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by zachsnow 10y ago
Suppose my livelihood depends on using my phone while driving (which entails all of the distraction, etc. described, and sometimes results in poor driving on my part). I wonder how much enforcement would be required before I would stop usin
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by zachsnow 10y ago
If you actually enjoy that sort of writing, Theodore Judson's "Fitzpatrick's War" is one of my favorite "future histories".
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Not sure about pipe fitting, but for welding, say, or framing? There are definitely 10X welders. So your "trending to zero" point resonates with me (being a shitty welder).
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by zachsnow 10y ago
And while some people say "esports is sports", maybe this person doesn't want to announce esports. And that's just fine.
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Of course, this is a good interpretation! Cheers.
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Interesting that while I agree that the marginal value decreases I also feel (literally feel ) that somehow having say an order of magnitude more would somehow be qualitatively different (and better). Funny to see my own biases play tricks
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Falling down hurts but it's how you get better go out n skate!
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Perhaps the hack becomes tricking the consumer into pushing to the wrong address. Is that the consumer's fault? I agree that the current system is vulnerable, but perhaps we just get different hacks, not no hacks.
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by zachsnow 10y ago
To keep you iterating, to ensure iterations are productive, to wrangle those disparate stakeholders into evaluating the "now" and to turn criticisms into the "next".
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by zachsnow 10y ago
San Francisco, CA | FareHarbor | ONSITE FareHarbor is hiring for a variety of product positions at our San Francisco office. From front-end engineering to product design and management, we'd love for you to join our tight-knit team bui
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Why place them on opposite ends of a spectrum (low failure vs high failure costs)? (Curious not saying it's incorrect). At my company we do both and get very different value from them. Automated testing is great (reproducible, handles
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by zachsnow 10y ago
San Francisco, CA | FareHarbor | ONSITE FareHarbor is hiring for a variety of product positions at our San Francisco office. From front-end engineering to product design and management, we'd love for you to join our tight-knit team bui
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Any examples you'd care to share?
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by zachsnow 10y ago
There's a lot of things one can give that don't require buckets of cash, perhaps they meant something along the lines of: * time (contribute to a project, help a neighbor paint their living room, teach a friend to weave baskets or
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by zachsnow 10y ago
Humans in general prefer this. See also petroleum. And in the same way it seems the only thing that will see a change occur is necessity.
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by zachsnow 11y ago
Engineering + Product @ FareHarbor - FareHarbor, SF, CA - Full-time, Onsite FareHarbor is hiring for various engineer positions ( https://fareharbor.com/jobs/product/ ) -- front-end, back-end, devops, payments infra
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by zachsnow 11y ago
So, refactoring is a good idea?
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by zachsnow 11y ago
Optimized how? Faster? Less memory? Something more subtle?
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by zachsnow 11y ago
FareHarbor | ONSITE, SF, CA | FULL TIME | jobs+product@fareharbor.com FareHarbor is hiring full time front-end (AngularJS), back-end (Django/Python), and full-stack/generalist (whatever works best) engineers at our San Francisco o
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by zachsnow 11y ago
Random capitalization is like scare quotes -- it distracts from the message and focuses the reader on whatever underlying motive or mindset the writer might have.
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by zachsnow 11y ago
Why does texting or calling have a different "urgency" level? Historical? (Email not historically being pushed to you wherever you might be). Cultural? In the microcosm of my work life they are on similar planes (especially given
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by zachsnow 11y ago
FareHarbor | ONSITE, SF, CA | FULL TIME + REMOTE | jobs+product@fareharbor.com FareHarbor is hiring full time front-end (AngularJS), back-end (Django/Python), and full-stack/generalist (whatever works best) engineers at our San F
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by zachsnow 11y ago
Absolutely. Would pay money for this! The question is: how much?
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by zachsnow 12y ago
Sounds like another "it can be learned!" vs "you must be a natural!" disagreement. Practice 10,000 hours, no wait you need that innate talent. I haven't yet heard a conclusive argument one way or the other; so far I
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by zachsnow 13y ago
Full time, on-site engineer (San Francisco, CA) focused on the front-end of fareharbor.com --- FareHarbor is a SaaS business focused on the activities and tourism industry. We've been growing like mad and enjoying the challenges of ris
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by zachsnow 13y ago
It's not that optimization is important, it's that understanding computational complexity is important. Why? Because it tells you when some kinds of optimizations might help, and when they likely will not. It helps you not write
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by zachsnow 13y ago
"Winning and losing apply to everything in life" is nonsense. As well say winning and losing apply to nothing in life. Certainly learning to lose is probably a good thing when you are a youngster, but "everything in life&quot
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by zachsnow 13y ago
One IE annoyance that might apply here (if you even care about IE, and have lots of images on one page) is that only 31 style sheets can be applied at once. http://blogs.telerik.com/aspnetmvcteam/posts/10-05-03&#x2
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by zachsnow 13y ago
I would rephrase as N customers, where N is enough to earn some significant percentage of your costs. For many kinds of businesses N might be only a handful, it completely depends on your market. For others 30 is nowhere near enough I'
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by zachsnow 13y ago
If you were Swedish you might not consider it private information. Being from the US I do, but I don't consider my age private. It's difficult to say where a culture should draw the line, in an objective way.

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