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by robzyb 11y ago
Why couldn't I figure this out by myself?! Thanks!
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by robzyb 11y ago
This is a good article, but what I've been struggling with recently is dealing with literal binary data in Python. What I mean by that is I literally have data stored in memory, and I want to deal with it in arbitrary groups of bits. S
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SourceForce Project of the Month(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by robzyb 11y ago|0 comments
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by robzyb 11y ago
Investing in getScale is vastly different to investing in IBM. Lending to getScale is vastly different to lending to IBM. Therefore the debt/equity argument and balance is vastly difference.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> Just to be clear though debt is actually a preferred type of financing because it is one of the cheapest forms. Honestly? That statement seems a tad simplistic to me. Especially in the context of startups.
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by robzyb 11y ago
As an Australian living in Japan all of those plates look remarkably similar. It wouldn't surprise me if all of them were covered under the 'eu' directive. Of course, my point was simply that there IS an EU rule, and theref
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by robzyb 11y ago
> wouldn't the margin (revenue-costs / revenue) already take into account the cost of acquiring customers? Not necessarily. The word "margin" is very ambiguous because it could relate to many different types of margin
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by robzyb 11y ago
Y'know, I'm not entirely uncomfortable with that conclusion...
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by robzyb 11y ago
I would argue that's no better. I would say: When dealing with numbers that span orders of magnitude, and the result is very sensitivity to those numbers, you need to obtain more information in order to make a better estimate.
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by robzyb 11y ago
"The common EU format of having a blue section on the extreme left with EU circle of stars and the country code was introduced by Council Regulation (EC) No 2411/98 of 3 November 1998[1] and entered into force on the 11 November 1
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by robzyb 11y ago
You beat me to it by 60 seconds, but you made the point in a for more general way:- The sensitivity of LTV/CAC to the assumed CAC is supremely important here.
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by robzyb 11y ago
What's badly needed here is a sensitivity analysis. For example, he lists ZocDoc's CAC as in the range $1k to $10k. If it's $1k then their LTV/CAC = 4.8 (wow good!) If it's $10k then their LTV/CAC = 0.48 (wow h
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by robzyb 11y ago
I'm not so sure. A taxi in Melbourne Australia won't even take a booking for a street corner. "I'm sorry sir, it has to be a fixed address." Also taxi companies aren't set up to accept payment over a telephone
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by robzyb 11y ago
It wasn't intended to be an excuse for not using "correct" terminology or units. The reason that these terminology and units were used by OP was because at a fixed voltage it is common for engineers to think about current ins
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by robzyb 11y ago
The Raspberry Pi runs on a fixed 5 volts. At a fixed voltage power will scale linearly with current.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> i often wonder if they actually believe what they are saying They probably believe it. I fully expect that I've actually done it before without even realising.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> Do you mean life partners? I mean everything. Almost literally everything. The most recent thing I can think of is seating arrangements. At my current workplace seating arrangements are mostly random. Someone here had the idea that we
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by robzyb 11y ago
> "That software we've got causes us so many problems, it's disaster! When we get the new software everything will be fixed." This way of thinking isn't exclusive to software.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> Good ol' Chuo Line. Enjoy Nagano? It was beautiful. More beautiful than the Yamazaki distillery that I visited in 2013 when I was (coincidentally) on vacation in Japan. > Might be back late spring. I can see neither of us publi
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The Guardian goes all-in on AWS public cloud after OpenStack 'disaster’(computerworlduk.com)
79 points by robzyb 11y ago|70 comments
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USB?
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by robzyb 11y ago
I just... I don't... I'm a bit lost for words. The sheer amount of "stuff" you get for $5 (albeit USD) is staggering. I am designing some simple electronics gadgets for Burning Man, and the electronics (low-end MSP430 ba
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by robzyb 11y ago
Thank you. Am I being to harsh in accusing The Atlantic/CityLab from clearly not putting the reader first when they created this article?
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by robzyb 11y ago
> A simple yes or no will do. Haven't they done better than that? Except they've dealt with the possible issue that the reader has an incorrect understanding of the support lifecycle policy for Internet Explorer.
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by robzyb 11y ago
It depends on what type of client / relationship we are talking about. It might go like this: Theodores: I only want to support IE11+ Client: No. What if our users have older browsers? * later * Theodores: I only want to support IE11+
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by robzyb 11y ago
> At the time on a daily basis. Taking two a month will be more than fine. Phew! > 1. You're in the right place for great yet reasonably priced whisky. I visited Hakushu distillery on the weekend, it was fantastic! > 2. I hope
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by robzyb 11y ago
Some would argue that "gross revenue" should only include the amount that Lyft gets paid, not the amount that they hold in escrow for their drivers. This is more a question of semantics than anything else.
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by robzyb 11y ago
I designed a functional replica of the 4004 using 74-series logic in my spare time while I was doing an undergraduate degree in Business during 2009-ish.
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by robzyb 11y ago
I really need to choose a service to host all my photos on. I was a singular archive of every photo I've ever taken. I'm seriously considering setting up a camlistore[1] server but it would probably mean writing my own Android&#x2
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by robzyb 11y ago
> I'd stripped my stomach lining from taking them too regularly. How regularly were you taking them? This thread has me terrified over the possibility that one day I won't be able to take ibuprofen. (For reference, on average I

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