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by jmathes 17y ago
Who should I email if I don't have a boss?
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by jmathes 17y ago
Good enough. At least now I have to modify my hosts file to play that game, which makes it inconvenient
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Save me from myself
5 points by jmathes 17y ago|8 comments
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by jmathes 17y ago
I'm one of 4 people who tried the same diet. We are all IRL friends with the original author, and he got us into it. It worked for all of us. I lost 60lbs in 40 weeks using this diet, and only felt healthier as I went along. before: http
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by jmathes 17y ago
I worked at a software company where we should have run an experiment like this. There's an upgrade on user accounts that we charged a one-time $10 for, and people buy it all the time. We decided to try it as a subscription. We spent a mont
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by jmathes 17y ago
I worked at a software company where we should have run an experiment like this. There's an upgrade on user accounts that we charged a one-time $10 for, and people buy it all the time. We decided to try it as a subscription. We spent a
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by jmathes 17y ago
"Also, what size does a problem need to have to result in such a meeting? Every argument with your colleagues? Every customer related problem? Every technical problem?" Disclaimer: I work at IMVU, but I am not the article's author This is a
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by jmathes 17y ago
I'm an engineer at IMVU, the company mentioned, since the inception of the 5Y strategy. I've lost count of the number of cool technologies and tweaks we've built as a result of 5Ys. For example, occasionally one of our engineers will decid
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Company tries to scam iphone developer, claiming they own public data(sfappeal.com)
25 points by jmathes 17y ago|7 comments
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by jmathes 17y ago
In the long scale, it's like this: 10^3 = thousand 10^6 = million 10^9 = milliard 10^12 = billion 10^15 = billiard 10^18 = trillion So there are 10^18/10^6 = 10^12 millions in a trillion. In the long scale, they'd call that a billion. So
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by jmathes 17y ago
Scientific study shows that appearance is _correlated_ with winning elections. Journalist _opines_ that it's a causal relationship. Here's another possibility (just to illustrate the fallacy): maybe being better qualified and having bette
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Visualizing Python Import Dependencies(aegisknight.org)
3 points by jmathes 17y ago|0 comments
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by jmathes 17y ago
So "the education-preventing government control will continue until education improves?"
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Validated learning about customers (for startups)(startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
22 points by jmathes 18y ago|0 comments
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An introduction to Beziers based on a presentation at GDC(reddit.com)
2 points by jmathes 18y ago|0 comments
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3D Graphics 101: Affine Transforms(joblivious.wordpress.com)
3 points by jmathes 18y ago|0 comments
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Lessons from GDC: Restrictions Fuel Creativity, And That’s Why Stealth Games Were Invented(joblivious.wordpress.com)
14 points by jmathes 18y ago|0 comments
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Continuous Integration Does Not Cause Low Quality(joblivious.wordpress.com)
3 points by jmathes 18y ago|0 comments
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Almost Everybody is Stupid(joblivious.wordpress.com)
3 points by jmathes 18y ago|0 comments
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Making TDD Work: Integrating 3rd Party Services(joblivious.wordpress.com)
1 points by jmathes 18y ago|0 comments
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Doing agile right: TDD and A/B experiments(joblivious.wordpress.com)
1 points by jmathes 18y ago|0 comments
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by jmathes 18y ago
This guy is trolling. Please to not feed him.
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by jmathes 18y ago
Each test you write is a value-add. You get increased safety that what you're testing works the way you think it does, and that it will continue to do so as people modify it. Not all cases need to be tested; "test to your level of paranoia
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Handling Intermittence: How to Survive Test Driven Development(joblivious.wordpress.com)
21 points by jmathes 18y ago|17 comments
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by jmathes 18y ago
Yes they are. Where he meant 1000a+100b+10c+d he wrote abcd.
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by jmathes 18y ago
Okay I'm only replying to this one reply but my point is relevant to all discussion re meaning. Always be suspicious of any statement about numbers that relies on the base. This property of 6174 is really a property of the number's represe
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by jmathes 18y ago
Whether you commit your code once in one batch at the end of the day or 50 times in 50 smaller chunks, you have the same amount of complexity about which to be careful. In fact it's more complex in the former case, because in the latter, f
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The Obsessive Programmer’s Guide to Surviving A Real Job(joblivious.wordpress.com)
2 points by jmathes 18y ago|0 comments
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Highest Paid Person's Opinion: Slaying the HiPPO (with science)(joblivious.wordpress.com)
1 points by jmathes 18y ago|0 comments
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by jmathes 18y ago
I think the source of your confusion is that you're a one man team. You don't have to solve problems that 20-man teams have to face. At least half of all the code I depend on is code I do not understand, so I have to depend on its tests,

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