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This exactly. It is more important to move fast. Screw the edge cases. As long as it’s correct _most_ of the time, you can always fix anything that’s broken tomorrow.

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A programmer’s wife is pregnant and goes into labor. Programmer brings her to the hospital, she gives birth and the doctor hands the baby to the doting father. Wife: “So, is it a b…

Studying, getting hired, career promotions, raising funds... It’s all about beating the system. You’re evaluated based on certain criteria and you optimize for those.

Never heard of this "annual salary divided by 1000" rule but I calculated and it works out about right for me. I am in a third-world country though, so rates are much, much lower t…

This is awesome. I used to think music was no big deal but after playing with this I realize I have no musical talent whatsoever.

> or donating cans of food. Thanks, I never realized https://nationalpost.com/opinion/im-begging-you-stop-donatin...

Does pitch get lower with age? That would correlate with larger companies tending to choose more experienced CEOs. That aside, there are other forms of biases, like people preferri…

This is an easy one - go for it! With your age, experience and accessibility to support from friends and family I think the upside far outweighs the downside. You haven’t mentioned…

Get a barcode scanner, scan the ISBN and use that to do a API query on Amazon to retrieve title, author, category, price, etc. Store this info in a DB. Some scenarios: 1. Generally…

Amazing! This pretty much enables clothing brands to generate extremely targeted ads on the fly. Models can have similar body shape, hair style, skin colour to the user. Based on p…

I'd love to read more about how you positioned your brand, especially on the design decisions that you made to entice customers come more regularly and how you manage to sell more …

That’s a really great company to pay SF rates while working remotely. Wish I could find one like that.

Have time on your side More time = more options No time = desperation

A few months back people would have been yelling “BUY THE DIP!”

IIRC for me it was a one time fee of 1 USD. They implemented this fee whenever they were growing too fast and needed to slow they growth to keep their servers in check. At other ti…

They ran some tests and found that mangosteen juice can conduct electricity, but does not cause short circuit when in contact with the batteries

Article didn’t actually say why they’re shutting it down. Is the tech not feasible? With the Otto lawsuit settled and Levandowski gone it should have cleared the way. Focusing inst…

How do you qualify candidates as being the target audience, and what happens if it’s a really small, hard-to-reach niche - how do you guarantee the number of respondents?

There are LOTS of jobs that appreciate programming knowledge but don't require you to do hard core coding. Business analysts, project management, tech sales, testing, support, etc …

As a Malaysian, this win is so amazing. Literally against all odds. I’ve never been more proud of my fellow Malaysians. Najib had control of the Election Comission, Registry of Soc…