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I base the 100-hour week thing on reports that it's the expectation at SpaceX and Tesla.

> disintegration of innately self-evident core values like "working hard to make a good thing good is good" Working hard is necessary to make something good, of course. Working "ha…

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And it was me who did it!

Pluto in particular would be a problem, though, because it is a) very small, and b) very far away. In order to get there in a realistic time, your probe has to be going _very quick…

It's impossible to have 'enough' parking spots. Induced demand shows that cars, like goldfish, always grow to fill the space they're given. It's politically difficult process, but …

Read this paper ("Set up to fail: How managers create their own poor performers"): http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/doc.cfm?did=4... The paper's basic tenet is that m…

The whole point of advocating for fewer work days is that we are just as productive in fewer hours. That's why overtime doesn't work long-term; you wear out and do less per unit ti…

They don't buy, or they buy something else. If there's one thing that economics has taught us, it's that people will reduce their consumption when prices go up; even water demonstr…

Having people's sick days deduct from their vacation is an incentive to go to work when you're sick, jeopardizing the health (and productivity) of the team. A much better solution …

Honestly, animated GIF (like all other image formats) is a terrible format for video-style stuff. It's fine for line art (well, sort of fine, anyways), but if you actually using it…

(Note: I used to be employed by Mozilla, and in that capacity I was the owner of Mozilla's image decoders. I've been disconnected from all decisions for almost a year, though.) The…

I'll have to look into the exact data, but conversions dipped at least 33% — even on the 'A' side.

The #1 problem I've had in using external A/B testing platforms is that they allow flashes of the old content before the new is shown (if perhaps only for some users). We've seen h…

Oh, totally. But heck, as long as we're wishing...

I don't count as a user, since I am relatively affluent, tech-savvy, and always pay off my credit card every month. I'm thinking of the average person who buys with Interac to avoi…

As a Canadian, I'm most interested in when Stripe will start supporting our Interac debit cards. At that point, from my point of view, it'll have taken over the world. :)

Honestly, in a city with good transit like SF, you shouldn't be driving to the places you want to go anyways.