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by olegious 9y ago
Blockchains provide solutions to problems that require one (or more) of the following- 1)an immutable, transparent record of transactions 2) trust between parties that don't trust each other 3) optional anonymity 4) decentralization. A
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by olegious 9y ago
Would you rather have untargeted, irrelevant ads?
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by olegious 9y ago
The industry standard (ad industry) is a 10 second view (unless it is a pre-roll ad). So they're just following standards.
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by olegious 9y ago
Zappos has had free one day shipping for years now.
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by olegious 9y ago
Is there a Python version of this?
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by olegious 9y ago
"Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union, Nikolay Basov and Aleksandr Prokhorov were independently working on the quantum oscillator and solved the problem of continuous-output systems by using more than two energy levels. These gain media coul
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by olegious 10y ago
Yes, but they don't question or criticize our foreign policy which is very destructive to the long term interests of this country.
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by olegious 10y ago
Typically bugs should go on an individual card. Yes, that will create many cards, but if they're small, then they'll be fixed quickly. This is more of an art than a science, experiment with different approaches, read about how ot
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by olegious 10y ago
Regarding scoring- in the ideal scenario, you're always working on cards that are most aligned with your top line goals, so you always want to be prioritizing based on your goals. For level of effort scoring, we just use a 1, 2, 3, 5,
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by olegious 10y ago
I think you have to always be focused on whatever top level goal/metric/OKR you're currently focused on and then define and test hypotheses that you think will get you to there in the fastest way possible. Think of it this w
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by olegious 10y ago
A few things here: 1. in Kanban it is very important to have limits for the number of cards you have in every column. I find that a column becomes useless if there is more than 10-12 cards. 2. given #1, forget about your "Backlog&quo
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by olegious 10y ago
"the information" had a great article on Uber's finances recently. One of the stats cited was from an internal Uber study that said moving to a fleet of self driving cars would only achieve a 5-10% profit margin for the comp
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by olegious 10y ago
I'm one of those immigrant children that arrived in SF in the early 90s, now having grown up in SF and found success here, I'm actually looking at moving back to work in tech in Moscow. There is an energy there that I haven'
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by olegious 10y ago
"inspired, how to create products that people love" by cagan, his blog on svpg.com is good too. "Lean startup" "The hard thing about hard things"
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by olegious 10y ago
Maybe you're in a place where Product Management (I'm assuming that's what you mean by "PM") is done poorly? If most of what you're doing is project management and coordination, then you're not really doi
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by olegious 10y ago
It is pricey, but The Information www.theinformation.com has excellent tech reporting.
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by olegious 10y ago
We sold it as a "security precaution, if you create an online access account in our branch, hackers won't be able to create one for you." As far as WF's interest goes- this is one of those situations where the bank'
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by olegious 10y ago
As much as I respect The Economist, they have a very strong anti-Russian bias in their reporting.
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by olegious 10y ago
11 years ago, my first job out of college was as a "personal banker" for Wells Fargo. If I remember correctly, our goals were 8 "solutions" a day. Every few hours either a shift leader, assistant manager or the branch m
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Samsung Kills Off the Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone(nyti.ms)
1 points by olegious 10y ago|1 comments
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by olegious 10y ago
I don't find it creepy because no person in FB doesn't actually know it is me, to them I'm a number in an algorithm. The only way it could become creepy is if they publicly associate my name with the actions and start displa
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by olegious 10y ago
I misunderstood what you were uncomfortable with, I thought you were uncomfortable on your friend's behalf that FB was showing his other friends that he liked an article. But I'd like to better understand where you're coming
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by olegious 10y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to say that adtech as a whole is well behaved or cares about user experience, if it was, ad blockers wouldn't be as popular as they are. But I do think there is also an education issue where most people think
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by olegious 10y ago
If you're logged into FB and there is a relationship between the site and FB, then why is it a surprise that the site is able to id you? And when I say "you" I don't mean "John Smith from sf working for company X&qu
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by olegious 10y ago
Clicking "like" on an article is a action that you take only if you want that like to be seen by your friends. It is an inherently public action, don't see anything wrong here.
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by olegious 10y ago
My thought has always been that poaching is a economic problem and requires an economic solution. The reason why elephants are being killed is because they're worth more dead than alive to the poacher and likely the local community or
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by olegious 10y ago
Prodpad is great. Trello is also flexible enough to be used with many different workflows.
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by olegious 10y ago
I don't like Quip. Too slow. Collaborative editing works much better in Google Docs. Can't do proper headings/subheadings or TOC. Just a few of the issues that jumped out at me.
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by olegious 10y ago
The problem is most high quality advertisers don't want to have their brand promoted along side user generated content. So while Reddit has a ton of traffic, much of that traffic is worthless to the most desirable advertisers.
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by olegious 10y ago
Interesting, you're the first one to ever point this out to me. "Pays X of what I make" doesn't seem to flow off my tongue as well in either English or Russian (my native tongue). Also, in the context of my comment, se

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