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721.
by cimmanom 8y ago
The problem with mocks that feel like the real thing is that the client then interprets that as the project being nearly done and doesn’t understand why you still need another $N months to build it.
722.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Sometimes because they’ve had enough of it and want to do something else with their time - be that working on a new idea or changing careers or just working for someone else and no longer having to be the one who lies awake at night wonderi
723.
by cimmanom 8y ago
This looks like an interesting tool. Please prefix the title with "Show HN:"
724.
by cimmanom 8y ago
And if you’re on a bus or subway?
725.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Yes. Startup success requires technology, of course. But what gives you the edge isn’t having the best code. It’s building quickly, finding product-market fit, and masterfully marketing a good-enough product.
726.
by cimmanom 8y ago
How much of this is due to media companies trying to eliminate analog audio and video outputs so as to better enforce DRM?
727.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Or a crowded subway car. Or a midtown NYC street at 8:45am. Argh. Apple, not everyone lives in the suburbs and uses their phones primarily at home or in personal vehicles.
728.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Won’t do you much good, though when you’re trying to charge and listen while waking or in a moving vehicle. Unless what you mean is contactless charging - which would be ... interesting ... in public spaces (street or transit).
729.
by cimmanom 8y ago
I’d agree with that. But GP’s point still stands if you specify the Midwest rather than California. In fact, that happened during the Great Depression, exacerbating hunger problems just as unemployment was peaking: a severe years-long droug
730.
by cimmanom 8y ago
They’d just be shooting themselves in the foot, because most ISPs in the US are local monopolies. Their customers wouldn’t be able to switch in order to get access to those services even if they had the will to.
731.
by cimmanom 8y ago
As a hiring manager at a small company (some of this will likely be different in Big Corporate): I would expect you to be able to build a medium sized feature independently and without supervision, knowing when and how to collaborate with y
732.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Can most schools do a better job of teaching fractions? Undoubtedly. But fractions ARE critical to math education. Not becuse we use them in everyday life. But because the same operations and techniques you use to add/subtract/mul
733.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Plus the degree goes a long way in getting you past the resume gatekeepers and into the interview room in the first place. There are a lot of places that won’t hire at all without a CS degree, and many others see it as a strong signal at en
734.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Yup. The modulo operator simply always returns the remainder after division. 5 % 6 = 5 11 % 6 = 5 12 % 6 = 0 13 % 6 = 1 837 % 6 = 3 It’s especially useful for repeating sequences: > for x in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]: print(“odd” if (x % 2
735.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Yes, it’s common. But it should be something simple - a toy app that you could build in an afternoon and that isn’t useful to the company. If it looks like something they’ll actually use in production or if it would take more than a day to
736.
by cimmanom 8y ago
I have half a mind to do this as soon as it gets big enough (as that seems to be the trend for the watch too) to use for browsing and maps. Tho... how much functionality does the watch have if you don’t pair it with a phone?
737.
by cimmanom 8y ago
There are still a few third parties selling them, and (non-factory) refurbs all over the place. Might want to grab one up now while there’s still stock.
738.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Sadly most of us would not be able to reach the top of the screen one-handed on a phone that size. Even on an iPhone 4 form factor it’d be a stretch for those of us without enormous hands.
739.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Take off the band and use it as a phone? We could all put them on chains again instead and walk around like 19thC gents with their chained pocket watches?
740.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Unless it increases GDP in the short term (higher profits) but decreases it in the long term (fewer people to consume goods and drive the economy).
741.
by cimmanom 8y ago
It’s a cost for the individual but not a cost for the corporation whose cut corners are responsible for the illness. What’s good for profits isn’t necessarily good for health, even if in the big picture and long run what’s good for health i
742.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Not to mention that it was never 100/0 even for non-homemaker work. Lots of working class and lower middle class women worked outside the home even in the imaginary golden age of the 1950s.
743.
by cimmanom 8y ago
There is value to be had from a forest other than visiting it. That includes the things we can learn from its ecosystem (e.g. antibiotics developed from jungle fungi that are going extinct); improved air quality; and impact on climate, ero
744.
by cimmanom 8y ago
How does that make it meaningless? Yes, certain segments of the population are even more underserved than others, but that’s just more evidence for the fact that we’re doing a crap job of keeping people healthy.
745.
by cimmanom 8y ago
The problem with this is the cases when you don’t remember that you (or someone else) already used this same snippet twice. In large codebases with a lot of people working on them, this can expand to dozens of copies.
746.
by cimmanom 8y ago
This article discusses German beer production and Japanese milk production as being less efficient than their equivalent industries in the US as a result of legal and cultural factors (Germans liking local beer, Japanese emphasizing freshne
747.
by cimmanom 8y ago
This is enough money that meeting with an accountant (who can advise you on how to minimize taxes, among other things) and a financial planner (who can help you think through long- and short-term investment options) is probably worth your w
748.
by cimmanom 8y ago
That one might be tough to defend as falling under the interstate commerce clause.
749.
by cimmanom 8y ago
I would spend $1k on a phone the size of the SE with a headphone jack, fingerprint unlock, 3-day battery life, a camera like the ones on the new iPhones, and internals robust enough to last 8-10 years.
750.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Yes, exactly. The point is that in a warm climate there may not be more homeless people, just more visible homeless people. NYC now shelters most of its homeless mainly because state law requires it. We’re spending a ridiculous amount of mo

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