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by glimcat 15y ago
Maybe you don't have the data to make that determination. Maybe fries aren't profitable yet, but you're hoping to make them become so. Maybe you have to have fries on the menu even though you make more money off soda.
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by glimcat 15y ago
* Many startup acquisitions are speculated or known to be about acquiring the team rather than acquiring the product. * Consultancies are nominally the experts you call to compensate for gaps in your inside staff. * You can run a contract w
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by glimcat 15y ago
prgmr.com
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by glimcat 15y ago
Yes, but you shouldn't. Also, adapters are a couple bucks on Monoprice. Also, a "tempermental" PSU may need to be replaced before it does destructive testing of the components connected to it.
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by glimcat 15y ago
It would be interesting to run sentiment analysis on the archives of various online communities to figure out where the likely phase transition point is. Probably a PhD in it for someone.
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by glimcat 15y ago
You realize "go forth and build cool stuff" is, in many domains, about a million times easier than it was even just ten years ago?
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by glimcat 15y ago
A big part of the problem is that fraud prevention is HARD. Worse, it's prone to expensive scaling laws, and more so if you want to catch edge cases, and much more so if avoiding false positives is critical. Any PayPal successor which is su
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by glimcat 15y ago
Tweaked it a bit for better readability. Text size, spacing, width, a few colors, background texture...maybe a few other things. http://pastebin.com/DMURgDsv
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by glimcat 15y ago
Yale students - not enough coffee, or actual zombies?
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by glimcat 15y ago
Be explicit about what forms of (re)distribution are allowed instead of going for a blanket license. Where appropriate, also be explicit about what is not allowed. It shouldn't say much more than "you give us the right to use your content t
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by glimcat 15y ago
Conditions inside Amazon don't necessarily reflect the state of every business in the industry.
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by glimcat 15y ago
My only real qualm with this is whether to bill them my consulting rate or to put up with something well below the salary I would expect for ongoing stuff. But if it's short and interesting, it usually falls into "I don't care" and stays th
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by glimcat 15y ago
Premature optimization. It's not worth worrying much about what will happen when shit hits the fan if the fan isn't spinning yet. First, figure out how to get some power to the thing.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Labs, office hours, networking, research opportunities, independent study, structural constraints, etc. I love the whole movement of making lecture recordings available online for free. Ready and open access to learning has long been an ide
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by glimcat 15y ago
More important if you're going through HR. Less important if you're networking. Also, I know and know of gobs of people in CS who were educated in physics.
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by glimcat 15y ago
> Make sure to have some kind of online portfolio (github is fine), a place to write about your experiences (a simple blog), and make sure to talk about the difficulties you had (plus how you solved them). I think the critical thing is
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by glimcat 15y ago
"Death by ironic circumstances. Time of death chosen from within the allowed range such that hazards to bystanders are minimized, then such that irony is maximized, then randomly." Solving for maxima in the Law of Universal Perversity shoul
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by glimcat 15y ago
This for me is one of the hardest parts. The stereotypical obsession with "The Idea" is usually devoted to finding one which will make it magically rain money. Finding something that will keep me interested and motivated for more than a yea
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by glimcat 15y ago
If you don't have a viable product, it doesn't matter. If you have a viable product, you can sort it out.
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by glimcat 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com
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by glimcat 15y ago
Starting a company is about 1% interesting stuff, with the rest going to grunt work, marketing, meetings, etc. ad nauseum. Staying within academia is up to about 25% interesting stuff, sometimes more, with the rest going to teaching / outre
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by glimcat 15y ago
Why before what. It's usually inappropriate. For a blog, the feature I want to see is interesting or useful information presented clearly and efficiently. Adding other stuff usually just elevates the noise floor for no benefit. Ditto for un
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by glimcat 15y ago
Much of the time, the trick is to avoid tripping the primate anti-cheating instincts. "We are doing X." "Oh, okay then."
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by glimcat 15y ago
Yes. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Get it working first, then worry about whether it works well enough.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Before someone gets to the "effective autodidacticism" regime and for a not insignificant period afterwards, they are not likely to be very productive. Meanwhile, helping them make effective progress is a major time sink for more experience
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by glimcat 15y ago
Congratulations, Nest! You're officially successful enough to be sued by entrenched non-innovators who took out overly broad patents so that they would be able to milk anyone who successfully built and marketed a product. Honeywell makes da
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by glimcat 15y ago
The question was overly vague, which is why the first thing I said was "it depends on your definition." The broad estimate is on the first line.
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by glimcat 15y ago
It depends on your definition. Something like one in a couple thousand is probably reasonable, or a few million. If we're talking competent and capable of independently producing professional-grade output, you'll see another reducing factor
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by glimcat 15y ago
Feature tracking on an object which stands out clearly against the background? Using morphing filters on the segmented object? Not that innovative. Now I do like the particle trick. You see this in some video games to highlight objects of i
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by glimcat 15y ago
I think we can dismiss that as rounding error.

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