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by gav 14y ago
When I was trying to look up an article from about the call to "redesign" hot dogs, I found this quote: "No parents can watch all of their kids 100% of the time. The best way to protect kids is to design these risks out of existence." -- Ga
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It's interesting that they list their loss rate at 0.3%. I'm sure that's pretty low compared to their customers. I've seen a lot higher in ecommerce, and for retail shrinkage is usually around 1.5%.
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One thing that made me chuckle is "Ship it fast and ship it often", which is both good advice for building software and for order fulfilment. I like Fab.com and I'm a repeat customer, but the terrible shipment times are something I use as a
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by gav 14y ago
There are also secondary benefits of Prime, they are shifting packages from ground residential, which is traditionally a low-margin business to 2nd-day air. I'd expect the increased leverage over their shippers when renegotiating rates is s
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by gav 14y ago
I have had it on my shelf since 2002; the book and the site before that have provided hours of amusement, thank you.
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As much as people like to believe that working hard and not giving up will get them through, there's other reasons: - The market wasn't there, the problem was too hard to solve, etc. - You simply weren't good enough to solve the problem. Yo
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by gav 14y ago
> "Although most software is made by teams, it is not a democratic activity. Usually, just one person is responsible for the design, and the rest of the team fills in the details." This hasn't been the case on any non-trivial project I'
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Note that open-source isn't always a shoo-in for the lowest cost solution. For any significant software investment the total cost involves: initial purchase price; hardware; installation and (data) migration; integration with existing (or n
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by gav 14y ago
As Amazon gets more and more established, the value of their affiliate program drops. They end up giving up margin for a sale they are likely to capture anyway. I predict that as time goes on, they will cut back their affiliate program. Onc
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by gav 14y ago
I wonder how much Kindle ownership and home size correlates. I was a strong proponent of owning physical books until about 2 1/2 years ago when I moved into a small Manhattan apartment. Since then I've bought about 200 e-books and about 5 p
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by gav 14y ago
I've been developing web applications for about 17 1/2 years. I've worked on a huge range of what would now be called "stacks"; everything from ASP/SqlServer to Java/Oracle to Perl/MySQL and a whole bunch in between. I even worked on "web s
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by gav 14y ago
It's yet another flawed microbenchmark. The RealBASIC version calls the inbuilt "chr" function while in C# it calls: public static char Chr(byte src) { return (System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1").GetChars(new byte[] { s
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by gav 14y ago
Not to nitpick but managing supply-chain risk is a lot more complicated than insurance. In most cases insurance is going to be more expensive than simply eating the cost of breakages, it's really something you have to protect against rare-a
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by gav 14y ago
I find the reviews themselves helpful, the scores less so. It seems that scores follow an interesting distribution, people mostly review things they love or hate. People rarely seem to want to take the time to point out something is just ok
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The new Paperwhite is $119, or $139 without ads.
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You should always submit a cover letter(rc3.org)
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My preference has been to have them periodically but spaced out, say every 3-4 months. It's also something I like to make less formal and outside the office, say over lunch. This turns it from a chore to a perk, and even if you have nothing
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In most cases you can replace "sort | uniq" with "sort -u".
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It worked for me with my existing Amazon account, but then I have a Kindle. I thought I'd test with a new account, so in an incognito window: * Went to https://read.amazon.com/ * Created a new account * Got redirected to Kindle stor
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by gav 14y ago
You can use Amazon Cloud Reader: https://read.amazon.com/ This will let you read it online. It looks like there's some offline support but I haven't tried it myself.
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The main issue I see with this philosophy is that you are pushing the responsibility for understanding the format upstream, similar to all the problems people used to have with malformed RSS feeds. If you want to have a feed of some kind th
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by gav 14y ago
There's also the 3rd option, MediumCo. You can work at a company of 40-80 or so employees and have all the benefits of working for a big company without the red tape, politics, and inertia. If you pick a good one you can pretend you are wor
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by gav 14y ago
Every time I see an article like this I want to encourage people to support the good work that City Harvest do in NYC. They save 115,000 pounds of food daily that then goes to the needy. It's a shame that there aren't similar programs acros
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I doubt in most major cities with traffic you could manage 4 deliveries/hour/truck unless your volume was big enough to have very close-by drop offs. Factor in the time taken to unload from the truck and hand off to the customer and it's ev
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It's even worse than that, the people that work for you will make their number one priority not getting fired. I've worked at a company like that before. Management worked hard on whatever problem the CEO noticed last, while doing their bes
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> The only way to compete is to sell used stuff or make your own products (or provide a marketplace for those things). The fat head (large incumbents) and the long tail (artisanal shops) will thrive, but the middle of the distribution w
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I'd also assume that the bikes cost significantly more because they want to use custom parts so that they are worthless to thieves.
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That wasn't a dig at non-technical people, more so that I've always (and seen results) from being a clear as possible. It took me a couple of seconds between reading "infinity" and realizing what you meant.
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If you are targeting non-technical people, I wonder what improvement the change from "∞ users" to "unlimited users" would be.
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You can charge the customer as long as you give them the ability to cancel for a full refund if you can't ship within the promised timeframe. The FTC enforces this rule, see "Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule"[1]. I think the legal g

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