Tloewald

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by Tloewald 11y ago
> To be fair, high-end nokia did already have "open mobile internet" available. Not really sure this is relevant. Apple forced the carriers to change their business models -- first AT&T and then the others; Nokia et al ju
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I expect that providing videos (etc.) to show methods and facilitate both replication and identification of methodological errors is going to become a requirement (much as publishing data and placing hypotheses in escrow prior to data colle
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by Tloewald 11y ago
This article actually seems to be suggesting that a downturn would be a good thing for Silicon Valley because it would help sort the wheat from the chaff, and allow the wheat to get resources more cheaply.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Yes, and in fact the title contradicts the main thesis of the article -- UX is a "trailing indicator", UX Team morale is a leading indicator.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Back when sex always entailed a chance of pregnancy, food was scarce, disease was a mystery, we lived in small tribes, etc. etc. many of these rules may well have made sense. Survival heuristics got encoded as religion, which was then horri
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Some people are really dumb. But we are also in a transition period. People in general don't change hard earned prejudices; they die and are replaced by people with new prejudices.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Once privacy disappears we can actually base our morality on data rather than wishful thinking. It's the transition period (i.e. now) where we have pretty arbitrary morals largely based on ancient religious texts, etc. and we're f
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I should have been clearer. Their definition of "sophistication" is arbitrary and effectively amounts to "obvious in retrospect". Safety pins and catseyes aren't more "sophisticated". The inventor of the s
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I don't think "obvious in retrospect" is a fair criterion for invalidating a patent. Those are actually the most valuable patents. The safety pin and the catseye (road reflector) were both patented and made fortunes for their
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Just to add to your comments: technically, shooting screens close enough for more realistic computer use was actually a problem ten years ago, but today any decent camera can do it.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Given the most common mention of smalltalk is of it being the first OO language and I seldom see it corrected by people who should know better. At least Rubyiata acknowledge Smalltalk exists.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Realistic design doesn't cost more; using actual sites may get you fired, but altering them sufficiently is cheaper than building whole b.s. displays from scratch. I think the "tell the viewer who the villain is quickly" is c
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I suspect it was performance, cruft, and aesthetics that killed it more than price. After all, expensive things that get popular generally become cheaper (or have cheaper versions released). My experience with SmallTalk was that by the time
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I particularly hate unrealism which is hopelessly unnecessary, such as showing people using ridiculously bad faux search engines and email clients, or results displays that rub your face in the result: SUSPECT IDENTIFIED with one result on
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Even Groupon?
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by Tloewald 11y ago
You're right about the dates, but when I had a more convoluted set of figures for 2014 (which required doing quite a bit of arithmetic to get the raw inputs, and would have required linking several pages and so forth) the results were
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by Tloewald 11y ago
How does he justify erasing the background twice each update? Bear in mind each erase is the single slowest operation in the loop, and if you scale up the complexity of an animation it will become increasingly irrelevant. Seriously, he is
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Trust banks to use the worst possible implementation of the worst possible technology at any given time.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Flash's speed on desktops is not the main strike against it, although it was actually quite bad for many things (the 3d stuff worked better for it because it bypassed its aging 2d rendering engine which no-one left at Adobe understood
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Actually I think the article does address these points: "For all the talk about drug incarcerations driving up prison populations, drug offenders comprise only 17% of state prison populations and explain only about 20% of prison growth
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Here are the figures for Australia: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/6530.... 6M or so people receive some kind of welfare benefit for a total of 77.8B dollars. Total expenditure on welf
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I think the point is that being employable (even for your own projects) is preferable to the alternative. Indeed having valuable skills is generally better than having money.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
And of course there are no other bugs.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
> When I told her that hacking and outing people on a website because they do something you disagree with is playing God, she didn't seem to be phased at all. I think she might be fazed by your telling her what is and isn't p
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by Tloewald 11y ago
So empirically speaking their reliability is far, far worse than stated just based on that one data point.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
And Fukushima. Assumptions that variables are independent are often very mistaken.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Another problem is that any errors in assumptions or omissions made when calculating the odds will be enormously magnified. I wouldn't trust any of these figures unless they have ongoing efforts to test them empirically. E.g. create di
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I've not blogged about the issues (I don't understand them well enough yet). Anything to do with calculating and manipulating the dimensions of elements (e.g. divs with fixed sizes) seems to be awful . (I'm getting something
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Oh -- I stand corrected. Teaches me to ignore Microsoft for years... (I must say it's confusing the way IE11's settings are worded.) That makes IE11 even worse since it hasn't abandoned compatibility and still performs incred
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by Tloewald 11y ago
You can achieve financial independence in: 33 * Cost of Living / (Salary - Cost of Living) Assuming for simplicity 3% real interest on investments once you stop working (which is close enough if you're trying to get out of the rat

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