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by grueful 13y ago
Are we reading the same articles? The Python 3 support page is full of "this should work in theory, it's very under-tested, almost nobody is using it, don't blame us if you try it anyway and get rooted." They did everyth
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by grueful 13y ago
Make up a number. Double it ASAP. Then double it again. Then move to daily billing, or project-based billing if you have a lot of high-similarity work with relatively time-definite scoping. Either way, not hourly. For a developer, floor sho
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by grueful 13y ago
Books are typically quite a bit out of date if it's a rapidly progressing field. More stuff ends up in journal articles, but about a year or so behind the actual work, and at a level of detail which is often problematic to reproduce. Y
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by grueful 13y ago
Or find people who know they're doing something inefficiently, but need it done badly enough that they're doing it anyway. Ridiculously common case.
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by grueful 14y ago
New pricing strategy: the low-end tier is metered. That's also a big argument in favor of formulating seat-based pricing models as blocks as opposed to per seat. It reduces the update frequency.
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by grueful 14y ago
Failed according to you, me, and the prevailing majority of the medical community isn't equivalent to failed in the minds of the overwhelming majority of the public. The segment which believes or doesn't strongly disbelieve things like home
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by grueful 14y ago
I'm all for that. The key problem is defining it. There exist historical examples of quackery which wasn't, e.g. hand washing. Stricter rules about null hypothesis testing would be a start, but the bigger problem is one of education. We're
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by grueful 14y ago
I did this once, decided it was a dumb idea, then quoted the next guy triple. It was a good learning experience, if nothing else. The current market is drastically tilted towards the engineering talent, provided that you actually negotiate.
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by grueful 14y ago
I think one of the major turning points in the future will be to trigger a "space race" which makes a grand project of developing substantive improvements to medical care and quality of life. There have been significant improvements here mo
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by grueful 14y ago
It's also way the heck easier to get emails, provided that you give them some motivation to sign on. It's inherently a private, low-risk transaction (provided that your signaling is consistent). As to domain expertise, "well-known value-pro
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by grueful 14y ago
"Actual customers" is about as overloaded as "talking." You need people you can connect with, provide value to, extract value from - and you have to make all that into a reproducible and reasonably predictable process given all of the const
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by grueful 14y ago
It's also functional, in the "tell me three times" sense. Effective teaching tends to involve lots of repetition.
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by grueful 14y ago
Yeah, you can't just take the responses at face value. Watching five subjects in a row get to one point and then get confused is important, but they might never mention it if you just ask them directly afterwards. I've also observed talk be
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by grueful 14y ago
My experience is limited to sisters, but they played with the normal legos just as much as I did. I suspect these would have been a hit. Users care about things like color far more than engineers often suspect. If changing the color makes a
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by grueful 14y ago
My knee-jerk response to that: Do they make pink girly legos? Maybe there are reasons why that's the wrong approach, but I tend to regard interaction and packaging as two very distinct design components. If the packaging is the problem, fix
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by grueful 14y ago
I already had a leg up because I had most of my product put together. I just needed to figure out how to market it. And the first thing I learned was that my product was dead, would remain dead, and was a waste of further time and e
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by grueful 14y ago
Most consumers neither understand nor care about the spec sheet. Reasons that make sense to an engineer are alien to most of the market. They typical consumer asks for more gigahertz either as a status symbol or because something is slowing
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by grueful 14y ago
But does Google actually provide support for GCS? I'm perfectly happy paying $0.005/GB more if it means I can actually contact someone when things break.
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by grueful 14y ago
"Statistical significance is irrelevant when you’re doing customer research." There is a time and a place for carefully-written Likert surveys with control questions and large samples. Psychological research, election polling. Customer rese
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by grueful 14y ago
You know all those jobs claiming you can earn up to $big_number a week? That's their all-time record. The odds of real numbers resembling it are low.
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by grueful 14y ago
They're often on the tail of years of anxiety and depression, plus environmental stressors which aren't going to disappear through talking or medication. Sometimes you take a pill and the problem is solved. But often, it's a matter of a str
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by grueful 14y ago
Screenshots https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2111778/HN-Front-Page-Reader1.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2111778/HN-Front-Page-Reader2.jpg App store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vladocar.hn Both screenshots only show the list
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by grueful 14y ago
All I want for Photos-Are-Broken Christmas is a plugin to take a Dropbox folder and display a nicely formatted gallery on a Wordpress blog. It also wouldn't hurt if Dropbox would stop trying to wrap image links in a gallery page. Anyway, he
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by grueful 14y ago
Between your post and the site, the ONLY thing I know about it is that it's related to project management. I could maybe give more useful feedback if you gave more detail. In general, if something is almost done - finish it. If nothing else
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Everything Gets Painful & Slow as You Scale(moz.com)
4 points by grueful 14y ago|2 comments
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by grueful 14y ago
This is tangent to the idea of a "truck number" - the number of people who can be hit by a truck before your org is endangered. Orgs with a low truck number really shouldn't be offering significantly below-market compensation to critical st
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by grueful 14y ago
I disagree with some of the meta-cognition. Take the "seems like a bad idea" bit. Many of the big hits are really well-worn ideas done with better marketing, better timing, and a user experience which makes it available to new markets. Drop
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by grueful 14y ago
This is quite good, and it briefly hits a couple of the more obvious ways in which naively applying an FFT will lie to you (superposition, harmonics). If you really want to kill it, you could always come in with a learning model which accou
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by grueful 14y ago
The perks come in where situations like "I want to set up an experiment in the lab, but I want to monitor it from home so I'm not stuck there all weekend" are only slightly more difficult than Hello World. Academic classes that introduce La
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by grueful 14y ago
I use Labview. For anything reasonably complex, it is by far the slowest language I've worked in. It's still 100% worth it for its use case, and 90% of what you'd want it for is not all that complex.

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