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Building a Fuzzy Emoji Finder(mdswanson.com)
1 points by swanson 8y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 8y ago
What was the Twitter thread/HN thread referenced about using "boring" approaches to solving problems?
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by swanson 8y ago
They should sell ads on the back of the penny. "A Penny Save is a Penny Earned - Chase Bank" A durable, historical, innovative new channel that also makes minting pennies profitable. Everyone loved collecting those state quarters
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by swanson 8y ago
Thank you. :)
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by swanson 8y ago
Please consider adding an RSS feed at minimum (if you don't want to fully launch in iTunes etc). It makes it a more realistic "proof of concept" test for me -- I can use my familiar tools and routines to let you know if I wou
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by swanson 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing
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by swanson 8y ago
"Concise abstract"...I don't know. It's a parody with a mocking tone penned by a comedy writer. It's funny; but it's an uncharitable summary if you're going to use that as a basis for evaluating Taleb&#x27
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by swanson 8y ago
> 12 binders full of details about healthcare, policies, what happens if you pass away and other remote events My biggest pet peeve. Oh, you're a 23 year old college grad? Better take time during your first hour of being in the real
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by swanson 8y ago
The intention was for the core "unlimited movies for a monthly fee" to break even (which was plausible based on spiked usage up front that tails off ala gym memberships and things like bulk ticket buying). In addition to collectin
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by swanson 8y ago
Anyone know the name of the consulting company featured in this article? I find this kind of stuff super fascinating -- the intersection of behavioral economics, lean manufacturing, queuing theory, and food.
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by swanson 9y ago
I don't think we are in disagreement. Certainly there are benefits from these things. The crux is that practices will reach diminishing returns at different times depending on context -- one such piece of context being market cadence.
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by swanson 9y ago
I see the comments are trending negatively, so I wanted to share a different perspective. Having worked on and along side companies doing "agile transformations" and every version under the sun of the doing-agile-but-still-not-per
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by swanson 9y ago
From the footnote: > Agile Fluency is a trademark of James Shore and Diana Larsen. (We’ve had problems with other people using the term “Agile Fluency” while misrepresenting our model, so we felt we needed to trademark the term to preven
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by swanson 9y ago
I think it captures a subtle nuance pretty well. If you're building a SaaS app, you can release several times a day and users will not notice and be fine. If you're building a mobile app, you can release maybe 1-2 times a month an
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by swanson 9y ago
My ranking of Dragons Den series: Canada (Kevin/Robert from Shark Tank are in some seasons) UK Ireland You can also watch the UK version of The Apprentice and Young Apprentice (teens). The US versions of the traditional The Apprentice
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by swanson 9y ago
I will add that I watched Lemonis' spin-off show "The Partner" and it was hot-garbage. One of the worst reality shows I've ever watched in terms of structure and concept.
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by swanson 9y ago
I think there is something there with the "reality-TV MBA" the article links to. Lessons from "The Apprentice": the dynamics of leading a project. If you win, it can cover up bad process/bad leadership; if you lose,
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by swanson 9y ago
If you happen to be an Indianapolis-based (or surrounding area) developer reading these comments, please tweet me @_swanson and I'd be happy to get you invited to our local Slack instance.
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by swanson 9y ago
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#green-...
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by swanson 9y ago
Don't forget 3b) had to go through hundreds of jurors while the news/twitter laughed about people saying they could not be impartial because he "had a punchable face" and "disrespected the Wu Tang Clan". Better
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by swanson 9y ago
I find these to be the best "single post summaries". His books are very challenging to read, but I've always found them rewarding once I've finished/absorbed the material. No pain, no gain I suppose! Antifragile: h
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School is all about signaling, not skill-building(latimes.com)
2 points by swanson 9y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 9y ago
I used to run an email based version of this aimed at tracking company/team mood. It was indeed frictionless and we collected a large amount of data (especially compared to annual employee surveys or every biweekly retrospectives), but
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by swanson 9y ago
Yes, it is intentional. Apologies if unclear. This is an excerpt from his book: https://jtbd.info/1-challenges-and-hope-ddd7836df947
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by swanson 9y ago
The criticism that opened my eyes to the issues with Personas was this example from Alan Klement: > Why did Alan buy the Snickers candy bar? A. Alan is a thirty-five year old; has a degree in marketing; likes peanuts, chocolate, nougat,
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by swanson 9y ago
Related to the Coinbase/insider trading noise around BCH a few weeks ago, it seems strange for Stripe to plug other alt-coins (OMG, Stellar, etc) in the post as things they view as "promising" and "imagine enabling suppo
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by swanson 9y ago
My most useful insight/takeaway from the book was about leverage and what activities you choose to do as you progress in your career: in six months you could ship 1x engineers worth of output (or maybe 2x or 3x if you are really great)
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by swanson 9y ago
I think the intention is to go the opposite way: instantiating React components in the ERB template and passing in state/props from the controller instance variables.
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by swanson 9y ago
Establishing an evening reading habit and using 1.5x audio books are great tips. I would personally add/tweak: * Don't try to pick/buy a book during your reading time, otherwise you will spend your time deciding what to read.
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by swanson 9y ago
As an undergrad doing an internship helping some PhD students write a complex MATLAB simulation. Part of the simulation needed to be done in a loop and, naturally, I used "i" as the index variable. I spent several days debugging w

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