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by ssharp 6y ago
Making things simple in an elegant way is difficult. It's one of the hardest challenges in UX. You can take a knife to things and make a lot of well-intentioned mistakes. There are also domain-specific challenges you need to consider a
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by ssharp 6y ago
Stripe is a different situation than Dropbox. Besides being predominantly online, Stripe is also directly involved in online transactions, including ecommerce. Shopify, which is 100% ecommerce, just reported record numbers. With quite a bit
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by ssharp 6y ago
How can they innovate? There is a lot of "insuretech" out there right now. There has been a relatively large shift into direct-to-consumer insurance as well, rather than needing to go through an agent. On the tech side, for exampl
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by ssharp 6y ago
I might be missing the nuance here but how is WeWork "too big to fail"? While many were against the 2008-09 bailouts, you could at least see the logic of why the cost of the wake left behind from a company like General Motors radi
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by ssharp 6y ago
I do conversion rate optimization for ecommerce and Baymard is an extraordinarily valuable resource. If you're doing any work in ecomm or b2c, it's well worth the premium subscription price. I think most ecommerce problems stem fr
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by ssharp 6y ago
I hold a pessimistic viewpoint because it's a lot more insightful to look at losses than it is gains. With so much brick-and-mortar retail shut-down, retail has to happen somewhere, so it's going to happen online. Increases in pro
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by ssharp 6y ago
Use any other pair of bluetooth headphones on get lightning wired headphones or use the headphone dongle. I was annoyed when Apple initially got rid of the headphone jack but I've been without it for quite some time now and it's n
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by ssharp 7y ago
I've never once heard that lockdowns cure us from the virus. The stated goal by my State's (Ohio) government is "widen the curve", meaning to spread out the peak of the infection rate to a longer period of time so hospit
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by ssharp 7y ago
"Meaningful" is definitely a range and may not even entail just the company they work for. For example, if you work for a company's whose product you may not be overly passionate for, but your job is satisfactory to you and p
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by ssharp 7y ago
Ideally, Allstate would access risk accurately and set their rates appropriately. For high-variance situations like this, over-indexing your loss ratio seems like a not-so-bad move. Yes, you can get our insurance with your two DUI's bu
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by ssharp 7y ago
The long-term utility of this Tesla truck will be interesting to see. Even though new trucks are insanely priced right now, they do have very good longer-term value compared to cars. I like having a truck but would never drop $75k for one.
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by ssharp 7y ago
I think Saas has a ton of advantages for customers as well. Just spitballing some: - Updates happen automatically without disruption to users - The product, at least in theory, improves and adds new features over time - Can access from any
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by ssharp 7y ago
I don't know if Sears selling higher quality stuff would really matter. Departments stores seem almost entirely doomed to fail because of the combo of more specialty retail (buying clothes at a clothing store as opposed to department s
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by ssharp 7y ago
> I haven't encountered many from the best programs and I always wonder if they require some REAL work experience where they had real responsibility first / etc. This was the traditional MBA path for a long time. Start out in a
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by ssharp 7y ago
All you need to do is standardize quality equipment so everyone on your team has a similar setup and make sure your internet connection is good. It's a relatively simple problem to solve. The amount of conference call failures I'v
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by ssharp 7y ago
I don't see the evidence here as being compelling at all. Even if you could prove that Facebook is filling the gaps between new users and churned users by creating fake accounts, you also have to draw a line between those fake accounts
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by ssharp 7y ago
Trains are objectively less deadly than cars. I wouldn't dispute that. However, I have zero fear of being in a car. You can reduce the risk of being in a car substantially by either driving the car, or having someone drive the car, who
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by ssharp 7y ago
If you want to live in the cities, it's fine. If you want to live in the suburbs, it's fine. If you want to live in the country, it's fine. Different people have different needs, enjoy different things, and enjoy living diffe
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by ssharp 7y ago
You know it's okay that other people don't want the same thing as you, right? It's difficult to go anywhere without putting yourself in a "deadly metallic stress machine", whether it be a car, plane, train, boat, e
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by ssharp 7y ago
I'd still prefer remote of an office fully optimized for what I'd want in an office. For me, remote just works so much better. I can live where I want, I can work hours that work best for me, I can spend time with my family rather
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by ssharp 7y ago
In my area, music stores managed to survive Walmart for the most part because they got into buying and selling used. Stores like Best Buy also cut into local music sales substantially. The end result was inevitable, however, regardless of W
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by ssharp 8y ago
I recently got a new laptop and finally made the decision to free myself from Adobe Fireworks. It was a hell of a tool and the fact that it hadn't been updated in nearly a decade and was still doing its job is a testament to its abilit
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by ssharp 8y ago
A few years ago, prior to the recent rush of non-stop robo calls that many people experience today, I was fraudulently put on some diabetes sales list (I don't even have it) and would get calls daily on it, often from the same number.
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by ssharp 8y ago
There is a difference between meal kit companies like Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, and Plated and fully-prepared companies like Thistle or Freshly. The value-prop of not grocery shopping is there for both but one doesn't require cooking, w
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by ssharp 8y ago
There’s a key frequency chart and it makes sense that C and G are so popular. What didn’t make sense to me is why D and A aren’t more popular. Eb and F are somehow more popular. If this list is dominated by guitar, I’d expect D and A to be
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by ssharp 8y ago
My wife cut her foot on some broken glass on a cruise ship and it required a visit to the onboard doctor's office for stitches. We talked with Guest Services about not being charged for this, since the glass had likely been broken for
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by ssharp 8y ago
I have family out there. Over the summer, they said that a fairly large % of houses were not appraising for selling price, requiring buyers to make up the difference between what the bank would lend and what the selling price was in cash. T
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by ssharp 8y ago
I'm pretty certain, based on experience in my household, that Google's display network, Facebook, and Amazon are all doing some sort of targeting outside of cookies/pixels. My assumption is that it's based on your IP add
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by ssharp 8y ago
> You simply couldn't do it without a middleman before Bitcoin. How many people transfer Bitcoin without middlemen like Coinbase.
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by ssharp 8y ago
This was always a clear threat. While Uber is also working in this space, it always seemed very clear to me that once you “solve” driverless cars, creating a network similar to Uber is relatively trivial, assuming human capital is not requi

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