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by matt_s 15y ago
How is this anything related to Hacker News?
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by matt_s 15y ago
Similarly if you start measuring LOC (lines of code) on your developers and rewarding or penalizing as such. You are guaranteeing that the number of LOC increase. Same applies to things further up in the stack - # bugs fixed, # tickets cl
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by matt_s 15y ago
I signed up for this course and took it since I haven't done any iOS dev ever. I have a CompSci degree as well as have done Enterprise Java stuff, so I know my way around a compiler, build, etc. Haven't actively programmed in 5+ years (e.
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by matt_s 15y ago
>"no one going to secure you out of death" Maybe some translation showing, but this is a very insightful observation. People want all the security they can get, but the inevitable is true for all of us, so better make the most of what
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by matt_s 15y ago
Angry Birds is also free on iOS, that is the lite version with ads. Then users like me get addicted to the gameplay and a few times of getting nag-screened is enough for me to purchase. As a consumer, I like this approach with games becaus
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by matt_s 15y ago
Technically (per Suze Orman) the two things declaring bankruptcy will not clear are Student Loan debt and debt determined by Criminal/Civil courts, in the USA. I found it shocking that those two debt types are on the same level. The studen
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by matt_s 15y ago
And "injury" probably runs the gamut from sprained ankle to "oh look, my femur is poking through my pants"
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by matt_s 15y ago
I think a good elaboration would be that for a project to build an Address Book is still a project to deliver an Address Book regardless of Agile or Waterfall or Scrumfall. You still have the same exact steps to execute, Agile just organiz
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by matt_s 15y ago
Wouldn't it be typical of a growing company like Groupon to run negative because they keep investing all the profit into people and technology? Paying over 7000 people and their benefits probably takes a majority (e.g. 51% or more) of the
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by matt_s 15y ago
The point was that NASCAR only turns left, or so the joke goes.
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by matt_s 16y ago
If a small business already has a merchant account at their bank, and can process proximity payments via Paypal or other ways, then they can avoid the 2-3% Bank/Credit Card charge every time someone uses a credit/debit card.
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by matt_s 16y ago
None of what he has is new or revolutionary, it is just that he has gone through research and experiments to distill the key 2.5% of what you need to do for your body and poses everything as "try this as an experiment" instead of traditiona
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by matt_s 16y ago
This would be a viable product. I've worked on a custom Web HR system for a Fortune 500 company, back before the dot com bubble came about and burst. Those ERP systems are way too complex, have lots of bloat, etc. for a small shop to need
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by matt_s 16y ago
I can totally see where framing this as integrated vs. fractured can happen. A coworker has an Android based phone and the latest update from the phone manufacturer killed the app she had to get to the corporate email account. 3 months in
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by matt_s 16y ago
This would need to include the voice of the drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket. Or allow users to pick a voice that best suits them. I can only imagine a call like this: "What, you incompetent maggot? You couldn't finish that code be
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by matt_s 17y ago
Much of what I've seen/read about Lean Startups seems to be recasting of Lean Software Development and SCRUM/Agile techniques applied to the niche of "Startup". Much of those can be rooted in Lean techniques from Toyoda & others (Demin