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by skadamat 5y ago
In my experience, investors love backing: - B2C startups with a large # of users (100k minimum with strong growth, ideally 500k-1M) if it's a digital product. Physical products are a different beast - B2B startups with a small # of cus
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Open Source Textbook: Introduction to Modern Statistics(openintro.org)
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Understanding the Superset Semantic Layer(preset.io)
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This is low key the Developer Relations playbook! I heard about Oxide thru the awesome On the Metal podcast y'all started :]
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by skadamat 5y ago
The whole movement around "teaching kids to code" has been interesting to watch. Multiple goals seem to be conflated together (which isn't uncommon in education): - Helping kids think in new ways - Building skills for "t
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Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)(wesmckinney.com)
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by skadamat 5y ago
Sadly no HDMI or DisplayPort, so can't use it for Xbox. Sadly only 60 Hz Seems like a really gorgeous update to this old thing - https://www.adorama.com/lot27md5klb.html?utm_source=adl-gbas... I hope they do 4k@120hz
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by skadamat 5y ago
It's almost surely 60hz since they didn't brand it as "ProMotion" display like they did with iPhone, Macbook Pro, and iPad Pro
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Followed you on Twitter, but can't seem to DM hmm!
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The Analytics Everywhere Podcast by Maxime Beauchemin(preset.io)
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This is so timely -- Arlington is on our short list of cities to move to within Boston and we've heard the exact same thing about the schools.
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by skadamat 5y ago
I never knew until recently how tied up Russia's oil strategy was to their military / political thinking. If others are interested, this video has a great overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE
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by skadamat 5y ago
Yeah it definitely would. Historically, to OP's hesitation, databases & data warehouses haven't purchased BI tools, application layers, etc. But this is starting to change (e.g. Databricks bought Redash, an open source BI plat
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by skadamat 5y ago
I'm knee deep in the data tooling space myself and it's quirky at first but not too surprising. This resembles the Google Cloud acquisition of Kaggle, or Microsoft's acquisition of Github. For better or for worse, these large
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Snowflake to Acquire Streamlit(snowflake.com)
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There's open source backend software and there's full-stack / GUI oriented software and in my limited experience, I don't think the latter always makes sense. Smarter people than me have articulated their points about th
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by skadamat 5y ago
Highly recommend World Without Email by Cal Newport on this exact topic: https://www.calnewport.com/books/a-world-without-email/
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Building Custom Viz Plugins in Superset v2 (Updated for Monorepo)(preset.io)
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How to visualize visual project changes (2019)(serendipidata.com)
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Biggest challenge here is that you'll be starting over from scratch. First few years of any new job / role is going to be a lot of grunt work. Also, as many people have pointed out, you will likely also be sitting in front a compu
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Fair enough -- my mistake then. I would edit / delete if I still could but I think HN has a edit timeout
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> I do wonder if the project is still under active development. They've publicly acknowledged that they're still working but have been quiet. > I imagine it’s very frustrating to not have much to show after more than half a
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Obligatory Shop Class as SoulCraft drop - https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-so...
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by skadamat 5y ago
I remember listening to a podcast with the Braintree founder and he had mentioned how they worked with the other payment providers out there to create some shared, common standards. This type of competition / co-opetition does happen
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by skadamat 5y ago
World Without Email by Cal Newport talks a bit about the challenges here. Specifically, Peter Drucker advocated for autonomy in knowledge work. However, this often leads to a lot of creep around meetings, Slack pings, and other context-swit
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Happy Holidays GitHub PR(github.com)
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by skadamat 5y ago
Required viewing is Bret Victor's excellent talk "Humane Representation of Thought": https://vimeo.com/115154289
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by skadamat 5y ago
> > "We’ve known for a long time that software will eat the world — the comings and going’s of everyday life, once they are expressed as code, become infinitely easier to patch and improve using only a keyboard and display."
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by skadamat 5y ago
It's insanely laborious to pull in information from datasets on systems, quickly transform them to approximate the answer to a question you're trying to answer, and have a discussion around it. Some examples: - Have restaurants in
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Comprehensive Tutorial for Contributing Code to Apache Superset(preset.io)
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