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Sounds like the algorithm doesn't care whether or not you liked somebody. So even for a very indifferent person liking, say 1 in 2 people you're still likely getting a nonoptimal result. And AFAIK the whole point of this app is mu
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10y ago
TJ Holowaychuk, the creator of Express.js and many, many, many other notable libraries. He left the node community a few years ago. Still a total legend though!
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10y ago
And Fidelity is at $4.95 which is the lowest for big brokerages I think https://www.fidelity.com/why-fidelity/pricing-fees
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10y ago
Try to gauge the potential deal flow. The initial interest usually comes from an already established network. Otherwise, it's an uphill battle. You don't want to quit your job just to find out you're bad at getting deals.
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10y ago
Learn to use the help commands (press "C-h ?" for a list). Apropos especially ("C-h a"). Personally, that's what got me hooked. The self-documenting was so mind-blowing to me at the time; I would spend hours just lo
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10y ago
Funny story: I was on a long-haul flight. The person next to me noticed all 3 of us were using linux and we had a laugh :)
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10y ago
100%. It's going to be hard to kill Snapchat with a clone if you don't open on the camera. Which you can't really do without ruining the experience for existing users. The only few times I used Facebook's "My day&qu
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10y ago
- Launch ticker https://www.launchticker.com/ - Other inside.com newsletters https://inside.com/ What's good about them is they're very short and concise. You'll actually read them.
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10y ago
I'll list ones that haven't been mentioned yet: -Emoji Keyboard (2016) by EmojiOne -ImprovedTube for a default x2 playback on yt -Google translate, lets you select any text and get an instant translation -Octotree, a directory tre
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10y ago
A small tip on hiring designers off Dribble et al.: Be careful of designers that put out a lot of pretty-looking designs of non-existent apps. These are not "real" projects. They don't face the same constraints an actual proj
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10y ago
You don't have to be uncertain. You could be a 100% certain. Yet as new data comes in, you might recompute for a different result. It does not imply you were uncertain at the last available dataset.
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10y ago
There's actually plenty of research on the relationship between self-talk and performance in a variety of domains. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=self-talk+performance&b...
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10y ago
I think the thesis is that most cutting-edge work is siloed in R&D departments of big players. OpenAI hopes to ensure the power of AI will be out there for any kind of organization to benefit from. Under the assumption that a more democ
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10y ago
VPNs only give you indirection. And you have to trust your VPN provider. You're just moving your trust. Now if you diversify well enough you are probably less likely to be effectively snooped on, but then you're just reinventing T
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10y ago
Everybody's on Messenger. I don't see people making many posts either. If you want to see what's going on in your friends' lives Snapchat is where it's at. I don't think they're dying anytime soon, but the
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10y ago
Would be super cool if you could pick your own ground truth data. Or predefined sets.
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10y ago
Two pure chrome extensions off top of my head that I know people pay for: https://www.vysor.io/ http://ghostforchat.com/
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10y ago
Maybe your assumption about why you got rejected is wrong. 2 places is very few. I don't think anybody ever feels great about their code. One way you can bypass that is to work on fundamental/hard stuff where getting the thing don
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10y ago
What are your other communication channels? If they're getting all the info they need from somewhere else then there's no real incentive to adopt HipChat.
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10y ago
Does he respond to text? If so you could make a bot that masquerades as mum. Or perhaps you can just settle for a half-solution that would make it much easier for mum to be issuing these commands? Like having Alexa function as an always-on
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10y ago
+1 for https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen An amazing channel. My first thought about Boxhouse was, if I've ever seen you on there! You should totally make an appearance.
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Many niche drugs have no protection, yet because of the FDA approval process, it doesn't make sense for anyone to try to compete.
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Isn't the main difference complexity and sophistication? You mostly see POC type work at conferences. What organizations can do better is integrate multiple exploits and relevant intelligence to architecture a targeted cyber weapon. Wh
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10y ago
Uber's lock-in is so soft that they ought to be paranoid about any attack on their image.
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10y ago
It's not that it's taken care of - you just don't have much choice in terms of healthcare and neither do your peers, so you end up not caring. If the local healthcare can't help you, you will pay the big money in America
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10y ago
http://ergohuman.com/ , all mesh. Perhaps the lumbar support is significant. Just so we're on the same page, that's how I'm sitting right now: https://imgur.com/a/OvYO0
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Diluting founders' equity is the least important point. A messed up cap table can make your startup uninvestable. It hurts the whole company, not just you, the founder. Which is why you mostly see these deals peddled by VCs without a t
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10y ago
Used to have all sorts of discomforts. Got a high-quality mesh chair (make sure the sitting part is a mesh too) and I swear I never had any ever since! Easily spend 14h on it everyday. I also almost always sit in a lotus-like position[0]. N
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Text for well-defined subject matter. I only like videos that discuss high-level concepts. I don't like the screencast kind. In fact, one advice I'd give to my younger self is to try not to read and watch tutorial-style content (a
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10y ago
About a gallon of coke zero so that's roughly 4 classic cups in terms of caffeine content. Never tried actual coffee, though.
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