felisml

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by felisml 9y ago
Check out bill.com, I know several people happily using it for client billing (including for recurring payments).
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by felisml 9y ago
If you're allowing emails as a credential reset mechanism, you've already got that problem.
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by felisml 9y ago
That's what database-level user IDs are for. Don't push your technical requirements onto the user when it's not needed.
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by felisml 10y ago
It's worth noting that "things knowable from third parties" and "an aggregation of all your things knowable from third parties" are very different risk profiles, if that's the deciding factor for anyone.
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by felisml 10y ago
Cache prediction: it's not just a problem for CPUs.
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by felisml 10y ago
More are urban than non-urban, so the national average isn't a particularly useful number either. Here's a relevant page by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If you scroll down a bit past the state-level charts, they start showing m
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by felisml 10y ago
Do you own any virtual space corresponding to your physical space? No. But you can sue someone over the effect they have on your physical space.
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by felisml 10y ago
Don't take turns, take concerns. Have the best person answer the question, even if that means one person does 90% of the talking. Marketing question? Tech question? Maybe different people answer those. You're there to get your bes
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by felisml 10y ago
Because countless companies are stupid and treat it as authentication. It's a password that you reuse everywhere and never change.
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by felisml 10y ago
"What features should I add" is another trap question. Avoid this. You want to study the people & problems you're targeting to the point that you become the expert they're trusting for advice about the problem. This
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by felisml 10y ago
> How many startups fail because their MVP is too minimal? None. They fail because they didn't talk to customers, didn't do sales, didn't do marketing, or failed to find a viable service model after all that. MVP is shorth
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by felisml 10y ago
Yup. Small multiples of price inefficiency mostly don't bear thinking about until they group together in large batches. The time it takes your engineers to work out the difference is rarely worth it.
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by felisml 10y ago
More generally, it's a term of art in HCI research, going back to J. F. Kelley in the early 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_experiment
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by felisml 11y ago
There are many ways in which you can incorrectly interpret statements on Wikipedia, which is why specialized textbooks and so forth still have use.
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by felisml 11y ago
"False positive" has a precise meaning in statistical analysis. The second thing you're talking about is useful to know, but calling it the false positive rate is just wrong. "Out of 1000 positive tests, 50 were false po
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by felisml 11y ago
I'm not surprised at all...the whole point for Amazon is ebook sales, they want install base, it's nice if you upgrade your device but many people will keep paying for books regardless of device version. Throwing a few engineering
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by felisml 11y ago
If you tell me what your thing does, I can probably get a working prototype together within six months, even absent any more technical detail than "applying deep learning to audio processing." That's the nature of the thing.