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Galvanize winds down data education programs(blog.galvanize.com)
2 points by rexreed 5y ago|0 comments
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by rexreed 5y ago
For comparison, and to show how much our economy has changed: The Biggest Employers in 1955 1. General Motors Employees in 1955: 576,667 Employees today: 204,000 (as of 2010) The No.1 car company in the US used to be the No.1 car company in
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by rexreed 5y ago
I run dozens of events a year. Online and even now in-person. I don't have any "space" issues with virtual events. Which platform that you're using has registered attendee limits (vs. actual live attendee limits) and ho
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by rexreed 5y ago
I'm seeing a trend of apps that help to (micro)manage distributed / remote workforces. Virtually keeps track of who is late and no-show to Zoom events, Dailybot has automated standups that basically keeps tabs on employee work and
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by rexreed 5y ago
What is the intent for showing how many people were late or no-shows? Is this app for internal meetings? That would explain the no-show / attendance thing. Or is it for external events? In which case, what is the importance about late
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by rexreed 5y ago
Let's not pretend that there wasn't serious, and at times deadly, anti-semitic overtones to the requirement to shave beards, and the financial penalties that came from seeking exemption. The Beard Tax was notoriously leveraged aga
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by rexreed 5y ago
Transportation might be the identifiable target market, but the actual market of buyers for robotics in transportation is very small, and the problem is that the chasm between the incumbent market and new entrant robotics space is far too
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by rexreed 5y ago
And just today: https://www.aitrends.com/robotics/softbanks-humanoid-robot-p...
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by rexreed 5y ago
The list of Robot company failures and the robotic industry dead pool runs very deep. Just in the past few years: * Rethink Robotics https://www.zdnet.com/article/sudden-unexpected-demise-of-re... * Anki https:/&
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The AI we should fear is already here(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by rexreed 5y ago|0 comments
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by rexreed 5y ago
You're also correct, but I think miss the point as well. The spreadsheet isn't going anywhere. Curse it all we might, blame it for deaths or attribute any aspect of malignment to it, and you'd be right. But the spreadsheet is
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by rexreed 5y ago
* The Utility of Spreadsheets No single application has been as widely adopted by as wide a number of people for such a wide range of uses as the spreadsheet. Love them or hate them, but the spreadsheet metaphor is at once highly useful, hi
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by rexreed 5y ago
If you're trying to run a business, then yes, it needs to be something people need, because you're asking people to give up something of value to them. Money and/or time. If you ask for something of value you have to provide
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by rexreed 5y ago
There will always be inactive customers, but if your customer growth month-over-month is not greater than your % of inactive users (the inverse of % active users), then you will stall and enter decline. For example: if 80% of current custom
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by rexreed 5y ago
Good lessons. But so many common mistakes To summarize: 1) Build something people really need, not a nice-to-have 2) Keeping customers is more important than just acquiring them 3) If you're not keeping your customers that means they d
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by rexreed 5y ago
"Great they are doing this" but passing the cost on to their customers, who will foot the bill for it. So maybe you should thank the PG&E customers who will end up paying for it.
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by rexreed 5y ago
This is true, although PG&E is still a private company, so I don't think the government can take over the job of being the utility in this case.
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by rexreed 5y ago
The point is to avoid lawsuits not wildfires.
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by rexreed 5y ago
Fidelity doesn't offer small business banking, which is what this is.
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by rexreed 5y ago
Google developers are often so lost in the weeds of shipping fast and optimizing for rapid releases that they frustrate users with rapid UI changes, deprecation of major functionality, and not building the things that people often want in f
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by rexreed 5y ago
Not a single researcher or data analyst I know of would prefer "discoverable" content to be in PDF format, regardless of just how awesome the OCR is (which it often isn't, especially for tabular data). Even for all-text, non-
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by rexreed 5y ago
Also - how are PDFs exactly "discoverable"? I have petabytes of PDFs and making them easily "discoverable" for any mass use, such as analytics, search, or data analysis is a massive pain. I'd rather have them in a n
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by rexreed 5y ago
The full dot-com boom period was basically 1995 (Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape in full swing) through 2001 (the dot-com crash in April followed by 9/11). So roughly a 6-7 year period. 1997-1999 was definitely the "hey day"
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by rexreed 5y ago
One would think that the $100k that was invested and the meetings with the Delta management would be documented somewhere
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Delta pilot sues the airline for allegedly stealing an app he designed(engadget.com)
168 points by rexreed 5y ago|99 comments
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by rexreed 5y ago
Is tracking the Virgin spaceship really that much more difficult? The size of VSS Unity is about the same as or larger than many communications satellites, and the craft has enough power, since it doesn't need to operate autonomously f
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by rexreed 5y ago
And yet the live video from the Moon was higher quality using analog: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2993/how-did-nasa-... I feel like we have made negative progress in this particular area.
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by rexreed 5y ago
I posted that as a comment / question earlier. Why is transmitting high quality video from at / near space so difficult when we've been doing live satellite broadcasts at broadcast TV quality for decades? The current response
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by rexreed 5y ago
Can someone explain why it's so technically challenging to get a good quality audio and video feed to / from a suborbital vehicle? Is it just a matter of a long physical distance between transmitter and receiver? How is it that I
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by rexreed 5y ago
Can someone also post non-YouTube streams? The ads on the platform are getting positively insane.

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