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by trjordan 11y ago
I was talking design with a friend yesterday, and she said something interesting: "The reason all these companies have cute logos is to remind you that they're easy to use. Rounded corners and scratchy infographics conveys that th
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One theory I'm currently fond of is that the band of growth where unicorns live ($100mil -> $1bil in valuation) used to be accessible to the public markets, but it's recently only become available to private investors. This cre
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Based on parallel experiences, having a puppy is like having a kid, except that the puppy is on dog-years time. They first sleep through the night after a month instead of 7, they start to talk back and push limit at 3 months instead of 2 y
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That's crazy. My restlessness graphs don't look much different than yours -- is the sleep apnea what's waking you up after 5-6 hours?
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My wife and I traded off nighttime / early morning duties, and those were nights where I was so zonked she took both. They were glorious. If you're ever thinking about a dog, this period actually only lasts about a month. After th
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Getting a puppy, as captured by my fitbit: http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png I love my Charge HR for this sort of stuff. It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?"
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Personally liable doesn't help. All that does is encourage a lazy police force, where individuals aren't apt to do anything for fear of losing everything. Institutional responsibility does work. If the police department faces real
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Here's the problem with the cover letter: the dominant strategy is to describe that you're a natural fit for the job, which sends up all sorts of BS flags in the reader. The alternative, suggested here, is to be a little self-depr
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Why not?
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Let's apply the same rubric to smartphones and see if any of the complaints make sense: - Price: Yep, but everything expensive can be solved by pricing. $600 over 2 years seems to be a sweet spot. - Portability: Maybe this is why there
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Right, totally understood. My point is that there are shades of grey. - My arm. Did I mention this is the 3rd time I've hurt it this way? Since I'd seen this scenario before, I had heard professional opinion on how to treat it.+ -
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> If you wouldn't treat your own diabetes, you shouldn't treat your own mental health. I treat my physical health on my own all the time. I take DayQuil, I take time off, I lay on the couch and watch TV. Heck, I injured my arm
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Great post. How do you deal with schedule slip? You have some things on there (like analyst briefings) that I've found take more than 2 weeks to schedule. This means nailing down a launch date 6-8 weeks out, which in my mind leaves sig
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This means every backend deploy is a data migration. In my experience, that's the only kind of difficult / scary deploy, and I'd rather not do more of those.
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So this happened to me. I believe it 100%, but it's nowhere near as straightforward as you may believe after reading this. The reason is that if you want to work hard for a startup, you need to ditch the role mentality. You have to be
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If you're shooting for exceptional results, you need both. A natural can be incentivized to work harder. A striver cannot be incentivized to be smarter. It might be wrong, but if you're looking for an IPO-able company, I'd pi
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Most of the data visualized by these types of libraries don't have any sort of variance or confidence interval behind the data. You're looking at things like sales forecasts, server latency, number of employee hours, or other prec
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It's easy to think that all travel hacks are ethical if you think price segmentation is unethical. I'm not convinced that's true. I don't feel pricing has to be a continuous distribution that feels "fair" to be
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We used Cassandra for timeseries data for a while. My word of caution would be to set up a dedicated cluster for it. Cassandra is good at a lot of things, but if you have different workloads running on the same cluster, performance is hard
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If you think there's a tech bubble on because the latest private round came in higher than the IPO, consider what the explanation would be if the IPO valuation was 3x the VC round.
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> Perhaps more importantly, Apple and Google aren't particularly interested in cross-platform technology either. Ah, the problem with generalizations about large companies. http://flutter.io/ , by Google.
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I've got some serious end point bias going on, but the bottom was ~700 in March '09, and it's currently at 2,100. Triple in that time is actually 18% annualized (6.5th root of 3). There's definitely better ways of measur
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This is a pretty solid argument for why tech isn't out of bounds, at most any stage. On the other hand, we've had 7 years of 16% growth in the S&P. At some point, that will correct, and it will have a real effect on tech. We&#
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UX is not design. The fonts, colors, and silly features like emoji are gravy. UX includes the cold experience. If you sign up with just one user, Slack creates a couple rooms and has a bot talk to you. UX includes history management. Slack
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Ditto here.
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Woah there, team. Lots of comments in here to the tune of "the support for her is sexism!" This blog post is about a specific person and her experience. She tells you up front that she was nervous about this. Her management encour
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If you're going to do this, edit heavily afterwards. Most conversation is pretty redundant. Because not everybody hears every word, it's acceptable to say things a couple different ways in order to make sure you're understood
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Is this always true? Or can we just not come up with compelling counter-examples, because the brands that won in their category are more compelling than the brands that split a category?
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Interesting. I just uninstalled Facebook on Android because I noticed it was using ~5% of my battery. I literally never open the app ... so why was it using battery?!? I figured it was just polling background data in a way that allowed Andr
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Right, I totally agree. Putting "Director" in my LinkedIn title made my corporate voicemail useless. I think you've got the right of it though: "As soon as someone comes up with a way to cut out sales people from enterpr

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