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by vivegi 4y ago
Prepare a one-pager using the Lean Canvas ( https://leanstack.com/lean-canvas ) and you can find PDF templates with a google search. That will force you to think of all the questions your CEO (or any other stakeholder) might
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by vivegi 4y ago
At the risk of violating your diktat in your last sentence -- Would https://www.mtailor.com/ meet your expectation? They don't have subscription, I think. But they keep your measurements, so you can reorder from the ap
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Ask HN: What cool projects do you suggest I build with a Raspberry Pi 2W
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Average by itself doesn't tell much. Average and standard deviation computed over multiple samples from the population tells a lot. Learning about the various types of standard control charts is quite useful for data-based decision mak
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by vivegi 4y ago
IANAL. However, I have worked with lawyers when I worked in a large corp and one thing they did consistently well was highlighting risk and providing the business unit with information on where the landmines lie. One of the very nuanced dis
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by vivegi 4y ago
My favorite ancient multiplication method is the Egyptian multiplication (also called Russian peasant method and other names). Column a is halved in each step. Column b is doubled in each step. Column r is the remainder of a after dividing
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by vivegi 4y ago
There is validity in the W3C position as well as the objections raised by the various parties. However, the respective positions of the parties are on different axes. It is helpful to look at the DID-core as the WHAT with the methods of the
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by vivegi 4y ago
Personally, I feel it is wacky to trademark colors unless it accompanies an extreme narrow use. For eg: Coca-cola Red would be a valid trademark when it is used as a drink color whereas if I use that color to paint my truck, that is a fair-
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by vivegi 4y ago
Yes. Around 1994 when I was in college, a friend and I were into video graphics and Intel had a video digitizer chip. We wrote to Intel (snailmail) asking for the data/spec sheet and about two months later, we received a packet with ab
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by vivegi 4y ago
Reminds me of the "splitting the dinner bill" problem we had fun with in middle school. It goes like this. Three friends go out for dinner and decide they will split the bill threeways. The bill comes to $25. Each friend gives a $
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by vivegi 4y ago
One of the approaches for formal program verification is to convert an unrestricted grammar G_1 into a context-sensitive grammar G_2 subject to some constraints C. We then derive a linear bounded automaton A_2 that accepts the language L(G
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by vivegi 4y ago
India. Around $12/mo effectively (I pay for 6 months and get 1 month free). The rated b/w is 75 Mbps. I've got other concurrent devices. On my laptop and connected over the wifi I get 17 Mbps down/16 Mbps up using speed
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by vivegi 4y ago
A possible analogue of this for building/packaging systems is the DOCKERFILE for building a container for infrastructure. No wonder, it acts as a reliable state initialization procedure.
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by vivegi 4y ago
I have used AWS CDK for IaC and for the most part, it works great. It also has escape hatches for constructs that are not yet implemented in the CDK API that you could fall back on CloudFormation templates or whip out a custom resource, if
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by vivegi 4y ago
UPI's design is very good. It does all of the mentioned points along with ease of use. 1. You can discover the counterparty using their registered mobile phone number tied with their bank account. In B2B and P2P scenarios, the business
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by vivegi 4y ago
I struggled with this a couple of years ago and then decided I will reduce the channels. Now I have email (asynchronous/long-form/personal/professional), signal (personal networks) and linkedin (professional network). That&#x
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by vivegi 4y ago
In India, the coalescing of payments around the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)'s payment network and standard called Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been a gamechanger. Bank consumers can create virtual addresses th
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by vivegi 4y ago
For me it is Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone https://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ (link has all chapters available for free under permission from CRC Press)
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by vivegi 4y ago
Hmm... on my iphone, the bookmark vanished this morning from the favorites list and it was weird. I got to the wordle homepage after googling it. I am guessing this had something to do with it. Is that even a thing? Is there a way to force
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by vivegi 4y ago
Peter: I know the product and it is p.q Sandy: I know the sum and it is p + q Peter and Sandy (in unison): Got it! another variant: Peter: If I divide by 4, I have remainder x Sandy: If I divide by 4, I have remainder y Peter: If I divide b
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by vivegi 4y ago
> The aim is to find out the highest floor from which an egg will not break when dropped out of a window from that floor. (emphasis added) The egg doesn't break when dropped out of the window (i.e., instantaneously). It potentiall
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by vivegi 4y ago
Suppose we had a shop that produced widgets and it took tasks A, B and C to complete a widget. If the production standards were: it takes 5 minutes per widget for task A, 10 minutes per widget for task B and 5 minutes per widget for task C
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by vivegi 4y ago
Once upon a time the company I worked for had a client, a private company that we provided business services. Lets say we provided 5 different services for this client and had been doing so for several years and our client was quite satisfi
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by vivegi 5y ago
Nice game. Loved it!
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A detailed guide to colors in data vis style guides(blog.datawrapper.de)
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by vivegi 5y ago
Polti, Georges (1921) [1916]. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. Franklin, Ohio: James Knapp Reeve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situat...
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by vivegi 5y ago
I was looking for something similar a while ago and came upon the prior work by Sasha Trubetskoy ( https://sashamaps.net/docs/resources/20-colors/ ) mokole.com seems to be taking a different stab at it and is b
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by vivegi 5y ago
When I managed a large team, I had custom 'Thank You' cards printed that were blank (you could also use store-bought blank Thank You cards) and handwrote a specific message for each individual noting down what I appreciated an sig
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by vivegi 5y ago
I think the term Creative is apt. Those listing projects on Kickstarter are innovative, enterprising and working towards getting their idea into reality. They are entrepreneurial and have chosen a crowdfunded way to get their idea off the g
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by vivegi 5y ago
Waterproof phones and watches exist. So, the tech exists. For a laptop, the main obstacle is due to the hinge / interface between the base holding the keyboard and the screen if one were to go with the traditional design of a laptop. A

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