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by sah2ed 7y ago
In practice, it is not strange at all. The person you replied to tried to highlight why that particular framing a bad metric to highlight in an OSS project. People respond better to something like: this repo needs $500/mo to achieve X
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by sah2ed 7y ago
The first scenario is a loss leader -- it doesn't contribute any revenue for the business to stay afloat. The second may or may not be a loss leader, but it will contribute something in revenue for the business to stay afloat.
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by sah2ed 7y ago
That may be true, but I think the poster didn't frame their actual question charitably enough, causing the phatic expression prefacing the question to be rendered completely useless. IMHO, it was quite confrontational if you mentally l
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Can you give a vague hint as to your niche to give us an idea of the kind of services you render? iOS? HFT? Mobile games? Marketing? US taxes? GDPR compliance? Thanks!
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Both you and the person you responded to (Crinus) are right. I’ll share some context. On Windows, Flash was fast but on OS X (as it was called then), Flash performance was atrocious. In fact, this was one of the major reasons why Steve Jobs
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by sah2ed 7y ago
OT: Can anyone be kind enough to link to the specific model of TacticalCoder's monitor setup as captured in this Wired photo [0]? Thanks 0: https://www.wired.com/story/a-programmer-solved-a-20-year-ol...
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> Linux is not, nor has it ever been, a valid consumer operating system. I disagree with your assertion since it wasn’t properly qualified. Linux is indeed a valid consumer OS but it has never been a mainstream OS on the desktop. In
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by sah2ed 7y ago
You conveniently left out Linux, why :)? Linus Torvalds recently did an interview [0], where he talked about, amongst other things, just how hard it is to get an OS off the ground. Excerpt: “I used to think that some radical new and exciti
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by sah2ed 7y ago
That depends on whether the expected benefits greatly exceeds the costs of the new network and can offset the supposed negative externalities. expected benefits >> costs + supposed negative externalities
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> Why would someone publish money making information rather than make the money for themselves? Perhaps because they enjoy academia far more than money making? Some people like Grigori Perelman [0] are just not interested in money or
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> It's become irrelevant because technology is now the measure of all things. It's an outdated mindset to view science and the pursuit of knowledge as sacred things that must have an order. If the technology is progressing, th
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Links for the lazy: https://www.pipistrel-aircraft.com/aircraft/electric-flight/... https://www.pipistrel-aircraft.com/aircraft/electric-flight/...
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> ... at least Uber is trying to position itself as a logistics company instead of a mobility company, which really doesn't make sense (mobility is an abstract concept that I think can't be definied as an industry). Logistics
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by sah2ed 8y ago
You were probably thinking about the startup Summly, which was founded by a 16 yo [0]. Summly eventually got bought by Marissa Mayer while at the helms at Yahoo! for $30 million [1]. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
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by sah2ed 8y ago
OT: you could fix the intended italics in your comment by using '<asterisk-char>' instead of '_'. > Looks like you're right. Ice hockey is the national winter sport of Canada while lacrosse is the summe
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by sah2ed 8y ago
You are correct. Empowering people ends poverty much faster than handouts. In fact, there is an opinion piece from 2017 in the Guardian titled "Obsession with ending poverty is where development is going wrong" [0] that argued f
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Chick-fil-A https://www.chick-fil-a.com/
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Dude, don’t leave everyone hanging, spill the beans!
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by sah2ed 8y ago
The Google founders kept trudging on because they had seen an anomaly that no one else had observed or no one else was willing to fix. They had built PageRank for BackRub that proved to be superior in almost every way to the dominant way
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by sah2ed 8y ago
There is a saying that approximates to: "your solution is only as good as your understanding of a problem" and this is especially true of Elon Musk. From your perspective, his projects might look like blind faith. But from Elo
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> Presence indicators don't mean much any more because people may be online just to view Facebook, or on their phone only momentarily. Presence indicators combined with status messages (e.g “walking the dog”) were the original ins
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> The last few years of BB included touch screen devices including some with touch keyboards. My view is that had BB leaned into the enterprise security solution that made the devices popular with businesses in the first place their sto
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by sah2ed 8y ago
There are multiple factors at play, but focusing on only one factor can lead anyone to draw the wrong conclusions as you and the gp have done. The gp mentioned RIM as a clear example of a company that did not focus on its competitor (Apple)
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Honest question: what did you get out of the Blue Ocean Strategy book? I tried to read a sample on the Kindle app, but the text was simply ... impenetrable. The main idea, whatever it was, was couched in layers and layers of jargon. When
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by sah2ed 8y ago
You’ve basically just described the conceptual idea behind what economists call the “environmental kuznets curve”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve#Environmental_...
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> I’m assuming that you didn’t read the section of the essay where I summarise Shanteau, Kahneman and Klein’s findings? I did read your summary in the section titled A Personal Take , unless there is another summary? Link? (I’m wonder
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by sah2ed 8y ago
You did a solid job outlining the 2 oppposing sides between heuristics and biases (H&B) and Recognition-primed decision making (RPD) in the blog article you authored and linked to. I’d like to invert your key takeaway by looking at it a
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Potentially, yes. There is an open issue on GitHub to add an API. Once that feature is implemented, adding a web page where links can be submitted for archival becomes trivial.
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Several are performed by US suppliers. For instance, Apple claims that they enable: 80,000 jobs - direct employment with Apple; 450,000 jobs - indirect employment with their US suppliers; For more context surrounding Apple's employment
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by sah2ed 8y ago
I trust there are separate plans to preserve his websites & photos on archive.org’s wayback machine.

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