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by tpurves 8y ago
As a product manager, I have often found it beneficial to write requirements backwards. Start first with the desired result of a feature or flow and work backwards to the necessary steps, options, preconditions, actors, setup/enrollmen
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by tpurves 8y ago
Yes! When I first visited japan I used the same method. Every train trip, all I had to do was look at my ticket for the arival time, and look at the clock and, to the minute, it never failed to help me get me off at the right stop.
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by tpurves 8y ago
How does the regulatory environment in NA (USA/Canada) compare vs UK when it comes to starting a challenger bank?
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by tpurves 9y ago
Can youbelaborate? What does cobalt have to do with the current nodes? And killer as in good or killer as in bad?
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by tpurves 9y ago
This reminds me of all I could think about watching the new star wars films. Why don’t all the storm troopers get to have the shiny mirrored suits. Those pesky rebels and their lasers blasters would just bounce off. check mate empire.
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by tpurves 9y ago
I think the definition of self sustainability is that you don’t need any orbital-class rockets. Afterall, earth humans got by for a long time without any orbital class rockets. It’s really the sustainable supply machines needed to make air
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by tpurves 9y ago
Their S1 filing actually provides an easy to read description of their business: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1574135/000104746918... to paraphrase: Besides consulting and software development
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by tpurves 9y ago
I find this concerning. When is the next time the sun will do this? are spiral arms a great filter, or effective semi-regular eliminator of advanced galactic life?
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by tpurves 9y ago
To be fair, studying collage did famously turn out pretty well, and economically too, for some young people like Picasso and Braque :) http://www.ideelart.com/module/csblog/post/159-1-cubist-coll...
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by tpurves 9y ago
Regardless of comparative product quality, AMD does not have access to the fab capacity to compete with more than 10-20% of the volume of CPUs that intel ships. AMD is the only other x86 competitor which, for the time being, are not easily
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by tpurves 9y ago
For anyone else wondering why Pu-238 is dwindling, from the linked wikipedia: “The United States stopped producing bulk Pu-238 with the closure of the Savannah River Site reactors in 1988.[12][13][14] Since 1993, all of the Pu-238 used in A
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by tpurves 9y ago
Capable people suffer from imposter syndrome, inhibiting them from trying something new or difficult, or afraid of trying things they aren't god at yet. In this case "Fake it till you make it" is great advice. A different set
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by tpurves 9y ago
Toronto's underground system is the largest one in the world. 1200 retail locations, 30km long, 4M sq feet of retail space. It's very nice, all marble or polished stone everywhere, brightly lit, good food courts. Many many food co
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by tpurves 9y ago
"- Soil variability. Very different techniques are required for different soils. Sometimes the soil has to be "conditioned", adding something to make it solid enough it can be drilled through.[1] This is the biggest practical
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by tpurves 10y ago
Great question. Following not apply exactly to OP, but for female or HNers or anyone who writes job descriptions and values diversity... We recently discovered this is one of those subtle things that can trip-up diverse hiring. Came up as
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by tpurves 10y ago
Simpler solution would be to bring landfill to raise the ground level of NYC. The first floors of buildings would be converted to extra levels of sub-floors and new lobbies/entrances built higher up. Or other buildings could be potenti
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by tpurves 10y ago
What a wonderful and candid reply. Those 4 things are common feedbacks as a PM. It's a role where it can be easy to fool yourself that you think you already know everything. I believe a lot of PMs (myself included) often/always ne
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by tpurves 11y ago
Yep I remember this too. In my engineering college days 97/98 in the 90s we were fairly aggressive early adopters of mp3s. We quickly learned that to reliably dj a party with just mp3s you needed at least someone with a 133MHz Pentium
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by tpurves 12y ago
I work in tech and take the latest shiniest things very seriously. But when it comes to PCs I don't put Windows 8 in that category, for me it's an egregious regression in UX quality and pleasure of use than Win7. Hope springs eter
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by tpurves 12y ago
Firing something that distance is easier than hitting anything specific once the projectile gets there. Projectiles must have some kinds of internal guidance system (that works at Mach7) or else the Navy is just going to be slamming random
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by tpurves 12y ago
Or you put solar panels on the wings. Solar planes that charge during the day and stay aloft on batteries at night, for aircraft (drones and such) that you want to keep in the air for a long time. Not a new idea: http://en.wikipe
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by tpurves 12y ago
Population has little to do with it. 80% of water is used by agriculture. The climate isn't helping, but actual water shortages are entirely manufactured by an industry that feels like it's infinitely entitled to grow plants in th
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by tpurves 12y ago
I live in the heart of San Francisco. Blocks From haight Ashbury even. Fasted DSL speed ATT will offer to my house is 768Kbps. This is utterly appalling. I had faster home internet service than this in Canada in 1996. Comcast is the only ot
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by tpurves 12y ago
Wearables with BTLE.
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by tpurves 12y ago
There is a third option. Domestic hackers who route all their attacks through places like Russia or China for the ease of deflecting suspicion/blame.
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by tpurves 12y ago
This. The whole thing could have been handled so much better so easily.
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by tpurves 13y ago
A related tweet of mine on that same subject circa 2010: https://twitter.com/tpurves/status/19352426907 "Swearing at brands on twitter really is the new and awesome 'nuclear option' for receiving fu
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by tpurves 13y ago
The whole US immigration process is full of craziness. This is pretty well understood. That being said, in my own experience I feel very fortunate compared to many stories I hear. Came in on an L1 visa just over 2yrs ago, my wife was able t
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by tpurves 13y ago
Rent control is a broken system. You have cases of someone with a long rent controlled $1500 rent on a 3bdr that would go for 3k or 4k market rates. If they listed a bedroom at $500 on CL they would get ten thousand of applicants.
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by tpurves 13y ago
That's great to hear that you are on top of this. So many payment startups fail to think through or manage their compliance risk until they discover too late that it is a barrier to scaling or killer for their entire user experience. C

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