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by ap22213 15y ago
If I could only find a laptop vendor that could replicate the build quality of my MBP, I'd be in.
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by ap22213 15y ago
Yes, true, but I'd bet that a lot of that could be outsourced to 3rd party regional or urban lab centers.
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by ap22213 15y ago
I was surprised to see Swing. Is that still a fairly common foundation for UIs?
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by ap22213 15y ago
I took a look at the program, and it seems well intended and effective (at least from the web copy). I certainly and happily took similar help throughout my childhood: housing, food, clothing, education, health care, etc. and, I'm happy to
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by ap22213 15y ago
Thanks for the correction. I used that twist of view to allude to and separate out the so-called '1%', of which appears to me to have a separate 'language' in itself.
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by ap22213 15y ago
Having started at the (US) 99th percentile and having luckily risen to the 2nd percentile, I'll say that the most difficult part was learning 'the language' of the middle class. By language, I mean all the nuanced understandings, cultural c
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by ap22213 15y ago
Hilarious. But all jokes aside, have you ever tried to explain to a self-described 'technical-enough-to-be-dangerous' corporate middle manager what an iterative and incremental process is?
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by ap22213 15y ago
Well, I for one frequently encounter places where the factory / interface / adapter paradigm is a good solution. And, it's not just to be clever. This typically occurs when 1) I am doing enterprise application development, and there are ma
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by ap22213 15y ago
Based on the formatting, it looks like a screen capture from Visual Studio. Ugly. Probably just some poor soul trying to meet some arbitrary deadline, and the screen shot and crop method was the easiest solution. Or, maybe they were the fi
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by ap22213 15y ago
The article is a bit abstract - it's not clear what the author deems as ripping off. It seems that the author believes that any work from which she (or her fans) can discern resemblance to her own projects is suspect. And, if it's cutting
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by ap22213 15y ago
Let's say that there are 100s of unique 'traits' that correlate with talent at a complicated skill, like piano playing. And, the authors have correlated one of those traits, working memory, with better piano playing. That's great. Does th
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by ap22213 15y ago
I really don't want to be the cynic on this subject, but I can't help but point to what I think is the elephant in the room: The political barriers will emerge as you succeed in this. Suppose you are able to jump the technical barriers - yo
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by ap22213 15y ago
Let's imagine that some big corporation invented a way to produce free energy, and at the same time, they also influenced current laws to ensure that their patents would never expire. Would we build all sorts of back-channel technological m
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by ap22213 15y ago
These meshnet projects are interesting, and I wish them well. But... we (democratic republic countries) already have governmental structures that allow for changing laws. Let's just organize and change the laws. Aside from the industry-pai
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by ap22213 15y ago
From what I understand of the Washington DC market, senior software engineers are generally paid more than technical managers. But, given that many good technical managers were at one point good technical developers, it makes sense that the
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American universities are failing. What's next?(nybooks.com)
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by ap22213 15y ago
What are these meetups like? What usually goes on?
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by ap22213 15y ago
Nice contest. It's too bad that the prize is only 10,000 pounds. Maybe one of these start up incubator countries (like Chile) can mimic this idea, with bigger purse.
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by ap22213 15y ago
We just naturally assume that any reported issues that we receive are vastly under represented. I assume that only 10% of users actually report things.
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by ap22213 15y ago
This makes sense to me - and, I do this all the time, especially with games. Recently, I took a three-day trip and wanted to zone out on a game, so I started playing a card game called 'spider solitaire', based on a friend's suggestion. I h
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by ap22213 15y ago
Thanks for posting. But it must have been the 2nd to last or 3rd to last paragraph. Basically, I suggest reading both pages. :-)
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by ap22213 15y ago
Yes - there is correlation between income and education, but there are other forces that produce that correlation. For instance, how would this correlation change if companies no longer required a degree for hiring? It would change a lot.
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by ap22213 15y ago
It may be because a lot of 'the rich' don't really need anything other than what they already have. There's not much to buy that's important to a lot of people with the money to buy it. Frankly, there really aren't that many truly useful or
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by ap22213 15y ago
Did you read the second page? Because, the author essentially says a similar thing. In fact, the last paragraph is pretty blunt. (but, I can't get to the text anymore, to verify)
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by ap22213 15y ago
I think the experiment would only be illustrative if the computer had zero past Internet use (ie no cookies) and the ip address was brand new. Surely google tracks even if you don't have an account.
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by ap22213 15y ago
How many individuals at google have the ability to read a particular person's personal data? If I'm a moderately important person[1], how many individuals, in or outside of google, will have access to any of that data over the life of it?
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by ap22213 15y ago
How does Intellectual Property work in competitions like these? Are the entrants allowed to use proprietary methods? Do they give up IP by participating? Do the hosts of competitions gain any rights to IP or its usage? It's not immediate
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by ap22213 15y ago
It could be possible that when a person spends more for an item or service, they tend to value it more. They may also be more committed to it, whatever that means. Reminds me of Dan Ariely's (and many other's) behavioral economics research
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by ap22213 15y ago
I think the self-service lines vs. serviced lines is a bad example. When I'm in a serviced line, I'm basically left to do nothing, while the cashier scans my items. The cashier is unnecessary, because I'm already there. There are two peo
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by ap22213 15y ago
I don't want to discredit your experiences, because if they work, they work, but have you considered the possibility that you're achieving a placebo effect with your supplements? In some studies, iirc, placebos have been shown to be as eff

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