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541.
by Periodic 17y ago
Very often a lot of management posts tend to be fairly short and be very heavy on jargon. It makes it hard for those who haven't been following the field for a while to follow along. I also like the way he actually explains the connections
542.
by Periodic 17y ago
There's a huge problem with survivor's bias in business analysis. We tend to try to look at all the successful companies and figure out what they all do the same so we can all do it. Rarely does one look at the many more failed companies
543.
by Periodic 17y ago
It does seem that this is one of the problems, though surely not the only problem. If you're a hardware vendor making a new USB device, you're going to alter your device and your drivers (if you have them) so that the item works well under
544.
by Periodic 17y ago
I use OS X secondary to Linux. There are just a few things that start to bug me every time. Why can't I change the slide time and have a non-standard shortcut for Spaces? Why can't I auto-hide the menu bar? Why can't I use a different w
545.
by Periodic 17y ago
That's how it seems to be these days. Something is always not working quite right. I got a new Macbook Air a while ago and decided to install Linux. After messing with it for a few hours I realized I didn't have time to hunt down all the
546.
by Periodic 17y ago
I think some don't realize that they should separate the soldiers who fight the wars from those who make the policy and decisions about where and when and what to fight. Our service men and women are committed to fighting to better our coun
547.
by Periodic 17y ago
I knew it blocked the adenosine receptors, but I didn't realize it actually triggered adrenaline and dopamine release. I guess that explains one of the reasons I get cravings even when I'm not tired. Makes me realize it is perhaps more of
548.
by Periodic 17y ago
Or we could all start naming our children with GUIDs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID
549.
by Periodic 17y ago
This has been a trend for me. I've even moved away from using AdBlock, but I still use NoScript, and it's still amazing. It often surprises me how different some websites look on other people's computers. It makes me realize that advertis
550.
by Periodic 17y ago
I thought that above-the-fold still has to do with first impressions. If I get to a website and I see a link that I looks a mostly-like-what-I-want, but a link that is definitely-what-I-want is further down the page, I'll probably click th
551.
by Periodic 17y ago
If you Google my name you get a variety of people with my name. For example, I know there's at least one other person with my name on Facebook who also lives in the same geographic region. As more people get online it becomes harder to dif
552.
by Periodic 17y ago
This is something I'm sort of worried about. I've generally kept my casual nickname separate from my real name. If I'm doing something professional or academic, I'll use my real name, otherwise I'll use a pseudonym, and I work to keep the
553.
by Periodic 17y ago
It's interesting that this piece comes right after The Ph.D. Problem which was posted yesterday ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916850 ). In that piece, the author points out how graduate studies have gotten longer and we are producin
554.
by Periodic 17y ago
Well, we need to make sure they're prepared for the standardized tests they'll get in first grade. If we can start them on reading early then we can score higher for our district and get some more money for our schools. If we let them spe
555.
by Periodic 17y ago
For the UNIX philosophy I like the idea of small, useful tools loosely coupled. A big part of UNIX is that there are a lot of little tools that do one thing well. The smaller the tool is, less attack surface there will be, and each tool
556.
by Periodic 17y ago
Until you try to leave and realize you're just too dependent on them. They pull you in by inches, and then you realize you're miles from getting out. I actually love most Google products, and I'm willing to deal with them for now. I just
557.
by Periodic 17y ago
But if all those people used twitter, you'd just have to check twitter hourly. That's half as many checks as 50 sites daily.
558.
by Periodic 17y ago
Honestly, I feel like recursion is the natural way to express transformations on any nexted data structure (like a list, tree, or graph). I think the major reason that many people don't see these data structures often is because some langu
559.
by Periodic 17y ago
A few people are debating the numbers, but I think there's a much more important message here. Consumers rarely factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a computer, and only look at the retail price. I used to think this way, particu
560.
by Periodic 17y ago
Mine is the opposite, for not having AC. Winter bills are much higher. The month of the change is probably a very important factor. If you make the change between January and February, or June and July, the weather is probably a minimal f
561.
by Periodic 17y ago
This is one of the things I like about Haskell. Operators like (-) are just like any other function, so you're free to redefine them for new input. If you want to define a world where 3 - 4 =5, you're free to do so. It makes it easy to
562.
by Periodic 17y ago
I bet most people don't talk about their studying, and if you don't see the person studying, what stands out is their ability. So if the person goes home and spends twice as much time studying as you do, you still only see the part where t
563.
by Periodic 17y ago
I know this isn't quite what the article was about, but when he said "modelines" I thought of the lines you can place in a comment in a file to set editor options. For example, http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Modeline_magic It's great for maki
564.
by Periodic 17y ago
I replied to another post with this before finding yours. One thing we programmers ought to recognize is that it really is all text. From the moment we type on our keyboard to the time it's viewed in the reader's browser. If we separate o
565.
by Periodic 17y ago
> It's also nice to have be able use your own text editor. There is, for example, a FireFox plugin to let you edit a text-area in any text editor. It's called It's all Text: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 I use i
566.
by Periodic 17y ago
I agree. He's looking at a lot of businesses that aren't in the software/IT industries. For example, his statistics include plumbers, landscapers, artists, etc. If there's anything I've learned from the Internet it's that the Internet is
567.
by Periodic 17y ago
People also tend to have investment bias. Once you've invested in something, you're likely to think it is more valuable than if you haven't. To put it simply, we humans have trouble thinking from a different perspective, and we tend to fo
568.
by Periodic 17y ago
When you created the files they would still be cached by ZFS, so it's going to skip reading them from the disks. Took me 9.9 seconds to get a directory listing for 65336 files over NFS after creating them over NFS on another system. That's
569.
by Periodic 17y ago
I think you two need to separate out what you are talking about. I absolutely agree that "they're charging for access to their call center basically. I don't really see anything wrong with that.". However, I also agree that "what the site
570.
by Periodic 17y ago
This stood out to me as well. I like the script to actually calculate real usage. Modern operating systems are smarter than I am when it comes to memory management. What you don't want is to have anything you use more than once a minute i

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