Dwolb

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by Dwolb 12y ago
'Future proofing' is not a good sign. Typically it means 'architectural and cost inefficiencies because we don't want to institutionalize knowledge'
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by Dwolb 12y ago
You're spot on. The East Coast corridors are managed by a separate business unit than the Midwest routes. Differences in managent vision and population circumstances have led to the large gap in quality between the two services. Essent
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by Dwolb 12y ago
On the contrary, Obama is speaking at Kellogg/Northwestern today which has closed class for the mid-morning and afternoon.
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by Dwolb 12y ago
Songdo has been plagued by poor planning from the start. The gov't contracted Gale International, a company with no previous international experience, to manage the project and Posco, a Korean company whose work was not considered in t
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by Dwolb 12y ago
I've never seen this clearly defined. At the root, criteria for engineering come from the intended uses. If the product is meant to last for 5 years and you design the product for 50 years, you've probably over engineered. If the
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by Dwolb 12y ago
This idea of searching by speech or images seems ... uninspired. Claiming the interface will change and we'll search by speech or images is a linear progression from text searching. How about framing the problem as proactive vs reactiv
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by Dwolb 12y ago
In one line of reasoning, money is a proxy for happiness (I'd rather change this to value... but this doesn't matter because this example is so distilled). So, companies exist to make people happy. This works by providing a good o
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by Dwolb 12y ago
It's not always about productivity. It can be about finding superstars. These two ideas contrast: in productive organizations, you typically want people closer to the mean (i.e. reduce variance among the population) which yields consta
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by Dwolb 12y ago
I'm of the opposite opinion. I loved it! The concept seems similar to Hypertext [0] (or what it was supposed to be). Would love to see how they handle first-hand commentary from multiple conflicting voices! [0] http://en.m.
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by Dwolb 12y ago
Not necessarily directed at you, but one big frustration of mine while leading a project team was when someone would list off 'potential issues'. If the concept is compelling and the quick estimates look like positive ROI, go get
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by Dwolb 12y ago
>I can tell you that I have a male named account on hacker news and it never, ever gets called too angry, or aggressive, or emotional. I'm not being sarcastic or facetious - this is a very enlightning statement and I almost cannot b
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by Dwolb 12y ago
Are you delivering value to them? Can the customers see this? If not, take the value off the floor and put it on the table.
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by Dwolb 12y ago
No. Model-building relies on a given set of assumptions that may or may not be true. Once you've agreed to a set of assumptions, the data becomes meaningful within the framework. The framework can be bent and shaped as the assumptio
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by Dwolb 12y ago
Haha yeah pretty much your first paragraph sums up what I was thinking. I wouldn't word it so drastically, but I like the point you make at the end: if there's no real investment by business in the community, then why not just re
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by Dwolb 12y ago
I'd recommend this course: https://www.coursera.org/course/comparch If you're too advanced for this, I'd consider writing some behavioral VHDL or Verilog for a few of the units to see how a few of the pi
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by Dwolb 12y ago
I guess I'm not so sure it's a negative for the market as a whole. It allows for some sort of company-buying-market where a non-attractive-location-state can really pull in valuable employers which they otherwise they would not h
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by Dwolb 12y ago
Did the study conclude these deals are a cost to the states that provide them? I guess what I mean is are these tax incentives a net negative over 20 years?
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by Dwolb 12y ago
Do you have any more information on the correctness of the calculations?
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Ask HN: What are platforms to look at for scheduling, billing, and subscription?
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by Dwolb 12y ago
I liked searching through other people's pictures in this app. They're really cool! Unfortunately for me right now, this app requires a lot of effort and I wouldn't use it unless someone REALLY needed a 3D image of somethin
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by Dwolb 12y ago
I'll speak to this a bit... Transistor logical state, typically logical 1 or logical 0, is represented physically by positive and negative charges, respectively. Therefore, we can change the device logical output of 1 or 0 by changing
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by Dwolb 12y ago
It has to do with small amounts of leakage current on the device level. If you just use 1 type of transistor (p or n -type) then when you change from on/off or off/on you will lose more current than if you use both types in your c
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by Dwolb 12y ago
I guess my question is if there's a disagreement between user testing results and the product development team's own choices, who wins?
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by Dwolb 12y ago
The biggest question I have is does Apple do user testing? Do they trust their small group of designers more than a small sample of the population? This my biggest question for Apple's design team.
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by Dwolb 12y ago
This isn't always a 'gotcha' scenario in which the OEM acts in bad faith to the customer. In hardware, when you're under a lot of pressure to be deliver products on time, teams will be risk averse and over design to meet
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by Dwolb 12y ago
seems like one of the big factors that affects property values. maybe since it's so important some people would rather search by top school within a radius or boundary than know the district ranking associated with the house.
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by Dwolb 12y ago
One day when I was feeling mischievous, I was thinking of an app called SubUber where you'd coordinate with your favorite Uber driver(s) directly and call (or one button press) to request from them a ride. Then, your ride fee could be
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by Dwolb 12y ago
Did you ever try to give people the option to filter by school district or school district ranking?
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by Dwolb 12y ago
I think you're right. The Washington Post article backs this up,“Several years ago, when Stephan did one of his strips that mocked his own drawing ability and mentioned my strip in comparison, I thought it might be funny for me to ghos
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by Dwolb 12y ago
The reason it's important to ask 'why does diversity matter' has to do with overall program metrics. If you don't know why you're doing something, you can't state where you are going, you can't plan how to

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