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by weixiyen 13y ago
yep and depending on your product, you might not even need a CTO until way later. Your ability to deliver a working product quickly and measure it's performance (metrics wise) is way more important than writing the best code evar.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Why would he ask you to leave unless you were a liability? It makes no sense as there are so many other positions that become available as a company grows. Go learn Product. It doesn't take nearly as long, and you can have just as big
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by weixiyen 13y ago
From what I've seen, he has demonstrated a few of the traits of a Level 5 leader (from the book Good to Great). Very humble, puts others before himself, has integrity. The fact that he's not a skilled interviewer and terrible at
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by weixiyen 13y ago
So the ideal CEO is someone who will lie about his beliefs the second it becomes inconvenient for him?
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by weixiyen 13y ago
No.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
This is terrible. Way to go, Internets.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Or we can thank them for keeping it there for 10 years and counting.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
2048 was free. Threes wasn't. That's literally the only reason it has more downloads. Threes was #1 on top paid for a long time.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Theoretically that is possible if you could somehow actually show all the possible permutations of a design and throw it at enough users, but there simply are not enough users where you can get very far with such a test. Thus we still need
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Actually it's more like tons of testing, data analysis, and quick turnaround time on execution.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Ditto. Also appreciated is the upfront honesty about what their tech can and cannot do currently, and what they plan to do to address limitations / bugs. I really love their ability to design sensible APIs paired with their honesty, g
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Perhaps, which is why I put the caveat "Usable" VR. The problem with VR right now is that it's not very user friendly.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
You're going to read this in 10 years and look like the guy who predicted the iPhone to be a flop. Usable VR is absolutely world-changing.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Retention is not difficult to measure. You essentially track how often a user comes back over 1 day, 3, 7 days, 15, 30 days, etc, and benchmark against your competitors. The hard part is figuring out why your numbers are low and why the d
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by weixiyen 13y ago
so basically every company did the most logical thing for their own best interests.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
> The reason why we put so much effort into split testing is that we’re trying to find the global maximum. We worry that making linear iterations will lead us to a local maximum that would be far less than our potential. So, we force o
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Money is in iOS, so companies prioritize it first. After Android becomes the main platform for monetization, it will probably be taken a lot more seriously. Right now it goes like this in every company. 1) Lets make an iOS app 2) okay we h
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Android Studio is the recommended IDE for any new projects. It's made by JetBrains, and it's 100x better.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
I honestly think that if a messenger app wins, it will be more valuable than Facebook, and its not even close. Facebook at its core is really only about 2 things: 1) Identity 2) Photos But if a messenger wins, it will actually take over 1)
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by weixiyen 13y ago
You are arguing that what happened to her is not sexism, and you really miss the bigger picture, which is that it's a hostile work environment, which is equally bad. I'm really disappointed at the amount of victim blaming going on
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by weixiyen 13y ago
I've been using WhatsApp for years and seen many selling points, but security has never been one. A link would help because I've never gotten the impression that they were trying to sell security.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
So much jelly in this comment. They obviously made good product decisions to get to this point. A few blips along the way will happen, when you are focusing on much more important things. Your entire SMS history is available to any app wi
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Yeah this is really a waste of time, and it will never pick up. CoffeeScript is the only language with a shot right now due to popularity.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
I agree, I just count all of that as consumers choosing Android over iOS. Developers are simply not the main factor.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
This is awesome to hear. Whether this is a PR move or simply good will on Comcast's part, the only thing that really matters is that they are executing on it.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
exactly. The rise of Android is due to the consumers choosing Android over iOS. If anything, developers have only slowed the growth of Android by committing in many cases only to iOS.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Honestly this seems like the most logical way to go about validating a product if you are starting with absolutely nothing. Pitch it to the public, and see if people want it. Then they give you the money to make it.
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by weixiyen 13y ago
The flaw in socket.io had to do with redis-store. When deploying socket.io over multiple Node.js processes / servers, you want to use redis-store, at least, that's what they recommend. When you use redis-store, after running for
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Node.js is not ready. The main problem with Node.js is that the libraries out there simply are not good, are broken / don't do what it says it does, or have critical issues outside of the most basic use cases. I'm talking ab
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by weixiyen 13y ago
Honestly, Flask-Restful provides almost nothing useful that couldn't be added to an entire Flask project with a few lines of code. I've completely moved away from it as it actually introduced an obscure bug in content negotiation

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