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by meritt 8y ago
We've been using Mattermost (I have not used Zulip but it looks superb) for about a year. The UI/UX of the desktop and mobile apps is a bit kludgy but functionally it was a breeze to setup, runs on a very low-cost instance, and ha
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by meritt 8y ago
In startups, titles are more meaningless but at large companies like Amazon your compensation is completely tied to your job title. The two are inextricably linked.
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I'm curious what innovative tools have emerged in the past two years that changed the dynamic?
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Most tend to use libcotd: https://bitbucket.org/libtcod/libtcod/src
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Because HN has a lot of tech startup minded people who view the potential downfall of industry giants as a massive opportunity.
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Right, so I guess my question is: The remote users don't have the benefit of being in the same room as the rest of the group. The AR people/objects wouldn't likely "fit" into their physical world. Like in the initia
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by meritt 8y ago
I'm having a bit of trouble grokking how this experience works for each participant. I get the AR piece: People who are physically in a location they see their remote peers magically floating in the room with them while they can intera
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by meritt 8y ago
I don't think it's intentional overpricing so much as incompetent staff whose immediate solution is replacing the entire affected component. In addition, Apple has designed their hardware in a way that makes it very difficult for
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by meritt 8y ago
> A $3 million house that would have rented for $5,000 a year ago $5k/mo for a $3M home is a cap rate of just 2%. That's pretty terrible in itself. Now it's $4k/mo or 1.6%? How on earth is that financially sustainable
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Ask yourself if you actually need the capital. Between the ubiquity of pay-per-minute cloud computing for every imaginable service, tools to enable extremely productive remote employees, and thousands of software companies ready to handle t
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> How and why was bot traffic priced at $0.001 CPC? Our ad server code only supported 3 decimal places. It wasn't until later that we figured out the how/why behind their desire for what we outright informed them was most likel
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by meritt 8y ago
In 2008 I worked for an ad network and we dealt with a massive amount of fraudulent traffic. We did our best to shield our advertisers from the obviously bogus traffic, as it absolutely killed traffic quality and inflated CPAs. However some
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My company takes precisely this approach, though our business model (we sell data products) and size (we're quite small) definitely makes it easier. There are usually 1-2 employees (engineer and analyst) responsible for a given product
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Or get the best of both worlds: Work at a company where engineers receive direct profit sharing for their contributions.
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Pay-to-win and microtransaction models have proliferated the gaming industry over the past decade or so. I'd wager that purchasing of cheats/hacks appeals to the same sort of gamer.
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> Do you suggest I go solo and take on development jobs myself Yes. You don't want to help juniors. You don't want to waste your time in meetings explaining things to "incompetent" managers. You only want to work in a
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by meritt 8y ago
So "Edge" is the new "Cloud". Got it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing Wikipedia's definition primarily focuses on the local/IoT version as a distinctly different from utilizing a CDN.
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I wonder which definition of "Edge" is going to win out because right now it's being used interchangeably to mean either: 1) CDN or 2) On-premise machines/IoT.
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I look forward to the blog post in a few years with someone detailing how they're earning $1M/yr because they have 20 data-entry jobs they've fully automated.
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It's not so interesting to me that people continue to feel the need to build a scraping framework (it's an excellent beginner project because it encompasses so much of web development) but why HackerNews finds scraping frameworks
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People are extremely unlikely to remember a code word they setup years ago and now must recall during a high-stress emergency.
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There's not a ton of information available on the breakdown of sales by platform, but the data that is out there shows Linux sales usually compromise ~2-4% for cross-platform games [1]. If you get linux support "for free" by
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by meritt 8y ago
> Also... no Linux version? Really? You're criticizing an indie game developer who feels he just wasted 3 years of his life making a failure, for not spending the extra year or whatever it'd take for it to be cross-platform?
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The indie game marketplace has a massive discovery problem that is not whatsoever met by current tools. Humble Bundle tried to solve this for a while but I just checked their site and it's filled with AAA titles to include Overwatch, A
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> Derailing him to jail time or prison This was never remotely a concern. The most severe punishment sought was barring him from being a director or CEO of a public company. They settled on a paltry fine and Musk can't be chair. He&
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Bloomberg's model is not whatsoever accurate on a week-to-week basis. They overestimated production by quite a bit earlier this month [1], revised the model downward by about 6000 total units, and now have to drastically lower their es
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Taking the time to learn relational database theory and SQL.
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Agriculture subsidies. Farming in the US hasn't been a fundamentally profitable business for decades but the government provides a massive welfare program to ensure the survival of farmers, maintain a stable food supply, and keeping pr
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by meritt 8y ago
There is a massive amount of high quality and completely free material from universities available online. Use it to your advantage.

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