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by gxs 6y ago
Except you can do it if you know what you're doing. No one is saying to manage millions of records etc. But you can get more mileage out of excel than people think - and people who half understand it are the worse because they know eno
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by gxs 6y ago
It's all about the use case, man. Within its constraints excel is great. Depending on the nature of your data and exactly what you are trying to do it can accomplish quite a bit. The line between when to use excel and when to build cus
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by gxs 6y ago
And I've cleaned up after many, many shitty engineers, one example being engineers who want to use a sledge hammer to drive a finishing nail and again, that's just one example. And if you want to get personal to that level they al
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by gxs 6y ago
Not to mention the "system" solution will have to go through its own debugging and will undoubtedly have bugs in it for some time after initial release. On top of that, there is STILL room for human error as a user is still the on
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by gxs 6y ago
This is the nature of mathematics. Statements and theorems are extremely dense with information, where every word might have a it's own area of study. Of a problem may begin with something benign like, the following function is blah bl
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by gxs 6y ago
>>> If lockdowns worked as advertised, then we would not expect to see such enormous variability in the reported death rates. Quite the leap.
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by gxs 7y ago
I'm your average SV employee, not an industry-dominating CEO. To me it's a matter of getting it done - no one is going to derail or disrupt your workout at 5:30 AM by calling you to see if you want to go get a drink last minute or
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by gxs 7y ago
I wonder if he'd had means, not a lot just a few thousand dollars, he would have been able to remain free. Maybe moving completely out of the area, buying a used car cash and driving to another state entirely? Somehow getting himself i
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by gxs 8y ago
I think your comment is a lot more insightful than it might appear on the surface. Companies do a ton of market research, if there were some edge to optimizing your company’s site, I suspect there would have been 10 books on the subject by
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by gxs 8y ago
Reminds me of the popular quote: "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
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by gxs 8y ago
I work at a company of 10.5k employees. Even considering global offices, there are ~5k employees here on campus. The problem is that every single team, organization, every executive and the functions that roll up to them, are of course diff
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by gxs 8y ago
This almost made me teary eyed. Everything I've read about the guy says he was a stand up guy that put a real dent in the world. I hope his legacy lives on and his mission continues to be carried out.
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by gxs 8y ago
That may be the case for more fashion forward retailers but not all retailers worn st the same clip
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by gxs 8y ago
I know a few people in the clothes design industry and they all say manufacturing is moving out of Asia and into Africa. According to them, by next year most of their stuff will be made there. China has made a huge investment in Africa - so
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by gxs 8y ago
The word is pretty much analogy and counter analogy. See this wikipedia article that discusses it in the context of logic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy
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by gxs 8y ago
Sort of off topic - but I was a math major in college and I always had a broad, casual categorization of the types of classes I took. Linear Algebra - felt like it required you to be able to hold really long trains of thought in your head P
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by gxs 8y ago
I notice this more and more with software as well. The other day I had to double check what map app I was using because the latest google maps completely rips off the nicer elements of apple maps. More and more I develop a dislike for googl
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by gxs 8y ago
In sports they always say you should play to win, not play to not lose. I've always liked that mentality and this articles echoes that sentiment IMO.
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by gxs 8y ago
We as a crowd, as technical peeps, are really hard to please. You simply can't get it right. Track your users to oblivion? Evil, shady company. Start integrating features in your products to limit invasive tracking..it's not genui
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by gxs 8y ago
It's understood that, to paraphrase Steve, life must goes and make way for the new, but it really bums me out that we'll never know what new thing he might have done.
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by gxs 8y ago
This is a good observation and I share the sentiment. AI/ML is great at optimizing what you're currently doing. While it can also find correlations and connections that you may miss without it, it's unlikely that it will make
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by gxs 8y ago
That's quite a claim without numbers. It looks like part of the point of this post is to illuminate/explore that hypothesis. Or, is that how you're interpreting his findings?
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by gxs 8y ago
It's the flip side to preventing what they called "Tyranny of the Majority", if my freshman polisci memory from many moons ago is accurate. Imagine a scenario where the states wanted to make abortion illegal. We would want th
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by gxs 8y ago
This was me last year. After purchasing nothing but android phones, going back to the t-mobile G1, I decided enough is enough and got an iphone. Switched to the new Firefox - it's great. Feels like when I moved to chrome the first time
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by gxs 8y ago
Wow, nicely put. Provoked a lot of thought.
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by gxs 8y ago
>>>They simply are not a bad thing. Not being antagonistic hear - but your sentence reads like you meant it in absolute terms, as if they are never a good thing. That's quite a claim - can you elaborate on it? Your post gives
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by gxs 8y ago
Agree - I applaud the effort but I will stick with Vanguard for the foreseeable future.
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by gxs 8y ago
Not sure if this is a serious question, but it takes some serious cash to market products at that level. There is a reason why those brands stay in the high end price brackets over decades. It's not an accident and it's not just a
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by gxs 8y ago
I've always found this especially amusing - there are so many different ways you can interpret this.
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by gxs 8y ago
I don't think there is a right answer to this. Given enough time, it's certainly possible if not even probable. But whether that is within 20 years or 200 years is likely impossible to predict.

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