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by skewart 10y ago
> I can't sue Home Depot for giving up my credit card info to hackers unless I can prove that it led to someone running up my credit card bill. It's funny how personal data is so clearly valuable - if it weren't companies
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by skewart 10y ago
> How do we decide when it is negligence, and when there was nothing that could be done? As others have pointed out, that question is one that courts deal with every day in other industries. IANAL but I have some familiarity with the arc
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by skewart 10y ago
Even if SF's population "skews older" than Manhattan's, it doesn't refute the original commenter's anecdote. Older people in SF may dine out less than older people in Manhattan do - perhaps for financial or lo
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by skewart 10y ago
The Tesla model S is a lot more fun to drive than an S class. But the S class is a much more pleasant and luxurious car as a passenger.
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by skewart 10y ago
Honest question: what am I looking at? I feel like there's a joke but I don't quite get it. Or is it earnest advice about not asking users questions you already have the answers to?
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by skewart 10y ago
Does anyone actually think it _should_ be free? Are there really people who think a developer who creates and maintains an opensource project should be obligated to answer any and all support questions and requests?! I assume you must have
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by skewart 10y ago
It has a great look and feel. If OP is the creator or works on the app, I'd be curious to hear a little about the marketing / distribution strategy. Selling to "enterprise" companies, or really any B2B sales, can be tou
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by skewart 10y ago
Are there any popular HN clients that support tagging? It seems like something a good number of people want. Maybe it could be added on top of HN by a third party if a client app/site had enough people to support it. It's never be
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by skewart 10y ago
The net present value (NPV) of a customer is just the value today of all of all future revenue minus the cost today of all future expenses associated with them. The key is that it factors in a "discount rate" to account for the fa
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by skewart 10y ago
Maybe, as an academic exercise you could find an upper limit on the benefits of density. In practice, however, we are so far from anything remotely resembling a natural limit on the benefits to density that we will see a lot of improvements
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by skewart 10y ago
Yeah, like a sibling comment suggests, beacons are definitely in the bottom of the trough of disillusionment on the Gartner hype cycle chart. There is a ton of potential for them though, but perhaps more in the autonomous vehicles and robot
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by skewart 10y ago
> Whatever you do to your direct reports will probably flow down the chain. If you disrespect their time, they will disrespect the time of their direct reports. 'Everything flows downhill' is one of the fundamental truths of or
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by skewart 10y ago
I'm a huge fan of innovation in organizational structure for software companies. Thanks for sharing so much about Loomio. What's the hardest thing about being a co-op? What would you do differently if you were starting today, know
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by skewart 10y ago
I'm always intrigued by any new development in the "serverless" space, but this website seems pretty undercooked and at the moment it doesn't do a good job of explaining what the heck OpenLambda actually is. After a lot
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by skewart 10y ago
I have to disagree with the idea that brutality buildings inevitably degenerate into dank and oppressive. Those qualities are almost always orthogonal to style. Usually they have to do with pretty much universally bad design moves, like lim
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by skewart 10y ago
Interesting. I wonder if that necessity for lending credibility is a somewhat recent thing. Perhaps the popularity of bootcamps makes people who recently got into coding and didn't attend one look worse - companies might assume they co
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by skewart 10y ago
> Flatiron, a for-profit school, has seized on a clear need in the economy that some academic experts say reveals a failing among traditional universities. Teaching highly specialized skills currently in demand has not traditionally been
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by skewart 10y ago
I was hoping to read about that at the end of the article too. Or, it would have been nice if the author suggested something actionable we average citizens can do to improve the situation.
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by skewart 10y ago
> Don't get me wrong it's a pleasure to practice in a gorgeous Federal Courthouse, complete with grand marble accents, but I'm of the opinion those types of luxuries are a waste of tax payer dollars. I completely agree tha
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by skewart 10y ago
There can be a lot of psychological, emotional, and health benefits to continuing to work in some capacity throughout old age. It gives people a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives. I'm a long way from retirement but I hope to
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by skewart 10y ago
> those entering old age between now and 2030 are universally poor, underemployed, and in poor health, and there is no sign of it slowing down or getting better. They will rely on the young more than ever. Could you elaborate on this? My
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by skewart 10y ago
But will 65 always be a meaningful cut-off for "old" - if it even is today? What would the balance look like if you made the cut-off 75, or 80, or 90? Obviously current pension and retirement policy defines "old" at vari
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by skewart 10y ago
It might be helpful if you gave a little info about the nature of the nature you're considering. What kind of company are you moving from? What's the role like that you'd be taking on? How does it compare to the role you have
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by skewart 10y ago
Congrats on the funding. The product looks really appealing. I'm curious about the typical (expected) use case for something like this. I would think a lot of large-scale data consumers would already be using an end-to-end solution tha
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by skewart 10y ago
It is. And the move towards autonomous cars is part of the reason why there will be more passengers relative to drivers on the road. But it's not the only factor, or the only way to improve the passenger experience. For example, I&#x2
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by skewart 10y ago
My guess is they will rethink what a "car" fundamentally is all about. They'll create a vehicle that has new features that play to their strengths, even if the "car-ness" isn't a big improvement on existing mo
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by skewart 10y ago
I don't think his opinion matters more than anyone else's opinion. What's more, he's not an especially active member of the community these days.
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by skewart 10y ago
I don't think you deserve to be downvoted. My take on downvotes is that they are best reserved for comments that detract from the conversation - ones that are mean, sloppy, or misleading. While I don't necessarily agree with your
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by skewart 10y ago
I take it the commenter is talking more about business roles than engineering. To be sure, there are unique engineering problems that massive scale companies face. For business leadership roles though, you often see people trying to coast o
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by skewart 10y ago
> gallops into town riding a white exponential I love that. I'm stealing it! :-) Your overall observation is spot on too.

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