meterplech

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by meterplech 3y ago
I think a critical component of making platform teams work is to allow internal competition between the platform team and the stream-aligned team using some other technology. In this way the platform team is a stream-aligned team whose cust
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by meterplech 3y ago
Really helpful - thanks for the details!
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by meterplech 3y ago
This is really cool. Out of curiosity - how did you actually set this up for him to use? Was it on tablet or a computer or phone? Any suggestions for a dad of a 3.5 year old? Also, is he reading / at what level? Trying to get a feel fo
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by meterplech 4y ago
May be hard with unpredictable timing of a layoff, but I’d recommend folks look into Recurse Center: https://www.recurse.com/ After closing down my last startup I did it. It was a great balance of community providing some b
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by meterplech 5y ago
I built a command line wordle solver that provides an updated best guess as the game progresses and you learn more. Right now it's just based on word frequency, but working to add more. Also added a command line version of wordle in ca
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by meterplech 5y ago
Oh I see. You allow this in-app. Your signup flow, though, has a start time + end time and doesn't make it clear you can add these windows in. It made me pause during sign-up and I wonder if it would cause other folks to drop off. Mayb
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by meterplech 5y ago
Just went through sign-up flow. Heard of the product for years + interested in it. One note - I have a bit of an idiosyncratic schedule. I work 9-6:30 and then stop for the evening (dinner with family, put kid to bed) and resume work ~9pm t
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by meterplech 5y ago
Love this idea. Some quick thoughts: 1) Tool to tool choices: Many migrations involve making decisions that are judgement calls because of service inconsistency (e.g the security roles in the two systems aren't exactly the same so you
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by meterplech 5y ago
100% true. And a good reminder of how much exposure housing prices have to interest rates. To frame the same math another way: If you bought a house for, say, $580k with a $500k mortgage... You paid $80k down payment + $20k closing costs an
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by meterplech 5y ago
There are many photos one could take without uploading or saving them in the cloud. The question is can I safely store things locally on my device without a multi-national corporation being able to set the policy of what's allowed ther
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by meterplech 7y ago
My current job has a lot more video calls than prior. It took some getting used to. I find the biggest challenge to be the urge to do some low-quality work simultaneously. What's helped me on that is: - Use a good monitor or TV. Ideall
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by meterplech 7y ago
As a new parent I think about this a lot in terms of how to educate my son. I find it especially relevant as my first job was starting my own SAT tutoring company. Anecdotally I found it interesting that immigrant parents & most of the
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How Good Are FiveThirtyEight Forecasts?(projects.fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by meterplech 7y ago|0 comments
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by meterplech 8y ago
Agreed. Valuation is based on sum of future profits - so essentially how profitable the business can be AND how big it can be. If 1) Ratio of fixed to marginal costs is high you have economies of scale, and will get much more profitable as
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by meterplech 8y ago
Google Cloud Composer, built on top of Airflow (mentioned by a number of people here) has a great Getting Started Guide to check out: https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/quickstart You can dive right in to Airf
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by meterplech 9y ago
https://bombora.com/
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by meterplech 9y ago
One interesting thing to think about is how reliant Facebook is on startups. If there is a wider reduction in VC investment, Facebook may be dramatically affected (like Yahoo in early 2000s).
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by meterplech 9y ago
I am not the founder of my company, but I ask the same thing of new hires (it's probably easier to give ideas to the non-founder). One thing that has worked well for me has been to say "One of my favorite things to hear from a new
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by meterplech 10y ago
Obviously this vision is compelling. I'm confused by the decision of their prototype car to not have manual control overrides (e.g steering wheel or something similar). Air travel has been revolutionized with autopilot, but there are c
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by meterplech 10y ago
As an intern project years ago I had to all the BLS data into a database for analysis. Any time I ran into an issue I would call them directly. Little known fact that every BLS data set has a source.txt file with a phone number to call. You
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by meterplech 10y ago
Curious as to why you say that. Do you mean in comparison to other cloud infrastructure providers or in comparison or rolling your own infrastructure?
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by meterplech 11y ago
I think the dirty not-so-secret of advertising is that for most content on the web the ads are awful, poorly targeted (or at best basic retargeted). Many content producers want to focus on building great content, so advertisers go for low C
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by meterplech 11y ago
I don't know what you mean by bubbling. The overall essay produces a quite useful heuristic. Perhaps the specific example is inspired by recent experience... But it has power for me. It's amazing to watch how many young people get
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How to Give a Great Demo Part 1: Get the First Two Sentences Right(jkatzur.tumblr.com)
1 points by meterplech 11y ago|0 comments
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Understanding Spatial Mean – Or Where to Put a Bachelor Party(jkatzur.tumblr.com)
3 points by meterplech 12y ago|0 comments
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by meterplech 13y ago
This leak is frustrating and sad. Many of us here applaud companies that work to be transparent with their employees and would appreciate working for a company that helped us understand metrics like this. It makes everyone feel like they ar
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by meterplech 13y ago
Well, the purchase is a onetime cost, and revenue is recurring. If they spend 2x what they are paying now they'd recoup the cost (in terms of revenue) in 5 years. Plus, that's not counting new customers for ExactTarget's services. If you ar
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by meterplech 13y ago
The story is that they paid it back via the private market, meaning that the financial community believes in the company enough that they no longer need public support. Incidentally, they did issue corporate debt (a form of a loan, sure), b
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by meterplech 14y ago
I think it's more likely to show that Facebook's growth has been faster than in 2006. People who just started using the site obviously have less friends in general than people who have been for awhile.
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Understanding Affinity Analyses: Fun with Probabilities(jkatzur.tumblr.com)
1 points by meterplech 14y ago|0 comments

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