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by meristem 7y ago
My understanding of OKCupid is that it caters to 'free for all'. The site choices they made was to increase TAM by stating their addressable market is 'YES' (this is not a dig on the choice). I have not heard about conse
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by meristem 7y ago
...Maybe 'hetero singles who want a monogamous partner' is not the best group for a dating app. Based on discussions with therapists, 'consensually non-monogamous, regardless of orientation' seems to be the market to go
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by meristem 7y ago
whatsyourprice.com Also asymmetric market.
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by meristem 7y ago
Using another app such as Instagram as gatekeeper seems to make a value judgement about people not interested in the gatekeeping app’s business proposition.
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by meristem 7y ago
This is valid for team paradigms— building a successful team requires understanding what is interesting to each candidate member and building the group where most product engineering falls under the different members’ ‘interesting’ slices
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by meristem 7y ago
Quality of sperm decays with age. Just not in the same curve as egg reserves.
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by meristem 7y ago
From a human factors engineering POV, this is straight usability research. Instead of assumptions, use observations and interviews— then form problem statements. Instead of a single solution, form ‘how’ statements about intent. In Product M
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by meristem 7y ago
I find rejection notices do wonders for people. Even better, rejection phone calls that allow for questions. The downside is that, being based in the U.S., there is a litigious danger lurking in every word written or spoken in those setups.
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by meristem 7y ago
Keeping track is the initial part of the effort. Getting the information from ‘existing’ to ‘integrated’ requires a system easy enough to use ( add Bare-bones description of issue, add comments or post mortems, format in ways that highlight
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by meristem 7y ago
This is IoT from hell: the industry adopted the benefits of connected devices, ignoring the systemic issues those bring. Add on a hefty dose of low usability and user education on top.
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by meristem 7y ago
Great absolute clarity on what is expected of you by your manager. Tech lead roles have a mix of manager-light bits and your manager may have very specific ideas as to what the role ‘looks like’ or ‘feels like’. You need that info to succee
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by meristem 7y ago
A small drop in the sea of technical problems: did anyone design the app to work for ages 20-90? People well in their 80's work caucuses. Ok, did anyone actually design the app?
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by meristem 7y ago
It is not just in Saudi. I grew up with a parent working for a very large European company. Lots of people from the home office lived rather 'colonially' when homed in my country.
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by meristem 7y ago
I am also holding on to mine, and it is my primary machine even though we have newer MacBooks in the house.
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by meristem 7y ago
Shortest incubation period 1 day, longest 14 days, current average as of Jan 26 2020 was 10 days of incubation.
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by meristem 7y ago
Which do you use? I have yet to find the correct form factor, including an UX that works for mobile and laptop alike.
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by meristem 7y ago
A thing from which, if you have no kids, you are spared: the three-year old sitting on the toilet holding open an upside-down New Yorker Magazine. ...
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by meristem 7y ago
When so many elasticsearch bad condiga get published, MS ought to reevaluate their UI and default config.
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by meristem 7y ago
Site did not render well on Brave/iOS. I’m in the UX/Human Factors Engineering field and hah, I too thought it was UNIX-related. Please consider changing the product name. I am guessing it is a play on iris but problematic for all
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by meristem 7y ago
There are design issues currently being worked on to minimize crevices and spaces where bacteria may remain (redesign) or avoid the issue completely (design and implement disposable endoscopic heads)
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by meristem 7y ago
ETOPS-like rules have been in use since late 70's. It is an evolving standard with different craft types being approved for different ETOPS. While some current frames are rated ETOPS 330 or 370, this type of operation began officially
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by meristem 7y ago
+1 on point 2, no matter how terrible this sounds. Unfortunately this means decoding what your manager, and your organization, understand a manager to look like/talk like/act like.
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by meristem 7y ago
Extreme Leadership is interesting if contrived. It clearly hones in on 2 qualities of leadership often overlooked: 1. Clear communication of desires and expectations, 2. Ownership of results, not of success. The stories will feel contrived
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by meristem 7y ago
Commercial displays are the first class airplane tickets of the display/TV market.
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by meristem 7y ago
Underneath all this: although companies need talent, interviews are adversarial and not structured to create a supportive environment so candidates are at their best. Quite often the interview setup is to see how the candidate performs at t
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by meristem 7y ago
Ex-FAANG here. Specifically about 'what the problem is'...Quite often people work to support their lives--in the sense of food on the table/retirement and in the sense of having space and money for intellectual or passion pur
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by meristem 7y ago
I agree with the post's view of maker time. I disagree with its ideas around manager's ideal schedule. My experiences as a manager were that the disruptions of hourly 'something new' were unhelpful for strategy developme
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by meristem 7y ago
Programming decisions around names get encoded operationally as well: within the last decade I missed a flight when a major airline's system did not accept my hyphenated last name at the check-in kiosk. I was then told by customer serv
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by meristem 7y ago
Read it as patching MCAS would be the grad students over the weekend fix, and the really hard stuff as redesigning avionics logic.
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by meristem 7y ago
Internal systems have their own, complex, reporting failure modes. Generally that is mixture of political concerns and internal deprioritization of tools (a cost center) vis-a-vis projects that directly produce revenue.

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