and scrum. If the process isn't working for you, it's your fa
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by asaph 8y ago
It's already public. Ticker symbol AMZN.
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by asaph 8y ago
1. Copying/pasting text on iOS is far from obvious. 2. Quitting apps completely (not having them run in a background thread)
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by asaph 8y ago
> Sears promised that a buyer with only rudimentary skills could assemble a kit home in 90 days. People used to be handier than they are today. I don't know anyone who would dare take on this project.
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by asaph 8y ago
> So in the years 1980-81, the first serial Soviet electric car was produced – over fifty cars were made in that first production run. Does 50 cars produced over a 2 year period really qualify as "mass-produced"? When Tesla mak
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by asaph 8y ago
The article talks about people's perception of whether or not they can distinguish between bots and humans on social media. A more interesting question is whether this perception is correct. Are bots actually getting better at foolin
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by asaph 8y ago
> Weird comparison since Apple has always made the lion’s share of profits from hardware. Also interesting contrast between big automakers and Tesla. I see Tesla as being in the hardware biz primarily I disagree. Tesla is hardware + soft
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by asaph 8y ago
Enhanced autopilot is now $5k up front or $6k later. It used to be $4k up front or $5k later.
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by asaph 8y ago
Full self driving capability is still available for purchase for existing long range battery Model 3 owners that didn't pay for full self driving capability up front. The cost is still $5k.
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by asaph 8y ago
This is neither the short range battery (220 miles, $35k base price) or the long range battery (310 miles, $49k base price). This is a 3rd option: mid-range battery (260 miles, $45k base price).
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by asaph 8y ago
RWD base price is $33,200 (after incentives), even less than the long quoted base price of $35k, though presumably incentives on the standard battery Model 3 (not yet available) would make the after incentives price even cheaper.
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by asaph 8y ago
How do the returns on those "index funds" compare with returns on an S&P500 index fund over the same time period?
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by asaph 8y ago
In the list of top investors at the bottom, I'm surprised to see FundersClub so high (#5 ahead of even Sequoia Capital!) and AngelList not listed.
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by asaph 8y ago
I noticed the old date too. However I don't think it's a given that PMs make more than engineers in 2018.
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by asaph 8y ago
This article is from 2016. The title should be updated to reflect that.
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by asaph 8y ago
In case anyone else wanted to quantify "huge": > “Polluted air can cause everyone to reduce their level of education by one year, which is huge,” Yale School of Public Health's Professor Xi Chen, one of the report's a
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by asaph 8y ago
> ...they decided to couple it's disclosure with shutting down the whole product. Let's not pretend the product was shut down because of this bug. Google Plus was a failed product. This security issue was just a convenient even
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by asaph 8y ago
> Just take a look at Wikipedia. There are more people on there with parents who are university professors, doctors or succesfull (sic) entrepreneurs than parents who are farmers. Even though the amount of farmers vastly outnumber the ot
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by asaph 8y ago
I kept waiting for the tech support call where someone said "Thank you for calling tech support, now please die" but it never happened. Even so, this was a really enjoyable read.
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by asaph 8y ago
You enjoyed it because the author is a great writer. I felt the same way you did. It's impressive how the story telling was so engaging while the topic is so mundane. I could see this being made into a cult-classic movie a la Office Sp
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by asaph 8y ago
> Copyright should be for 14 years + a single 14 year extension if the Human Creator is still alive to file for the extension. Where does this seemingly arbitrary number of 14 years come from?
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by asaph 8y ago
> Spaces matter! What if the data is literally " Word " vs "Word". This format makes them both the same. If leading and/or trailing whitespace are significant, you can quote the value. Problem solved. Having said
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by asaph 8y ago
>> New techniques ... may soon make the anonymity of their customers’ DNA impossible to safeguard > I strongly disagree. Can you please share why?

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