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by rwhitman 11y ago
Fascinating. Never crossed my mind that this was an area I could break into. Thank you
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How does one break into VR without a background in 3D gaming / CG?
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Thank you so much for that read. The part about Pioneers of the past being burned at the stake I'll hold on to. That's a truth that hangs on today, albeit with less fire and more firing
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The point about generalists no longer having a place in the market is something that's becoming more and more apparent every day. The web was crafted by generalists. People who could think about both technology and design at the same
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by rwhitman 11y ago
I came to this realization a few months ago that I had been riding for several years on the wave of retrofitting and then migrating the desktop-focused web to mobile devices. Once every business with deep pockets in my circle had sufficient
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by rwhitman 11y ago
This is appalling. Transactional data and marketing data are very different. The fact that they're willfully playing with merging customers' sensitive transaction info like financial statements, personal messages and treating it
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by rwhitman 11y ago
Copying my comment from another thread because I want my rage to be heard! Seriously cannot trust a new product offering from anyone these days. Newsletters and transactional emails are not the same service. I signed up a client for tra
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by rwhitman 11y ago
Seriously cannot trust a new product offering from anyone these days. Newsletters and transactional emails are not the same service. I signed up a client for transactional emails on Mandrill because the client was already locked into a
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It's fascinating to watch San Francisco rapidly transform from being the utopian refuge of American progressives in the late 20th century, into a libertarian city-state in the 21st. I can't help but think the Bay Area's escal
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The MH370 tracking problem is unfortunate but what I'm most fascinated by in all of this is the continuing reminder of how powerless we are as a civilization when it comes to the oceans. A plane crashes in an area with no landmass and
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Wouldn't the absurdly short time period for design test iteration and the extreme political pressure weighing on success be the most ripe conditions for making sacrifices of this type though? We're talking about a generation that
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I'm normally very much a skeptic and not prone to conspiracy theories, but one that's always really fascinated me is the "lost cosmonauts" theory. The idea that Yuri Gagarin wasn't the first human to travel into spa
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Wouldn't the rise of Android have something to do with this?
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Patents are probably the most powerful tool for entrenched players here. Adobe patented several GUI conventions including their most common shortcut key commands in Photoshop, so that competitors would always have a slight learning curve fo
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Elon Musk's dad was an engineer, and his mother was a model. Even if assuming he wasn't crazy wealthy, he was at least partially exposed to engineering, and brushed with educated people from an early age. Not to mention, from Wiki
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by rwhitman 11y ago
There's a narrative we're told about entrepreneurs that we're not told about Wall St. One of the founding values of America is that anyone with innovative entrepreneurial drive can start their own business and build wealth fr
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by rwhitman 11y ago
They could do all kinds of things to cut costs and expedite projects, if business people and engineers were running the show. But alas red tape, political croneyism, union labor and entrenched supply contracts are in the driver's seat
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The way I do it, if a checklist gets heavy enough that I need to start assigning ownership for each item with a due date, that means the checklist needs to be broken out into cards. There's a one click feature for this so it's ver
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by rwhitman 11y ago
My definition would be a startup in a space that's aspirational in terms of both social status and wealth, yet success is nearly impossible to reach. To the point where the obsession over it's pursuit has a track record of causing
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Yup, exactly. The other scenarios are visiting a friend / family member, who holds the responsibility of "tour guide", meaning the only thing the family books is a flight and maybe a rental car. Or they book an all-inclusive
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by rwhitman 11y ago
If you recall when TripIt came onto the scene there were several other competing services (remember Dopplr?) that all got pummeled into dust during the recession. TripIt is pretty much the sole survivor of that era, though the product is mo
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by rwhitman 11y ago
Travel is the white whale of tech startups. It's very alluring to tech entrepreneurs since it's: A) Sexy - the idea of running a travel startup sounds exciting. It feels like an opportunity to periodically escape from the humdrum
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I feel as though your story has more to it than simply flubbing code tests. Are there other factors beyond coding skills that an employer would see as a negative? Are you applying only for positions in a particularly competitive region, ski
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I guess singling out 4 floor walk-ups as something we need more of kind of muddles the point. The scale of the current crop of new apartment buildings is often measured horizontally.. The trend in development these days, in my neighborhood
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by rwhitman 11y ago
One problem we face right now is that America was built on this "urban" vs "suburban" planning mindset. In the 60's to the 90's the city equated overcrowding and crime, the suburbs equaled privacy and freedom.
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My spouse works for Saks / HBC. They just gutted their health plan and did a sweep of layoffs in the NYC office. Seemed to be cutting their spending to bare bones this fall. Curious if acquiring Gilt was the plan all along. HBC does no
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It appears to be a redirect URL from some sort of 3rd party RSS feed syndication
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When you call 911 the police usually show up followed by paramedics / fire dept or vice versa. Depending on the city this is standard practice. The medics typically take blood pressure before leaving, not sure why but assuming this is
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It's a shame the list ends in 2004. I imagine the last decade's worth of software-related horror would be quite interesting
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by rwhitman 11y ago
Very helpful, thank you for this

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