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by gmarx 10y ago
If paying customers are asking for features pay attention. If non customers suggest features, you should be extremely skeptical that implementing those features will result in sales
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by gmarx 10y ago
One of the frustrations of working under a boss with little software experience; they keep believing this
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by gmarx 10y ago
They also vary the pricing based on current supply and demand. So this implies that they automatically fix the price at a point in time for the small set of drivers who are registered with uber and 5-10 minutes away. They notify (I assume)
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by gmarx 10y ago
How is it price fixing? Wouldn't he need to conspire with Lyft and the local taxi companies?
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by gmarx 10y ago
I wonder why people assume accepting IQ implies a dystopian eugenics future. I see it as an argument for a lot of progressive policies. If everyone is in control of their mental abilities then it follows that lack of success is down to pers
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by gmarx 10y ago
That's the kind of thing laymen always say. Whenever I read reports of what the social scientists say it sounds like intelligence testing is one of the few sub fields with consistently reproducible and meaningful results. Even in this
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by gmarx 10y ago
What did it save you server-wise and how long did it take to identify and make the change? Also, did you discover this as part of a performance problem investigation or was it something you saw upfront and nipped in the bud before it became
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by gmarx 10y ago
In my work I rarely find this sort of thing relevant. It's much more important to make sure you don't have object references lying around. I mostly do server stuff now. Maybe this kind of optimization is still important for device
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by gmarx 10y ago
Says in the definition a palindrome can be a number then filters out number. Also, and most importantly, doesn't check to see if the items within the string are words. The incredibly frustrating thing about interviews is that the inter
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by gmarx 10y ago
Your statement is actually a lot of evidence that it isn't silly. They dominate AM radio has been something the liberals have been claiming as evidence against media bias for years. I'd say if the only place those people could get
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by gmarx 10y ago
Exactly. It is entirely plausible to me that this guy got screwed but as written I only made it about halfway through and couldn't even find the lines to read between.
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by gmarx 10y ago
"...Yet the fact that she had just sued her former venture capital firm for discrimination tends to prove Pao is all-in on this egalitarian thing." Is that sarcasm?
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by gmarx 10y ago
Imagine this future in Europe: pretty much no one owns a personal car. When you want to go somewhere you order a car on your phone and within 10 minutes a driverless car arrives and takes you to your detination. Your music plays through the
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by gmarx 10y ago
I watched the HBO show "Vinyl". It struck me how analogous the music industry back then is to software today. Everyone was starting a band. Everyone was pitching to A&R guys. All kinds of characters were attracted by the money
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by gmarx 10y ago
2210: Please don't learn pyrokinesis
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by gmarx 10y ago
Yep have product which was successfully used by a (arguably) customer at a high profile institution years ago . I think most people think they are very good, most people aren't, and most of the tiny minority of people who actually are
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by gmarx 10y ago
I'm in the opposite situation, technical have solved problem looking for business/sales oriented cofounder. Guess what, that's extremely difficult too.
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by gmarx 10y ago
"...I'm not worried about this in the slightest". Your brain has already begun its master plan to make you fat again
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by gmarx 10y ago
How many times have you lost and regained? I ask because I am a little older and have done that cycle multiple times. This last time I am going on a decade without periods of large weight gain. The first time you lose a lot of weight you fe
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by gmarx 10y ago
One the things I have read it is intended for (and which strikes me as a plausible use of the technology) is to read the medical literature and direct the physician to it when relevant issues arise in patient care. The example they gave was
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by gmarx 11y ago
This is pretty typical of popular press descriptions of new science and tech. Initially describe it as though it works flawlessly. Reveal flaws only later in the context of their having been dealt with. I also used to see this a lot back wh
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by gmarx 11y ago
It used to be that CEOs of large companies were not expected to make this much. Her base salary would have been typical in the old days but not the rest of it. The change occurred in the 1990s when the CEOs of companies like GM looked at th
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by gmarx 11y ago
I too found many of the facts stated difficult to relate. Every listing results in a bidding war-> prices are finally coming down?
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by gmarx 11y ago
Surprise for me at the end of the article; I went to college with the Chicago guy who sold his startup to IBM. I should be happy for the guy but all I can muster is feeling intensely bad about my own startup failures. Oddly, it felt good to
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by gmarx 11y ago
Mental exercise: Would any Uber or AirBnB transactions occur if Australia we currently as portrayed in the Mad Max movies? Why not?
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To be clear, I was never just funny. I didn't open up social interactions with wacky humor.
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Fair enough, though when I was fat people always stated this as "you just need to be confident". What people fail to understand is that it's almost impossible to fake confidence and confidence in social situations is greatly
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by gmarx 11y ago
This being the internet you may believe or ignore the following: I am a funny guy. I have been told multiple times by different people that I am the funniest person they have ever met. I have been told several times by different people in d
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by gmarx 11y ago
if you pay people more it could show up in inflation numbers and the Federal Reserve might have to stop printing so much money.
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I think Cheers was the key artifact that transitioned pop culture from begrudgingly conceding there was value in high culture to valuing itself at the same level and later above high culture. Anti-intellectualism/nerd bullying on the o

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