DaveWalk

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by DaveWalk 9y ago
I was wondering about Best Buy too. Does anyone know what's going on with them? Last I heard (2017), they were trying hard to be more "on-demand" in response to Amazon. They were quite fully aware of people "demoing&quot
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
In Boston the downtown B&N is actually pretty uninspired, and the store is probably 60% non-book items. It's like an airport bookstore (Hudson News in the US). And yet, from my experience no place in the city has a more comprehensi
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
I couldn't agree more with this. I think it's the OP that hasn't taken a close enough look at the B&N employee's "situation" and just spouted off an opinion.
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
Great points, this is very much also true on my experience. Once the decision is made to lay off, often work is done to make sure that they don't use company resources to get their next job. It's quite accepted in business circles
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
In my experience the actual axe coming down is done in a terse, bloodless manner for legal reasons. Up until that point, managers are comfortable being cordial. Managers I've known are terrified about being sued and decide being heartl
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
The secondhand life of books is an ongoing fascination of mine. I liked an NPR piece about where books go after they are donated[0]. Mostly to giant warehouses trying to flip them on Amazon for a few cents at scale...or something more exoti
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
This is overall great advice for anyone on any field. Being hungry, humble, an active member of the community and developing your own niche is great advice.
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
A tidbit from inside: > The group’s data shows that these networks are most frequently popping up in Conservative areas and have broad, bipartisan support. With a link to a 2015 study. All data provided by the Institute for Self Reliance
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More Than 750 American Communities Have Built Their Own Internet Networks(motherboard.vice.com)
8 points by DaveWalk 9y ago|1 comments
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
I am also concerned about the accountability. It's been some time -- 48 hours or so, and not even a brief statement from management? This is like PR 101 to me. The most shocking thing so far is their silence -- Mozilla is not a new org
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
By nature (ahem), editors of these journals are responsible for what goes in their pages. Decisions of what to run have some motive - you can call them "political," or "profit-driven." But this has always been there. If
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
I've had nothing but trouble with Here maps (now HERE WeGo), in the eastern USA at least. Its UI/UX is sadly far behind GMaps. I would love an alternative...
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
I love OSM (I contribute whenever I can!), and navigation on OsmAnd~ is possible , but Google Maps is far, far easier to use. I really struggle with a Google Maps replacement; I've also tried "Here We Go" but it doesn't
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
What motivates the senior scientists to do this? Is it because they want to guide the latest research in high-impact journals, oblivious of any profit motive? In the life sciences, many top researchers are actually editors or on the board
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
The article links to a 2005 NYT article about wifi-less coffee shops, and another to a 2010 version of the same. What a nothingburger! Does anyone else have good reading on this subject? As someone who haunts coffee shops habitually, I&#x27
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by DaveWalk 10y ago
Question to the Machine Learning folk: are five-star ratings "better" than thumbs up/down, or is it just a matter of algorithm design? I know ratings/prediction has long been studied by the MovieLens.org scientists.
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by DaveWalk 10y ago
Was it true that Nintendo held back some of its production of earlier consoles to spike demand? I remember it specifically with the Wii[0], but I seem to recall that their production was always playing catch up. Do you think it's an in
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by DaveWalk 10y ago
A very good set of prompts, thanks for taking the time to think of them. - On Glassdoor: I assume it's mostly-anonymous replies are an issue. Has anyone verified what is posted there, say comparing it to official data or something? You
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by DaveWalk 10y ago
Amen to tangible evidence! I feel similarly about my current career, but there are two things to keep in mind: the grass is always greener, and you can do something on your own terms (hobby) that fills the same niche. Thus, woodworking, or
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Here’s what cameras see when you drive through toll gantries on the Mass. Pike(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by DaveWalk 10y ago|0 comments
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The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped(backchannel.com)
2 points by DaveWalk 10y ago|0 comments
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Inside the Obama Tech Surge as It Hacks the Pentagon and VA – Backchannel(backchannel.com)
1 points by DaveWalk 10y ago|0 comments
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So Many Research Scientists, So Few Openings as Professors(nytimes.com)
4 points by DaveWalk 10y ago|0 comments
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America Can Fix Its Student Loan Crisis. Just Ask Australia(nytimes.com)
1 points by DaveWalk 10y ago|0 comments
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by DaveWalk 10y ago
I really like your counter argument, focusing on the process instead of the output. However I have to ask: isn't the end goal of submitting a manuscript to get recognition for it? Do you genuinely hope every time that your submission w
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
I often think about this Russelian argument about work, specifically via In Praise of Idleness. [1] Sometimes to me it feels dirty to contemplate doing nothing, being idle, without direction as a lifestyle choice. To your point, what can b
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The life of a modern-day nomad who hops from Airbnb to Airbnb every few weeks(qz.com)
9 points by DaveWalk 11y ago|0 comments
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Thank you, Patrick, for the cool splash of water. My heart goes out to PriceZombie, a tool I really liked using. It makes me wonder, are contracts just passé in today's web/app economy? Do founders not care about having the rug pu
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Claims of Age Bias Rise, but Standards of Proof Are High(nytimes.com)
113 points by DaveWalk 11y ago|146 comments
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
> Conferences are more important to a scientific career than an OA paper Depends on you field of research, maybe? Paper publications make or break early biomedical research careers. Further, the grants that these funds are paid out of of

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