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by buzzcut 9y ago
Whatever your political views, the ellipses in the quote are deeply misleading, and in fact make his quote seem to say something Joel emphatically did not say. Here is the full quote: >It’s impossible not to see the parallel: the only wa
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by buzzcut 10y ago
It's hard to imagine a description of Kissinger that is more unfounded and, sorry to say, more ill-informed than this one.
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by buzzcut 10y ago
> "there aren't doctors out there recommending cutting out fats and subsisting on sugar" That's true as far as it goes, but the internal fight inside the medical research community was whether it was fat or sugar that
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by buzzcut 10y ago
> "Fat people just need to eat less, and the issue basically comes down to compliance.: On oversimplification, but the crux of the issue. The astronomical failure rate is because of compliance. The prescription you seem to be sugges
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by buzzcut 10y ago
> "No dude, you are ignoring the fact that these people did not have ample fat stores." I don't think I am ignoring it. You seem to be asserting that their issues with calorie restriction were lack of body fat. There is no
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by buzzcut 10y ago
Unfortunately I can only summarize. On the starvation study it's merely one example that highlights how calorie restriction affects people. Yes, it's an extreme version, but it is different only in degree from any other calorie re
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by buzzcut 10y ago
"Self-inflict." It's actually a fairly complicated and can be quite difficult for people to break out of, even people who desperately want to change. When people follow the standard guidelines (which are beginning, slowly, to
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by buzzcut 12y ago
Start spending some time reading Cal Newport's blog. You still have the problem of deciding which things are important to you, but just immersing yourself in how he approaches focus and deep habits, about how he prioritizes his work, w
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by buzzcut 12y ago
At 52, he had no such notion at all, I can virtually guarantee it. That employment model, predicated on strong unions in most cases, was well on its way to oblivion in the mid 80s, and by the time he was actively working, say in the late 80
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by buzzcut 12y ago
It's about combating injustice and miscreant behavior where we find it. You don't act that way. Super. Neither do I. Criticizing the behavior in others (which, make no mistake, is all motivated by gender) doesn't push you int
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by buzzcut 12y ago
Just in case you don't know, you're part of the problem.
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by buzzcut 13y ago
This is built on so many bad assumptions. At best the "rules" it's trying to enforce are training-wheel rules, the sorts of rules given to novice writers to help them avoid flabby, purple writing. But the assumption that shor
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by buzzcut 13y ago
The one thing this country (I'm speaking here of the US) doesn't have any discernable lack of is massive herds of people who are desperate to make more money. Lots of it. Piles of it. Mountains of it. And right now. If there is a
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by buzzcut 13y ago
Oh I read it, but since it was confined to programming only, leaving out the vast domain that is the rest of the world, and with the weight of evidence so far is on the other side, it didn't seem as interesting to me. In addition to the pos
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by buzzcut 13y ago
I see break dancing in your future! Two points 1) That this seems intuitively obvious is precisely what I was referring to in my post. This is a scientific question, to the extent it can be answered and we should probably be unsatisfied wit
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by buzzcut 13y ago
But your physical form w/r/t a sport isn't really a matter of controversy since no one thinks a 5'7" person is going to become a basketball great, although it's not totally impossible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_Webb But even in ath
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by buzzcut 13y ago
"And while this is somewhat true, it gets the causation backwards. It was obvious to me from a very early age that I was better at sight reading as a singer, so I spent more time doing it." This is self-refuting really. You admit that you s
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by buzzcut 13y ago
The 10,000 hours rule isn't someone's fantasy, it's based on an increasingly large body of evidence, but this article just dismisses the evidence with a wave of the hand and some assertions. A good selection of research is in The Cambridge
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by buzzcut 13y ago
The author is a her.
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by buzzcut 15y ago
Good point. I'll try to add a little qualifier. I would say that sales is definitely a creative task (but you're right that's the important question w/r/t Ariely). There is a rote aspect to working the phones, or keeping records, but sales
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by buzzcut 15y ago
I linked to the video where Ariely talks about the U-shaped effect (that is small rewards increase, but large ones decrease, performance). I mentioned him to demonstrate that there was some evidence for the notion, not to say that he entir
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Why do we pay sales commissions?(blog.fogcreek.com)
269 points by buzzcut 15y ago|113 comments
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Disrupt your own product?(blog.fogcreek.com)
2 points by buzzcut 15y ago|0 comments
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Some stats on Trello growth and users in the first two weeks(blog.trello.com)
2 points by buzzcut 15y ago|0 comments
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Experiments with Google's Page Speed Service(blog.fogcreek.com)
7 points by buzzcut 15y ago|0 comments
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by buzzcut 15y ago
I'd love to hear what people think about this. I think a .com name is important, but I can't back that up with any real evidence. And basecamp is a great example of it not mattering. We considered trelloapp.com (and use trelloapp on Twitt
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by buzzcut 15y ago
I liked that name the best. However someone get there way before us: http://www.idealist.org/
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The agonies of picking a product name and how we chose Trello(blog.fogcreek.com)
76 points by buzzcut 15y ago|42 comments
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by buzzcut 15y ago
There were two full-time devs, two designer-devs (they write code, for example the iPhone app, but also spent lot of time on UI, usability, and design), and two interns for 12 weeks over the summer.
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by buzzcut 15y ago
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