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by joshklein 9y ago
I’d assume even those with a generous definition are too conservative by far. We rapidly approach a future where no human will operate any heavy machine that accomplishes a discrete task. That task might be to transport goods or people acro
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by joshklein 9y ago
Particularly when those young men feel disempowered, usually through unemployment or under-employment. Consequently, their well-being and the well-being of society in general are no longer neatly aligned, and their rational self-interest do
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by joshklein 9y ago
There were three people who left their full time jobs in 2012 to found a startup with Wes promoting pandas; a year this article highlights as its inflection point in popularity. You were one of them. That omission also seems worth correctin
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by joshklein 9y ago
That’s why your use case matters. If we are going down this path of thinking with no context, your application should not be a GUI application at all. But if you want easier future porting to iOS, that’s different than if you want easier fu
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by joshklein 9y ago
Yes, but writing a cross platform UI for a single platform use case is a waste of time as well.
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by joshklein 9y ago
I do agree, but only if we emphasize the cross-platform requirement and a single monolithic code base. I’d much rather write a lightweight desktop app in any of the native toolkits, but especially Cocoa/Swift, and do the heavy lifting
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by joshklein 9y ago
And this is the most important line of thinking to pursue when considering your own privacy and the topic of trust in general. Corporate responsibility is not about good and bad people, it is about incentives. You can pick from any number o
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by joshklein 9y ago
I think this misunderstands the OpenBSD philosophy. The more likely it is "everyone else" disagrees, the more likely it is Theo is choosing the right course for the project. The system being secure is a secondary benefit to it bei
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by joshklein 9y ago
I've worked as a technology vendor for pharma and health device companies. Your boss is dead wrong. You should treat HIPAA as both a legal AND ethical imperative. Shame on anyone who doesn't.
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by joshklein 9y ago
This is tangential to the play-by-email thread of discussion, but I want to share that I've had a positive experience at http://playdiplomacy.com
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by joshklein 9y ago
It's been over a decade since I studied the literature on this, but the dead weight loss caused by a tax at the point of transaction is larger; a case can reasonably be made that transactions that would otherwise occur did not due to t
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by joshklein 9y ago
I guess where we differ is that I don't think those are content businesses. The OP was looking for alternatives to building a service or app, and those businesses are automated marketing systems. I think they're closer to apps tha
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by joshklein 9y ago
I wrote a semi-popular blog for a couple years as I was coming up in the advertising agency world as a digital strategist. I knew enough about media planning to not bother trying to monetize my content; the ROI would never pay off if that w
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by joshklein 9y ago
I think it's important to take both of the posts above this one seriously and not dismiss them as "not in my experience." If you want leverage in any negotiating situation, you need to be able to walk away from the negotiatio
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by joshklein 10y ago
I think you're right that it's iOS rather than hardware, but Apple already has no competitive advantage in the mobile space when it comes to industrial design. Others caught up on the hardware and physical product design in the la
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by joshklein 10y ago
> cloud ecosystem I only meant in the strategic sense. If the future of personal computing is to be lightweight terminals and hardware requirements pushed into the cloud, Mac hardware and macOS might provide less growth opportunity than
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by joshklein 10y ago
I'm also worried. At first, I rationalized weakness on the Mac front as a side-effect of a strategic prioritization of the mobile & cloud ecosystem. But then I got the new iPhone, and I've been surprised by my emotional reacti
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by joshklein 13y ago
Or perhaps a consistent "namespace", e.g. with a standard prefix prepended to a simple noun.
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by joshklein 13y ago
I was attempting to introduce another, separate subject of intellectual interest to build on the conversation, not trying to provide my takeaway from this article. If my comment came across as a callous attempt to make the topic about the s
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by joshklein 13y ago
This is explored to a degree in a pop psychology book by Daniel Gilbert called "Stumbling on Happiness". There are certainly better sources, such as the papers Gilbert uses as his primary sources, but the book is an accessible way
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by joshklein 13y ago
These data refer to worldwide inequality, while the article speaks to American inequality. The former is significantly skewed by the rural-to-urban migration of India and China as they rapidly modernize.
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by joshklein 14y ago
Congrats on the release. I can think of at least one big organization I've talked to that was chomping at the bit to try pandas but had too much of an existing commitment to Scala to take the Python plunge. [Disclaimer: brother of OP]
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by joshklein 14y ago
I think it's worth acknowledging the branding problem identifying yourself as an SEO consultant creates. You're obviously a competent marketer - not just a channel expert - so you may want to rethink your presentation of yourself.
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by joshklein 14y ago
This is one of the most pernicious forms of procrastination, because it's hard for smart people to accept that perfectionism is a negative trait. The more self-worth you derive from your previous successful outcomes, the more susceptible yo
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by joshklein 14y ago
This is smart advice, but by listing specifics I think a larger point is glazed over. For a business founder, struggling and hacking your way through a seemingly intractable technical issue is the critical formative experience. It's not abo
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by joshklein 14y ago
Hopefully this is just a temporary hiccup, but you should use this opportunity for scenario planning on what would happen if Google really did cut you off from search traffic. Even if the return on investment/effort of other traffic sources
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by joshklein 14y ago
It's interesting how we can have opposite reactions to the same situation; working in previous jobs I hated, getting home at night left me feeling drained of energy and needing to "decompress". I could never focus on my own work until I qui
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by joshklein 14y ago
Thing is, most people's goal is attaining the status our culture associates with money, not the money itself. The thinking goes, "what's the point of a runaway success if no one knows about it?"
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by joshklein 14y ago
This is thanks to Sphinx ( http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ ) and the kind of community participation Python is famous for.
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by joshklein 14y ago
There's plenty to take offense to in this article, but perhaps it would be wise to take one implication to heart: as you progress, don't forget to improve your soft skills just as you improve your technical skills. Whatever you make of this

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