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by heliodor 8y ago
> Use Blinkist Visited their website. Pricing: give us your credit card for the free trial, cancel within 7 days, or we'll charge you $90 for a one-year subscription. (Oh, sorry, I meant $89.99)
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by heliodor 8y ago
Would you say the extroversion or introversion of the population is normally distributed, with most people in the middle of the range, and a few on the extremes? If so, how do you reconcile that with the Myers-Briggs approach of binning peo
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by heliodor 8y ago
First, use Segment.com. Send the data to GA and to any other analytics you like more than GA. For example, I'm not at scale with my own product, so I really like using Clicky day to day. GA has people locked in because it's the on
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by heliodor 8y ago
Separate the two concerns: 1) UI/UX need to be updated. 2) Should we turn our backend into an SPA? They are independent of each other. You can do them at separate times in different chronological order or at the same time. Your custome
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Ask HN: Does Facebook login make sense on a SaaS product?
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by heliodor 8y ago
Hah, interesting point. Research says to use descending order. Look up "anchoring". It's been researched a lot by a lot of people. At the end of the day, "jarring" doesn't matter. Does it convert better is the
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by heliodor 8y ago
Agreed. The writing style, formatting, design, and so on, of that blog post contain a handful of symptoms of potentially major problems in the way he went about building the business.
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by heliodor 8y ago
The paper is written in that style, which is why I brought it up. I'm sure it's used in countries other than the US too, I just don't know the details. My point was that his communication would be more effective if he did not
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by heliodor 8y ago
The standard academic essay style in the United States is: 1) An intro starting what you want to discuss or accomplish 2) The body, or details 3) The conclusion, or summary Effective communication starts with a brief explanation of your con
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by heliodor 8y ago
Reading the abstract reminded me that so many people don't understand effective communication. The academic essay style is a travesty of global proportions. Effective communication would start with the conclusion section, then the body
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by heliodor 8y ago
Analogy: when people are deadly allergic to peanuts, they make very very sure the food they buy doesn't contain peanuts before buying it. If they can't get an answer, they go buy food from someone who can answer their question.
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by heliodor 9y ago
Easy? Fine. But it's still a huge waste of time on a global scale compared to phonetic languages, when you consider how many people have to learn French, English, etc.
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by heliodor 9y ago
Well, the measuring stick is not English. Is it Latin? Which version? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet Or is it all modern non-Cyrillic letters used in Europe that don't have diacritics? In any cas
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by heliodor 9y ago
> "it's mostly a problem caused by the sheer population density" That might seem like the obvious reason, but it's not the case at all. Read up on the NYC subway and its recent problems and their causes. Politicians u
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by heliodor 9y ago
I'm finding it hard to believe the wording on this crucial sentence was so misleading by accident. Upon first reading it, the wording seemed a little off and seemed to me that the two statements should have been two separate sentences
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by heliodor 9y ago
My interpretation is that most startups don't deal with life-or-death lines of work, whereas Theranos does. There's no room for "creative" business practices there. The government will take note at some point and come
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by heliodor 9y ago
No better solution? I disagree. Without getting creative, how about repeating the Australia experiment, for starters? That turned out pretty well for the world. The US has a lot of land. Take some of it that few people want (Alaska, Rockies
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by heliodor 9y ago
If a lot of people are buying USDT with BTC, it means they don't have confidence in BTC going further up and want out in order to wait for the price drop, so that they can buy in later , assuming the price will drop as expected by them
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by heliodor 9y ago
OP is onto something. While there's nothing wrong with a long article, structure becomes important. The argument structure, choice of headlines, first sentence of each paragraph, paragraph length, etc, make all the difference between k
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by heliodor 9y ago
The way it works is that the user "whoishiring" posts three threads monthly: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
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by heliodor 9y ago
If you care about the little guy (workers as well as companies), If you believe having options is a good thing, Go to the freelancer thread and upvote that one too so that it can make it to the front page. Work shouldn't be a one-size-
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by heliodor 9y ago
I think a lot of people would consider that linkbait. Not revealing the contents of something. The appeal of mystery. Is that not bait? Manipulation?
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by heliodor 9y ago
Mods, please fix the title. "A Clash of Cultures" is very broad and says very little about the article's contents.
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Everybody keeps mentioning Bayer. Have they had any innovation in the aspirin concept or is their marketing that effective?
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Are you willing to share your list with us? Would be curious to see it.
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by heliodor 9y ago
I don't understand why everyone is so happy when IPOs go up and make it sound like a good event. I see it as the founders needlessly missing out on 30% of money (in this case), which ends up going in the pockets of the Wall Street midd
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by heliodor 9y ago
Satisfied doesn't mean things are great. People were satisfied with taxis until Uber came along and showed people a better way. There's always a better way!
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It doesn't have to mirror Photoshop, but the UX has to be good. With Gimp, it's not. People can claim all they want that Gimp is fine (after getting used to using it), but there's a clear voice in the public that Gimp's

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