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by erikig 7y ago
Awesome effort and thanks for sharing the ups and downs. Quick question - why aren't you guys on mobile yet?
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Feels like the current situation with millenials and baby-boomers taken to the n'th level.
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This is just history repeating itself. The same thing happened with the underlying server/architecture/processor providers. For a while it a vibrant field with multiple competitors and high margins. After a while, competition and
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Yep, it reminds me of Dutch Disease [1] in economics where countries that happen upon an enormously profitable natural resource see a decline or an inability to compete internationally in other sectors of their economy. [1] - https:/&
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by erikig 7y ago
This seems like a great use case for a variant of Boston Dynamic's Atlas robot especially given that robots ability to self balance, handle obstacles and even do parkour.
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The word for things that work even when they aren't working – e.g. escalators(english.stackexchange.com)
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The mechanics of turning are one of those things that seem simple and mundane at first but become increasingly more interesting the more you analyze them. For instance: How do trains turn if the outside wheels can't spin faster than th
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by erikig 7y ago
I agree. I just finished reading this guide on how to build a profitable side business and it is as practical as it is - eye-opening. https://www.deepsouthventures.com/build-a-side-business/
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by erikig 7y ago
While interesting, this is not surprising. One of the most commonly utilized datasets for learning ML is the Boston Housing dataset - https://www.kaggle.com/c/boston-housing In it there's a problematic feature tag
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Legal Financing Startup Legalist Raises 100m to Chase Cases It Can Win(techcrunch.com)
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TweetJobs was posted in HN the other day - https://tweetjobs.dev A good portion of the jobs are freelance/remote and pretty up to date.
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I found the rater guidelines document linked in this blog post quite insightful. Sections like how to assess the "E-A-T" rating (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) will be useful to me when writing content. https:
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Why we overthink and how to stop(forge.medium.com)
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..."The test is meant to push the plane beyond its limits. Engineers had the plane pressurized and on the ground. They loaded it up well beyond capacity and bent its wings in an extreme manner, in a way almost certain to never happen i
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Ah, good old integer rounding...
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Strangely, typing this into Google does NOT result in 42 ((-80538738812075974)^3)+(80435758145817515^3)+(12602123297335631^3)
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I completely agree but with services like Prime Wardrobe and Bombfell etc you can have a box of clothes delivered to you in 3 different sizes and return what doesn't fit.
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The looming scepter of Amazon seems to cast a very long shadow nowadays. It is beginning to feel like the bogeyman on which every company blames their current struggles.
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The truth is, every mall right now is a dead mall. Just like every mechanical watch is an inaccurate watch - it seems that most people opt to use malls primarily for emotional reasons. With Amazon and Walmart now offering next day delivery
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You would think that having a successful product with a strong user base would be enough but it seems tough to work w/Apple when you are reliant on their platform and they have a competing product as Spotify (which compete's with
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Finally. Live web clients are great - it makes it easier to reverse engineer, scrape data and build add-ons. Kudos!
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When the largest accompanying FB news headline is: "Over 400 million Facebook users' phone numbers exposed" this feels like the most poorly timed product launch.
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I love acceleration but there’s also jerk - the rate at which acceleration builds up. It is is also a factor of the torque curve.
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by erikig 7y ago
I just installed the app and I'm a fan. I have some suggestions: - Please add a "Skip Back" of 10 or 15 sec. I often zone out and miss a few sentences and the playback/progress bar isn't quite accurate in skipping b
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by erikig 7y ago
Out of curiousity, how conversational does the content sound? Is it better that the quality from HTML5 text to speech or Amazon Polly?
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I'd really love to listen to The New Yorker and The Atlantic long read articles, even the ones I've enjoyed before for their beauty or insightfulness. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/15&#x
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Apple Card Partnership Sees Goldman Sachs Lending to Subprime Borrowers(debanked.com)
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Did you ever think of dogfooding your project? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
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I threw together a quick ProductHunt profile which you should be able to update by logging in with your Twitter profile. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/crowdsourcer
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I'm not the creator but I think I can answer this. With Kickstarter you are trying to raise funds usually in exchange for a product or aesthetic cause. With Crowdsourcer you are actually trying to acquire the talent to launch a softwar

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