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by gedrap 11y ago
A lot of the people are talking about how important integration and interoperability is. I agree with it, however, a lot of work has to be done to achieve it. In order to do it properly, there should be standards that major providers agree
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Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees (2010)(businessinsider.com)
7 points by gedrap 11y ago|6 comments
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by gedrap 11y ago
I just checked userify (haven't heard of it before), looks like a useful tool. What I found a bit odd is that pricing page is nowhere to be seen and it doesn't seem like userify is one of those enterprise 'request a demo&#x27
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> That's not really how it works though. First "hard" work isn't really relevant at all. Effective work, that's huge. Oh absolutely, no doubt about that. It's just that people (outside small circles
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by gedrap 11y ago
I understand the sentiment that if you work hard you should get paid a proportional amount of money. But, well, welcome to real life. There are things in life that pays the bills and others that don't, no matter how hard you work at it
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> I'll never understand why companies make such customer hostile decisions. Or, if you look it at from a different angle, it's a user friendly decision. Maybe there were enough people saying hey this $NO_NAME_CHINESE_MA
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by gedrap 11y ago
> Netflix recommendations are awful, but they do exist. That's odd, they were amazing to me for about 2-3 years :) but that's one of the things that probably varies a lot from person to person because of different preferences,
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by gedrap 11y ago
A week or two ago :) it was pretty in summer/earlier autumn when I was listening to one genre almost exclusively but I've been mixing up lately and my recent preferences got totally ignored.
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by gedrap 11y ago
Personally, I find music discovery a very interesting problem. So many variables to play with! If user listened to artist X, should we recommend more of it or would it be too much? How important are recently played songs vs long term trends
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by gedrap 11y ago
The project looks cool, however, I find using 'Spotify' in the title very very clickbaity. It's just a music streaming service + player. There's nothing wrong with that, I am not saying that the project sucks or anything
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by gedrap 11y ago
I found them to be pretty bad. Let's say I listen to genre X exclusively for two weeks, and then for genres Y and Z during week 3. The genres are completely different (lets say X - rap, Y - kpop, Z - just pop music). On week 4, I'
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by gedrap 11y ago
You touch another important issue here. >>> Do I want to tag individual expenditures? How do I want to categorize them? Friction. There are a lot of apps that might be useful but the friction is so high (a lot of manual entry, etc
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> First by moving away from the incredibly boring blog format. There is nothing wrong with the blog format per se. The problem is, as you correctly identified, crappy articles. What your examples have in common is that they provi
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> luck I believe we should define 'luck' in this context. Luck is when you write once a year and it happens to get on the front page of HN (or large subreddit, etc) and it attracts the critical mass of customers. In thi
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> I'm normally skeptical about these types of articles (every SEO website has one) but the intro is very interesting, and they hit on some fundamental issues with content marketing right off of the bat i.e. every company blo
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The Content Marketing Handbook(priceonomics.com)
291 points by gedrap 11y ago|52 comments
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Paying Everyone $70,000? It Won't Start a Revolution(bloombergview.com)
1 points by gedrap 11y ago|0 comments
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The World's Smartest Bad Investors(bloombergview.com)
1 points by gedrap 11y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 11y ago
I had it. As far as I remember, it was a reasonable phone, especially for the price tag. The hardware was working ok and most of the issues were OS-related. The USB socket broke down after a bit more than half a year, however, I dropped the
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by gedrap 11y ago
I get what you are trying to say and I was one of the NIH-sayers, it totally makes sense in some cases and looks like it made sense in your case. Great! :) I don't think anyone was saying that GA is always better, it's just more
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by gedrap 11y ago
Oh yeah, I've read about them targeting some specific countries (Spain, Brazil, Poland, etc). So it might be that the parent commentator lives elsewhere and didn't get targeted :)
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by gedrap 11y ago
ZTE was selling their ZTE Open C which came with FirefoxOS 1.3 on ebay.co.uk, that's where I bought it from. I lived in the UK at the moment but I believe they were shipping it worldwide. Checked the ebay listings again, there are a fe
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by gedrap 11y ago
The last time I checked (about a year ago), their web site said that the project is not ready for public. I bought a firefoxos device in October 2014 which came with FirefoxOS 1.3, and got to agree that it wasn't ready for public. So t
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by gedrap 11y ago
It was interesting to follow this experiment but have to admit it was against the odds since day 1 (and it's especially easy to say so in retrospective). In terms of regular users, there are tons of dirt cheap chinese no-name android d
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by gedrap 11y ago
Piwik, Snowplow, etc. They do exist. Then the question is do you really want to maintain the infrastructure required to run the analytics smoothly? Especially if your company has dozens of millions of pageviews a month and depends on the re
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by gedrap 11y ago
It's not really a rule, more like an observed behavioral pattern :) The idea is that a comment should add something meaningful - constructive discussion, sharing your personal experience with the topic being discussed. Also, as far as
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> I never quite grasp how the above isn't just a matter of intuition to anyone working in the tech sector. Google Analytics thrives on developers' laziness in my opinion. Ah, the "not invented here" syndrome!
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by gedrap 11y ago
I used to feel the same way, although I didn't get anywhere decent - quit playing after a few months. I thought I won't become anywhere near good so what's the point. But that was young me, when I would try to be really reall
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by gedrap 11y ago
Looks interesting, I will take a look :) after briefly skimming through the landing page, seems like a cool thing to add to CI process because, well, there's no reason not to automate that and hope that folks will run it from time to t
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by gedrap 11y ago
Exactly. In ideal world, semver would solve this issue really easily (probably not completely but to a large extent). However, there are so many dependencies in a typical nodejs project that I have hard time trusting that devs will follow s

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