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designium··on Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era
This.
designium··on The Elements of Product Design
The stack reminds me of the Lean Product Playbook's stack by Dan Olsen.
designium··on How to Work Hard
Summary:

- Working hard starts at school, but there is a lot of "distortion"

- It's complicated to since it depends on multitude of person's factors and likes

- You have to be honest with yourself

- You have to find something you want or/and talented to do

- More competitive areas or ambitious goals will required more effort

- What was said before may not work given the circumstances of each individual

designium··on Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
I suggest using an old laptop or desktop and install Kodi or Plex to solve for this.
designium··on A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years
swap dwarf planet for a neutron star and you have "Dragon's Egg" story.
designium··on EA got hacked and games source code leaked including new game Battlefield 2042
I agree that is well written.

You can open the binary file in a text editor and it will be much harder to actually read it. Next best solution is to use a HEX editor but having the source code will make it much easier to understand.

designium··on Leaving Freenode for a new network
They might as well put "Arasaka" logo into their website (for those who played Cyberpunk 2077).
designium··on FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
Unless if you have a backup in iCloud. Anyone with access to your iCloud account could pull that backup.
designium··on How pharmaceutical companies find sick users on Facebook
The ads are effective to bring awareness. There are doctors who will “help” patients to discover if they have conditions to warrant the use of the drugs they saw on TV or social media ads.

This brings patients to doctors, then they get lab work done and finally the use of drugs. That activates the full value chain of the system meaning that all the participants in that chain get paid.

designium··on How pharmaceutical companies find sick users on Facebook
But it could be similar to the case where Target was able to targets ads to women who did not even know they were pregnant.

In this case, the above commenter could be doing things signaling that he may need a will soon due to diseases or life situation that he is not aware of. Or he/she has looked into content similar to those people in need. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

designium··on Amazon Just Cut Off Warehouse Workers from a Companywide Directory
It reminds me of the last Star Trek Voyager when the Borg Queen had to cut off the Borg network to slow down / prevent the spread of the virus from Captain Janeway.
designium··on How to Turn an IKEA Coffee Table into a DIY Server Rack
How do you deal with the noise?
designium··on Airbnb’s Stunning IPO
Not exactly true:

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/police-identify-three-men-killed-...

designium··on Home racing simulator to be designed by Aston Martin
I thought about the same thing.

I see the point if there is a market but the brand is strong and there will be people who will buy that (not me).

designium··on Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver
I hope the founder exited well. I remember working with him at Google when he was the PM for Google Optimizer. Nice guy.
designium··on WebBundles harmful to content blocking, security tools, and the open web
Interestingly, most comments are talking about the cache/tech capabilities and not the privacy concerns.

I mean the way it was shown is that WebBundles allow the author of that content to arbitrary hide and package content in such a way where you cannot filter specific content; so either you view a page with ads and trackers or you don't see anything at all.

designium··on Ask HN: What kind of profitable business you can create with only $10K USD?
I didn't downvote you. I think those are some of the thoughts I had as a joke; like running a onlyfans site, etc. but I'm not sure if that's sustainable or it can scale. Nor if I have the "talent".
designium··on Ask HN: What kind of profitable business you can create with only $10K USD?
I"m going to read that book. I didn't know it.

I have a full time job as a PM in a Fintech startup. It's not bad but I really want to have my own thing and be job independent. I can also program in Ruby on Rails and do a lot of automation scripts.

The issue is that I have too many ideas and that's more of a distraction than anything else. I think creating is not an issue but marketing what I want and to whom is the bigger issue.

designium··on Ask HN: What kind of profitable business you can create with only $10K USD?
Not bad ideas. It reminds some suggestions from r/sweatstartups Thanks.
designium··on Ask HN: What kind of profitable business you can create with only $10K USD?
Thanks for the advice! I think the "free" marketing is where I'm struggling the most.
designium··on WebGL Fluid Experiment (2014)
That's very fun and relaxing!
designium··on Facebook has blocked Dreamwidth
Agreed. I also use Apollo. I think the secrets is that is has less features so it shows content without the fluff from the official app
designium··on The Four Quadrants of Conformism
I think you can apply his quadrant to usage of mask during Covid and the result speaks for themselves:

Let's play this out for mask wearing:

Top Left: Top doctors asking people to wear masks

Bottom Left: People who are wearing masks

Bottom Right: People who occasionally use masks, or alternatives, bandanas, etc.

Top Right: People who don't want to use masks because of freedom.

designium··on The Four Quadrants of Conformism
Let's play this out for mask wearing:

Top Left: Top doctors asking people to wear masks Bottom Left: People who are wearing masks Bottom Right: People who occasionally use masks, or alternatives, bandanas, etc. Top Right: People who don't want to use masks because of freedom.

designium··on The Four Quadrants of Conformism
Well put. There is a huge simplification and again, very North American centric. I beg you, HN readers, apply what he wrote to other societies.

I read on the top comments of people getting worried about the US becoming like former Soviet States in regards about thought control and lack of freedom. That's a whole different issue. PG mixes multiple different problems and oversimplify them.

designium··on The Four Quadrants of Conformism
"It's futile to fight a war of words over who is right or wrong - let's instead use the economic success as a proxy for truth."

Even though, that's the one of the core tenets of capitalism, I could show you that is not always the way it seems. Think about big corporations located in developing world like Brazil (where I came from), where corruption and bribes run amok. Saying that people and companies that are successful financially and economically is equal to truth and the right path to go, it's dismissing a lot of other context based on "other truth".

The world is much bigger than North America and the PG's text may not apply for different countries and culture. Imagine the same ideal applying to North Korean and Russia, what conclusions do you get from it?

designium··on Principles for great product managers
You brought up good points where for B2B and big corp type of product development requires different best practices. Also the politics from big corps or in B2B environments are very different than B2C. As simple as reviewing if you product via Google Analytics funnel can work for B2C, that may not apply vis-a-vis to B2B products. You can still use analytics to review, but usually the corporations are already focusing on another features and there is never enough time to revisit past products nor the budget to improve existing ones. Then, what does a PM should do?
designium··on Principles for great product managers
I do exactly what you do. I write up the cards in Jira and then the devs will have further discussions from that point and beyond. They also feel validated and they do bring good ideas.
designium··on Principles for great product managers
I think if you are building something extremely technical such as products for devs, or Fintech stuff, you have to understand some APIs just to know enough that you know what you are able to deliver.
designium··on Principles for great product managers
I agree. Most of the "best PM advices" are usually related to B2C facing products. How about PMs who develop tools for internal use? I think the recommendations also changes - not from the point of "know your customers" but the nuances and what to pay attention and even measuring results are different than B2C consumers in general.
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