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by jschulenklopper 7y ago
Indeed. From the dictionary: “Knowledge: facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education.” You can learn things by own experience, or by someone/something teaching it.
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by jschulenklopper 7y ago
Zach Holman made a site with excellent tips on preparing and delivering a (technical) presentation: https://speaking.io/ . That one covers a lot more ground.
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by jschulenklopper 7y ago
I do almost the same, but the “Before You Go” list is a great addition. I’ve got a couple of different checklists in Trello for different kind of trips: week of snowboarding, long weekend with my wife, business trip to conference, camping w
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
This will be an interesting book to read... also showcasing multiple maze generation algorithms: https://pragprog.com/book/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
Just thought about this: could you ask the companies in your list how/why they ended up with these landing pages? What where the alternatives and smaller variations they tried? Tried for how long (or are they still optimizing)? Did the
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
That has almost nothing to do with the topic at hand. On top of that, SurveyKing's landing page isn't exemplary at all.
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
I understand that conversion data is hard to get... but it would put a real number to explain “best” or “better results”. Now it’s a (nice) collection of pages the OP found eh... nice/interesting/attractive (and likely to convert
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
IMHO, "I’ve compiled the best examples of SaaS Landing pages I’ve seen over the years (1000’s of them) into actionable examples you can use as reference!" is incomplete without mentioning actual statistics about conversion -- or a
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
> I partially solved this by spending 30-60 minutes every morning on side projects. Waking up earlier was hard, but I managed to get into the habit of spending some time in a cafe on my way to work. The change in environment (not home) a
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
> So on Jan 1, 2017 I promised myself I will stick to one of my ideas. I did, now [...] So I am still sticking to the one I started this year. As a team we have good goals till Dec 2017 and then first quarter 2018. We have not planned be
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
No, I realized later. But also that case wouldn't have worked :-)
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
Agreed. A scheduling process that stops (does not call functions anymore) after 25 days is a strange phenomenon. I misread the post title.
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
My bad, perhaps because of the original (or confusing) post title earlier. A scheduling process that stops after 25 days is indeed a more realistic bug than a function planned for execution in 25 days not being called.
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
So, kudos to the maintainer to solve the issue, as it is a valid bug to be fixed... but it's not likely (or a case of suboptimal design) that such a defect would ever be encountered for real.
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
Would someone seriously encounter a defect like that? Who would set a function to run after ~25 days (2^31 milliseconds) and expect that that process still runs after all those days? You're not safeguarding yourself against the very li
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
Back in university, I rewarded myself with one attempt at 3-ball juggling after 30 minutes of studying. So, my hackathons were throwathons :-) Worked great, and I learned to juggle within a week. Somewhere else I read that someone did push-
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
> I've done a different timer thing, where I start a timer and tell myself I have to stop the timer any time I stop working. This is a great trick... also informing yourself honestly how many 'productive' hours you had at
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
Here's a nice combination of _Python_ and an _economist_: Paul Romer, this year's Nobel prize laureate in economy, moved from publishing recent research using Mathematica to Python and Jupyter notebooks. https://qz.com&
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18129075 for last week's discussion. Great name for a typeface though.
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
I found the name "Sans Forgetica" well-chosen though. I'll remember that name for quite some time...
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
https://basecamp.com/customers mentions "100,000+ companies rely on Basecamp to run their business." Since it does not mention "1,000,000+ companies", I think that "2.8 million accounts" refers
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
Perhaps not a hard requirement, but a handy feature. It would be nice to know that "<number> <street>" is at least in the area of "<a number close to that number> <same street>" (if the city doesn
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
Just follow him on Medium or Twitter. There are hardly cars, houses or office furniture there :-)
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
You should then follow him on textual media as well. Sure, on Instagram it's mainly nice pictures of houses and cars, but I don't see the 'chip on his shoulder'. Au contraire, he remains honest and realistic about his de
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
> It's not clear to me how DHH gets the money for his auto racing hobby. That unclarity can be solved pretty easily. David is one of the two partners of Basecamp (formerly 37signals). That company delivers a service in the project m
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
What3Words has some strange choices / consequences: * If you accidentally change the word order for a location, you could send a mailman to a wrong and faraway location: - http://map.what3words.com/help.driver.lost i
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
Ha, in all but one (Mattel?) you pointed to Arial as being Helvetica. Just invert your heuristic! :-)
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
19/20, fooled by Mattel (and guessed lucky on the other all caps texts). My heuristic was to look at the a, c, e, g, and s, if present in lowercase: are the ends of those characters horizontal (Helvetica) or at an angle (Arial).
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
> But the biggest education — while it’s not mandatory throughout the country, it’s done by most schools — is students around grade four or five, in the 10 and 11 age range, start taking cycling skills courses. Having been raised in The
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by jschulenklopper 8y ago
Just a quick note: Martin Fowler has been working on a second edition of _Refactoring_, and IIRC it is expected to come out this Fall. See https://martinfowler.com/articles/201803-refactoring-2nd-ed....

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