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Thanks for the response - interesting set up especially with the use of Jupyter notebooks. It seems to be a case of always having a solution that's "the best of a bad bunch" rather…

Thanks for the response, I appreciate the pragmatism in your advice. As with everything it seems to be a question of balance and circumstance.

Could you explain how you get around the knowledge silo problem? Fungibility across the team is useful for resource allocation and can prevent bottlenecks - for example if a part o…

The word "literal" here is slightly more complicated than in the usual commonplace misuse of the word. The author is trying to distinguish between "wallflower" the "socially awkwar…

I think the "life" in life-style is the same "life" from work-life balance: ie, priorities outside of work. Therefore a lifestyle business is one where (supposedly) you sacrifice g…

52% of 70% of the voting population said "No".

Still 60-40 remain (of 3.7m), versus 62-38 (of 2.6m) in Scotland [0]. Looking at the majority of each constituency is misleading - it's a popular vote. There both strong pro-EU in …

What about German and French imports?

Can London too?

I voted today. I work in London at a startup with international markets. I believe in the ideal of free movement. I think the EU is a bit of a mess conceptually and mechanically, b…

I am generally in favour of the idea of phone-free events, and I've been to one where where my phone was stapled in one of those "static-free" electronics plastic pouches. However,…

I've come to recently replace Twitter with Snapchat, having replaced Facebook Timeline with Twitter. The process is definitely cyclical, but there is at least one new emphasis that…

> If you know that some percentage of your friends on social media are using "surveillance" tools, then you'll be more careful about what you post, because you will understand the …

On an semi-related note: Some of this sounds exactly like Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story". The way the girls talk to themselves and about other people, it's incredibl…

Agreed. Many of the use-cases for ads have been replaced by search engines, marketplaces and aggregator sites. There's troves of information and access out there for a consumer to …

Unfortunately this is socially positioned more like a TV or a games console, rather than a smartphone (used every day all day), which have much longer lifespans than a smartphone (…

One of the reasons why it may lack real-world interest is lack of content. People need to believe in the medium and pioneer content in spite of lack of interest, in hope to generat…

Why does it have to be fear, rather than preference? Maybe there's no data you're afraid of leaking, but you would prefer never to leak that data. It's a consumer choice - the prob…

Equity can still be an incentive to work at a start-up - it's just not an incentive to take a pay-cut. Start-ups should lose its label as a cash cow - but it can still be: - a well…

I think PH suffers from an identity crisis. It started off as a curated newsletter and became a portal. It never fully embraced a community-driven approach (as evidenced by their o…

> It's simply too alien for your typical CS grad In my university, Programming 101 (mandatory) was (and is) Haskell. For context, there is typically a mix of experience among the c…

> I never contacted Facebook or Alex using my work email account. It was only after Alex contacted my employer via email that I sent a reply from my work account. Alex indirectly c…

(Slightly tangential) does anyone else predict and hope for a looser coupling between client and server? Even in the age of increased connectivity, an app or static client experien…

I've been using Fieldbook a little bit, and even playing around with their API. It's a great product I'm going to use more. Big fan - there have been several side projects where I'…

What AR technology exists, and how good is it really? I think the big thing for AR is hands-free/HUD devices. There are niche use cases for phones, but they're described as CV prob…