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by wgerard 9y ago
> You don’t think it’s sad that people don’t travel more than an hour from a major city and experience the world around them? Not to be too much of an armchair psychologist, but I think that says more about you than it does about them.
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by wgerard 9y ago
> it’s rather sad. Why? The antipathy city dwellers feel for "flyover country" is silly, but the reverse is pretty silly too. I might think it's strange that some people have never gone hiking or camping, but they think it
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by wgerard 9y ago
There's something about software like this that really creeps me out, even though I realize it's not ridiculously advanced (i.e. it's way more common than I think) anymore. That might just be a personal aversion, though. I ca
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by wgerard 9y ago
That's interesting to hear! I'm going through "Flash Boys" right now, and it (to me at least) paints GS in a pretty negative light wrt their engineering culture. Granted the book mostly focuses on HFT firms, so I could e
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by wgerard 9y ago
I'm actually shocked that the "dark web" makes up anywhere close to 6% (not sure what that's a percent of, I assume it's 6% of all websites). That seems pretty high, but admittedly I don't head down that route
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by wgerard 9y ago
I hope she wins. There's a pretty funny (or sad, I suppose) reddit comment about winning the lottery that seems pretty true: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_... Winning t
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by wgerard 9y ago
> You need to handle payments, and invoices and everything inbetween Isn't this pretty much why companies like Stripe exist?
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by wgerard 9y ago
> To your comments re bitcoin, it sounds to me like somebody complaining that Internet is slow back in the 90s/00s. To their point though, dial-up modems are (by and large) a relic of the past and have been replaced by better (i.e.
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by wgerard 9y ago
Worse than that, it's TA which is at best a controversial form of analysis.
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by wgerard 9y ago
To be fair, plenty of people tried to withdraw from Mt. Gox and were stonewalled [1]. Which, one can imagine, exacerbated the problem. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1po4gq/mtgox_slow_...
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by wgerard 9y ago
Sure, and I think this problem of transferring small amounts of money internationally painlessly is probably the strongest case for cryptocurrencies. But: 1) I don't think that's what cryptocurrencies want to be relegated to (a fo
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by wgerard 9y ago
> If you've ever transferred Etherium to a friend to pay them back for the pizza they bought you, you'll feel that value in a small way. I think it's hard for people to appreciate this because this is already a pretty triv
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by wgerard 9y ago
> What is the PO doing that the team and it's lead aren't better able to do? I think you've either been very lucky with teams or you've had terrible luck with product managers. Let me turn it around, actually: Why hav
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by wgerard 9y ago
> My takeaway from the article was less that you should have each one of those roles filled out with a dedicated person, but more that those roles can be fluid and accomplished by many people on the team. I guess that wasn't really
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by wgerard 9y ago
Yeah, I see your point and I've been on similar teams. But I think you're: 1) Drawing a lot of conclusions from a single data point (the project you were on) I've been on teams like the one you're referring to as well. I
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by wgerard 9y ago
Heh that's a pretty cool use of technology! The best use of Google Cardboard I found was doing exactly this: Using Street View to "visit" new places. Related: I wonder if exposure therapy is an avenue anyone's looking at
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by wgerard 9y ago
> We have roles (hats) for these things: project managers, UX, researchers, data scientists, business analysts, team managers, coaches, etc. Do product managers often wear these hats? Sure. Do you need a product manager to wear these hat
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by wgerard 12y ago
Awesome. The integration is really cool, though that's totally without digging in at all to compare it to live editing and workspaces ( https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/workspaces ). Looks like Firefo