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by okabat 5y ago
If you stick with it, I would recommend you spend a lot more time talking to customers, thinking about distribution channels, and getting creative with narrowing your target audience. And build after, not before, you do those things
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by okabat 5y ago
Formatting is hard to read, and too many details on specific technologies. Focus more on impact (results) and leadership. “Pushed to AWS weekly” and “wrote unit tests” lines in particular aren’t helping you look like a senior candidate. Did
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by okabat 6y ago
How are roles/employees mapped to the seniority level which corresponds to the 45/95 percentile bounds? Is this a sliding scale or a binary distinction?
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by okabat 6y ago
Growth rate is an output metric. I would recommend de-emphasizing the output by revisiting infrequently and stopping comparisons with others, in favor of concentrating on the inputs. The poster you respond to has a very good set of things t
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by okabat 6y ago
Cool concept, matches how I want to play Mindsweeper (though others are pointing out some interesting parts of the game that this approach removes). Played through it once and was confused by why a bomb exploded. Can somebody help me interp
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by okabat 6y ago
Training as a separate activity from normal work activities is not my mental model, and I expect many others. Rather, training should be interwoven in all of the daily activities that allow people with more or differentiated experience to s
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by okabat 6y ago
As a SAML service provider, what's the easiest way to tell if my implementation has this problem? I'm guessing I should: 1) Go into my Okta dev account, create a 2nd "okta app" (SP instance) pointing at my hosted applica
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Escape from Immoral Mazes(thezvi.wordpress.com)
3 points by okabat 7y ago|0 comments
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by okabat 7y ago
Slack is great at managing "read/unread" state across my 4 devices even in messy mobile networking situations. Good threading tools allow conversations to remain sandboxed and not gum up entire channels. Do these improvements
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by okabat 9y ago
The fastest way to make progress on these business questions is often to build hacky MVPs that look like they're doing something smart, but behind the scenes are powered by humans or dead-simple algorithms, and get them in front of cus
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by okabat 9y ago
I think their point is that when changing engine output is labor-intensive, it made perfect sense to have an officer giving orders and somebody else implementing them. Why the command structure hasn't shifted to accommodate modern tech
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by okabat 9y ago
You pay the operational burden of keeping your computer networked 24/7, and likely receive cents in exchange.
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by okabat 9y ago
Slate star codex on the science behind gender representation: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge... Makes the very clever comparison to medicine and other fields that used to be 100%
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by okabat 9y ago
I see nothing of the sort in his original document. Could you add some quotes to back up your claim?
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by okabat 9y ago
I don't agree with what Coinbase did, but that's because not all forks are equivalent. Hashing power (necessary for transactions to clear) and trading price are not fuzzy and make a fork legitimate. It's only because BCC ha
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by okabat 9y ago
I'm in to prediction markets, but both Augur and Gnosis look like vaporware. Almost no volume on Augur and many poorly defined events to wager on (cost of having user generated content). Gnosis just looks like a fancy landing page and
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by okabat 10y ago
I work in product management and have been an interviewer in hiring cycles for a number of functions: product management, engineering, design, data science, legal, QA, marketing. Candidates for product management, more than any of the other
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by okabat 10y ago
Yeah, I don't see the evidence, unfortunately. Weird article. The lede - NSA released a bunch of documents yesterday - is buried in the final paragraph. Think there's strong evidence their whistleblower protections are lacking. Th
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by okabat 10y ago
Being aware of risk angles and protecting yourself is not the same thing as condoning exploitative behavior. I'd want my cofounder to think through how somebody with legal leverage over our company would act. You should want that too.
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by okabat 11y ago
As an engineer turned PM who might start a company some day, I've always seen financial literacy as one of my weaknesses. Companies are ultimately judged for their finances. Ignoring this subject is dangerous for a company's prosp
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by okabat 12y ago
I walked away from Somm convinced that wine tasting is a load of crap. The organization that puts on the "Master Sommelier" exam doesn't share results or a scoring rubric, which is a huge red flag that the test isn't mer