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by rafd 7y ago
I'm very glad you liked it! Thank you for your kind words.
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by rafd 7y ago
If you're new to functional programming, I recently gave a talk on applying FP concepts at ClojureNorth: https://youtu.be/vK1DazRK_a0 The main example I work through is in JavaScript so that Clojure's syntax doesn
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by rafd 8y ago
AFAIK, many countries do not tax gifts or have an estate tax (ex. Canada).
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by rafd 8y ago
You can use spec to verify that "a value only contains items described in the spec". The core library doesn't make it easy, but spell-spec [1] contains some useful helpers. [1] https://github.com/bhauman/
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by rafd 8y ago
We do these sort of surveys a lot with our team. We found that users had a hard time coming up with the ranked list, but found making A vs B comparisons easy. We slapped together a quick tool that lets you create pairwise surveys and then a
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Braid – open, threaded Slack alternative with a novel UI(github.com)
2 points by rafd 8y ago|0 comments
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by rafd 8y ago
That's the approach that we take in Braid chat: https://github.com/braid hat/braid Works well, although some people are put off by the similarity to Twitter #sigh
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by rafd 8y ago
On a simple network, the extra energy is "absorbed" by the remaining hardware components (think: wired getting hotter, etc.), eventually resulting in failure due to operating at higher voltages or currents than designed for. Most
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by rafd 11y ago
Talk to a few people that you would hope would be ideal users of your app -- ask them about their habits and media they consume to better identify potential channels that you could use to reach similar people. Your earliest users are most l
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by rafd 11y ago
FYI, even in the paleolithic era, if you lived past 15, the life expectancy was 54. [1] Using average lifespan in your argument portrays a world where no-one lives to their 50s. When in actuality, most adults died in their 50s (but there wa
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by rafd 12y ago
Huh! Just last week I did a survey of NLP Date Parsing libraries. If you're looking got something similar in other languages, see: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dKt0R247B8Mx5sFXd7ht...
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by rafd 12y ago
We can get a more useful translation than "you need approximately 6 balls on average", here's how: The process of capturing is a Bernoulli process [0]: each time you throw the ball, there is a P chance of catching it, and it
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CultureCode: collection of company culture slidedecks(slideshare.net)
1 points by rafd 13y ago|0 comments
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by rafd 13y ago
I'm supportive of basic income, but slightly apprehensive of side effects. I think it would have to be rolled-in gradually so as not to shock the economic system. Some other potential pros not mentioned in the article: - lowers barrier
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The Peachy Printer - The First $100 3D Printer and Scanner(kickstarter.com)
10 points by rafd 13y ago|0 comments
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by rafd 13y ago
On the one hand, entertainment products are difficult to capture by the current startup rhetoric because (1) the audience/market is broad, (2) the user doesn't have a problem (well, perhaps "boredom"), both of which put
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by rafd 13y ago
Mobile educational language games: http://penyopal.com Our latest is a mystery game that you play by speaking: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/speak-mandarin-chinese-priva... Also working on a startup
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by rafd 13y ago
I experimented with a pay-what-you-want model for a language learning game, and it was always hugely motivating to see players choose to pay 4.99 instead of 0.99. Financially, half of our income has come from players paying more than they n
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by rafd 13y ago
Tip: cars drive on the left in Australia, so road signs and posts will be on the left.
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by rafd 14y ago
It's not widespread because it adds extra steps for those who do remember their password (switch tab, wait for email, open email, click link), or for those who don't have their email client open (go to gmail.com, log in, open email, click l
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by rafd 15y ago
It may be an issue of timing. Online shopping only took off in the last decade; the batch of consumers born after 1990 will have been exposed to internet shopping since childhood and will need much less convincing of buying anything online
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by rafd 15y ago
It's difficult to draw white pixels with a (Macbook) touchpad. Allow for Ctrl+Click ?
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by rafd 15y ago
Thanks for the input. We'll put a lot of effort into the education aspect. The "future 65+" is something we're thinking about; it's maybe too soon to go after them directly (existing services meet their needs pretty well), but it's part of
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by rafd 15y ago
Thanks for your insights. A lot of the problem seems to be marketing and getting-started help and not just technology. Based on our conversations with older people, we've been seeing a higher interest in tablets than other computer technolo
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Mobiles for 65+. Need your input.
6 points by rafd 15y ago|9 comments
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by rafd 15y ago
A 100W incandescent has a color temperature of about 3000 K, while the sun is 5700 K, so yes, it does appear more yellow. Because both incandescents and the sun are essentially black bodies, their color temperature is their actual temperatu
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by rafd 15y ago
Off-the-shelf incandescents should do the job: the resulting spectrum matches daylight best compared to other sources (you get close to full spectrum black body radiation, like from the sun). It just becomes a question of supplying enough,
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by rafd 15y ago
1. A task can belong to a number of projects. You could have projects for backlog, in progress, etc. and move a task between these (no drag/drop, but can be changed in the task panel) 2. Use tags instead, and use the tag filtering options.
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by rafd 15y ago
Tips: Take advantage of keyboard shortcuts, it's what makes Asana feel so quick. Asana lets you do things your own way (ie. it doesn't dictate a project management style), but a little structure is useful. Read their 'Best Practices:' http
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by rafd 15y ago
I have the same problem: 'yes' is so much easier to say than 'no,' but the quantity of my projects is affecting the quality, and I don't like it. Derek Sivers has a suggested approach for over-committers: "Hell yeah, or no." It's helped me

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