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by TravisLS 16y ago
I think the author makes a valid point, but it's important not to confuse feature-rich and complex. A customer's purchase decision may be driven by the abundance of features, but the review they post later that week will be driven by the ex
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by TravisLS 16y ago
Thank you for actually taking the time to make the graph we all instantly thought of when we saw that ridiculous wired article.
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by TravisLS 16y ago
From the end of the article: "I haven't found a way to short higher education as a whole. If you can think of one, let me know." Any ideas?
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by TravisLS 17y ago
If someone finds out about a book through your site, then continues on to buy that book, you should be rewarded for generating that traffic - that's why the affiliate program exists in the first place. I think you can get around any moral q
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Probably the most useful piece of advice I've ever heard regarding this kind of discourse: A mediator friend of mine once told me to always attempt to briefly recap the other person's point before beginning a counter-argument. That way the
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by TravisLS 17y ago
I find this interesting because it's something that I've worked really hard to un-learn. I used to say "I think" before nearly every opinion, but I found it hard to have any of my opinions taken seriously. After all, why should anyone car
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A Solid Case of Entanglement(physorg.com)
2 points by TravisLS 17y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Patent Filing: Control a Computer by Flexing a Muscle(techflash.com)
1 points by TravisLS 17y ago|0 comments
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Yes, You Should Eliminate Your Vacation Policy(businessinsider.com)
5 points by TravisLS 17y ago|1 comments
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by TravisLS 17y ago
You could probably actually buy two Ferrari F430s once you take into account all of the student loan interest.
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Facebook's $1 Billion Revenues Explained in 25 Words(businessinsider.com)
3 points by TravisLS 17y ago|0 comments
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by TravisLS 17y ago
It's cases like this that make it so easy to be skeptical about global warming. There is a fair amount of real, verifiable evidence that global warming is real, human-caused, and problematic, but none of it is dramatic enough to make a goo
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Most CSS rules work pretty well in emails, as long as you're careful. This list details how some CSS rules work in certain rendering engines: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
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by TravisLS 17y ago
The other thing that NYC would do well to implement was the so-called "green highway". I bike to work every day and find that our separated bike lanes have longer and more frequent red lights than the lanes given to cars (we have a red lig
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by TravisLS 17y ago
I think these are generally somewhat true, but with a lot of glaring counter-examples. As the companies that control these spaces get larger, there will always be room for smaller, disruptive competition, especially in more domain-specific
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Social Objects: Notes on Knitting in America(ribbonfarm.com)
3 points by TravisLS 17y ago|0 comments
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Or just make sure you have an escape clause in your contract. Maybe the last designer actually was an idiot. I've found that if you behave like the doctor (in the article) it's often quite easy to steer the course of projects with even ve
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by TravisLS 17y ago
How do we know this is better than Quantcast? Does anyone know where the data comes from? Also, it seems to be missing some of the features. For instance, it looks like the demographic data is absolute, instead of the percentages being re
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The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery(online.wsj.com)
22 points by TravisLS 17y ago|1 comments
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The First Universal Quantum Processor(physorg.com)
53 points by TravisLS 17y ago|28 comments
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Very nice - appropriate metaphor for what he's describing. If confidence is your torque, learning is your horsepower. But torque is what lets you accelerate.
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Very true. As happy as I am to see all the great feature support in IE9, it's going to be a long time before we can write CSS like this for any kind of mass audience.
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by TravisLS 17y ago
How long would it be before Google gets into this game as well? And how long before fragmenting search results across multiple search engines leads to a thriving new market of news sources that don't sign exclusive distribution deals?
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by TravisLS 17y ago
The problem is that they're "basically just cloning microsoft office". No good usability work comes from basically cloning. Taking ideas / inspiration from Microsoft Office is great, it's a successful product. But basically cloning just m
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3 Things Phone Manufacturers Should Get Right to Beat the iPhone(usabilitypost.com)
1 points by TravisLS 17y ago|0 comments
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The Interface of a Cheeseburger(smashingmagazine.com)
2 points by TravisLS 17y ago|0 comments
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by TravisLS 17y ago
One of the biggest mistakes with Windows Vista was the product strategy. Most consumers probably recognize that the latest version has improvements that will make their experience faster, more secure, etc, but get bogged down when trying t
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by TravisLS 17y ago
From the OP: The evidence for one side can still be a lot stronger than the evidence for the other.
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Two things that would improve this tremendously: 1) More difficult questions sooner and 2) Force you to start over after N wrong answers so the score matters
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Considering how much trouble people have navigating even the simplest computer interfaces, sometimes I wonder how anyone could possibly understand all of the laws that impact their daily lives.

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