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by colmvp 9y ago
> Demographics always win, and these flyover places are going to be ground into the dirt when the people they are hurting rise up. I used to believe this until I found people who actively vote against their own interests. For example, th
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by colmvp 9y ago
I also recommend listening to Ezra Klein's interview with Cal Newport, author of "Deep Work", a great book about the importance of focused attention on hard problems mentioned in another HN comment - http://www.sti
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by colmvp 9y ago
Sure but there's a strong intersection between a sport like basketball, and entertainment and rap/hip hop. I would imagine a much more relevant person as a board member for a survey company would be someone like Andrew Ng or Nate
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by colmvp 9y ago
I know hindsight is 20/20, but it's interesting to me that they could've created Airbnb, as they had both the reach and finances to potentially create a side-project that was specific to short-term rentals. They already had s
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by colmvp 9y ago
It's a social expectation. You can expect not to get great service at a restaurant or even have the staff ask if there was a problem if you didn't leave a tip. I don't like it, but it is what it is.
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by colmvp 9y ago
$40 is a bargain when you consider how many hours it takes for a person create an entire icon set. It's not as if illustrators are rolling in money here.
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by colmvp 9y ago
For sure. And when you consider that research is improving on the topic of guessing someones race, age, gender, emotion via facial video/stills, as well as identifying other quasi-unique features such as gestures, gait, and facial expr
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by colmvp 9y ago
Yup. Whistleblowers are severely disadvantaged. The Theranos whistleblower has had to endure about 400k in legal fees. I also recall reading a story about two police officers (can't remember the city) who tried to reveal corruption in
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by colmvp 9y ago
> There is only one recipe I know for success, particularly when we are in as much of a battle with Microsoft and the West Coast companies as we are, and that is by bringing great people with the right skills, give them the right tools,
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by colmvp 9y ago
Should also consider cost of healthcare. Health insurance and healthcare in some areas, specifically rural or remote, is extremely expensive and noncompetitive. Just like ISPs, some areas just have ONE insurer!
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by colmvp 9y ago
I know this isn't the same as people who live there, but while in SV, I met Uber/Lyft drivers who drove in from other cities in NoCal and worked 5 days a week in the Bay Area as a driver, sleeping overnight in their cars. Only on
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by colmvp 9y ago
Have you seen the job listings for data scientists in Canada? It's paltry even here in Toronto compared to parts of the U.S. like SF which have a fraction of the population. Last time I checked, when I searched Data Scientist in SF the
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by colmvp 9y ago
I feel like your last sentence fails to acknowledge the conditions that a lot of UI designers are often just one in a line of cooks. A great deal of UI designers aren't given the leeway or opportunity to make profound impacts on their
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by colmvp 9y ago
I'd say the comment should be tweaked to Westernized Chinese (for lack of a better term... maybe Cosmopolitan?). My parents refuse to try raw seafood/meat. But having grown up in North America exposed to raw salads, meat, and seaf
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by colmvp 9y ago
On the topic of small beginnings, does anyone know if PG still reads HN? I recall when I first joined the site which, wow, was a long time ago, it seemed like he was a lot more active on it.
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by colmvp 9y ago
With all due respect, it's important to know your audience. When subscribers read the New Yorker, they usually expect to have lengthy articles. There are plenty of bite sized, 30 second articles available practically everywhere on the
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by colmvp 9y ago
I think you're correct in your intuition. I recall watching a recent talk by Andrew Ng who mentioned that reading research papers is a key method in improving as deep learning specialist / data scientist, but that one should tempe
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by colmvp 9y ago
Yeah I find it annoying when high end producers complain about cheap alternatives. I'd be willing to bet the average person probably couldn't tell the difference in audio quality between a pair of sub $50 Logitech speakers and the
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by colmvp 9y ago
Almost every object in my house has some sort of component made in China. The fact that I haven't had to replace any of them in years AND that it didn't cost an arm and a leg compared to being manufactured here in my local country
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by colmvp 9y ago
The whole exclusivity element of the design industry (fashion, interactive, graphic...) has always been a source of contention with me. On the one hand, I like working as a designer on projects as I enjoy the challenges and the output. And
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by colmvp 9y ago
Lyft isn't available in a LOT of places. Not even in all the major cities in North America unlike say, Uber.
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by colmvp 9y ago
> A high profile "failure" like this also means she won't be able to get a job for awhile so you're compensating her for that. Pure speculation, but I highly doubt that someone as highly touted as Marissa Mayer will b
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by colmvp 9y ago
> Or for that matter for a 60-year-old artist or craftsperson to "still" pursue their craft. I still find it rare for 50 or 60-something designers to still be actively hands-on designing purely as a designer. At a certain poin
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by colmvp 10y ago
That true, though I think that there is a difference. Most, if not all people realize that Lyft and Uber are mostly just middlemen. That's what make it 'easy' for people looking for a part-time gig to jump in and start tempor
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by colmvp 10y ago
I look forward to the day when we start having to develop the Ghostery for preventing ads that track our identity via facial/gait recognition, and the brain and skin.
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I think it's a bit much to expect meetups, especially free ones, to explicitly teach you concrete skills that are exceptionally well done. If someone is doing it for free, then I can accept the fact that they spend considerable time pr
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by colmvp 10y ago
I think of Twitter as a personal subreddit where only people I care about submit the links or self.submissions. Subreddits are fine but they are also sometimes fraught with a subreddit specific bias that might be seriously off-putting.
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by colmvp 10y ago
Yeah if anything, I found Twitter TOO addicting. Whether you have an interest in stats, finance, basketball, politics, tech, deep learning, mathematics... you'll find an industry leader who has an active account. Writers (journalists,
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by colmvp 10y ago
I remember my friend mentioned to me she might have a mutation in the DEC2 gene ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2884988/ ) because she usually goes to bed around 2 am and wakes up at 6-7 am, and
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by colmvp 10y ago
One of the reasons why I sometimes dislike my industry (design) is it's filled with a lot of Medium posts that get highly upvoted by say, emerging or other adept designers, yet it's rare that someone will substantiate their claim

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