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by cscharenberg 12y ago
Couple things: 1. This is a rehash of the 1912 article: "Is horseless carriage technology creating stupider horse riders?" 2. As usual, the answer to an interrogative headline is "No". In this case because although the h
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
Spend more time getting and staying fit. Beyond functioning better, it really does change how people treat you and think of you. Realize that business and political acumen is a learnable skill: read the classic business/interpersonal b
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
This is a good process and works well for my company as well. Everyone does code reviews but you need 2 senior people to call it complete and check it in. The other part is encouraging them to be engineers, not "coders". Coding im
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
I get contracting and fulltime job offers all the time through it. Many are junk, but one led me to a huge raise and better job at a company I am now thriving at. Separately from that I have been contacted by several local startups inquirin
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
Same here. It profoundly widened my ideas on the universe and how to deal conceptually with its immensity in time and space. It's a beautiful story. His other books have been so-so, but his short stories are the hardest science fiction
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
I just finished an EMBA which is a slightly different target: people with 6+ years of experience aiming at upper management, so was more high-level than many MBA programs. My classmates varied from 28-50 across large and small companies in
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
The "Deep Focus" playlist on Spotify
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
It would be really interesting if a hacker found a way to harvest _new_ passwords and faked a huge data breach to get millions of people to change their passwords. Threatening fake data breaches if not paid a ransom could be the next profit
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
I searched for an exact domain I own (artsfuse.com) and it didn't find it, but it returned the .org version (artsfuse.org). Same result for "artsfuse*" Any idea how some are overlooked?
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
I am amazed at how stupid these applications are. I just signed into Conspire again (tried it a year or more ago) and it sent me an update email like this: "You are losing touch with [X] and [Y]! Email them now". You mean my mothe
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
Great! I am using Algolia and it has been phenomenal. As a total newbie to putting data into searchable format it was amazingly trivial. With their examples and just 3 hours of work I had a Django app pushing model updates into indexes and
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
I think that is the more interesting question: why don't practices get better over time at managing this? There are places I go: hair salon, doctor, the vet that are always 30 minutes behind. As a one-off that makes sense, but as a pat
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
The "Welcome" page is nothing of the sort. It should be called a "Logo Page". It doesn't welcome me or start an interaction in any way. It's by 2 comedians, so maybe I am missing a joke. Possibly I am just over
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
Snippets is a good term for it.
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
What does this mean? I looked at the page and the Github repo and still can't tell if this is some kind of small app implementing a "wishlist" which I would guess is like a todo list, or something else? Is this adding commonl
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
Interesting idea. Positive fun feedback for staying focused! A few things: the app is called Forest but the HN post title is Forrest. What is "phubbing"? I've never heard that word before and I suspect most people would not h
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
No. You have no right to use the image. Copyright doesn't distinguish personal versus commercial use, only fair use (parody) and educational use. Sorry.
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
The book Understanding Michael Porter was a good introduction to strategy for me. I used it in my EMBA program when I was struggling to grasp business strategy. That gave me a solid grounding in how to think about it and some of the basic c
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by cscharenberg 12y ago
I am building this exact thing, called ArtsMuse ( http://artsmuse.io ). It's early days yet: signing artists and getting a beta-ready system built. I have the same vision as you: using the screens in my house to show art inst
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by cscharenberg 13y ago
I think it would be interesting to have a 2048 variant where every player starts with same board and after every move, the same random next piece is given to all the people who made that move. The server would track over time how many peopl
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by cscharenberg 13y ago
Exactly. This wasn't "his company" the instant he took funding. Investors do not give out loans, they buy ownership stakes. Multiple rounds of funding will reduce the founder's ownership to a tiny share if they are not c
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by cscharenberg 14y ago
Talk to your friends working at small non-technology businesses. You will be amazed at some of the workflow problems they experience and that you could write software to fix. For example, using emailed spreadsheets to track specific data, o
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by cscharenberg 14y ago
Not giving practical How-To instructions. Reference material in itself is very slow to work with, especially with new development. Documentation needs to include real examples of different calls, and the use of multiple calls to accomplish