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by ergest 13y ago
My coworker calculated a rough estimate of $76K/minute loss in revenue, assuming a $60b annual revenue and a third of it from the amazon.com website.
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by ergest 13y ago
I was about to say the same thing! Surviorship Bias. It applies to everything you mentioned (Facebook, HN, HackADay) http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/
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by ergest 13y ago
It's be cool to build an actual steam-powered blender, but the article title is misleading (in a funny way)
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by ergest 13y ago
John Boyd fought for years to build single-purpose fighters, but the idea of one, all-purpose warplane is just too seductive. (See John Boyd's biography by Robert Coram)
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by ergest 13y ago
This is just a story but a friend of a friend who had been fed soy milk as a baby, developed all kinds of food allergies even from things like chocolate, sugar, etc. She can't eat anything!
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by ergest 13y ago
Way to be opportunistic!
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by ergest 13y ago
It's funny, we currently use ExactTarget and are working to move to SalesForce in a year
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by ergest 13y ago
I agree with the original poster. Learning C definitely allowed me to understand (and feel) the code from the inside. If you just use a Hashmap or Array without knowing how you'd do it in C, you're just playing with Lego pieces. (I also agr
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by ergest 13y ago
I learned Italian while watching Italian TV and movies with subtitles in Albanian. After a while, you pick things up without any conscious effort.
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by ergest 13y ago
Yes while I'm certainly not an expert in game theory (which is still an evolving field) my reservations with it are with the core principles of it mentioned above. If you notice an inefficiency in the marketplace, you might be able to expl
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Patterns of Strategic Thinking - How to Exploit Leverage(refactoredthinking.com)
3 points by ergest 13y ago|5 comments
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by ergest 14y ago
Updated, thanks.
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by ergest 14y ago
I don't know much about the technology of this, but I used to play with capacitors during my teenage years and if this works even half as advertised it would be truly life altering. We could have "hybrid" solutions of a capacitor combined w
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The dangers of optimization(refactoredthinking.com)
2 points by ergest 14y ago|2 comments
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by ergest 14y ago
Just copy/paste the link to a new tab. It seems they don't want HN as a referrer :)
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by ergest 14y ago
If you can optimize breakfast, you can get away with 4-5 hours of sleep but not for long. I've noticed that if I do that, the body will catch up with sleep the next day, like make you drowsy earlier. As far as breakfast, nothing beats a pro
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by ergest 14y ago
C is designed and optimized to be very close to the hardware, in fact it's called high-level assembler. You can access specific hardware features directly. C++ is the OO version of C (yes I know this is an oversimplification). Other languag
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by ergest 14y ago
Uhm performance?
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by ergest 14y ago
I'm watching the last season now. Yes there are many questions that are never answered and the timelines never get explained, but I'm still enjoying it. I found the many, multi-faceted characters to be very easy to relate to and interesting
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by ergest 14y ago
I never watched Lost when it ran and even when it ended in 2010. My friends kept pushing but I never gave it a chance until a month ago. Once I made past a few episodes, I was hooked!!
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by ergest 14y ago
Incredible find! This is my favorite quote (which hits home) "People never trust an accommodating man with important things"
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by ergest 14y ago
Be creative....Create interesting content...that's not hacking, that's common sense
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by ergest 14y ago
What a joke Google!
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by ergest 14y ago
Either it sold out in a record 2 minutes which means that they never had enough to begin with, or it hasn't become available yet.
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by ergest 14y ago
What did Color do again?
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by ergest 14y ago
Haven't you heard about the wonders of OPM?
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by ergest 14y ago
The "charge more" advice should be common sense in this day and age. I'm very surprised it doesn't get taught in college marketing 101 courses. I read a book on salesmanship published in 1929 teaching the same exact thing to salesmen and Ci
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by ergest 14y ago
Finally someone is talking about this! I've always felt that the "new" tech companies bring very little value to consumers and are thus not profitable long term (but of course the early investors and founders already made their money) The i
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by ergest 14y ago
As good of a model that this is in explaining the experience of finding "your life's work" it's useless in terms of how to get there. The best algorithm would be "keep looking until you find it, unless you stumble upon it by accident" Cal N