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by arafa 10y ago
My Fitbit won the prize for being the only hardware/software to blue screen my Windows computer in at least a decade. It actually took me a few hours to figure out what was happening because I never suspected simply plugging in that d
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by arafa 10y ago
It would be really interesting to see the same analysis for verified reviews only, and contrast it with the overall numbers and non-verified reviews. I would actually want to read that more than this (which was still interesting).
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by arafa 10y ago
I agree. When I read GEB, it was clear to me after awhile that it wasn't about G, E, or B, it was really about how intelligence emerges out of self-reference. One of the best books I've read (though challenging). Not often that
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by arafa 10y ago
Citizens Insurance is the insurance of last resort in FL and is paid by taxpayers to deal with this situation. You can always get it. The best you can hope for is the rates go up enough for Citizens Insurance to make these properties less
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by arafa 10y ago
Sure, but my guess is they will either let me remap or have an extension that doesn't look at and control all my browsing data to do it. I haven't looked yet, though, so I might be wrong (I just remember having more flexibility w
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by arafa 10y ago
Definitely the first thing I thought of as well. My experience with this change has been so negative I've actually been seriously considering going back to Firefox, all these years later.
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by arafa 10y ago
Really great article. I think I had some kind of weird meta-experience reading it where I was reminded of Godel, Escher, Bach in the unfamiliar context of cooking. I'm sure the author of this article would've appreciated that (a
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by arafa 10y ago
I'm quite surprised there's been so little focus on the shaving experience. I really wanted to like Dollar Shave Club. I went with them early. Their prices were great and I really enjoyed their marketing. But after trying most
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by arafa 10y ago
But is there data to support that these questions are effective in finding the types of people that you want? Without concrete and consistent answers to questions, you'll be exposing yourself to bias (subconsciously encouraging people
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by arafa 10y ago
You could adapt something like this to fit your needs: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-laszlo-bock-interview-... This will give you the general idea of how they work. I'm sure there's classes and other reso
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by arafa 10y ago
Brain teaser questions don't perform well in studies and should be avoided: http://qz.com/378228/google-is-over-those-ridiculous-brainte... Google suggests doing behavioral interviews instead (which I've also
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by arafa 10y ago
In Creativity Inc. they describe specifically going through story beats for maximum emotional impact. Disney movies apparently adopted Pixar's methods, so actually you're not far off with the Crying Department thing.
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by arafa 10y ago
I read that book and it was so good I immediately read it again. Then I read it halfway through again before switching to another book. Really great read and, oddly enough, a great book on leadership (especially in creative organizations)
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by arafa 10y ago
I have replaced uses of the Standard Deviation with the Mean Absolute Deviation at work on several occasions, for just the reasons described here. It often leads to substantial improvement in predictive validity, in some cases fixing a bro
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by arafa 10y ago
They are, but in the process have created a serious song and hit generating machine. You have these hit factories that churn this stuff out at scales that were previously unseen through the division of labor described, among other things.
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by arafa 10y ago
"Creativity cannot be scaled." Actually, in the book The Song Machine, they pretty clearly show otherwise, with teams of topliners, beat makers, etc. churning out hits in a machine-like format: http://www.amazon.com&#x
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by arafa 10y ago
I actually used the Mean Absolute Deviation at work to good effect. When you're testing variance over very large sample sizes, it's a lot better than using something like Chi-Squared tests, which nearly always yield a significant
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by arafa 11y ago
Maybe California isn't under a drought anymore: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/03/drought-buster-hits-ca...
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by arafa 11y ago
Yep, thanks. It's annoying, tricky, and a bit painful to get right, but you can do it.
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by arafa 11y ago
Spotify certainly allows self-uploaded tracks (I know, I use them daily), though it's certainly not obvious how you do so and may require a paid subscription.
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by arafa 11y ago
A lot of how personal data is collected and sold is detailed in Bruce Schneier's "Data and Goliath" ( http://www.amazon.com/Data-Goliath-Battles-Collect-Control/d... ) and confirms what you're saying.
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by arafa 11y ago
My experience is pretty similar to yours and copperx's. I'm no faster or slower but my hands have felt a ton better and I haven't had hardly any RSI issues since. Been typing in dvorak for about 15 years now. It was pretty
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by arafa 11y ago
Merrill Lynch isn't a bank, it's more like a trading house. AVP is a somewhat inflated title, but that usage typically means something like "experienced employee" or "team lead". That's the highest a lot
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by arafa 11y ago
It's surprising they mention regulatory work (around data privacy) going offshore. I saw that happen at another company I worked for and it didn't go well. When the feds realized there's no one in person they can talk to an
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by arafa 11y ago
One of my siblings is a major contributor to Nightscout, it's a great piece of open source software. The makers of the Dexcom software have been stonewalling their efforts, but at least that isn't killing the project. Hopefully
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by arafa 11y ago
Paul Ekman talks about the "Desdemona Problem" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello_error ), which is always an issue with face-reading of emotions. Many facial expressions (especially those that express on
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by arafa 11y ago
In addition to the time needed for ACH, some or most of the lag may be due to fraud/money laundering concerns, even if it's low-risk. If that's true then it's a regulatory issue.
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by arafa 11y ago
Some of the claims in this article are rebutted by the book A Kim Jong Il Production ( http://www.amazon.com/Kim-Jong-Il-Production-Extraordinary-K... ), an excellent read. There is a lengthy discussion on how the book was s
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by arafa 11y ago
It would seem there's a conflict of interest between Wikipedia and those that report on it, since there's some overlap there. Reminds me of the old Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something,
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by arafa 11y ago
In my third semester of Calculus class, I had a Physics professor. True to his background, he would sometimes take the entire class elaborately explaining the geometric interpretation of complex 3D operations, something I greatly appreciat

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