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Morrison Shelters(vintag.es)
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by Solstinox 6y ago
Tim Cook was a masterful operations guy with an MBA™ in the early 2000s. Rather than compete for manufacturing with the big, established, and expensive manufacturers in places like Japan, he partnered with little nobody Chinese manufacturer
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by Solstinox 6y ago
Huge, complicated companies like Apple don't see the world as you or I do. They see the world through whatever sensors they're equipped with, and they respond to what those sensors are fed by other parts of the company. They are f
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by Solstinox 6y ago
Rule #1 of All Coding: Keep it simple. If it's not simple, simplify it. Once you've got that rule down, pick a popular language (Python's good because you can ask questions and get answers), pick a simple program that'd
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by Solstinox 6y ago
A quick, cheap, non-invasive test that is less accurate (in the direction of more false positives) would be far more effective than a more accurate but slow, expensive, and intrusive test.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
I guess Microsoft may drop ~$30 billion on this poisoned chalice out of goodwill.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
If you have a big enough starting pool of people engaged in a mostly chance-based activity and they all have low odds for success, after a few iterations you still end up with a hefty number of people who look like they've got it all
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Requisite Variety(blogs.wright.edu)
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What you lose when you retool(methodicallyprocessing.com)
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by Solstinox 6y ago
Neat! With real writing it’s nice to be able to use the random variations and patterns in writing as landmarks. I always thought that would be useful on a screen.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
I didn’t know that either, thank you! It works with triple-click paragraphs too.
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Ask HN: Why does copy and paste sometimes just not work?
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by Solstinox 6y ago
Double click text to select a word. Triple click text to select the whole paragraph. For decades I assumed that there’s some weird fluky behavior when trying to select a word and accidentally selecting the paragraph.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
I’ve not dabbled with Google’s music offerings because they don’t seem like a musical company in the way that Spotify/Apple are. Terrible reason, I know.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
You’re wedged in quite a spot with this. You’re like a think-tank, but not. Companies can easily partner with some university to get their students to do this sort of thing for close to free, but many don’t. So you’re basically consultants,
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by Solstinox 6y ago
Is it true that we (not HN, but US as a geopolitical entity) have ever believed in a global internet? Seems naive. We’ve believed in the American internet purveyed by America to the world. Countries like China deployed their firewalls preci
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The Rule of 72(betterexplained.com)
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by Solstinox 6y ago
It’s fun to do this across a variety of basic states. Drunk vs. Sober Tired vs. Awake Hungry vs. Satiated Amazing how dramatically each changes your perspective.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
You know what’s worse than having to work with JIRA/Confluence/Bit Bucket, and such? Working with people who keep changing systems every 6-12 months. A crappy system used fully is better than system surfing to find the Holy Grail™
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by Solstinox 6y ago
You mean double-edge, right? I thought straight edge was basically a shaving knife you can sharpen...
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by Solstinox 6y ago
Equity is an interesting goal because it’s ephemeral. The pattern of history is: ...insane inequity, a brief moment of equity gained through violence, a long march back to insane inequity, insane inequity, a brief moment equity gained throu
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by Solstinox 6y ago
...and get better sleep.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
The default 80/20 example everyone uses for Pareto misleads you about the nature of the insight. You can observe any combo, and they need not add up to 100%. It could just as well be “12% of the effort gets you 100% of your results, an
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by Solstinox 6y ago
Apple/Schiller are good, maybe even the best. That doesn't mean they anticipated, planned, or engineered individual conversations between two people.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
The nature of lofty awards, fellowships, and titles is political, social, and if the former allow, merit-based.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
Wouldn't give Phil or Apple marketing that much credit. They're good, they're not that good.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
Guess Scott Forstall did not make extraordinary technical OR leadership contributions to personal computing while at the company. Bummer.
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by Solstinox 6y ago
One of the ugliest and more difficult to grasp charts Apple has put together in a long time. Desktops vs. notebooks vs. a sickly light shining on bathroom tiles in the background.
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Roman emperors visualized with neural nets, Photoshop, and historical references(medium.com)
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by Solstinox 6y ago
The kind of people who make and buy these technologies say, “you just need more data/a better algorithm.” They don’t get that you could have 99.99999% of all possible information on a person AND that the missing 0.00001% could change

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