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by harryf 7y ago
http://www.coboloncogs.org/
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> Until this debacle I didn't realize so many people in our industry can voluntarily refrain from most basic reading comprehension. There's no discussion with people who simply refuse to read and comprehend a plain English sent
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Well it might have contributed to GDPR, which is a step in the right direction.
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Not to belittle you but the level of WTF in this comment makes me check out. If you’re serious you could start by gaining some credibility here... > This boycott and these comments are being orchestrated by Liz Fong-Jones. Do you have _a
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Check out his LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickshyu - from the projects he describes there, seems like he can back it up. And what's wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler&#
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Wow. There is so much stuff here on the borderline of dystopian nightmare, e.g. how he describes how http://work.facebook.com get's used as a popularity contest for decision making. It's almost exactly what David Egger
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> I have yet to come across a designer, engineer, or marketer that intuitively understood probability on day one. Sad but true. And it’s not even about understanding the more in depth math. It’s about having an intuition about the 80&#x2
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> Are their mobile ads better than Google's for developers? The situation may have changed but last time I worked (as a PM) with people doing mobile marketing back in 2015, Facebook App install campaigns were _massively_ better than
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This is the biggest reason. The pound has been over-valued for entire generation, making hard to export. The second biggest problem - my opinion - is the class / education system in the UK suppressed the possibility of the type of tale
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I’ve seen the application OKRs lead to positive results. But this article is very cargo-culty and makes me think OKRs are becoming the new Scrum, a hype for selling consulting and certification. In the article, there’s no evidence, just a b
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> Seriously, if you are building a google competitor, you probably need to use something other than adsense. And a reminder, adsense is a key revenue generation value add. OK but this story begins in 2006. At that time there basically wa
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Via API access you'd be effectively getting access to the index _plus_ the derivative search quality improvements _based on_ user data, even if you're not getting user data itself. That would certainly open the door to competition
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Not refuting this but I just remembered something that inspired me way back when I was an intern - the book of five rings - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Five_Rings I guess the essence of what I got from
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by harryf 7y ago
That's very nice in theory but in many situations ineffective or problematic for the person involving HR, e.g. if the person you're dealing with is your boss, if they're deliberately exploiting the system, if you're work
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I found that doesn't always work. Telling certain types of asshole directly telling them to piss off directly results in something like "I have _no idea_ what you're talking about? You're being too sensitive. And I find
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Oh and the other thing I didn't see anyone address is teaching "victims" the right Ju-Jitsu for dealing with (intentional) assholes / bullying - the mindset of don't let anyone make you a victim. I had the "goo
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> Sorting people into bins: assholes and victims, is problematic. This is true of anything subjective. There are people (intentional assholes in this article) who absolutely _are_ assholes because it gives them pleasure - their ego or ot
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What makes people successful is _focus_ not hard work. When you focus on something fully, eliminating distractions as far as possible, you have the highest chance of that thing becoming a success, depending on your capabilities, because you
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Last year there was “Rally for Rivers” aimed at addressing some of the problems India faces - https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/pr...
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Over the span of the last 10 years I've probably interviewed between 80 and 100 engineers, at some stage in the process and even ran the whole hiring process in my last company. There are points in this blog post I strongly agree with
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Basically Julian Assange is screwed. They may make a show of the trial but you can be sure he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Surprised to see no one has mentioned 3rd party APIs yet. Especially half-baked, poorly documented SAAS APis where you're left wondering whether is was designed by malice - to protect some vague business interest - or simply by incompe
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Every time I see something about Perl 6 I think this is awesome. Shame that a younger generation of programmers will never use it, because it’s not the new cool. If they renamed Perl 6 into something cool like “Liquid” or some think you fin
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The logical conclusion of this is eventually you end up with something like China's social credit system ( https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-p... ). If it has to happen, not sure which I like l
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Oh sure - short term yes this is a win for Samsung over Huawei but long term it sends a very clear message that the future of their business depends highly on Google and the winds of US foreign policy. You don't want to be the person p
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It’s possible that Google cutting off Huawei will actually backfire, because it makes having a viable alternative to Android a MUST HAVE instead of just NICE TO HAVE. Perhaps it’s possible to resurrect Blackberry 10 ( https://en.
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Discovery. From a technical point of view search doesn’t have to be centralized. Economics and the nature of markets may say different though
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True but I’d assume (at least right now) faked calledid makes up < 1% of telemarketing / scam calls. Plus the type of robocalling described in the article where they ring once and hang up wouldn’t work if you fake the callerid - you
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This problem (and telemarketing in general) is incredibly easy to solve, especially if you are Google or Apple. In fact it's almost a disgrace that they don't. Back in the day, did this with the apps for local.ch in Switzerland (
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> The Uber app was the original innovation No it wasn't. There were a ton of taxi related apps and startups before Uber and nothing about Uber's app was particularly impressive IP-wise - it's basically just distance search

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