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by jacobr1 4y ago
Cross-functional workflows within enterprises. Developers can have their own nice, but what about working with tech-writers, oh now we need to have approval processes for third-party systems and idea-gathering from customers for pms, and in
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Yes, the platforms essentially get locked-in the UX level that existed when they were initially built. Small incremental changes can be made, or they can be "reskinned" but total rewrites are basically impossibly once there are te
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Another thing is requiring continuity clauses in the contract. Such as, in the case of going out of business or otherwise deciding to discontinue the project, the IP and source code needs to be turned over.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It isn't just silence. There are usually a set of things in a severance deal - like agreeing not to sue for wrongful termination or reconfirming existing NDA or exclusivity or other employment terms. When I've been on the manageri
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I once saw a big display in my local grocery for "organic salt" a few years ago. Which struck me as just fundamentally wrong. We are talking about non-organic material. Of course they meant "organic certified" which just
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Another paradigm are Notebooks. Jupyter style are pretty popular these days, something like Wolfram Alpha's step-by-step mode or this project recently noted on HN https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/ are all good ex
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Further, you need to understand fits and tolerances. Maybe even things like thermal expansion properties. I learned this the hardway in my freshman intro-to-engineering class when I 3d-milled parts for a basic mechanical clock ... and had t
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Most mathematical analyses that I've seen involve running prior sequences of real-returns of various lengths though a monte-carlo simulation. So the distributions of prior returns is baked in (via a uniform sampling of historical timef
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It is one part of more wholistic UX/PM practice. Yes, you should have mechanisms to validate the impact of your changes on your customers. You should be having regular conversations with various subsets of your customers for qualitativ
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by jacobr1 4y ago
You need to instrument real user activity on the site, like tracking shopping cart completions for retail.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
One of the keys to rapid iteration is having a good feedback-loop. So if there are UX regressions, they can be rapidly identified and rolled back.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> grow so big so fast you consume the entire market That isn't the unpopular part. The derided part is doing so with poor unit-economics. You still need to make a profit or what is the point? Another big difference is that is very c
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Commercially supported software Qt (and in the parent post, Vue) tend to have good docs. It makes sense: supporting developers is their business model. Likewise tools with ecosystems of companies (postgresql) tend to get good docs over time
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by jacobr1 4y ago
To charitably read and steel-man the GP's comment, one could argue that while undergraduate education is fine - there are better patterns of research - such as industry (bell labs, spaceX, google ml research), or government (oak ridge,
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Great - have at it! I like mocktails too! I was just being a pedantic jerk reacting to: "no downsides." There are often possible downsides to anything one can do ... but that doesn't mean it isn't something worth doing.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It is a broader consideration. It is easy to decide to stop servicing murderers, nazis, and other widely derided groups, especially on a one-off basis whenever objections are raised. It is another thing to actively investigate your customer
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Not a house today, but house back then. Another way to look at it was that housing was cheaper (for an arguably much inferior product). I've built some wattle and daub structures and a small house could probably be built in a small num
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Written material ... which is a very small (though very important) subset of shared human memory.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
That doesn't seem true _yet_. I agree it very much is a risk we should be guarding against ... but are there really formats out there for which converters aren't known? It seems like any popular legacy format has a plethora of ope
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by jacobr1 4y ago
You don't maintain a fork of the whole thing. You maintain a patch, ideally of an isolated area and now pay for the cost of maintaining the integration/sync of that patch until upstream merges or otherwise fixes the root issue. De
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Yes - this is the answer (if you can't work with upstream). There are many variants to this: monkey-patching, vendoring (local fork), micro-libs that replace a subset of functionality, wrapper libs, etc ...
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I'm not sure about OpenAI's internal policies, but I've worked for several SaaS companies that complied with Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to limit access to "Embargoed and Sanctioned Countries" which has
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Sugar (in large amounts) isn't so great for you either ... And caffeine from coffee/tea while fine in moderation, becomes really bad if abused as part of a pattern of chronic sleep deprivation which is really common.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Well, I've never done AA, but what does AA provide that would be beneficial more broadly? Community? Acceptance of high power? Repentance? Peer-commitments? Shared-experiences? So maybe organized, community-oriented religion is the rig
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> biochemical augmentation will be just as accepted as electromechanical I'm not sure that electromechanical modification is accepted today. Things like limb replacements are now accepted for those with injuries - but I don't t
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Oh, all of us non-Californians know as well. The warning label is put on products nationally - probably not worth manufacturing a CA variant of product packaging in most cases.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
You still need a record of the data, which probably isn't fully captured in the audit table
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by jacobr1 4y ago
The way it works is a questionnaire is created by the rating agency, meant to cover a wide degree of workplace factors. The do tend to cover the ones that have some academic rigor, like questions about autonomy or career growth, beyond the
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It is about feedback-loops. Even well-funded, top-down design is going to have cognitive gaps. Also it needs to be continuous, usage changes, users/people/customer change, features are added. Other tools in outside environment are
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Didn't we do that with hubble? We built 1 hubble, but many more "hubble-like" spy satellites and found out about them when they were donated back to nasa to put toward civilian use.

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