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by ftio 6y ago
Someone commented on a previous thread that the M1 Mac mini hadn't changed form factors despite a reduction in component size, lamenting that it had retained the same size and shape as its on-Intel predecessors. This is the reason. Dat
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by ftio 6y ago
I don't know you, but I know I'd like working with you. Spot on framing, and thanks for the clarification on breakfast — I didn't realize that was the original context for it.
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by ftio 6y ago
Tony's a genius, but it's important not to cargo cult this. "Culture-first" worked at Zappos because of the specific culture they chose to pursue, namely an intensely customer-centric one. At that point, their culture is
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by ftio 6y ago
I don’t doubt what you’re saying, but can you link to a source on this? Highly relevant to some work I’m considering, and I’ve been looking for additional data on this for a bit.
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by ftio 6y ago
As the old saying goes: You aren’t stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
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by ftio 6y ago
BINGO. Came here to write something like this — frankly surprised (and pleased) to find your comment. Thank you! A PM’s job numero uno is to MAKE THE BUSINESS SUCCESSFUL, ideally by maximizing the intersection between customer/user nee
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by ftio 6y ago
As a lifelong musician, I’ve always found this odd. I grew up playing the accordion, which comes in many different sizes. Larger ones with larger/more keys are the sort of ‘standard’ for most adult players, but there’s no requirement t
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by ftio 6y ago
I played many bad Quidditch flash games back in the day, and I enjoyed each and every one tremendously. Before the WB branding juggernaut took over, there was precious little interactive Harry Potter content online outside of the news sites
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by ftio 6y ago
Whenever I see comments about Engelbart and co focusing on their invention of the mouse, I'm reminded of a tribute[0] Bret Victor wrote about Engelbart after his passing. The NYTimes headline for Engelbart's obituary read "Do
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by ftio 6y ago
Are you claiming that, in a business setting, all people who are nice to work and talk with are manipulators? Do you think Warren Buffet is incapable of discerning the difference between an authentically pleasant, kind person and a manipula
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by ftio 6y ago
Genuine question, coming from the perspective of a city-dwelling office worker. I get the value of having a knife like this in the house (to open and break down cardboard boxes, etc). Why do you need to carry one around? Can you tell me abo
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by ftio 6y ago
Yeah, I could've been more precise about what I meant by "demo day." In my comment, I was thinking about the broader, often companywide demo days that many companies hold. I wasn't talking about intra-team demos to, say,
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by ftio 6y ago
This doesn't require that things fit into a single sprint. It just incentivizes teams to ship their work in smaller chunks. If it helps motivate a team to divide some four-sprint piece of functionality into two shippable chunks that ea
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by ftio 6y ago
Early in my career, I learned a simple 'demo day' rule: never demo things that aren't end-to-end done. When you do, it can easily confuse folks who aren't deeply involved in your project ("haven't I seen this
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by ftio 6y ago
And _why’s poignant guide! I’m still a rank amateur, but that little PDF helped me truly understand , not just memorize. Humans are wired to enjoy and remember stories. So much education is done narrativelessly and as such neglects to harn
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by ftio 6y ago
+1. Read some Saussure, Derrida, Foucault.
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by ftio 6y ago
I’d take that one step further. “Preparing, being clear in communications, and thinking about how your audience will hear the message” are critical for all presentations. I present to all kinds of audiences all the time. Yesterday it was
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by ftio 6y ago
To see this in action, check out this crappy prototype I built: https://spin.report/ Makes it easy to see how different outlets are doing their best to earn those ad dollars with different strategies (horizontal rows) and t
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by ftio 6y ago
Before I became a parent, I was always a believer in 'nurture' over 'nature'. I believed that our personalities and our behaviors were mostly shaped by upbringing and environment and very little by genetics. Now, as a pa
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by ftio 6y ago
I feel about this the same way I feel about interviewing eng, PM, and particularly sales candidates. Before you pull the trigger on investing, hiring, whatever, you should meet with candidates at least once in the way they'll be perf
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by ftio 6y ago
The only meaningful C++ program I’ve ever written was a command line animation of Christo’s gates in Central Park. I was in high school and was incredibly cynical about the whole thing, so I made an animation of a very primitive ASCII Godzi
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by ftio 6y ago
When IKEA announced the switch from Futura to Verdana, I thought they had made a mistake. I was appalled. Now, Verdana’s grown on me (although Futura is still much nicer), and I wish they’d keep it. Goes to show how critical familiarity is
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by ftio 6y ago
The Line6 Variax does this. With their digital modelers, you can set different effects for each string. Pretty wild.
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by ftio 6y ago
Could you do the reference sound beyond the range of human hearing so that you could do it continuously?
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by ftio 7y ago
I wrote a post about how to make a good, clean website on my...clean website. TL;DR: Don’t worry about it. Just write. For more: https://www.ft.io/blog/good-website/
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by ftio 7y ago
Above her station? She’s the Speaker. She’s one of the most powerful politicians in the country. She’s doing her job.
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by ftio 7y ago
This weekend I prototyped something I've wanted to make for a long time. Spin Report takes a screenshot of six different news sites at the same time every four hours. (Click one to enlarge, and use your arrow keys to navigate up/d
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Show HN: Spin Report — compare news headlines over time(spin.report)
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Nit: the blue header background took a while to load. Since there’s no `background-color` set, the white text on white background was really hard to read.
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by ftio 7y ago
I’m sure there are many ways, but I’ve done it by stitching together dozens of photos to create a panorama.

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