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Let’s Bring Etiquette to User Testing(medium.com)
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by glimcat 13y ago
I fiddle with some tutorials, get frustrated with readability / pacing / coverage of core concepts, then knock out a project or three with the help of Google, StackOverflow, and the docs for the language and any libraries that see
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by glimcat 13y ago
Ideally, I'd like to see a situation where you (1) have a contract protecting user data which is reasonably enforceable given the power dynamics which exist between the two parties, and (2) it's required for a judge to arbitrate w
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by glimcat 13y ago
Will Octopart be passing the hnsearch.com domain along to you since they plan to close the site? I ask because there are a few integrations like the DuckDuckGo bang search which should probably be updated, but only once a consistent domain
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by glimcat 13y ago
Okay, putting on my astronomer hat: The asteroid was the root cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. The direct cause was ecological collapse. To oversimplify things a bit, the impact event kicked up enough pollution to undercu
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by glimcat 13y ago
What's crazy is that enterprise pricing often comes down to, "is that one paragraph really worth $10,000+ to your business, and potentially much more than that?" If yes, pay for the enterprise pricing already. If not...stop
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by glimcat 13y ago
Always start by talking to customers.
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by glimcat 13y ago
This is really easy to automate, even without an API. And by "easy" I mean it should take around 30 minutes -- although you could take arbitrarily longer by adding a pretty web UI or reporting or whatever. The problem comes in whe
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by glimcat 13y ago
Flask: you can, but you really shouldn't, at least not for anything you plan to deploy. http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/python3/#python3-support http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/u
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by glimcat 13y ago
This is actually similar to a common approach in probabilistic modeling. Pick an initial model & set of probabilistic priors. Evaluate it with a "goodness of fit" heuristic function, then iterate & keep measuring while kee
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by glimcat 13y ago
There's caring and there's caring. Is it something you can easily and obviously do, in place, when you find links to spam & malware sites? Or do you have to know a special URL?
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by glimcat 13y ago
Specifically regarding wage fraud, try the state labor board.
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by glimcat 13y ago
Legal contracts can't require or safeguard criminal behavior. Although it never hurts to involve a lawyer, instead of relying on your own amateur interpretation of the contract and the law.
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by glimcat 13y ago
It's not a space I'd personally want to touch with a ten foot pole and a government handout. But so what? You're enjoying it, and from the sounds of it you're probably making enough that nobody involved is going to starv
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by glimcat 13y ago
Well, I could do it with a Kinect if you'd prefer. Or probably with a phone accelerometer - if you actually keep that in your pocket while you're sitting on the couch for an hour! But at some point the data has to come from somewh
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by glimcat 13y ago
Try a few and see which people you enjoy working with. You also want people who will (1) be happy paying you real money if you can reliably produce value, and (2) be more or less content to let you be the expert as long as you're on th
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by glimcat 13y ago
Why use this and not Flask-RESTful? How is the use case different? http://flask-restful.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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by glimcat 13y ago
For my particular geographical location, tech meetups are pretty much a wash. Also I usually prefer to target non-tech clients which will care about results vs. wanting to debate choice of database. Also, meetups are mainly good for random
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by glimcat 13y ago
If they're not willing to pay, you have users not customers. Are you building this for users or customers? If customers, why would you want to test and develop it against people who aren't your customer?
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by glimcat 13y ago
Have some skill where you can do X and it will cause money to happen for the client. Use existing knowledge of some narrowly specific type of business to give you intimate knowledge of the unique concerns those people have, how they talk ab
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by glimcat 13y ago
At least in the USA, it often depends on whether your PI is on the ball with regard to grant applications, or if they're getting hit by the current rash of funding problems and you end up bouncing between a series of loans and TA appoi
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by glimcat 13y ago
Targeted pitching, one at a time. Pitches are as personalized as reasonably possible (review their website, product reviews, recent news). Use what you learn from each to improve targeting & approach.
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by glimcat 13y ago
Probably used "while" instead of "for each" when matching.
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by glimcat 13y ago
It's also hard to find legal and moral justification for constructing a botnet in the first place.
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by glimcat 13y ago
> These things can make you (or at least some people) sick as a dog without a good deal of practice. I'm not sure if it's the lag, or whether it is a fundamental property of having your brain yanked from the visual environment
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by glimcat 13y ago
> Eventually we'll just jack our devices directly into our visual cortex This comes somewhere on the tech tree after "practical flying cars" and "solving world hunger." But eventually, sure, why not. > That sa
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by glimcat 13y ago
I'd say .app is probably a shoe-in. The other short ones have a pretty solid chance of seeing real use. The long ones, not so much. How popular are existing TLDs like .info or .name? Given sufficient time, maybe the others will amount
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by glimcat 13y ago
Something like this: """ I'm not currently seeking a full-time W-2 role. However, I do provide consulting in that area and I would be happy to discuss how I can help you do {{ X }} and my upcoming availability. lin
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by glimcat 13y ago
Okay, here's how you find clients. 1. Know some narrow segment of businesses well enough to have an idea what problems they're facing and how it translates to dollars, or do enough research to learn same. 2. Track down people matc
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by glimcat 13y ago
Steps to being a consultant: 1. Decide to call yourself a consultant. 2. Make it stick by doing the job. The "something" can be quite a lot of things, while "good enough" is more or less driven by "it would take one

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