beckingz

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by beckingz 2y ago
There's value in 'backwards compatibility' from a process/skills perspective. I agree that companies usually pay too high a premium on that, but there is value.
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by beckingz 2y ago
If the margins are high enough, then it's optimal to overproduce and then sell to everyone who will buy at a certain price point. If discounts will reduce your ability to sell the same brand in the future at that price point, it can be
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by beckingz 3y ago
On average your luck cancels out.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Once again it turns out that good management is important. Give people direction and the tools they need to do their work well and you get a lot more productivity!
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by beckingz 3y ago
Business epistemology is not about knowing Truth, it is about knowing currently useful information and practices, and it is expensive to validate or generate this knowledge. Hence we get the same thing over and over again until someone conv
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by beckingz 3y ago
And PowerApps is slow as balls. Power Automate is great, but PowerApps is just a mess where every click in the dev interface takes like 5 seconds. On paper it looks so good, but in practice it is so painful to get that on paper performance
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by beckingz 3y ago
Just lots and lots and lots and lots of vectors. So Black Magic!
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by beckingz 3y ago
Tumblr has better checkmarks.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Good for them! Knowing when to call it quits is very wise. I mourn the end of a characteristic internet site, but I respect the founder.
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by beckingz 3y ago
He'll probably get 45 years and serve 13ish.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Indeed, the trend in corporations is to be actively hostile to web scrapers as well. Programmatic access is not encouraged so they can sell more ads.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Probably billions of dollars in R&D and extremely clear executive guidance?
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by beckingz 3y ago
Start by building a prototype proof of concept on a breadboard or prototyping board!
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by beckingz 3y ago
Classic Tarkov issue. Real bitcoin ruined the economy for a bit.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Privacy. The iOS improvements to privacy with advertiser ID becoming opt-in instead of opt-out has been brutal on targeted advertising.
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by beckingz 3y ago
It's the classic data nerd trap. "I'm pretty good at statistics and can predict things using software... I bet I could make money in the stock market" And then they realize just how hard it is.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Not to mention the original microsoft access database.
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by beckingz 3y ago
I was wondering when this was going to happen. Airtable is a cool technology, but seemingly overhyped at their price point.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Apple thinks they'll make more money this way. Good for them. Long term, I hope this increases competition for quality hardware
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by beckingz 3y ago
Intercity/ interstate migration is a huge contributor to the pressure in major US cities. If NYC or SF were 1/4th the cost I would move there immediately, but the value would be marginal at this point.
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by beckingz 3y ago
I had to go in to the office to have my passport verified after 4 months of employment... don't really see the point.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Fecal. Like Sequal.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Doesn't want to get sued by the people who put up the majority of the money.
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by beckingz 3y ago
"The proprietary and for-profit nature of Zoom also has made it subject to multiple cases of algorithmic bias. The once esoteric seeming issues are now a stark reality." As a huge fan of FOSS, I gotta say this is ridiculous to inc
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by beckingz 3y ago
The specs were decreased so that "success" was extremely likely, because failure is career ending.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Except that requirements cost time to develop, so perfect requirements have significantly more cost than good enough requirements. Also, requirements tend to evolve as customers grow, so requirements will change over time and become less pe
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by beckingz 3y ago
If I could pay rent and feed myself regardless, I would design this out of spite.
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by beckingz 3y ago
up 7000 employees despite layoffs.
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by beckingz 3y ago
Yeah but the dude is like a lawnmower
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by beckingz 3y ago
Create a view in the database that takes the transactions and returns the data in the format that you want. It will probably have a bunch of JOIN client.id on transaction.client_id etc etc, but it's the easiest way to get started. When

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