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by crdb 11y ago
Spot on. (Been there done that, saving your excellent comment for future "let's rewrite this" situations.) Also summarised well here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html I'd on
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by crdb 11y ago
Here's a simple counter-example. You're an e-commerce company, and in year 1, you can choose which js events/hits to track. For the sake of simplicity (and perhaps because prompted to do so by the Google Analytics tutorial) y
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by crdb 11y ago
Singapore has a great, well regulated, honest taxi industry with ample taxis just about everywhere and a plethora of ways to order them from apps to call centres and taxi queues. Yet I find myself using UberX practically all the time except
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by crdb 11y ago
Not in every country. Singapore is fine. The only riot in 40 years was over within a couple of hours as the police that was immediately sent on site outnumbered the rioters by an order of magnitude. You occasionally see panels on the road w
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by crdb 11y ago
What is important is that the rule of law and individual rights do not break down or become unequally applied. If justice and the police scale with the influx, refugees can integrate well and fast, even if their food and home practices migh
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by crdb 11y ago
> For reasons that seem baffling in retrospect, Amazon understood this long before any of its major competitors I don't think Amazon really "understood". It's more that (according to "The Everything Store",
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by crdb 11y ago
On the contrary, the software production value chain is fragmenting. On one end you have the hardcore mathematicians building things in Idris in the evenings (it's the future, right?), on the other the slick business folks with an arts
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by crdb 11y ago
I suspect another big reason is, if you're mostly a backend guy and you're building the site and can't afford someone to worry about the front end, how do you make your site responsive and mobile friendly? Bootstrap. It'
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by crdb 11y ago
Are they not different grades of the same thing, the infringement of individual rights? Note I said illegal confiscations and you removed it. This is actually a very important point, in a system that assumes the law is our best guess at p
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by crdb 11y ago
Let me clarify your position: because a. it is not a subject you care about b. it "happens quite a bit" c. in this case it helps your position which is "good" (the ivory ban) you "don't care" that the rule
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by crdb 11y ago
It is perfectly easy to distinguish: if your bow was made by a master craftsman in 1925 and has the permits to prove it (as per its $100k value it better have them), you know that the elephant wasn't killed last year by a poaching gang
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by crdb 11y ago
The analogy would work if the instruments we're talking about weren't priceless, decades-old rarities whose quality is part of the reason the musician is in demand... Also worth noting in the second case that a permit was issued a
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by crdb 11y ago
In theory they do. In practice, there's occasional issues with foreign musicians having their bows confiscated when they travel to the US (as they contain a small amount of ivory), e.g. http://www.theviolinchannel.com/i
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by crdb 11y ago
I think it's simpler than that: there's a war on between the SEO lot and Google. As SEO teams get better and better at mimicking a signal, Google needs to keep upping their game to let the valuable stuff get through without being
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by crdb 11y ago
Not as well or fast* in my experience. I keep trying the DDG features and switching when they get good enough... * in fact speed is my main gripe with DDG. After years of getting used to almost instant results, waiting a few seconds is frus
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by crdb 11y ago
I switched due to being frustrated with many Google results being SEO'ed to death. Sometimes one has to dig 3-4 pages to find a decent result. I got the feeling that if what I was searching for was commercialised, I should expect it to
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by crdb 11y ago
The one advantage of Geneva vs other Swiss cities if you are cost-conscious is you can commute across the border and live in France, where living costs diminish almost proportionally with commuting time. Ferney is perhaps half Geneva rent,
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by crdb 11y ago
My Xiaomi Mi 4i on normal mode snaps the shot when you touch the button. I discovered this accidentally by taking a series of 12 shots, expecting the normal Android screen freeze and thinking "damn, the camera app is broken", then
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by crdb 11y ago
At a guess, it's because it's a Rocket Internet company and the group generally does not like operating in the US for a variety of reasons (chief amongst which is that their business model is to execute ideas in emerging markets,
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by crdb 11y ago
Fair. I'm not familiar with US immigration beyond anecdotes from my network. From first contact to goes-through-the-door-of-your-office, how long would you say it would typically take to hire a Vietnamese or Chinese citizen into your S
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by crdb 11y ago
Whilst it is, as you hint, inappropriate to generalise whilst discussing policy due to the subject's complexity, I believe it is entirely appropriate to do so whilst discussing politics . This is because the strength of a political
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by crdb 11y ago
A fantastic graphic novel that covers these and others (such as the bell warden's third son's sajinrai [1] in vol. 4) is Lone Wolf and Cub, which was written by amateur Edo historians and effectively cemented them as legends of th
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by crdb 11y ago
Without knowing anything about OP, I could think of a probably too simplistic explanation, which is that both the perceived problem and perceived best solutions would differ and he belongs to the "other" camp. Left: "there&#x
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by crdb 11y ago
I might not have read it correctly, but I didn't spot the point where they said their J-1 was not approved - just that it was in progress (and from what I hear, months-long approval processes seem pretty common in the States). The two
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by crdb 11y ago
I've found it's more "high price bad, low price bad". Bull markets come with Malthusian predictions and really strong ones with pictures of the fuel lines in the 1970s.
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by crdb 11y ago
I wonder how many of these issues are applicable to human processes ("headcount ML"). Glue code and correction cascades pretty much describe the average corporate reporting/BI department, with layers of complex Excel-based ma
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by crdb 11y ago
FWIW I consider the Yamaha YHR-862 horns to be your pFrenchHorn: at around $3,000 not exactly ultra cheap, but a lot of players have owned one as their first double horn. Mass manufactured, good enough for orchestra playing, can take an unb
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by crdb 11y ago
I can speak only for Singapore, but banks here require very high deposits and minimum required balance if you are not a Singaporean company (at least when I asked, it was ~$50,000 - still better than UBS in Switzerland who wanted CHF 100,00
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by crdb 11y ago
I was trying to make a subtler point with the counterexamples: that focusing on the wrong KPIs lead to unintended and occasionally negative consequences. Quick example: imagine you are an IT consultant brought in to automate data manipulati
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by crdb 11y ago
Of course, but I was countering the OP's point that "If you can comfortably occupy the same amount of space for 2+ years, you're not a startup, you're a small business." I agree with pg's definition of a startu

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