GavinB

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by GavinB 18y ago
It's very successful on the "get social media sites to link to us" standard.
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by GavinB 18y ago
The biggest key to success here would be convincing the gatekeeper that he needs to roleplay realistically as it's supposed to be a simulation of the real thing. Otherwise no argument will be successful. The AI must convince the gatekeeper
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by GavinB 18y ago
Actually, "go to the emergency room" is a health plan. It's just the most inefficient health plan for all involved.
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by GavinB 18y ago
What's supposed to stop open source OSes from including a copy of your commercial function in their next version? Isn't recreating commercial products for free of the point of open source? By your definition anyone who doesn't own the OS i
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by GavinB 18y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=google&ie=utf-8&oe=ut... When I googled google, the top story was about whether google was turning into big brother. Which I suppose answers that question as they're clearly not censoring it!
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by GavinB 18y ago
Part of the thing that people think is fun about myspace is the feeling that they're hacking it by customizing their profile.
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by GavinB 18y ago
overcomingbias.com
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by GavinB 18y ago
Pretty and functional do have significant correlation. At this point looking pretty (or at least clean like HN) is a basic qualification to get me as a user. Developers who think through clear UI are more likely to get the back end right.
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by GavinB 18y ago
Amusing that you dismiss philosophy in the first paragraph and then go right ahead and engage in it in the second.
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by GavinB 18y ago
I guess the question is whether being wrong 1,000,000 times is equivalent to being wrong 1 time. Sadly, the problem doesn't define that.
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by GavinB 18y ago
The reason that people are confused is because of the word "probability." I guess they don't realize that probability is simply a tool that tells you what to guess.
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by GavinB 18y ago
If you're being asked, then you know that a bet of Heads will be right 1/3 of the time. So the probability from your perspective is 1/3. It doesn't make a different if you're only doing it once or a million times. The whole point of proba
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by GavinB 18y ago
I think you may be misreading the question. Given tails, you are asked both Monday AND Tuesday. That's why it gets tricky--you have to double down if it's tails.
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by GavinB 18y ago
What are the good books on negotiation? I previewed the Trump book and it looked like most stories and musings more than technical explanation.
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by GavinB 18y ago
Your first diagram makes it look like something is split between Monday and Tuesday, when it's not split at all. You get both of those "tails" interviews, in sequence. So you get asked two times for the answer when it is tails, and only o
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by GavinB 18y ago
On Heads, sleeping beauty gets asked once. On Tails, she gets asked twice. If I walk into the room and see her being asked, it's a better bet that the coin landed tails. If this experiment is repeated many times, "Tails" will be the right
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by GavinB 18y ago
I would hope the founder of a company with a successful community would at least try to pass on the name and membership to community members or other entrepreneurs who would try to continue the community. I'm sure there are plenty of entre
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by GavinB 18y ago
Twitter's heavy focus in states with major cities probably looks very much like early graphs of cell phone use. I still have a hard time imagining it spreading, but I guess I haven't been bit by the twitterbug yet.
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by GavinB 18y ago
". . . lunch is $15 every day . . ." Get some bread and make a sandwich, already!
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by GavinB 18y ago
One good way to get people to enter data the right way is to use conditional formatting to make it change a color when they enter the word that you want. It's very satisfying to turn a line from yellow to green (in progress to complete for
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by GavinB 18y ago
"Adding lanes or roads is a short-lived fix. Widen one highway, and drivers from another will defect." Thereby making both highways have less traffic. The fact that people come when capacity is improved shows that you're lessening the load
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by GavinB 18y ago
I'm suprised that no one mentioned the irony of the google street view driver not wanting to have his picture taken in a public place . . .
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by GavinB 18y ago
The important question isn't whether it improves scholastic performance, but whether it improves life and career performance. Computer skills are a prerequisite for getting almost any modern job. Whether a computer improves a student's per
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by GavinB 18y ago
Firefox 3 actually installs in some locked-down corporate networks. I was able to install FF3 (just not in /program files/), even though I can't install much else--including upgrading flash! I can only assume that FF3 was cleverly designed
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by GavinB 18y ago
The copy on the front page makes it sound like a scam, even if it's not (and I have no idea either way). It looks like they're trying hard to tell you that the money is real, which of course makes you wonder if it's really unlikely that yo
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by GavinB 18y ago
We need to stop measuring the intelligence of computers by how many calculations per second they do. Right now we can put together computing systems that can do the amount of calculation under discussion, but fairly slowly. So what if it
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by GavinB 18y ago
The title of your book is "getting real." Doesn't that directly imply someone else is not "real?" 37Signals has very strong opinions about how things ought to be done, and evangelizes them. So far it's worked brilliantly. If you didn't
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by GavinB 18y ago
I appreciate a lot of things about 37signals products. The coding is much more solid than a lot of similar products, and they absolutely know what they're doing. Their blog posts just come across as a bit partisan and dismissive on a lot o
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by GavinB 18y ago
37Signals: We do it this way. People who do things differently are wrong.
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by GavinB 18y ago
If you have data, please share it. The only bits of info I found were that busing students from one neighborhood to the next didn't have much effect either way. The problem of selection bias is of course going to be very present as always.

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