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by blueboo 7y ago
The literal brandlessness of Brandless is and always was a complete red herring. People are making apt comparisons to AmazonBasics, grocery in-house brands -- apt because these are all brands. People choose those goods for a variety of rea
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by blueboo 7y ago
A lovely process embraced by NASA is celebrating their best failures -- the "Fail Smart" award. https://nasapeople.nasa.gov/awards/eligibility.htm Dava Newman explains: https://airandspace.si.edu&#
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by blueboo 7y ago
But it doesn't preclude the possibility that monkeys are, in general, better
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by blueboo 7y ago
It's not just a fad, the trend is going deeper in that direction -- hotseating for frictionless collaboration!
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by blueboo 7y ago
True, insofar as there's no such thing as an 'ethical human being'. And yet, no one would claim that nullifies the pursuit of behaving ethically. In "Life 3.0" and his recent lectures, Max Tegmark repeatedly stress
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by blueboo 7y ago
Screen time can be great for kids. It's just not a substitute for playing with peers, interacting with parents, playing with physical toys, doings crafts, singing and playing music, reading physical books, experiencing nature, eating,
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by blueboo 7y ago
Precious silliness. Let us re-examine our conception of leadership because of ... our delight in ballet. File under "forwards from your non-profit grandma." For a more practical take on leader-follower, check out David Marquet&#
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by blueboo 7y ago
Sigh; evolutionary psychology is the worst sort of ascientific metaphysical nonsense. Read it for poetry if you like.
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by blueboo 7y ago
No. Tolerating intolerance isn’t the same as tolerance.
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by blueboo 7y ago
I just inhaled several episodes of this podcast. I recently realized I liked true crime podcasts, and had an interest in cyber security...searched my podcast app and boom, I’m hearing about ransomware and Xbox bios hacking :)
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by blueboo 7y ago
> One of them spends almost as much time on data entry as he does with patients ...then he’s one of the lucky ones! One study found that for every hour a physician spends with a patient, she spends two on processing health records. htt
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by blueboo 7y ago
What makes that last line so powerful coming from Brooks’ pen is that he wrote it as he was having an affair with his research assistant, for whom he later divorced his wife of 28 years. That must’ve been so morally joyful!
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by blueboo 7y ago
Pynchon and DFW were convinced that that zaniness was the right direction for new fiction, led by John Barth (Giles Goat-Boy) and Donald Barthelme (Sixty Stories.) The stuff is ... not a lot of fun. I think folks like Martin Amis did it a
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by blueboo 7y ago
The only thing worse than reading his writing was being his student. He was the ultimate bureaucratic academic, skimming off his students' research and undercutting their futures. Oh, and fucking them (or trying to), if they were pre
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by blueboo 7y ago
Google docs outline; a glorified design doc and todo list. Project management isn’t project execution. It’s ok to focus on doing the thing and not your notes to self about doing the thing.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Good lord, I know tech workers have a reputation for abhorring responsibility, but this defense of amorality is breathtaking. Don’t bother the engineers...no, like this post so people will walk out of Zuck’s TED talk. Right out of the Onio
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by blueboo 7y ago
All very impressive -- hope this guy is as happy as his scrupulously cultivated brand requires and celebrates. But I wonder if this represents a cautionary tale -- someone who took their non-"desk job" and assiduously commoditized
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by blueboo 7y ago
Because every year there's some turnover, so your senior IC has a shot at getting some reports. Meanwhile, the incentive for upper management to promote a senior IC to super-senior IC or fellow or whatever is slight.
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by blueboo 7y ago
The point being claimed is that they pay better after a certain point, say, 40.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Paul is confusing ignorance for insight here. It's the same phenomenon whereby a weekend visit to Paris has your uncle explaining the European soul but your year in Kyoto leaves you barely able to generalize at all from your (actual)
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by blueboo 7y ago
Anonymized PII involves names, yep. TYL.
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by blueboo 7y ago
The only thing that matters in companies is the CEOs. You can tell because the stock changed when they held the position.
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by blueboo 7y ago
How has no one mentioned rRootage, Kenta Cho's classic shooter where you fight giant bosses who evolve to respond to how you fight them? http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/rr_e.html
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by blueboo 7y ago
New ideas are cheap. Choosing which ones to act on, and acting on them effectively is what's hard.
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by blueboo 7y ago
When you talk to effective people, you quickly learn they get most of their work-work done before 10am or after 5pm.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Eh? It's obvious: this is a pilot project where PII is screened out.
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by blueboo 7y ago
What a bunch of aging-boomer kid's-these-days hyperventilation, bereft of data and full of tut-tutting. Playgrounds in 2019 are full of playful risk. And if you want something more dangerous, there's everywhere else to choose from
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by blueboo 7y ago
Is that a not-just-but, or a not-just-but-also? The former sounds like patronage based on gut feeling, and would explain why you seem fund so many fellow Stanford grads (say). The latter seems so obvious as to barely merit statement. So.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Ah, the joys of audio programming
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by blueboo 7y ago
And every Arduino-like platform there are dozen Processing, Scratch, myriad drag-and-drop app builders... Yep, it's never been easier

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