Notices by Logan Dice (logandice@mastodon.social), page 2

Measuring Product Market Fit

Figure out what metric represents delivering the value to your customer, and what would be the ideal frequency for that to happen.

Facebook users should visit Facebook daily, Uber users should order rides weekly/monthly, Airbnb users should book apartments annually.

Then use that metric to measure your retention(how many users hit that target metric). If retention gradually drops to zero, your product is bad, if it flattens out at 10% it's good, 50% is great.

Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17964729
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List of the most valuable majors:
https://www.scribd.com/document/388081338/BANKRATE-Most-Valuable-College-Majors-Ranked

To sum it up:
- Computer Science/Engineering and related fields.
- Engineering of every kind - electrical, industrial, chemical, aerospace, etc.
- Math and Statistics.
- Physics, Chemistry, general science.
- General business, economics, marketing.
- Insurance, accounting, finance.
- Medicine and related stuff - biology, biochemistry, genetics.
- Neuroscience, cognitive science.
- Transportation, Construction, Agriculture.
- Politics

When they've been making Halo games, they spent a lot of effort designing the perfect, most engaging 10-second experience. They figured that if they can make a game that's really fun to play for 10 seconds, they can repeat this 10 seconds fragment indefinitely, making the whole game very fun. It worked.

I keep that in mind when I design a UX for my app, or think about tweaking my work/hobbies to be more fun and optimized for flow.

Nail the 10 seconds that hook your brain, then just repeat.

Business challenges based on Stripe's report:

- Access to talent constraints growth

- Security/data breaches can threaten the business

- Bringing products to market faster and increasing sales are the areas where developers make the most impact

- ‘Bad code’ costs companies $85 billion in opportunity cost annually. Developers spend about half of their time dealing with bad code, errors, debugging, refactoring, addressing “technical debt”.

https://stripe.com/reports/developer-coefficient-2018

You can't play Bach on YouTube because Sony says they own his compositions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17923138
#hackernews #tech

Mastodon 2.5 released
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17920400
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How to Procrastinate Productively
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17917076
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India's Supreme Court has ruled that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17924333
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There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (2013)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17924840
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"Build a visual library" is one of the most valuable design tips I've ever head. Great designers don't try to think up cool ideas out of nowhere, they spend a lot of time browsing works of others, and creating a library of patterns in their head. By using and recombining those patterns/tropes they create new ideas.

I should do the same thing with startups and SaaS tools. Put more effort into browsing and analyzing successful projects to build a library of ideas I can make my own stuff out of.

"The Best Fight in Harry Potter and why Avada Kedavra is a Stupid Spell" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqwc7Kgon1k