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by stevenwliao 8y ago
> my attention, a resource that I consider very valuable How much would you pay for a browser?
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
I agree that "show more" is not the right form of interaction for a documentation page. Have you considered measuring engagement in other ways (tracking search results, link clicks, anchor clicks, short "is this page helpful&
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
Axios also puts this to great use with a "go deeper" button. It's very helpful for deciding how much of each story to consume. Screenshot: https://i.postimg.cc/SKkKc85H/Screen-Shot-2018-12-10-at-11-5...
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
US dev: I prefer when areas of improvement are discussed privately- it's helped me grow at estimation, setting expectations, and honing my quality/shipit slider. I'm sympathetic to collecting more metrics for measuring perfor
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
"Broke the company website" is a process problem, not a people problem.
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
Aside from the trolling, there's real conversation happening about culture and compensation that doesn't happen anywhere else online. Be the change that you want to see.
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
Split testing can be used by companies who care about their users and companies who don't. It just tells you how your users react. It's not a substitute for user empathy or regulations.
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
It may or may not be true that they never came back. A good split test tool will tell you that as well.
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
If they are looking for 'get list 4th largest', they will need more than Google search...
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
Try Stratechery, written from a tech strategy perspective. https://stratechery.com/company/microsoft/ This article is a great starting point: https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows&#x
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
If your phone is mission-critical for diabetes control, you should make sure to have some backup, since there are other ways your phone can fail. Once these backup mechanisms are in place, as a handy side effect, you're also covered fo
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by stevenwliao 8y ago
Uber/Lyft vs Taxi - call by tapping a few times (vs finding dispatch phone number in every city) - reliable ETA always on screen (vs calling dispatch for unreliable estimate) - cheaper and always shows the price before I get in (vs mor
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by stevenwliao 9y ago
The contention is that the “correct” views can be openly discussed.
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by stevenwliao 9y ago
Safari appears to have a good track record. You’re paying a bit more for the whole machine but I don’t see a problem with the bundling.
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by stevenwliao 9y ago
It's interesting that the executive received more jail time than the engineer (7 years vs 40 months).
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by stevenwliao 9y ago
If you want to use the mobile Internet, you're going to hand money to a NN violator. Aside from abstaining, the only rational option is to pick the least worst. Blocking a service is much worse than throttling classes of high-bandwidth
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by stevenwliao 9y ago
> The Starcraft analogy is simple to make: The winning player is the one that spends all their resources, not the one that hoards them. Resource scarcity is much harder to predict in the real world than in Starcraft. If the economy is ba
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by stevenwliao 9y ago
Looks like OP's accounting is based on the sunk cost from years ago rather than the cost of replacing the service, which suggests that they value the service at less than $15.
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Ask HN: Securing My Phone Number
6 points by stevenwliao 10y ago|1 comments
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by stevenwliao 10y ago
Are the assumptions here that: 1) Facebook News Feed users don't care about their privacy 2) The OP was more motivated by viral HN marketing than actual direct results on Facebook? These are interesting claims. Can you substantiate the
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by stevenwliao 11y ago
As stated, the Google Fiber restrictions seem more like a QoS and bandwidth concern rather than a content concern.
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by stevenwliao 11y ago
I misread the post. Good catch.
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by stevenwliao 11y ago
It helped me find two places that I'm interviewing with. Will update once the results are in.