briancooley

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   by briancooley 18y ago

   $100 spent on Shure earbuds can solve the Christmas music problem. They are essentially earplugs. I can't hear a thing but my iPod when I'm using mine.
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   by briancooley 18y ago

   Anyone who should be as bold wouldn't heed that advice anyway.
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   by briancooley 18y ago

   Or he spends the next year producing design document after design document, always being sure to fully discuss the implications of each new requirement, but never writing any code.
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   by briancooley 18y ago

   >Do we listen to this man because we feel sorry for him? because we're afraid of dying as well? The whole concept just seems like so much saccherine [sic] from a dying man. In 20 years no one will remember this book or him People listen
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   by briancooley 18y ago

   > It is plausible that this correlation represents bias in the decisions of the coaches, not real ability. Gladwell's point is that there is a matching problem, i.e., that quarterbacks with high Wonderlic scores are drafted ahead of tho
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   by briancooley 18y ago

   I am.
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   by briancooley 18y ago

   I think that, in part, it is related to the consumer's natural preference to keep his options open. A big part of making something simple is to decide things for the user. At first glance, the user is likely to prefer the item with all th
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   by briancooley 18y ago

   "If you're good at sightreading four-hands piano music, I have hundreds of pieces I'd like to try playing with you; please drop me a note and we can hopefully get together for a jam session." Playing four-hands piano with Knuth would be an
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   by briancooley 18y ago

   I distilled Taleb's quote to what was worthwhile. Saying that some smart, hard-working risk-takers failed is not a counterexample, and that's all Taleb was doing, at least in the quoted passage. It's roughly the same as saying that startin
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    by briancooley 18y ago

    Taleb's statement about risk could be made succinct. Risk-taking appears to be a necessary but not sufficient condition for financial success. That's hardly a damning criticism of either book despite being disguised as such. Phil Mickelso
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    by briancooley 18y ago

    I'm not much for global warming debates, but I did find this sentence from the article particularly ironic: "If it happens, it raises the prospect of the Arctic nations being able to exploit the valuable oil and mineral deposits below these