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by cJ0th 10y ago
"Six Thinking Hats" was the first book that I read in this area. To this day I like to use his methodology from time to time when I have to find a solution to a big problem that confuses me so much that I don't even know wher
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by cJ0th 10y ago
> TL;DR Desktop will not die and there will never be a time were you can say "Everything is done". Generally I'd agree with that. However, from a business point of view I am not sure whether writing desktop software is sti
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Could you tell the driver a GPS address?
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Not sure if this was meant to be sarcastic but mjklin was simply completing the dialogue GeniusAtWork was quoting. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701245/quotes?item=qt1464595 However, if you really didn't get i
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by cJ0th 10y ago
We could write everything as a list of nice haikus if that's what we want.
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That was my first thought when I read it. Eventually you'll go to a cafe to meet your friend and you greet him with "So, ... google wants me to talk to you today." However, it is funny to see "normal people" getting
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by cJ0th 10y ago
It would be interesting to see whether or not one could show that exercise is tied to higher risk for some types of cancer if they would use the same methodology analogously.
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by cJ0th 10y ago
> I think the way we use technology today will be looked back on the same way we look back at naive cigarette smoking in the 1950s. > Modern app design isn't about creating things that are good for the user, but about creating wa
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by cJ0th 10y ago
I am surprised how much work went into this because to be frank it was bloody horrible. However, I don't think the tech is to blame. It's rather that the Simpsons guys didn't know how to put it to good use. Think Jurassic Par
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I've gotten one as well after my beloved v3i passed away. In terms of value for money it is alright. Yet I wonder why dumb phones aren't perfected by now. Apart from the menu issues and the indeed horrible backgrounds (went with t
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by cJ0th 10y ago
I like this website a lot for gentle introductions to new topics: https://jeremykun.com/2012/04/21/kolmogorov-complexity-a-pri...
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Well, that's exactly the problem: it is all "good" these days. However, the ability to rate something as good implies that we talk about something we know how to rate and this is the case because the sample size of "good
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by cJ0th 10y ago
> Why would after such a long time the CDU suddenly drop the pro-Störerhaftung position? Most of them own tablets and smartphones by now and they don't feel like maxing out their data plan which they have to pay for themselves. On a
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by cJ0th 10y ago
If you're on windows try foobar2000 [0] On linux try moc.[1] The latter might be too restricted for your needs but personally I absolutely love its simple interface. [0] http://www.foobar2000.org/ [1] https:/&#x2
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by cJ0th 10y ago
that'd be tragic indeed. :(
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by cJ0th 10y ago
re: Ecco Pro outliner Maybe Treeline[0] (a favorite of mine) or BasKet[1] (not sure if a windows version exists) suit your needs. They're both open source and more responsive than onenote. [0] http://treeline.bellz.org/
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by cJ0th 10y ago
How do you peel it ... with your hands ? ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_57N1EI1Uw
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or (c) they don't have to care about it. "security by obscurity" might proves as being good enough. I could write you a text message: "Hey abalone, do you fancy helping me planting a tree over at my garden?" and it
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by cJ0th 10y ago
> I think it sucks that constantly-improving services are impossible to address in a federated way, and he's not really offering a solution to that. The solution would be education. Federation would work okayish if the average user
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by cJ0th 10y ago
This looks really good but there is one thing I find irritating: This software, an IDE, comes with a privacy statement [0]: Some excerpts: -- > We collect information about how you interact with our products and services. This includes i
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by cJ0th 10y ago
> It found that over the past four decades, the average age-corrected male BMI rose to 24.2 from 21.7, and in women rose to 24.4 from 22.1. Could this be due to an increase in people going to the gym? A bmi of 24.x is still < 30 and n
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by cJ0th 10y ago
These are my main qualms with software these days: Logic went out of the window. Back in the days a good deal of software had great, albeit complex menus. The typical non-techy hated these interfaces because they didn't get results imm
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by cJ0th 10y ago
> I ended up getting around it by firing up a bunch of virtual machines (one per Apple ID), downloading everything I end, striping off the DRM, and then never using iTunes again for anything other than music (and even then I favour CDs f
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Not necessarily. It's hard to put into words but to make it short: To-do lists only work for me if I write down an item while having the intention of actually doing it asap. If that is the case then specific software that, for instance
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Can anyone shed some light as to why (apparently) still no one can compete with YKK in terms of scale and value for money?
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Well, my preferred form of communication is e-mail and thus I tend to start conversations via e-mail (if an instant response isn't required). Guess what? Some people started replying to my e-mails via Facebook! I am somewhat okay with
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by cJ0th 11y ago
The fact that you're not doing what you're "supposed" to do means there is a conflict that hinders you. In order to get your tasks done you have to dissolve your conflict(s) first. However, I am afraid this is not straig
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I can see how one would do such an exercise for fun. But these days I fear some people really think they need ML to gain insights that could be gained by good ol' "eyeball inspection" within a few minutes.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I gotta say I am a bit disappointed that I can't login with facebook.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> The only problem I see, which rises from my wifes experience, there is no simple Paint alternative [...] Try Kolourpaint: http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

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