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by mdip 6y ago
The specifics of what you're product does will partly guide your approach, and I couldn't get enough information from the context to be sure that my advice will be appropriate, but I'll share what experiences I do have. First
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by mdip 6y ago
Haha, hadn't even thought of that -- Conferencing as in developing bespoke (and some white-label) software for organizations deploying Office Communications Server (and R2), Lync and ultimately Skype for Business (I do a little Teams w
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by mdip 6y ago
Kind of love the initial story in the article about 48-hour wait times. I had a stint writing conferencing software for quite some time, and every once in a while we'd come across a customer requirement that had capabilities which were
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by mdip 6y ago
These sorts of articles can send me down the rabbit hole so quickly. As time rolls on, I realize that improvements to "measuring things" tends to radically change whatever industry lives around the target being measured and improv
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by mdip 6y ago
> It sounds like your community's affordable-housing problem is fighting the ravages of nature and entropy to build and maintain habitable structures. Welcome to Detroit[0]. $20,000 can get you a huge old house in an unsafe
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by mdip 6y ago
You make a good point. I've often wondered why there aren't compression container formats that can do magic like handle media file compression differently (using lossless formats), but both the time to compress/decompress wo
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by mdip 6y ago
San Francisco is an interesting place, and far from the world I live in -- definitely does not have the kind of cost of living famous of San Francisco. It's interesting -- every place has a set of its own unique problems, but hop over
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by mdip 6y ago
> the advantage of having an efficient government that does good work is people can simply throw their money at it and assume that things will be taken care of We have the government we have. It is far from efficient, and I&#x27
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by mdip 6y ago
Holy cow - good to know. Were those run-flat tires? I'm about to replace the tyres[0] on mine in a month and I'm researching the safest options. [0] British, mate?
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by mdip 6y ago
> easily solved with just a few extra dollars. And to that I ask this: Let's assume I could actually deliver on this promise: If I showed up at your door offering to solve this problem for the low cost of 20% of your incom
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by mdip 6y ago
> clearly systemic in nature It's surprising to me how many people believe this. Are there systemic problems? Sure. Is the only solution to solve these? I hope not. I think some would like to convince the world that this
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by mdip 6y ago
> I would argue that a lot more good has been done by individuals that decided to "do something about it" that big government initiatives. You couldn't be more right. "It's amazing to me in a country as
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by mdip 6y ago
> For the same reason there is little to no universal health care, welfare, retirement, workers rights, or higher education system — the US values short-term profit over basic humanity. It's interesting how easy it is to tak
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by mdip 6y ago
Good point about burning those relationships. As I mentioned previously about "addiction", if you've ever had a family member who's an addict, you can see real quickly how those relationships get burned. After you'
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by mdip 6y ago
Sadly, they do. And often times this is the help their family ended up at. If you stroll into homeless communities you'll see a pretty common thread: Addiction. When someone ends up homeless due to drug/alcohol abuse, there&#x27
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by mdip 6y ago
> But how come there are so many homeless people in the richest country in the world? I think the replies to this thread and others offer a pretty interesting answer. I'm guessing, though can't confirm, that many of t
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by mdip 6y ago
Thanks - I haven't read either of those, but based on your description, I'll be checking them out.
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by mdip 6y ago
> I imagine it represents an effort, across the publishing industry, to make non-fiction books more appealing to the general public. I'd never thought about that, but I think you're right. And it really comes off dist
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by mdip 6y ago
> "people who think it's a good idea to start restaurants" are representative of "grown-ups?" I laughed at this one, but there's a lot to that statement. My theory on why restaurants fail at such a
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by mdip 6y ago
> Have you never met someone who opened a restaurant? Yes, two actually. Restaurants are incredibly difficult businesses to succeed in. But, to answer your question: my brother-in-law ran a pizza/sub restaurant in a small
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by mdip 6y ago
I wonder, though, if the rubber can be more rugged as a result. Materials/chemistry is so far out of my wheelhouse, I can't even imagine what that might be. But I'd imagine there might be a way to optimize the synthetic rubb
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by mdip 6y ago
Frankly, a tire that could maintain 80% of its performance under circumstances that a run-flat or standard tire would "blow-out" would be the difference between life and death on a motorcycle. Run-flat tires don't protect (e
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by mdip 6y ago
I have always wondered why we accept the risk of "the thing holding you to the road just falling apart underneath you". I suspected it had to be really good at what it did when it worked but wasn't sure what that is. So, t
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by mdip 6y ago
I kind of takes tires for granted in a lot of ways. My assumption was that technology around the "tire" wasn't going to change substantially any time soon and there has to be a number of very good reasons I'm unaware of
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by mdip 6y ago
Sure; but nobody who takes the 1000x risk does so believing they don't hold something that reduces that 1000x risk, either, whether deluded in that thinking or not. My Dad knew the statistics about his chances for success, and he had
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by mdip 6y ago
My thinking is that many of the kinds of engineering failure stories you refer to are about the failure, itself, or the victims of the failure (Therac-25, for example), but not often primarily about a single individual's life of failur
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by mdip 6y ago
> How about biographies of mediocre people? I hear this from time to time and my own response to it is "that'd work about as well as a reality show based on your life". I think it's the best way to put it: A b
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by mdip 6y ago
> but it's a bad fetish Thanks for that -- I couldn't agree more. I read comments talking about how awful it is that there are success biographies and I can't help but feel pity half the time. Like it or not, if y
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by mdip 6y ago
> So it's really useful to look at people who failed yet followed the same advice. Both are useful, yes. With no evidence, what-so-ever, my gut is that both are a lot less useful than we give them credit for. My Dad is a
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by mdip 6y ago
When I saw the title, I initially rolled my eyes[0], but I have to concede a lot of the points the author is making with regard to the examples he's chosen. There is value in biographies covering failures. My first thought was &quot

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