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Ask HN: Anyone find it difficult to find a mentor (Product Management)?
3 points by ftrflyr 10y ago|4 comments
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Udacity Android Basics Nanodegree program have a mentor from Day 1(blog.udacity.com)
2 points by ftrflyr 10y ago|0 comments
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
Listen mate. I am not playing up an edge case here and even if I were, you are very much doing the same thing. When I pay for a service, travel frequently, and cannot use that service because of licensing restrictions due to ads, that is a
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
> Really don't need "UX designers" to tell you any of that 1.) Really? Would love for you to elaborate more. If you don't have a team trying to improve the user experience (i.e. user experience designers) then who wil
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
> We really, really tried to do it the legal way and pay money for the content we wanted to watch, but it was far too complicated to even find a place to watch it, let alone actually successfully watch it. Hey @Google, @Amazon, @etc., yo
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
Completely agree. I travel a ton. When I subscribe to Netflix and Hulu and pay them for using their services, I expect to be able to use that service wherever I go. To tell me because I am in Panama I cannot use their services makes me seri
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Comcast dismantles Net Neutrality with back door tactic(fortune.com)
2 points by ftrflyr 10y ago|1 comments
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Russia Influence Warning Letter from NSA Members(scribd.com)
5 points by ftrflyr 10y ago|1 comments
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
Does anyone else think Amazon will come sweeping in at the last moment and make an offer? Bezos already owns WP and Twitter has a significant user base of media outlets.
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
What is the core purpose of the new Self - Driving Nanodegree - to crowdsource knowledge or to graduate students funneling them into this sector? It seems like there are two uniquely different value propositions at play here and the advanta
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
No way!
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
Bring back the View-Master! I personally would never buy something that I have to strap around my head. Remember those things called helmets? Even today, it is a struggle to get both kids and adults to where them. I think these companies ar
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
This is a great question and one where you can find the answer across the internet. Your go to resource at this point should be heading over to invision app and playing around with their user testing tools they just launched. It looks like
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How Twitter Explains the Election(news.mit.edu)
2 points by ftrflyr 10y ago|0 comments
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
Sorry you had a less than desirable experience. However, rather than writing this HN post, did you quickly make the changes on your site so it displays the most relevant information you wished would have been displayed on PH? Did you test t
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Traveling while African and trying to appease the visa gods(qz.com)
5 points by ftrflyr 10y ago|0 comments
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
My first company Light Up Africa Inc., a hard tech startup, was a part of the Impact Engine in Chicago. We did not have access to 3D printing, hardware facilities, and labs to help us prototype and iterate effectively. And that is just step
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
I am talking about their recent Series F raise: https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/snapchat-series-f/
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
Devils advocate here. You overlooking quite a few things. Realistically, let's break some things down: Background: Google Glass Cost: $1,500 for early adopters (irrelevant) Cost to Manufacture: ~$100 USD Sale Price: $299 Margin: ~33%
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
Why? You need to seriously question the motives behind such a launch. IMHO: [1]Snapshot is an online multimedia application. [2]The infrastructure required to move from online to hardware requires significant investment (beyond the $1.8B th
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I am currently learning Python and this is my approach: [1] Work through Learn Python The Hard Way (both online and the book) [2] Build an AI Agent to Solve Raven's Progressive Matrices Focusing on these two th
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
You should watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ZPg6kOBkc
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
I have spent the past 10 years doing this with Engineers Without Borders and conducting independent research. My experience is similar to yours but I didn't buy a vehicle - I used busses and trains. My research in Africa was around Ene
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
> The "all poor people are personally irresponsible" argument [1] I am almost certain I did not make that argument. Rather, people are responsible for their actions - no one else. > It's pretty cold to tell the minority
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
Not sure if you have seen Milton Freidman's talks on Poverty and Equality, but I would highly recommend them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKc6esIi0_U To summarize: How free are the poor and what is the government&#
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
That is my other account. It was dead and now it isn't. I thought I was hell-banned. 10min ago, I couldn't see any alanaut posts logged in and logged out. I would like to post and have meaningful conversations with the community a
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
"A society that aims for equality before freedom, will end up with neither equality nor freedom." Laws are not meant to lift people from poverty. PEOPLE must lift themselves so far as to lift each other out of poverty. One of the
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
So what became of it? Did anything stick?
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER: Remote Seeking a full stack developer to assist with commercial web application MVP (proof of concept). Ideal Tech Stack Experience: Programming: JavaScript (Node, Angular), PHP, or Python Frameworks: Ruby, React.js, jQ
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by ftrflyr 10y ago
Never. I would though if they integrate with another platform - such as Slack. But that will never happen.

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