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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I used to fill out Chegg mturk requests for reviews while talking on the phone. They were way overpriced and nobody was paying attention to quality.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
With a loop you only need to pass in the rating. Get the modulus and then the floor. Render as many full stars as the floor, a half star if modulus was more than zero, then render an empty star as far as the number of full stars + half star
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Quite a silly game, but it does a decent job of showing how all the options are not always considered by the people who most need to consider them. It's easy to say "I would make a fun homemade gift, take advantage of charitable dental prog
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
You built it, right?
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Sure, if you take 100 people at 90% and get them up to 95%, you have five fewer failures whereas 100 people from 50% to 80% means 30 fewer failures. However, the 90% are mostly under their own power and need small amounts of guidance and mo
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Well, the VC really did steal your idea. And yes, ideas are worth something. Talk to a lawyer, find out the statute of limitations, document everything, then make a note to keep an eye on them. If it seems like they come into some money, go
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
That would just reduce the pool of desirable names for both squatters and other users, so the problem would not be mitigated at all. Even if a domain cost a million a year, squatters would still exist in proportion to the demand for domains
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Lean startup isn't trying to outpace the customer, it's trying to catch up. It's for people who don't understand what the customer wants.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
It is funny to think about, but most likely the purchase is for the rest of the shares SF doesn't own.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I didn't really say that. The hard problem with price controls is difficulty producing the right amounts of goods to meet demands because of regulation needed to mandate supply of less profitable goods. It becomes very complex when so many
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I didn't say anything about US medicine, especially whether it has price problems and whether it could or does have price control problems. I only gave a specific answer to what happens when there is inelastic demand because of a government
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Price controls and price control problems follow. This is known.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
You're right but take it further. Willpower is a muscle. It gets fatigued on any particular day, but as it is exercised over time it becomes stronger. A daily practitioner of frugality is able to choose the right thing nearly effortlessly c
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
The data spinner on the iPhone is a good example. The 3G/Wifi spinner is at that "normal" speed, just fast enough to be smooth and not fast enough to be unintelligible. The Edge network spinner is at perhaps half speed and is painful to wat
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Well, there is the web interface for read-only. For write-only I suppose there is simply emailing a file to the person who owns the Dropbox. For accidental/malicious deletes there is version rollback as well as one's personal drive backups.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I am quite surprised to see that. I suppose upvoting makes sense to reward karma, but the purpose of downvoting is to make a comment difficult to even read. It seems against the spirit of the site to do that to somethig one merely disagrees
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Downvotes are not for disagreeing with people on Hacker News. I disagree with your post but I upvoted it. There is a legal difference between distributing someone's content oneself and linking to it. However, I will grant you that CBC's ToS
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Yes, but he changed the name to "Canadian Radio" (the equivalent of changing the app linking to my blog to "Startup Blog" or some such. While I realize I could be a jerk and make Apple kill the app with a generic name by default, I don't th
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
He is not packaging it, though. As he says in the article, his app is basically a simple web browser that automates the process of going to the CBC's website and clicking on a stream URL. He does not distribute the content himself. Also, it
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Probably it's just that business development is too loosely defined. I've seen it applied to everything from heavy enterprise sales to college students hired to pass out flyers. No different than any other generic title in that respect. Pro
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
To use Blank's framework I suppose business development carries on the customer development role assuming a feedback channel to product development is in place. This is especially true for enterprise business development where a sale can be
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I always use either a framework or a CMS that's a framework, like Wordpress with Thematic. Every time I get involved in a project that has no framework (and too low of a budget) I regret it.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Steve's argument against business development is that it costs money and sells a product without finding out if the product will work. For a startup selling something without a proven market, business development is a bet on luck because th
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Yes, you are right of course. The interest rate could not rationally go down below zero, but there would still be demand for loans during the deflationary period, so there would be other compensation (like equity in a business) in exchange
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
The General's office's report said that the projections would have been accurate but for the USPS earning a higher than expected amount of interest on their assets. To recalibrate based on this windfall seems foolish to me. If you take the
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Just to be clear, it's an argument against fiat currency as deflationary and inflationary shocks occur in those systems. The effects of deflation and inflation over time are countered with market-set interest rates -- higher savings and loa
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Don't feel bad. I'm a cool 900.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
What's your Elo?
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
The name you want to invoke here is John Ruskin, who has been mistaken for a Marxist.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Overall, it's enjoyable. Sometimes your wording can be a little awkward. Keep it up.

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