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Original Quepid creator here: Quepid has been really powerful for helping teams bootstsrap on relevance problems. Often we start with a dozen or so queries, get some ratings, create a bit of success c…

I remember the mnemonic "16 is 60". (as in 16C = ~60F) Being a programmer I know 16*2 = 32 ~90. And its easy to remember that 0 is freezing... Covers most ranges of everyday conversation of …

As an extension- A reminder to always get a lawyer when questioned by police!

This is a great niche for Algolia, instant fuzzy 'autocomplete' style search of short strings

There is a long term trend of search engine companies being acquired, going away, products ending, and customers left in the lurch....

Yes but the search market has shifted. We're at a point where Lucene and family are used for increasingly sophisticated use cases. The commodity end of the market used to be dominated by open sou…

Guidelines: - Find a good niche - Be comfortable being very public presence in that niche (blogging, speaking, etc) - Develop a way to present your niche to stakeholders, not just technologists. Be co…

This exact thing happened to me with Greenpeace. Didn’t realize I had a subscription until later, then the awkward call to cancel and associated guilt trip.

Support them. Amplify them. Connect them with opportunities. Don’t make it about your ego, there’s plenty of work to go around for well meaning hard working people! A rising tide raises all boats

Just had a ct scan from a GE machine. Can’t say I wasn’t wondering about the likelihood some bug would give me too much radiation...

I remember when SyFy got a bad reputation for canceling their best shows. Seems a bold assumption that a paying customer base wouldn’t notice...

Gotten to the point where the research has gotten too stressful. Feels like there’s a lot of pressure choosing the best movie to invest 2 hrs of my life! Now I find it more relaxing to go based on jus…

Great article. To me the weak part in this argument is arguing this all involves “lock in”. Specifically: > The story is that users will buy Netflix streaming services and it will be too much trou…

Yeah, this is true in a lot of cases. But it seems to go against the spirit of open source and turn it into a shared source model... maybe that's fine, but it ends up with people using open sourc…

You mean a company monetizing an open source project gets funding. Why do we persist in the 1-1 OSS project-company mapping fallacy

This may all be true, but I feel like the solution is somewhere in building on the brands strength (as a 3rd place) instead of trying to be bad Amazon.

Barnes and Noble probably needs to realize it’s core value is the in store experience of leisurely browsing at a kind of “third place” away from home/work. Honestly I don’t know anyone who has bo…

Especially given how insanely long our child rearing process is compared to other species, and how as we get more sophisticated it seems to get longer...

Depressing, hopefully it gets remedied. Yet another reason to share your knowledge on a blog you control and not give your invaluable content over to someone else’s business. Do these kids of communit…

The article I think misses reasons for keeping the different business units separate (assuming they are indeed BUs). They can act as the smaller “agile” companies in their own markets that the author …

I’m guessing he means sleep compression where you commit to a waking time, and start by sleeping just 6 hours or so, then slowly build up. The goal is to maximize sleep efficiency and minimize time sp…

For me, realizing sales is part of the honest value I’m providing was a real game changer. It’s not about closing the deal. It’s about having something of real value, and honestly educating potential …

I don't know, some of the best ones are technical, there's apparently a Github Repo on "falsehoods" articles. With a section on software engineering even: - https://gith…

When was the last time your average (non programmer) user expected search to behave like CTRL+F? I'm not sure you're doing your users a service implementing search with SQL LIKE. I think it&…