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by tw1010 8y ago
It's fascinating how big a quotient the persuasiveness of his speech lies on the vocal level, and is almost nonexistent when written out, abstracting away that detail. It almost makes me think that the current level of chatbots are eno
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by tw1010 8y ago
Care to name them? I'd be curious to read what they've written.
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The chatbot revolution didn't happen but there were plenty of companies sold, with founders who've now gone on to become investors (of the, I claim, possibly hype-jumping kind).
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Perhaps even more worrying then that nothing came out of it: now all that money has flowed into the hands of short-term opportunistic thinkers who might amplify or incentivize even more hype driven companies in the next iteration of this me
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by tw1010 8y ago
I like this kind of manifesto much more than the ones we've seen before in this industry. This one feels much much more honest.
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by tw1010 8y ago
It's funny how quickly phrases become parodies of themselves after being repeated enough times. I can already feel the sarcasm machine weaponizing " back in the day we just called this starting a small business ".
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by tw1010 8y ago
I don't get the obsession americans have with reducing huge demographics into single buckets. (I think part of it is historical, but another part of it might just be because the country is so big that you have to develop some way of re
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by tw1010 8y ago
I have such a hard time reading articles that I know are marketing a book. I just feel like I'm reading an ad the whole time. I'm not sure what authors can do about it though.
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There should be a name to the phenomenon that humans seem to become crushingly depressed once they start to grasp the big picture dynamics of the system they're encapsulated within. I think it's an effect that we're not quite
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There's a quote, in I believe one of Greg Egans books, about the idea that the probable end state of physics will be just a bunch of isomorphic theories, which I wish I could find right now.
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There's something about the layout and style of the latter part of the page. Maybe part of it is that the "buy for $10" button is repeated so many times. Maybe it's the intense green I'm reacting to. I was also felt
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by tw1010 8y ago
Cool app! Advice with only warm and friendly intent: you might want to hire a really great designer to look over the landing page. It's mostly good, but it sends off a few unconscious red flags for me.
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"logically"
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And while we're on the topic, are there any books written about this by people from a background in the humanities, like sociology or anthropology or history? It'd be interesting to read a take on our world from the perspective of
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by tw1010 8y ago
There is good advice here already, but here's another one: dive deep (or as deep as you have time for) in the existing control systems blogosphere, and try to fill the void/niche you see is lacking. Maybe there are techniques no-o
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by tw1010 8y ago
"Unstable", "Issue", "Problem". The opposite of the front-end world is not something to desire. Change means people are fixing problems and giving away their solutions for free. To desire less change means wish
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by tw1010 8y ago
Hugely underrated in the tech-blogger-sphere: reading books (not audiobooks), lots of them, and from a wide genre, time, and style spectrum. It's not just about plowing through the 10,000 hours, it's also about taking inspiration
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by tw1010 8y ago
I have a controversial opinion about this. I was exposed to this in the beginning of my university period and at the time found it mindblowing. But now, many years later, do I actually regret it and wish I hadn't taken this as seriousl
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Woah, I was prepared to be all gung-ho for this post, given that I've suspected the winter was going to be here for quite a while now. But strangely, this post actually caused the opposite effect for me. The winter will probably come o
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by tw1010 8y ago
A lot of unaccounted for psycological effects show themselves from underneath the veil of unknown unknown factors once you shift the tools engineers have developed, like logging and testing, into a different domain, an ecological environmen
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by tw1010 8y ago
Interesting content, but I get really worried when studies and research show a tendency being influenced by trends; it's often a sign of poorly aligned incentives and sometimes even produces hasty or bad results in favour of career max
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by tw1010 8y ago
Or very tactfully and with great timing follow the tailwind of other innovators, e.g. Apple.
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It's called traversing a valley of the fitness landscape. The comfortable strategy is to just stay where you are, with everyone else mediocre, at the current local population maxima. The uncomfortable strategy is to dare execute on you
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Investments on a Rugged Landscape [pdf](vbn.aau.dk)
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If there's anything I would bet money on taking UX to a revolutionary new point, it's this.
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I don't like it, but I don't understand why reading this article makes me feel good.
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by tw1010 8y ago
Why Does Everyone Assume 300 Million People Agree About The Idea That Money Is A Virtue?
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by tw1010 8y ago
Good point. In this case it's probably a calculated style though (with the dynamic you described taken into account), and not actually made by an amateur.
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The world is a series of collective action problems.
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by tw1010 8y ago
If none of your customers are outside the US, go ahead, feel free to ignore GDPR. When companies are unable or unwilling to discriminate their service by geographical boundaries, the country with the strictest law rules.

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