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by kornish 8y ago
Fair! Good example.
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by kornish 8y ago
Really? The linked definition is: "Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem." That sounds like necessary mundane tasks to me. Definitely mos
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by kornish 8y ago
My favorite euphemism for those tasks is "shaving the yak". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
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How We Tackled Color Identification (2016)(blog.algolia.com)
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by kornish 8y ago
Very good to know. Correct me if I'm wrong - seems like anonymizing the usage data complies with the GDPR, and thus the grandparent post still stands.
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by kornish 8y ago
Tracking events without user IDs would still allow for aggregate feature usage tracking. Out of interest, what makes you think that an application won't legally be able to record the ways in which a user interacts with that application
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by kornish 8y ago
Right on — thanks!
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by kornish 8y ago
> The worst part? Even if you add it immediately, you'll have to wait 2-4 weeks to get a sufficient amount of data. I think this was the problem a product like Heap [1] was designed to solve: just track all user actions, forever, an
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LP Confidential Secrets from the Folks That Give VCs Money (from SaaStr Annual)(youtube.com)
3 points by kornish 8y ago|0 comments
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by kornish 8y ago
One thing I didn't see in the article: As well as setting breakpoints, one can trigger the debugger by including the statement debugger; in a script. Then, having the Dev Tools console open when that statement executes will au
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by kornish 8y ago
Answering to some of the sibling comments: Employees staying onboard under the assumption that their equity, which is part of their total comp, may yet be worth something - that brings on a serious opportunity cost. If someone stays at FanD
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by kornish 8y ago
Never heard this before, and a quick Google around doesn't turn up anything - what's the origin of this? I dig it.
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Don’t Get Trampled: The Puzzle for “Unicorn” Employees(medium.com)
4 points by kornish 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them, by Steve Blank(thinkgrowth.org)
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by kornish 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by kornish 8y ago
Exactly this (and well-phrased)!
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by kornish 8y ago
Which company, and what do they have?
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The Open Core business model(medium.com)
2 points by kornish 8y ago|0 comments
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by kornish 8y ago
I'm not saying people don't know who gets in mostly due to legacy. I'm saying the university can't formally confirm.
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by kornish 8y ago
Without the perception of meritocracy, I think the brand does slip significantly and Harvard has created a bigger problem for itself. As soon as you formally acknowledge that you're letting some people in due to legacy or lottery, the
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by kornish 8y ago
Googling "Simon Marlow" gives the following: > Simon Marlow is a British computer programmer, author, and co-developer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. He and Simon Peyton Jones won the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Aw
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SF becomes first major city with a $15 minimum wage for all businesses(sfexaminer.com)
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by kornish 8y ago
Agreed that GitLab could really do with some development of boring, unsexy, wholly necessary features now that they're seeing some well-earned adoption. Please, please, please add batch review. Add to that list that big diffs with many
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Obvious to you. Amazing to others(sivers.org)
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by kornish 8y ago
Common, I believe.
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by kornish 8y ago
If you live in SF, Two Chairs could be a good option ( https://www.twochairs.com/ ). They're a practice which strongly emphasizes the therapist matching component – and as others have noted, finding a proper fit is hugel
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Instagram is down (500s)(isitdownforjustme.appspot.com)
27 points by kornish 8y ago|11 comments
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by kornish 8y ago
I think that's an uncharitable interpretation. The tradeoff isn't between homelessness and not-homelessness, it's between being homeless in Denver and being homeless in SF. There are cities which literally put their homeless
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by kornish 8y ago
Extremely interested! Sounds like some great stories from the trenches.
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by kornish 8y ago
I like the quote from Slide 10: > Why Rust (for CloudFlare) > ... > - Safe (we had a bug once...) > ... Funny because according to Algolia, the bug in question is the 7th-most-upvoted HN post of all time, clocking in at about 1k

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