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by sah2ed 8y ago
> Of course traditional learning methods (by rote, etc.) are not going to work for a pictographic language, but mnemonic learning is greatly aided by the story and history of the symbols therein. Upvoted just for your last sentence. I&#x
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by sah2ed 8y ago
The Dictator's Handbook is also on my reading list and I really enjoyed the Kindle sample. In fact, I got to know about the book from a HN recommendation. It's impressive how so much clearly one may see the world by relearning wel
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> I think that remains to be seen. I'm sure there's more you could have written, why hold back?
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by sah2ed 8y ago
It's the nature of the medium being text-based. FWIW, I didn't parse each of the nested comments as disagreeing, more like using their individual experiences to elucidate the point of the person they responded to.
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> The point of minimum wage is to outlaw jobs that cannot reasonably feed people doing them. (Subject to societal norms.) OK, how does a society put a dollar figure on what a reasonable minimum wage should be, subject to societal norms
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by sah2ed 8y ago
I feel hungry already just from reading your comment :P? Have any of your notes or videos online?
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Would you mind quoting the relevant bit? I'm on mobile at the moment. My problem with including it at all is that, as he said in a preceding chapter, he is in a unique position to shoot down myths that technical founders believe about
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by sah2ed 8y ago
The book mentions "Percentage of tickets closed" as a metric by which engineering should be evaluated, which IMO is incredibly short-sighted. The Google Doc has all editing disabled at the moment, but does anyone know if the autho
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by sah2ed 8y ago
So, essentially: - validation is checking that there exists at least an end user who will need what you are building; - verification is checking that what you have built so far will meet or continue to meet their needs and other end use
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> You almost certainly have, though you may not be able to tell the difference if you don't actively look for it. The gp merely asked for anecdotal data, nothing rigorous. By disagreeing, you are indirectly implying that the comment
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> What was the original? Here's a wikipedia link for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
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by sah2ed 8y ago
This was an excellent read. Thanks for the link!
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by sah2ed 8y ago
But what about apps? That's a major part of the reasons why Windows Phone died, developers refused to commit resources to port/develop apps to yet another mobile platform. IIRC, Palm webOS tried to fix that by allowing developers
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by sah2ed 8y ago
So what do you plan to move to? iOS?
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I think the parent meant publish the repo on GitHub as you are unlikely to accidently nuke the code like you would if you were experimenting on Heroku.
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by sah2ed 8y ago
My question was actually tongue-in-cheek, which I tried to communicate with the smiley face. I'm quite familiar with Google's history and would not characterize them as having vanquished Microsoft. For the most part, Microsoft doe
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> Microsoft, the company they nearly vanquished a decade ago, is releasing better products. Google nearly vanquished Microsoft a decade ago? Where can I read more about this bit of history :) ? IMO, Axios [0] seem to do a better job of
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Well, that's because you are not thinking criminal enough :) The modus operandis of commercial kidnappers is to always blindfold the victim in transit to and/or from the hideout, and after a ransom has been collected. Then of co
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Yes, 1969. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
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by sah2ed 8y ago
You are not necessarily disagreeing with what I wrote about correlation, that humans are predictable in aggregate , which is the opposite of your point that humans are random (in aggregate) . The text you quoted is disagreeing with the au
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Because human attention is scarce, it's infeasible for them to care until there is a real risk of such behavior becoming a problem. People would suddenly start to care if the entity enjoys a large enough market share to make them a mon
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Humans can be spontaneous yes, but not exactly random. In aggregate, human behavior from online activities is predictable [0] according to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in Everybody Lies . 0: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw&#x
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> I still have around 40 years. Plenty of time and I like computers. That's what we all wish for -- a long healthy mostly uneventful life -- until reality strikes, hard.
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by sah2ed 8y ago
You could start with reading Africa-focused capital market news: http://www.africancapitalmarketsnews.com/ There's a Ryan Hoover (not the Product Hunt founder) that blogs about how to open a brokerage account as a for
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Both can be true. After all, humans are a contradictory mess. Hitler for instance saw to animal welfare [0] while also perpetrating ethnic cleansing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Context matters. Jobs was repeatedly referring to system software in this talk, a category distinct from application software. System software + own hardware = competitive advantage Application software + own hardware = ?* *Most likely
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> ... a Limited Liability Presidium. Shouldn't that have been Limited Liability Partnership? Autocomplete fail?
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by sah2ed 8y ago
One thing a lot of people seem to miss is that being nice is a choice [0] -- nicety to others is a learnable skill. [0] https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/05/30/2010-baccalaureate...
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> Jobs had many traits that would lead a psychiatrist to classify him as sociopathic - not mass murderer type, but the psychological type. For example, his complete lack of empathy towards his daughter, who he refused to acknowledge for
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Currently reading the book and I agree with your recommendation, it's very well-written, perhaps written with an intuitive learner in mind.

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