futuremeats's comments

I noticed this too. They started off with a good paragraph about focus and mindfulness, and then they started embedding links to tweet stuff and download their free e-book.

Is this not the opposite of the intended effect?

Does anybody know the total number / exact list of SNPs covered in this panel? How about the read depth?

I found this whitepaper on their website, which provides some level of detail...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/color-static-prod/pdfs/validationWh...

However, there were a good many asterisks and caveats about not testing every position along these genes (some of which are quite large).

While I'm not aware of any other companies that are doing this type of direct to consumer testing, companies like Myriad have offered targeted panels on some of these gene targets for some time.

http://myriadgenetics.eu/products/

What are some examples of cathedrals? Based on my reading of the original article, these would need to meet two requirements...

1. Software has been in service for a long time (let's say more than 10 years, though some will debate the timeframe).

2. Software is recognized as of enduring, well-conceived design.

The second point is an important one. I have read that there are some government (IRS tax calculation) and industry (airline reservation systems) which have been in place for far longer than 10 years, but their longevity is more a function of the risk-aversion of the organizations that needed them, and less a testament to their "beauty."

I share the confusion. Isn't the municipality just* acting as a reseller for telefonica?

That's what I was thinking, but someone more well-versed in matters lobster-related tells me they do fine driven there in vans.

You're looking for something that goes bad in less than 1.5-two hours. Say it takes 30 minutes to get to the hyperloop depot, 30 mins to Vegas, then 30 minutes from the Vegas hyperloop dept to get to the final destination casino or wherever its going.

And it needs to be something numerous enough that you could consistently fill a shipping container with it.

The author notes that HT wants to focus on moving shipping containers before people.

What are examples of physical goods that people would pay a premium to move very fast between Los Angeles and Las Vegas (I think it's fair to say two or three times as fast as a courier in a private jet), and which can be quickly bundled together at either end into a big enough batch to make sense to move them in a container?

Do you believe the numbers about how the average workweek has gotten shorter over the past 100 years?

Table 2 and 3 in the article below contain info like what I'm talking about.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/

I generally consider myself a pro-capitalist rational optimist, but we are a lot richer than we were 100 years ago, and my workweek is still 50+ hours a week. I wonder when we will get those 10 hour workweeks...

Thanks for the advice. I once read that if everybody thinks something is boring, but you find it fun, then it might be a lucrative niche. That's how I feel about documentation.

I can't speak to the people writing books on coding, etc., but I have written a lot of product documentation and am thinking about doing it full time as an independent consultant.

The small startups where I have worked have had woefully bad documentation. Developers and support reps never have time or want to write it. I would say the most useful thing I have done for these companies has been to set them up with a basic Zendesk account and just start writing articles to answer the most basic support issues and how-to guides.

I have found these topics to be not very prone to political word-smithing. People are just grateful for the documentation to be written. The company word smiths and bullst artists would rather fight over the copy for the front page of the website than type up "Troubleshooting CentOS Client Installation". It's uncontroversial stuff.

You would have to offer a turnkey solution (set up a Zendesk or Confluence knowledge base for them, perhaps as a value-added reseller), propose a list of articles to be written, then knock it out in a couple weeks, with add-on work to keep the documents fresh with future releases.

Your sweet spot would be companies with 25 employees or fewer who don't have the money to bring in a full time technical writer.

I don't think you could make F-U money, but you could do much of it remotely, and it would be less stressful than other types of work. Your clientele would have to come largely based on personal reference.

Curious if others think this is viable...