andyidsinga

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by andyidsinga 7y ago
it seems the bar should be that high as that is what the hype has told us we would be getting. I'm OK with it being as good as the hype ...and when it isn't the companies that write the software and build the cars can pay for the
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
hmm... so, yeah, nothing about 1000 true fans theory points to it being an easy path. Making a living as some sort of creator is hard . The platforms & "the internet (tm)" just provide a plausible access to those fans vs old-
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
disagree with some points here. I watch many youtube channels with 100Ks of subscribers. Those creators are not out there spending resources getting an audience and those audiences are not coming from personal connections - the platforms ar
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
this is very 2600 - nooice.
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
so, I've been near sea lions on the Oregon coast - the males can be large and many 100s of pounds (bigger than actual Lions!) and rather intimidating. This picture of the whale's mouth with a sea lion in it really puts into persp
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
I've read the cliff-notes version of first break all the rules. (its floating around the web). It has the list - and also interesting discussion of talent and having employees in positions where their talents are used. IIRC - it also s
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
I have two Australian shepherds - One of them was a puppy when I read the book about Chaser. So I decide to try to sort-of reproduce some of the author's experiments with my dog - and I'll be damned if it didn't work. I didn&
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
I'm really glad this is coming back - I've bought it several times over the years and really enjoyed flying it. In more recent versions using the ATC and trying to make it as realistic as possible experience - flying around betwee
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
From the article: >"If we could get more of them doing it, it would be great," he joked. >Karisoke's Vecellio, though, said actively instructing the apes would be against the center's ethos. >"No we can&#x2
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
Hmm - here's how I did the back of napkin math: 1,000,000 gross in a peak year. say business is open 290 days of the year. avg per day = 3448 euro if average customer order spend is ~15 euro, that's ~230 orders per day that must b
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
I'm guessing this comment is tongue in cheek. I've heard it before from folks who were putting themselves in the #1 category, and also, it appeared, exhibiting Dunning–Kruger effects.
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
Two things I've learned about deadlines #1 - never get into a fight with a superior about a deadline - think of the princess bride quote about land wars in asia. Which brings us to #2 : look at them relative to what's important to
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
different problems here - if the production and scale are already well known and understood - there are, arguably only design choices to be made that fit into the existing tooling. "the new chair model must fit into these production co
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
> These languages are very powerful, but they don’t scale. The problem, it seems to me is that software developers often think: "what programming language do we really like && can continue to use for $long_time over $scaling
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
that's really cool. We do "nose work" with our dogs just as a game for them. Its super fun to watch them find treats and toys we hide for them. What I was most surprised about when we started is how the game sort of wears the
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
i have two Aussies - they're great and super smart. after reading the book "chaser" - I trained one of them to distinguish several toys by name similar to what he had done in the book. it was a lot of fun and now he's al
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
this a great response to so many situations. avoiding sugar coating turds and fubaridness is key to being a good boss. Acknowledge the fubar situation - let the team chime in - then get back to facts and actions.
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
Corollary (to the whole article): act/do the way you expect others to act/do in a small set of areas that are very important to you. I've often seen leaders/managers get upset about the little shit while not acting the
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by andyidsinga 7y ago
for that case - rather than resort to the debugger - I've always went through the code, come up with a theory of operation and then and instrumented it with either print statements or a scoreboard style struct in some shared mem to val
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by andyidsinga 8y ago
interesting to see "low end disruption" in action a la Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma.
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Sony Sped Up a Factory with These Tiny, $35 Computers(forbes.com)
1 points by andyidsinga 8y ago|0 comments
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by andyidsinga 8y ago
I used to provide several options with background and rationale to my boss. One day, he said, with a slightly frustrated tone, something along the lines of : "Andy: you're providing what appear to be good options and detail here -
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by andyidsinga 8y ago
"I watched this YouTube video on X, it was interesting because..." "talked to my buddy who works for X they did this thing _____ ...big mistake" "I've been collecting articles about ______, interesting trends X
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by andyidsinga 8y ago
Here's my strategy whenever I have 1:1's or hallway "walking conversations" with execs/GMs that are at least 2 levels above me: 1) try to teach them something new or interesting that has been learned that they can a
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by andyidsinga 8y ago
I've agree with the difficulty you describe - even with 4 hours of interviews. I've come to the conclusion that one (or both) of the following might be best: - a small take home project with a reasonable due date (say 5-8 days) th
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by andyidsinga 8y ago
I wonder - along the lines of PG's prediction - if those startups will also be patenting their meat-substitute products and what effect that will have on the pendulum swinging back to non-patented real meat / animal products.
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by andyidsinga 8y ago
Here's the oregon masonic lodge faq: https://www.masonic-oregon.com/faq/
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by andyidsinga 8y ago
I'm seriously considering something like odd fellows (thanks for reminding me of them) - exactly for the non-work social and community aspects - but with a secular flavor ( I have some family members who are in the Lions club). A budd
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by andyidsinga 8y ago
I posted this because it provides a good framework for thinking about how to approach consulting projects with potential clients. It seems especially relevant after having read this article & thread from a couple days ago: https:/
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On consulting: Clients deserve to know what they're buying(winwithoutpitching.com)
1 points by andyidsinga 8y ago|0 comments

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