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by MakeUsersWant 3y ago
I've heard it's lognormal, which doesn't follow the central limit theorem either.
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by MakeUsersWant 3y ago
Could you publish a set of known-good versions (pip freeze, OS version, etc)?
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by MakeUsersWant 4y ago
So this is why Europeans were able to colonize the entire world roughly in the 1700s.
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by MakeUsersWant 4y ago
I'd love property-based testing in big data cluster computing applications done in Databricks/Spark. However, (Py)Spark is very high-latency, even in local mode, so Hypothesis would have to generate a list (DataFrame) of thousands
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by MakeUsersWant 4y ago
I wish there were something that opens the windows automatically at the right time to keep the heat* and humidity out. I'm sure other people will have had that idea, too. But I haven't come across easy-to-use hardware controls. Th
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by MakeUsersWant 6y ago
Unfortunately not. There is a huge safety difference between a negative pressure test ("fit check" below) and a test with an actual aerosol ("qualitative fit test"). All of the FFP2 respirators I have checked pass one an
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by MakeUsersWant 6y ago
For me, the Narwall's main value proposition beyond a standard FFP2 respirator is a super tight seal. Smoke is probably the best proxy I can test that with. Would you be open to a full refund if I order it and can still smell cigarette
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by MakeUsersWant 6y ago
Thanks for your reply. I've elaborated some in the grandparent. I am willing to pay for quality once it is rigorously demonstrated. The safety issue comes down to this paragraph in your FAQ: What is the filter material and how is it te
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by MakeUsersWant 6y ago
I found you while researching how to verify a mask is good as an end-user, because I cannot get a good seal out of any of the six types of FFP2-masks I have tried. On the one hand, I've always been on the lookout for something similar.
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by MakeUsersWant 6y ago
The ability to hire good junior engineers is one of the things that set a good senior engineer apart. So you might want to practise being an interviewer, even if you don't go into recruiting.
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by MakeUsersWant 6y ago
Could you please say more about how you find maths-intense software engineering niches and projects? What niches are there? I too am a pure maths PhD with a background in software, but I am somewhat disappointed with the data science world.
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by MakeUsersWant 6y ago
How about you put the recovery code onto the invoice / credit card line?
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by MakeUsersWant 6y ago
Mix in special-needs children who need constant one-on-one support, young siblings, and dual career parents. Covid stress falls completely off the radar.
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by MakeUsersWant 6y ago
Stitchdata.com, the maker of the ETL tools Stitch and Singer.io, is a different company (and is not being acquired).
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by MakeUsersWant 6y ago
Does pointing-and-calling focus the mind onto the task by the same mechanism as pair programming should focus it onto the bigger picture? So far, I've always regarded pair programming as a fad for people who can only think in conversat
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by MakeUsersWant 7y ago
Good relationships also take skills, such as: romance, understanding your spouse's point of view and what matters to them, maintaining the right equlibrum of intimacy and independence, being reliable, clearly expressing your own needs
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by MakeUsersWant 7y ago
Support redirected me their landing page - where the problem started. Still no prices.
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by MakeUsersWant 7y ago
Snowflake needs to debug their signup process. I requested their pricing plan yesterday. Instead, I got two marketing emails "now that you have downloaded it" - but no pricing plan. The bug report got refused because "We noti
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by MakeUsersWant 7y ago
What is your solution in practise?
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by MakeUsersWant 7y ago
Your techniques remind me of the book Maister/Green/Galford: the trusted advisor.
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by MakeUsersWant 7y ago
In Cologne, I have never seen light rail arrive on time, and I've used it daily for two years.
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by MakeUsersWant 7y ago
I'd love to pay $20 for a firefox extension that makes this problem go away. I use lots of privacy extensions on Firefox, and those Captchas are annoying as hell. Tor is even worse. Can you please provide a few ready-to-use links?
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by MakeUsersWant 7y ago
Most projects don't actually want help. Go and try it: report a few bugs or point out usabilty issues. See what happens.
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by MakeUsersWant 7y ago
So that is why so many OSS projects are full of bugs and horrible usability. In the past, I have tried to help with clear, reproducible bug reports. Quite often I spent an hour tracking down a bug, writing up why it matters, and then got i
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by MakeUsersWant 8y ago
Lyx can produce both latex and ebooks from the same source document. You don't have to worry about latex technicalities while writing, and you can version it with git. (I'm not affiliated with www.Lyx.org. But I wrote my PhD and m
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by MakeUsersWant 8y ago
Can you please name a few example problems that could be solved with maths? Whenever I found a way to apply research-level mathematics to a business problem, the solution always was too difficult to sell. Sometimes I can solve my own proble
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by MakeUsersWant 10y ago
I used to read Stiftung Warentest (the big consumer report in Germany). But they don't test for anything related to longevity, so I stopped. Frankly, I don't know where to look.
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by MakeUsersWant 10y ago
Will the $5000 fridge last 20 years? How do I know the manufactor isn't lying?
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by MakeUsersWant 10y ago
I would pay for a credible source of information how long various household appliances last. (I buy by TOC, and I also value my time.) The problem is credibility. Manufacturers have an incentive to astroturf "independent" reviews.
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by MakeUsersWant 10y ago
For example, an essential user action requires 3 cryptically named menu items, deeply hidden in 5 layers of menus, each of with takes ages to open. Does that count as a bug? Users will simply fail at their job. But for many (open-source) de

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