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by trapper 17y ago
Thank you! These are great counter points to all those that follow the "school dumbs you down" meme.
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by trapper 17y ago
The problem that I have seen in these frameworks that handle A/B testing is that they ignore the basic laws of statistics. All groups are different given large enough n. That's what p is about, do you have enough data to tell the means apar
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by trapper 17y ago
I'm learning that launch early isn't enough. I'd even go so far as to say I think launch early is the wrong approach. You should try to ruthlessly prove that your product/customer hypothesis is wrong before even touching code. I have been a
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by trapper 17y ago
If "Finding a problem worth solving that hasn't been done" is easy, it wouldn't take three tries for a great team, and failure wouldn't be possible for any companies with great teams. The experience of countless startups with great teams bu
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by trapper 17y ago
I sort of expected that YC et al would select based on market knowledge more than "the demo". The technology is the easy bit. Finding a problem worth solving that hasn't been done is the hard bit, and that's down to market knowledge. I reme
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by trapper 17y ago
You know, this will probably be downvoted, but isn't this exactly what the investors & programs like YC are there to prevent? If someone has an "idea" without any market knowledge, why fund them? The first thing I do when helping out ot
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by trapper 17y ago
1. You assume customers talk. Bad assumption in many, many markets. Why do you think chasm tells you to choose a niche with a network effect? Most markets aren't like this. 2. Network effects have specific rules to be useful. Most businesse
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by trapper 17y ago
"From my experience, improving your product (which is not equal to adding more features) is the best way to get new customers" How can customers find your product and understand what it does if you build stuff and don't market it?
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by trapper 17y ago
I found the same thing. My google-apps account was overcharged ~200$, nothing much, but finding a contact button was next to impossible. Lucky I have some google-fu! I sent an email about a month ago now, still no reply - it's quite shockin
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by trapper 17y ago
The algorithms in the java libraries (weka et al) are horrendous. If you look you'll just get more confused, especially at the lack of tests. R-project isn't much better. I'd recommend writing your own. You won't really understand this stu
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by trapper 17y ago
I'm surprised this field hasn't moved forward as much as I thought. If memory serves me correctly, I remember being shown a cuda based real time ray tracer, with similar limitations by a masters student in early 2007. They ran into lot's of
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by trapper 17y ago
I'd like to know why you think this isn't close to reality. There are tons of startups out there with no path to independent viability. Why wouldn't potential acquirers simply wait until the founders run out of what little money they have o
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by trapper 17y ago
He actually had no website - just really cool technology - augmented reality better than what I have seen but a few years ago! The meeting was actually organised by the city to set up a cluster for our industry, obviously nothing came of it
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by trapper 17y ago
I'm very trusting, as are lot's of entrepreneurs. I've met quite a few sharks though. I remember one young entrepreneur demoing his wares to a group of us, and this a-hole said "Wow, that's a great idea. We are going to do that! I'm going t
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by trapper 17y ago
Apart from actually delivering, rails was the first framework to actually "market" itself as sexy that I have heard about. And it worked. Maybe programmers want to be excited, and not just read detailed specifications all day ;)
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by trapper 17y ago
"Science has removed some old proofs of God - the watchmaker proof in particular, by providing alternative explanations for the existence of life." Said more eloquently than I.
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by trapper 17y ago
Over the last hundred years the probability most assign to the existence of an omnipotent god has decreased dramatically. Most rational people will come to the conclusion that there is such a vanishingly small chance of a god existing that
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by trapper 17y ago
For those that haven't taken a serious look at why google have built a lot of their applications in gwt (wave, health, adwords etc), and require google-like ui's, I'd recommend learning. Keep an open mind (find out WHY java is used, and wha
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by trapper 17y ago
Love the idea and hope it goes well. I can't see myself using it until that horrid bogey yellow is changed though!
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by trapper 17y ago
Is there a rationale for this? I read on wikipedia but couldn't find anything - have links to any good papers?
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by trapper 17y ago
I'd love to see a study comparing the time it takes to understand a code base in multiple languages. I'm pretty sure it's just me given the consensus is against me, but give me an undocumented open source code base written in java/c et al a
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by trapper 17y ago
I envy you aristus - the benefits certainly sound like they outweigh the negatives! I wonder if you can induce this in a normal brain somehow, like those tongue-sight or smell remapping experiments.
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by trapper 17y ago
God I hate that! :)
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by trapper 17y ago
If you like failblog you may like dontevenreply.com, which is the only other site that produces similar responses in my experience :)
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by trapper 17y ago
Of course, it is time magazine.
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by trapper 17y ago
There's a startup idea there you know :P
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by trapper 17y ago
It's so easy to do. When I first started my business and got some early success, I thought "this is easy" and tried to do four other businesses at the same time, all bootstrapped from the revenue generated by the early success. That was eas
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by trapper 17y ago
Yes. Effect size is the difference in means in proportion to the pooled standard deviation to the two treatments, and is a great measure of how large the difference is. All groups are different given large enough n. Whether that difference
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by trapper 17y ago
Good point, you're right, I missed it.
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by trapper 17y ago
What's the minimum effect size you consider worthwhile?

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