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7,550karma·1,282submissions·January 21, 2016
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part of an account I heard of this somewhere else was that the turnover of employees was specifically between car manufacturers. Because they all paid more or less the same, if a worker got annoyed …
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I never understand the "Quietly" part in headlines like this. The fact that it's headline news is kind of self-refuting, and even without that, where do people usually shout about the p…
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> With the final mainnet key list, every open source developer will receive 4,246.994314 HNS coins from the airdrop. I don't understand. Is there a definition for 'open source developer&#…
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There are a bunch of services that will let you do this. At your stage, probably put up some notices in your local university offering an hourly $ amount (or beer/coffee) in return for some manua…
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So passwords are also two factors because you must be physically present and have a text input device? Most people I know now access their phone with fingerprint and can transfer fairly significant …
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As a meta point, it's really nice to see such a well-written, well-researched article that is obviously used as a form of lead generation for the company, and yet no in your face "call to ac…
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Later in thread > Trevor Bedford
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I'd assess the p-value for this coincidence at 2/59=0.03 and so is statistically significant. Additionally, these two cases are geographicall…
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It's sad to see this perspective. With the AI hype, there are so many people spending all their time and money on marketing AI materials while their actual product is all smoke and mirrors. By co…
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If you actually want the subscription and are slightly stingy, this is also a good way to get a vastly reduced price. The people they make you phone to try get you to stay offer very different deals t…
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The end notes aren't referenced in the text right? I haven't seen the window/balcony quote before - would be interesting to know which part of the text it links to specifically.
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People looking at their personal income tax return: Woah, this is more complicated than I expected - should probably pay a professional accountant to sort this out for me People reading news articles …
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How is the score calculated? One example has "high" unsubscribe rate but a 9.99 score. Another one has a high score but a "tedious" description. The scores just felt a bit off to m…
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I had a similar question the other day. I asked a few people and no one seemed to have a good collection to point to. I specifically like reading posts by people who post regular retrospectives (weekl…
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Why do these SEO people write so dramatically? Why do they use such short sentences and short paragraphs? Want to know? It's simple. They fall fowl of Goodhart's law! But what's that? I…
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Join the Rands Leadership Slack group [0] if you're into slack communities. This question gets asked a lot and there are dedicated channels to chat about exactly this and overall it's a supp…
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I used [0] for a while when I was exploring this space and was briefly in touch with the developer. It's pretty useful and impressive in its current state but isn't being actively developed …
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I don't think it's possible via the api but some of the desktop clients allow you to export JSON files in a nice format. For macos, you need to download the appstore version as the other (…
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Same, the presentation was so good. I was going to use them in some examples of good long form text sharing as it's such a strong contrast to the sh*t medium etc throw on all their content
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Coding legend = Margaret Hamilton She coined the term "software engineering" Pervasive problem is "move fast and break things" Solution is thoroughness and doing things right the f…
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mbasic.facebook.com is a nice interface to use messenger from mobile if you have to
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Both are acceptable as you can think of a company as a singular entity or as a group or many parts. There is a nice analysis at [0] [0] https://www.hallaminternet.com/google-trends-can…
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I did a module in "philosophy of probability" and we covered this. At the beginning, I thought it was all people arguing about nothing in a lot of words, but after 3 weeks I realised that my…
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Start with a huge pocket book and some key early joiners who already have substantial individual followers. Be prepared to spend a lot of money on acquisition. Ie reddit, 9gag, dev.to, medium etc. The…
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This seems unreasonably harsh, especially accusing the Author of spending time creating to do lists instead of doing work. If you read the rest of Andrew's blog and look at his github profile, yo…
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> This amounted to 51 studies, 75 independent participant samples, and over 36,500 participant observations. The researchers then tallied the correlations between these measures. Meta analysis can …
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> I'm also afraid of digging an inescapable hole of untestable spaghetti code and tech debt. How many engineers do you have and how fast are they likely to write code? It depends more on the p…