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by metafunctor 14y ago
Some banks provide a service which allows you to create unique credit card numbers without actually having to get separate physical credit cards. Kind of like application-specific passwords, but for credit cards. See here: https://www.cit
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by metafunctor 14y ago
In reality, the Finnish average is more like 27-32 days. After your second year of work at a company, you get 5 weeks vacation per year. The official number for this is 30 days, but that's counting Saturdays. Nobody works 6 days per week,
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by metafunctor 14y ago
Personally, I wouldn't shy away from A/B testing prices (I do it), if you have enough transactions going on to run a successful experiment. Running pricing cohorts takes more time, and doing other experiments at the same time will taint the
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by metafunctor 14y ago
Pretty much all cars where I live (Finland) already have non-flat mirrors. The most common type of mirror on the driver's side in new cars seems to be one which has a flat part (to show objects in their "true size") and a curved part at (to
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by metafunctor 14y ago
Oh, yes, they need to be told. Most people jump right in to the execution phase without really thinking about what growth and value hypotheses they're trying to prove, how to measure success, have no tools to prioritize between different ta
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by metafunctor 15y ago
Adding transposition I've thought about, and received a number of requests for, but never got around to doing it. The reason isn't performance, but doing a change like this would get quite involved with the guts of the library, and I simply
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by metafunctor 15y ago
Author of the library here. The fuzziness doesn't affect the worst case time complexity, but it does make the "working set" of possible states larger and slows down matching somewhat. But search time is still linear to the length of the te
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by metafunctor 15y ago
...which doesn't actually exist: http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2008/07/scienceofflavo...
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by metafunctor 15y ago
I didn't really read the article, but one thing stood out. It's the use of the word "designed", as opposed to using the word "evolved". Has anyone else noticed this trend in recent popular scientific writings? Has it always been like this
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Stop writing that legacy code.(hackerboss.com)
4 points by metafunctor 16y ago|0 comments
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Does Software Development Have A Culture Of Rewarding Failure?(skorks.com)
6 points by metafunctor 17y ago|0 comments
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by metafunctor 17y ago
By a "complex" metric, I didn't mean that the metric is necessarily complex to compute or represent. Rather, the complexity of the metric is a measure of the breadth and complexity of the activities which have an effect on the result. Take
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by metafunctor 17y ago
LOL :) I wasn't trying to make it science-y, although now that I look at it it sure comes off like pseudoscience. The graphs just struck me as a good way to explain what I had in mind...
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Why Your Metrics Suck(hashedbits.com)
11 points by metafunctor 17y ago|9 comments
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by metafunctor 17y ago
I wonder if this could print some remaining parts in the RepRap ( http://reprap.org/ ).