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Are we reading the same articles? The Python 3 support page is full of "this should work in theory, it's very under-tested, almost nobody is using it, don't blame us if you try it …

Make up a number. Double it ASAP. Then double it again. Then move to daily billing, or project-based billing if you have a lot of high-similarity work with relatively time-definite…

Books are typically quite a bit out of date if it's a rapidly progressing field. More stuff ends up in journal articles, but about a year or so behind the actual work, and at a lev…

Or find people who know they're doing something inefficiently, but need it done badly enough that they're doing it anyway. Ridiculously common case.

New pricing strategy: the low-end tier is metered. That's also a big argument in favor of formulating seat-based pricing models as blocks as opposed to per seat. It reduces the upd…

Failed according to you, me, and the prevailing majority of the medical community isn't equivalent to failed in the minds of the overwhelming majority of the public. The segment wh…

I'm all for that. The key problem is defining it. There exist historical examples of quackery which wasn't, e.g. hand washing. Stricter rules about null hypothesis testing would be…

I did this once, decided it was a dumb idea, then quoted the next guy triple. It was a good learning experience, if nothing else. The current market is drastically tilted towards t…

I think one of the major turning points in the future will be to trigger a "space race" which makes a grand project of developing substantive improvements to medical care and quali…

It's also way the heck easier to get emails, provided that you give them some motivation to sign on. It's inherently a private, low-risk transaction (provided that your signaling i…

"Actual customers" is about as overloaded as "talking." You need people you can connect with, provide value to, extract value from - and you have to make all that into a reproducib…

It's also functional, in the "tell me three times" sense. Effective teaching tends to involve lots of repetition.

Yeah, you can't just take the responses at face value. Watching five subjects in a row get to one point and then get confused is important, but they might never mention it if you j…

My experience is limited to sisters, but they played with the normal legos just as much as I did. I suspect these would have been a hit. Users care about things like color far more…

My knee-jerk response to that: Do they make pink girly legos? Maybe there are reasons why that's the wrong approach, but I tend to regard interaction and packaging as two very dist…

I already had a leg up because I had most of my product put together. I just needed to figure out how to market it. And the first thing I learned was that my product was dead, woul…

Most consumers neither understand nor care about the spec sheet. Reasons that make sense to an engineer are alien to most of the market. They typical consumer asks for more gigaher…

But does Google actually provide support for GCS? I'm perfectly happy paying $0.005/GB more if it means I can actually contact someone when things break.

"Statistical significance is irrelevant when you’re doing customer research." There is a time and a place for carefully-written Likert surveys with control questions and large samp…