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by jlees 13y ago
I read at night and on the train, plus often binge-read at weekends. Note that I mostly count fiction; I don't get through technical books so fast, but some other non-fiction is readable. Been a book addict since I was very small, and
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I like owning books, too, until I had to move continents and sell my entire library. I think folks are missing one aspect of the Netflix-style experience; discovery. Sure, the joy of flipping through the sci-fi/fantasy section in the l
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by jlees 13y ago
Isn't that the point? The author does more than just describe Dave's rambling brand of monologue; he translates that experience perfectly in the writing style.
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by jlees 13y ago
I have a strong foreign accent. It's British. I find it a huge advantage in America. :-)
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by jlees 13y ago
The term 'landing page' is overloaded with two different meanings. Meaning 1, the 'startup community' angle and the one being used for this product, is effectively a "one page website that sells a product". Thi
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by jlees 13y ago
Sorry for missing this reply. PM is an awesome role on the right team and there have been a lot of things written on the subject. My take would be that it varies a lot from team to team, company to company and product to product. Some matur
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The rise of physical-social challenges(grantland.com)
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by jlees 13y ago
Design hiring pipelines often include a project stage. I guess the difference here is self-selection.
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by jlees 13y ago
I'm not based in China, but I went to Shanghai on a trip 2 years ago and we had a long afternoon with Chinese investors and entrepreneurs. My takeaways were that there is a growing investment and entrepreneurial ecosystem, but that the
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Got a Startup Idea? Ask These Questions First(medium.com)
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I wonder if it's down to the lack of other places for these pre-cooked startups to pitch? They just want the audience. (Though this happens in Silicon Valley, for sure, where one certainly can't argue there aren't any pitch s
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You can get a sense of that from the first night though. Some I've been to have been full of random ideas, others have been "Hi, I'm the cofounder of X and we're going to add Y feature to the site this weekend!". Se
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by jlees 13y ago
For folks who liked this post, you would probably find Indie Game: The Movie interesting. (It's on Netflix.)
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It's more because building a game of this kind is an intensely personal effort and developers have trouble seeing it as "ready" for others, plus, don't care about player feedback because it's not the players they&#x
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The High-Tech Lynching of Chelsea Manning(philipsandifer.com)
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I'm not sure on #2. When I was a teenager I had no idea about tech conferences, open source figureheads, and I barely noticed the gender of writers. Do boys? Mom not programming, and not having any female friends/relatives who do,
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by jlees 13y ago
Hmm, how about applying the same standards to the solution as you would to internally-committed code (peer reviews, etc)?
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by jlees 13y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a PM; though I've always also considered myself a developer, I haven't had a "Software Engineer" job since college internships years ago. There are a couple of things that spring to mind based on som
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by jlees 13y ago
I'm a big fan of Moo, but they are everywhere now. I ordered some letterpress personal business cards from Blush and constantly get compliments on the quality of my card, I'd definitely recommend those but they are even more expen
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by jlees 13y ago
I've seen companies do a "challenge" style interview, where it's less of a contract and more of a "take this problem home, code something up to solve it, push to github and let us know when you're done". T
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by jlees 13y ago
Depends on the implementation, though; if you need to create and sign in with a $foo account to use the sponsored-by-$foo internet connection, it's not lock-in per se, but has some of the same effects.
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by jlees 13y ago
Personally, I'd be interested in some data and reasoning to further understand your point of view. Without elaborating, the points you make come across a bit terse and declarative, whereas this comment makes me think you actually have
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by jlees 13y ago
Depends if you want to go into ketosis or not. There are ketogenic full meal replacement plans out there. I lived on nothing else for 3 months a couple of years ago, in the UK. 28 drinks per week for 4 weeks, then 21 + 7 protein bars. You c
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by jlees 13y ago
Vibe or culture fit, whatever you call it, simply being extremely smart is not sufficient and far too many people think it is. :)
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The Dogs of Summer(hitselfdestruct.com)
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by jlees 13y ago
Here's a variant I used successfully to deal with a complex project that was in danger of ratholing. The concept is "Tabata for work", if you're familiar with the Tabata principles, but it's basically just pomodoro
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by jlees 13y ago
One of the valuable things about Pomodoro is just the forcing factor. You might have a bunch of random tasks with varying lengths, but getting into the habit of "I will work on X until this signal" forces you to actually start and
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by jlees 13y ago
What's the error rate, though? For those of us who either find it awkward or just plain incorrect, how many Emily and Johns are there feeling happy that they had a touch of "personal" service? With an accent, and a short name
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by jlees 13y ago
Seems odd that nobody is mentioning Google's in-house makerspace, hackathons, and 20% weeks (where engineers without 20% projects, or who prefer time-boxed commitments, take a week once a quarter to work on stuff). I ran a 20% week pro
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by jlees 13y ago
It entirely depends on your manager and team. Some managers might want you to ask permission, and/or if you take the "forgiveness" approach your relationship with that manager might suffer. But that's because people are

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