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by cml 5y ago
A single mediocre experience optimized to work ‘most of the time’ for ‘most people’ is quite contrary to the narrative that has made Google such tremendous amounts of money (“let us surveil you so that you can have a more personalized exper
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by cml 5y ago
I appreciated the way that the reports are organized by problem-being-solved. It might be nice to be able to filter for specific constraints (like "SSO Support") so as to exclude services in each category that are non-starters. It
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Ask HN: Strategies for managing the proliferation of office SaaS products?
2 points by cml 5y ago|2 comments
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by cml 5y ago
This is how the lead author of the study we are discussing interprets the new information: “Our paper, which had a global impact within 24 hours of publication, provides important support for the following crucial public health actions: vac
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by cml 6y ago
Is it possible you are agreeing with the author? > Most of my utilities are console command line utilities instead of full GUI and they are very cumbersome to use. That's because I prioritized the dev experience over the UX. As the
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by cml 6y ago
Location: Seattle Remote: Possibly Willing to relocate: SF/NYC/LA Technologies: People management, JavaScript/React/Redux, d3, Ruby, AWS, JIRA Resume: https://angel.co/u/cmlaidlaw GitHub: https:&#x
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Show HN: Present any .md file as a full-screen slide deck(presidentialjs.com)
2 points by cml 11y ago|0 comments
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by cml 12y ago
I am also semi car-free in Seattle and can attest to a very satisfying quality of life. I moved here last year. If anyone is toying with moving here and has questions: chris.laidlaw@socrata.com. (We're hiring!)
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by cml 12y ago
Oops: cmlaidlaw@gmail.com Thanks!
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by cml 12y ago
>a spreadsheet containing all the tasks, issues and risks, with owners and dependencies identified is usually enough. >telling people when you're waiting on things from them I'm working on something a lot like this right now
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by cml 12y ago
Your grandfather's experience is evidence that something was working well. But this is advice that Jack Welch is giving in 2014, and as someone who is clearly still trying to be a public figure I would expect him to be a bit more in tu
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by cml 12y ago
I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I think that Mr. Welch's advice could be read as extremely cynical as well: maybe he's just telling people what they want to hear, which has the added benefit of encouraging (perhaps
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by cml 13y ago
Author here: Thanks a million! The code is easier to read on GitHub ( https://github.com/cmlaidlaw/waaah ) rather than view-source, if you're curious.
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Show HN: Psychedelic HTML5 Dandelion-blowing Sim(weareallangelshere.com)
2 points by cml 13y ago|2 comments
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by cml 13y ago
Roughly: 1. The letters and punctuation which comprise a computer program in human-readable form can be translated into a string of numbers. 2. That list of numbers can be looked at as if it were one really large number instead of a list of
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by cml 13y ago
It has been a while since I read that series of articles, but the gist of it was: -The author predicts that the business side of entrepreneurship will become increasingly commoditized, with programs like YC supplanting business school as th