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by calinet6 12y ago
Ding ding ding. My TV and home media and general server needs are powered by a Mid-2010 Mac Mini 4,1 with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, which is most certainly less than half the horsepower of this new model [1], and it works great. This would only
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by calinet6 12y ago
You laugh, but this is closer to most companies "quality policy" than otherwise. True quality comes from good process and systems, nothing more, nothing less.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Any good password manager (eg: 1Password) has a mobile app for easy access as well. Worth the investment.
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by calinet6 12y ago
I think you're attributing too much of Dropbox's success to simple technical reliability. It really isn't that difficult a problem, and many services and projects do it right. I have an rsync script that has been syncing my f
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by calinet6 12y ago
One more thing: "Contrast that to the poor in China" -- a communist country. Then you go blaming "leftist politicians." Hm.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Bad systems. Systems are the responsibility of the people who implement them. They must care about the systems they put in place; and they must care more about the systems the more important the outcome. Emphasis on the whole system is th
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by calinet6 12y ago
This discussion always makes the libertarian cream of the crop rise to the top of the vat. You are wrong in nearly every sentence; I don't have the time or patience to convince you, I wasted 5 years of my life arguing with a libertaria
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by calinet6 12y ago
This is flat out false. What of a perfectly designed bulb without a fixture that holds it correctly for electrical contact? What if no cord is attached to that fixture? What if the cord is not plugged in? What if the cord doesn't have
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by calinet6 12y ago
I agree, I too have seen signs of respect for externalities more and more. I think it's getting very difficult to ignore in light of the increasingly obvious wealth and opportunity gap in this country.
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by calinet6 12y ago
I'll repeat this again even though I posted it below, because the analogy is so applicable, and I like having thought of it so well: A wire is connected to the electricity, which powers the bulb. The bulb cannot light without the elect
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by calinet6 12y ago
I'd say it is true for most success in this complex market. It's not a matter of whether success is attributed to the individual or to the situation; it's both. A wire is connected to the electricity, which powers the bulb. T
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by calinet6 12y ago
Aside from the political discussion bound to happen here, I was surprised and happy to see the story of Hilltop highlighted. I used to buy filet mignon there for $7 a pound back in 2009 when I was living in Chelsea, as a recent migrant from
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by calinet6 12y ago
However, the public discourse and political narrative is decidedly in the individualistic camp, aligning more on the side of what people want to believe, rather than what is true. This allows those with power to take advantage of the situat
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by calinet6 12y ago
Focus.
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by calinet6 12y ago
It's still a crutch that's supremely ineffective as a structure for doing what needs to be done. People keep telling me, "communication problems are impossible to solve, you can just never get people to communicate perfectly.
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by calinet6 12y ago
That is science at its best. What, indeed, is the alternative to admitting we were wrong when confronted with new and more accurate information? There is no "trust" in science, there is only truth, and you must always leave room f
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by calinet6 12y ago
In the summary, “At some point you have to build a real business, generate real profits, sustain the company without the largess of investor’s capital,” Wilson said, “and start producing value the old fashioned way.” I do believe a signific
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by calinet6 12y ago
Aspartame is essentially just a collection of amino acids, so it's even more feasible (in a total guessing hand-wavey way) that gut bacteria would be affected.
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by calinet6 12y ago
I'm increasingly thinking that the E/I distinction is not useful and maybe even harmful. It causes too many assumptions and generalizations that aren't valid classifications or often even close to it. This is a good example.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Guys, JavaScript just isn't that bad.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Yes, of course. But so does everything else. And the name interacts with the perception of your company coming from all those other sources. This is complexity. You have to understand the whole story, not just the cover of the book.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Woah that went political real quick like. Ironically, the people in the West, surrounded by the most land and wilderness, have the most liberal political leanings. Being connected to the wilderness means you realize how insignificant our ti
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by calinet6 12y ago
In 99% of cases, the problem is not with the people within a company, but with the motivational, management, and work systems which surround them. That is the point. It is important to realize subtleties in how people operate, but it's
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by calinet6 12y ago
"But there are B players out there, and A players are doing better work than them." Yes, but it turns out the correct question is why , not who. When you ask why, you find out how to make everyone succeed. When you ask who, you
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by calinet6 12y ago
It is truly another world, with so much wilderness. This difference changes the culture greatly as well, and how people think about land, the earth, and other people. You can find good people and good places everywhere, but the west really
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by calinet6 12y ago
Hey why the hell is there a tightly packed cluster of black and hispanic people north of San Luis Ob—.... oh. http://i.imgur.com/HXZ09dh.png
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by calinet6 12y ago
Jobs led them to do it right in the first place. Quality does not happen after the fact.
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by calinet6 12y ago
This reveals the main point emergent from (but not necessarily within) the article: the failure of complex systems is most often the result of poor management practices. Management, above all, is responsible for an organization that can ena
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by calinet6 12y ago
It seems to me that the presence of a "bazillion knobs" is a bug in itself. A stable system can not depend on puny humans for its operation—nor should a design be able to blame puny humans for its failure.
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by calinet6 12y ago
I imagine you could design a UX which encouraged people to keep their messages short, but enabled longer elaboration when necessary.

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