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by dmartinez 9y ago
I wonder if the answer to meetings is making participation more meaningful? In some MBA programs, the purpose of the class is the discussion of some case that everyone has read. In this way, you get more out of participation by listening to
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by dmartinez 9y ago
I've noticed this pattern too. I think people who manage to make it in profitable physical trades seem to have a stronger grasp on what is an illusion and what is real. Artist/bohemian collectives across the US harbor these same k
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by dmartinez 9y ago
Because people do not understand statistics. A great example of this is the Gambler's fallacy [1]. [1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy
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by dmartinez 9y ago
I like to think of this as "human random". It's easier to get along with people using this type of algorithm.
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by dmartinez 9y ago
After scanning some of the more promising subreddits, I made a few notes: /r/augmentedreality - 6K Subscribers - Demos of things people have built - Promising /r/virtualreality - 39K Subscribers - Mix of
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by dmartinez 9y ago
Agreed, it's interesting that competitive differentiation can succeed based on having the lowest UX friction. Google knows how to optimize performance, but design can trump performance in certain areas. Certainly, Amazon knows how to m
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by dmartinez 9y ago
From reading the top comments, an interesting conclusion is that messaging apps like Slack do not have drawbacks due to technical problems, but due to cultural problems. These problems can be mitigated in a work environment where you can en
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by dmartinez 9y ago
In the future, the right to anonymity is a right that will become worth fighting for.
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by dmartinez 9y ago
Wow, this was a great read. I wholeheartedly agree that very few people read source at a deep level, but your link explains why. We should read source code sometimes (maybe) to deepen an understanding of how someone might think about the pr
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by dmartinez 9y ago
I tend to think that substituting time thinking on walks is the greatest time spent during a workday. I can think much more clearly taking frequent 20-minute walks throughout the day.
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by dmartinez 10y ago
Microsoft Power BI [0] is only $10 per user per month, while Amazon Quicksight [1] is $9 per user per month. In the startup space, there is also Mode [2] which has reasonable starting pricing at $25 per user per month. I've used all th
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by dmartinez 10y ago
I was tasked with rolling out a "self-service" BI/reporting tool for all of our internal users a while ago. My company is on AWS, and at the time QuickSight was just getting ready to begin the preview period. We felt QuickSig
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by dmartinez 10y ago
The proper comparison to Amazon's offering would be Redshift. The reason you would go with Redshift over BigQuery is if your data is already in RDS, then migrating to Redshift is fairly straight forward (just whitelist the IPs in your