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by skewart 10y ago
Just curious, do people already know about your product/company but they're just interacting with it in a different way than the chatbot? Or is the chatbot your main interface?
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by skewart 10y ago
>> Find out what is making their users unhappy. > Asking people what they want will give you predictable results... Asking someone about what's making them unhappy is very different from asking them what they want. In my exper
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by skewart 10y ago
I've thought about that too. I could imagine a near future where people build models and sell access to them in a marketplace, either for direct use or transfer learning - sort of like breeding farm animals. Perhaps in five to ten ye
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Ask HN: Volunteer opportunities for software developers other than open source?
3 points by skewart 10y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Where do you find software engineering mentorship?
1 points by skewart 10y ago|0 comments
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by skewart 10y ago
It's less about specific skills (e.g. writing or accounting) being in demand in those places and nowhere else, and more about what kinds of companies are demanding those skills and how much they're willing to pay. Like legodt men
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Ask HN: People teaching themselves to code right now, how are you doing it?
3 points by skewart 10y ago|0 comments
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by skewart 10y ago
Maybe. But at the same time, Twitter has a lot of influential and/or affluent users, which a lot of companies would like to reach. Maybe they shouldn't try to grow absolute user numbers and instead focus on being a publishing plat
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by skewart 10y ago
I'm pretty confident that the web and mobile development that most of HN does today will NOT be big in 2035. Computers will probably have evolved into pretty different forms, and we'll have different ways of interacting with them
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by skewart 10y ago
Just curious, why should activities only be treated as entry points to the app? What are the downsides of the only-use-fragments-if-you-need-to approach?
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by skewart 10y ago
This is really interesting research. I'm curious to see how it develops. Building trust with users is going to be one of the most important product design challenges for all of these new "AI" fueled products. A self-driving
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Ask HN: Do those “sign up for our newsletter” pop-ups actually work?
16 points by skewart 10y ago|16 comments
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by skewart 10y ago
I used to work in the real estate development industry. The best returns are almost always made on increases in land value. Who exactly captures that profit can vary a lot. Sometimes it's land speculators who buy land cheaply on the o
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by skewart 10y ago
What don't you like about it? (Just curious, I don't have much experience with it myself)
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by skewart 10y ago
Libertarianism and fascism are so far apart that I'm not sure if this question is just trolling, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. Libertarianism generally supports the idea of minimal government intervention in people&#x
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by skewart 10y ago
What's with the ALL CAPS TITLES? Just as friendly feedback: it kinda comes across as a cheap, spammy attempt to get attention - that sort of thing usually doesn't go over well here on HN.
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by skewart 10y ago
Interesting. I've known several Canadians who've moved there from elsewhere in BC, and from Quebec. Vancouver's population has grown steadily over the last few decades[0]. Though perhaps it hasn't had anything like th
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by skewart 10y ago
Just because he's gay doesn't mean he supports marriage equality. Given Thiel's political views I would guess that he thinks that the government shouldn't care about _anyone's_ marriage, gay or straight. So rather
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by skewart 10y ago
I always hear about these people, but I've had a hard time tracking down any data on who they are or how many properties they have bought. I'm sure there are some wealthy Chinese people who have bought property in major cities as
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by skewart 10y ago
Me too. Distinguishing between passive and non-passive income seems in any kind of technical, legal seems incredibly difficult. It reminds me of the old "I know it when I see it" definifinition of pornography, which is a terrible
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by skewart 10y ago
True. It's not a very good title. "As drones evolve, so does their criminal potential." Yup. "As electric cars evolve, so does their criminal potential." Okay, uh, sure, I guess so. "As turtles evolve, so does
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by skewart 10y ago
That birth rate depends on there not being too many kids too. School districts benefit from childless residents who pay taxes to support schools but don't impose any costs. Also, there are many ways to contribute to the development of
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by skewart 10y ago
> it's a quirky language From the blog post: > JavaScript’s deficiencies seem to impress everyone except JavaScript developers, for whom the aspects of JavaScript that I outlined above are not awful warts, they’re “quirks” or “go
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by skewart 10y ago
This. Also, not only does Twitter have great brand recognition but also individual tweets can have far greater reach than Twitter's user numbers might suggest. A lot of non-users see Tweets - embedded in news stories, shared around the
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by skewart 10y ago
Yeah, I'm gonna have to disagree with you, and side with the guy calling him a nutter, on this one. He sounds like a left-wing Donald Trump in that Striker Mag article. He's frighteningly quick to make sweeping generalizations bas
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by skewart 10y ago
> Yet we have an inherited notion that it is deeply sinful to survive without working hard for it, and equally sinful for many to prosper while few labor. As a result we must endlessly invent placeholder positions for people to fill (all
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by skewart 10y ago
You're absolutely right. Though I'd argue the real value in that exclusivity was not only exclusivity itself making people want to join (though I'm sure that was part of it), but also in enabling a culture of honesty about na
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by skewart 10y ago
I disagree. Self-drive tech will indeed become a commodity - eventually. What technology hasn't? For a time, when it's brand new, having better self-driving tech certainly will be a differentiator. But the question is how long th
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by skewart 10y ago
It certainly would a huge change. I'm not suggesting it should happen, just imagining that it _could_. There are pros and cons to it. It might lead to higher salaries for engineers - liability bringing licensing requirements which coul
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by skewart 10y ago
For context, the majority of lawsuits in construction involve defects that are far from life threatening. Waterproofing, insulation, or, say, windows not working quite right are more common. There could be millions of dollars at stake becau

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