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by swanson 10y ago
And actual tests for the Android app! It's a rarity, and especially annoying since the "sample" apps that Google provides pretends that testing doesn't exist.
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How Daryl Morey used behavioral economics to revolutionize NBA draft picks(slate.com)
4 points by swanson 10y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 10y ago
I think Freecodecamp just has a very active and large community that generally shares/upvotes things.
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by swanson 10y ago
Just a point to note: Pricenomics also recommends writing well-researched, data-driven content -- specifically spending up to 40 hours per blog post. I think the intention is that if you are willing to spend a week or two of effort on writi
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by swanson 10y ago
A concise explanation of a pattern that developers of newly every level can understand and link to? Nope, no value there! /s
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by swanson 10y ago
https://github.com/swanson/stringer -- I built an RSS reader a few year agos with the same ethos: "Stringer has no external dependencies, no social recommendations/sharing, and no fancy machine learning algor
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by swanson 10y ago
> It's also possible that purely language/framework books That has been my experience. The best book club discussions (we do probably 10 different groups a year for 5+ years at this point) have been for books like The Pragmatic
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Closing Down a Product, Gracefully(mdswanson.com)
1 points by swanson 10y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 10y ago
That's a very fine line to walk -- few of these talking points are strictly true or false and almost everything on either side of the issue is deliberately misleading (or "persuasive" if you prefer). Who is deciding what trut
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Ask HN: Screenwriting as a side project?
2 points by swanson 10y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 10y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Taleb-esque in the sense of 90/10 (safe/risky) split, not his specific recommendation. Thanks for clarifying :)
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by swanson 10y ago
Yep -- I understand what I'm buying (well, not buying yet...). Something like this would be a great for a Taleb-esque 90/10 barbell I think -- 90% in target-date vanguard funds and 10% in startup investments by proxy.
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by swanson 10y ago
> Investors can buy a share of the fund, called the Access Fund, for $100,000 or more. This is really interesting to me, but I wish it were at a $10k level. That would be a no-brainer shift for me to move some money going into Vanguard i
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by swanson 10y ago
I'm in the same boat -- happy to sub and give it a listen, but needs to be coming up in PocketCasts search. Not interested in changing my podcast workflow or signing up for emails at this point, sorry. Maybe a lesson for a future episo
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How much does crunch time hurt team morale?(blog.moraleapp.com)
6 points by swanson 10y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 10y ago
Free suggestion for an ebook/screencast: building an Android app that is not a tutorial todo list using stock Android libraries. The book must cover connecting to a web API (with Retrofit/Moshi/OkHttp), caching data locally (
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by swanson 10y ago
With the tiniest possible anecdotal data, I might also be seeing this. Had a customer say the site was loading fine when clicking links to it from emails, but sometimes if they search for it google and clicked the link -- it would just sp
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How I Dunning-Kruger'd Marketing(mdswanson.com)
2 points by swanson 10y ago|1 comments
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by swanson 10y ago
I've never read the book so you aren't disagreeing :) Sounds like the video series might be the way to go if the book is too repetitive
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by swanson 10y ago
I've not read the book version but "How Buildings Learn" is one of my favorite things ever (a great case-study for looking outside of software for lessons that can apply to well...software). Stewart Brand (of Longnow fame) pr
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by swanson 10y ago
Let me start by saying that I love reading these kind of handbooks from various companies. One thing that stuck out to me was multiple mentions about "raising the issue" for the tough topics (compensation issues, feeling uncertain
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by swanson 10y ago
I would reach out to the MrMoneyMustache/Ramit Sethi's of the world if you can offer a compelling pitch to their target audience (24-40 years old, tech-oriented) about why I should start funneling some of my investment dollars int
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by swanson 10y ago
I think a job board is a pretty good, typical web app that is a little different than the traditional examples (ecommerce store, CRM, blog). Job board has multiple different views based on roles (job board admin, job poster, job seeker), a
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by swanson 10y ago
Because folks trading $NTDOY surely are deeply concerned with formalized data sharing agreements...
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by swanson 10y ago
Was just looking at Plaid this weekend, seems really slick. The only thing that gave me brief pause was no public pricing (or indication of order of magnitude).
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by swanson 10y ago
Question: how should a seller document and defend that they indeed shipped an iPhone (not clay)?
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by swanson 10y ago
They could have acquired Victiv -- the previous 3rd largest site. It was bought by PokerStars however and Yahoo went with a homegrown solution.
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by swanson 10y ago
Would like to find something like this as well. I've used this site for videos of different sizes/filetypes before: http://www.sample-videos.com/
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by swanson 10y ago
> Fantasy Just to add a few details (to this very interesting comment) -- Yahoo has products that competes both in daily fantasy (DFS) with FanDuel/DraftKings (both billion dollar companies) and season long with espn/cbs/e
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by swanson 10y ago
Thanks for posting about tricking it to confirm email -- I was in the same boat.

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