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by solresol 7y ago
Larry Wall (the Perl guy)?
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by solresol 7y ago
If you can possibly bootstrap without raising capital, do it. The QUT CAUSEE study demonstrated that external capital doesn't improve your chances of succeeding, it just gets you to success or failure faster. It is much, much easier wh
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by solresol 7y ago
Kinda. There were several variants in the early days, until one version was declared the true and only correct version; every Koran since then has been a copy of that one.
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by solresol 7y ago
Yes, it does work as long as I don't write too small. But I don't do cursive so I don't know how it would fare.
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by solresol 7y ago
I found that putting ink on dead wood with a livescribe pen gave me all the advantages of paper and a lot of the advantages of a tablet. I can search through my notebooks from several years ago with the digitised copy on my phone. The other
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by solresol 7y ago
> The US at this time was literally the only functioning industrialized economy left on earth. If you wanted to buy anything beyond raw materials, it came from the US. Except for Australia, as manufacturing in Australia was still a thing
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by solresol 7y ago
- Demographic projections say that we'll be reaching "peak human" where depopulation starts happening, and the urbanisation of humanity should be just about finished. So that should end real estate as being a valuable investm
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by solresol 7y ago
> World population will be lower than it is now. Almost all demographic predictions say this will happen, and that's without any major catastrophe.
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by solresol 7y ago
Move to Australia. In most cities SAD is so rare that people aren't even aware that it is a thing.
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by solresol 7y ago
In some countries, the food delivery apps and companies aren't actually dead yet. Grab, Lineman, Lalafood, Get and FoodPanda to name a few.
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by solresol 7y ago
Mathematica / Wolfram language. But I'm stretching it to say that it's a mainstream language, I guess.
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by solresol 7y ago
Commonwealth Bank of Australia -- they were on mainframes, but spent a few hundred million dollars to get off. One of the other big Australian banks (Westpac) has an "exit IBM" project as well, but it isn't complete yet.
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by solresol 7y ago
I think we also need to convert that into elephants and blue whales. What's the conversion rate for elephants to London buses?
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by solresol 7y ago
What's wrong with the interact function?
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by solresol 7y ago
It is, but keep in mind that there are biological markers that are correlated with having chronic fatigue syndrome at p < 0.001 kind of levels. e.g. if you happen to have blood work from a patient pre-CFS and post-CFS it's very, ver
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by solresol 7y ago
This is my dream project to try ;-) It seems that the "way to win" in the twenty-first century is going to be "who can outsource white collar work to the cheapest country, and coordinate to get the best quality out of the wor
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by solresol 7y ago
https://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/per.davidsson
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by solresol 7y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the QUT CAUSEE study. They actually did follow a group of early-stage startups, interviewing them each year and then afterwards looked at what factors predicted success or failure. Some of their resul
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by solresol 7y ago
I have nothing to do with this thread, but felt like answering anyway... 1. Very few people leave a legacy. The people that do often didn't do it deliberately or intentionally. 2. They don't. There might be a few people half your
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by solresol 7y ago
QUT did a study (the CAUSEE study) that looked at the predictive factors for startups to succeed. One of the best predictors for failure for Australian startups was if they had accessed a government service to help startups succeed. Of cour
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by solresol 7y ago
Two observations: 1. If you look at the contract, there will almost definitely be a clause where the company will claim rights over all IP that you generate, and that you need to pre-declare any IP that you already own (otherwise they will
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by solresol 7y ago
I went through a no-smartphone phase for a while (in order to do a digital detox). I asked on reddit if anyone was interested in some tech to support that... https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/aa5qh2&#x2
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by solresol 8y ago
It depends on the country. In Australia, it's quite common to give people your bank account number so that they can deposit money to it. Most commercial payments (company to company) work like that. Previously if this was bank-to-bank
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by solresol 8y ago
Your resume looks a lot like mine. Just replace the 18 by 19 and change a few details and we could be twins. It is incredibly hard to find contracts and jobs. "Normal" resumes let you slot into something at this time in your caree
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by solresol 8y ago
> How do you establish that a VC has any skill? The Queensland University of Technology study showed that startups that took VC funding were no more or less likely to succeed than those that didn't. This suggests that the average VC
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by solresol 8y ago
I think your calculation is a little pessimistic: even if we include all sorts of things that today aren't powered from electrical generators, 200,000TWh is plenty to power the whole world for a year. Assuming 8 hours of sunlight per d
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by solresol 8y ago
Daisee | Product Manager - Product Designer - UX specialists | Melbourne | Onsite | Fulltime Daisee is building (among other things) call centre analytics software. We've raised over $8m and are well established with a staff of 40 peop
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by solresol 8y ago
Not the poster, but there are dozens of speech to text solutions that can do an OK-ish job on phone calls. Voicebase, Google Speech, Speechmatics, Amazon Transcribe just to name a few. What problem are you trying to solve?
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by solresol 8y ago
I'm very interested to hear about your call centre project.

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