myth2018

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by myth2018 4y ago
I'm so grateful for having abandoned social networks. My main motivator were the fights over political weaponization of COVID-19, but then I went on and abandoned youtube and news as well. Now, I'm halfway with my first book, foun
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by myth2018 4y ago
> “software that doesn’t really care about the needs of the user but rather about the needs of the developer.” Shall we not forget the software that only cares about aesthetic aspirations of its UX designers
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Ah, and I forgot to mention: In 2011, when JAC Motors started to sell cars for cheaper, you saw what happened: government raised taxes over imported cars (maybe a result of a lobby from the other manufacturers?) That's what happens whe
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There's a number of factors, but I'd say the most important ones are: 1. taxes, although it varies. Imported consumer electronics are taxed more heavily. However, there are regions with fiscal incentives for companies to install t
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> e.g. bribes necessary to get the shipment, insurance over shipment theft, margin risk due to volatile forex, etc Sorry but this is one of the many plain lies companies tell in order to justify their overpriced products.
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In fact, the fine would need to be way higher in order to perform any serious "educational" effect over Apple. However, in Brazil this sort of fine has upper limits established by the consumers protection law -- the fine must be b
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> It would be more interesting to dive down and figure out what exactly the users like more about TU Indeed. When they say "it's fast", I don't read it simply as "the program is fast". They get their stuff d
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In my country (Brazil) I sporadically meet people using TUI-based systems. Mostly COBOL but also a good amount of Clipper (or Harbour, maybe?). I'm also aware of a couple of companies maintaining systems in Harbour and my parents use a
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by myth2018 4y ago
They cared enough to keep searching for my keywords, to click on my ads, but then they realized they were not interested and bounced? Also, like I said, the traffic the ads generated was good (it generated prospects fitting the profile I wa
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> “After all, who cares if big brands waste their money showing ads to bots?” I'm not so sure this affects only big brands. I've experienced that in march 2020. I ran ads in a very popular platform and was fairly happy about th
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true that. Thanks
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> however 12h _sometimes_ is used conversationally; That happens in Portuguese (brazilian, at least). Digital clocks go through 0-23 hours, but the second half is _sometimes_ named as 1-11 afternoon/night (whatever fits your taste).
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In Portuguese, Monday-Friday are numbered (2a-feira - 6a-feira). I wonder if are there other languages also presenting this feature. I believe there are.
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Another very concerning aspect: It's been a long time since it's widely known Google, Facebook and other bigtechs are collecting users' data and profiting from it. That "inspires" a huge number of other companies to
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An urban reform, not bikes or any sort of transportation, is the gateway to urban progress. I was about to argue that bikes would never solve the transportation problems in most of the huge latinamerican cities. Not simply because they are
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Wow I use the app since a long time ago and had never noticed it. Thanks for that!
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Hey, that's a nice case study! Could you give me some pointers on where I could start studying about the math involved? Are those topics usually covered by good books on computer graphics?
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> Is any business a ponzi scheme? The analogy you are stating doesn't sound right. If the early stage investors' criteria were based on startups' revenue forecasts, then yes, the metaphor would apply. However, that's
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You're right, I correct myself: > asking 1 question to your engineers
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I'm sorry but I couldn't disagree more. We engineers can be really fast at refusing unrealistic estimates imposed by other departments, especially when we take them for loosers. But we are not very good at estimating as well, and
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Financing and, I'd add, feasibility assessments. A good plan may reveal that a given project is simply unachievable given the resources available, providing info for a wise manager to avoid making huge mistakes. Sometimes we technician
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Yes, it is. You're not supposed to understand the internals of everything. But of the things underlying your field of work/study? You should. We shouldn't think about the fundamentals the whole time. The cognitive load would
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I've been doing web development since 1996. It catches my attention that those topics are considered "surprising" by the newer developers. Some people see this as a sign that younger developers are weaker. Not at all. There s
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I agree it's needed and it must be established if lacking, but 1) sometimes it's too unstable and you need institutional devices to counterbalance, but such devices are dismissed as useless bureaucracy in agile ideology and 2) agi
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> Yes, but note that the client is inside the circle, not an external force, in Agile Indeed, and this is one of the points Agile gets furthest from real world. Anecdote: I've worked for an average-sized bank with users who were coo
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I agree with you. But even the Manifesto has some points that make it impractical in many circumstances. To stick with a single example: is it safe to favor customer collaboration over contract negotiation when dealing with high budget proj
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The biggest problem is not in Agile itself, but indeed in the dogmatism of its practitioners. I believe that stems from the fact that agile methods became too "productized": there's a whole market of books, lectures, certific
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Scrum and Agile have given us a lot.. of nasty problems. Don't get me wrong, I think Scrum and Agile may be great tools, but their values are not exclusively intrinsic. There are SEVERAL prerequisites for them to work well. And propone
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Delaying profits is a perfectly valid strategy, but that implies intent. I guess however most of these modern startups are having no profits because they aren't managing to make them, and not as part of a bigger strategy.
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It's lol indeed, and this appears to be one among many symptoms of this complete nonsense we're living. It seems to be normal nowadays for a startup to pursue all the sorts of shallow growth indicators instead of worrying about ma

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