calinet6

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811.
by calinet6 13y ago
What the incomprehensible kind of title is that, exactly?
812.
by calinet6 13y ago
This is like the Grand Unification Theory of Deming for me. I've been thinking about it for years. This is a classic question. It doesn't come up only in the software realm—in every company, there are always high performers, and
813.
by calinet6 13y ago
Seriously. A car being damaged by hitting that should surprise no one and there should be no controversy or debate. Debris sometimes hits cars. It's not good for them. End of story.
814.
by calinet6 13y ago
I'm guessing most Tesla owners at this point are rich, well-educated and level-headed people who are also early adopters and a fan of the car and company. It seems reasonably likely that it's genuine.
815.
by calinet6 13y ago
According to the well-referenced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_debris : > In 2004, a AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety study revealed that vehicle-related road debris caused 25,000 accidents—and nearly 100 death
816.
by calinet6 13y ago
That news story of the conventional car catching fire after an encounter with road debris is the perfect comparison. It happens, and the same outcome often happens as well. This is not surprising. It's a little surprising that we'
817.
by calinet6 13y ago
The answer to your pains, and how it relates to the article and its insights, is that culture is a system. In fact, I'd go so far as to say culture is the root of the organizational tree. It's underground and most organizations
818.
by calinet6 13y ago
Systems, systems, systems. Spot on. Just as in manufacturing, you cannot produce quality by blaming the individual worker. Japanese manufacturers learned this from W. Edwards Deming ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwa
819.
by calinet6 13y ago
$50?? Wow. This person needs to learn more than just marketing.
820.
by calinet6 13y ago
Freedom is a continuous unit. Just because I can take risks doesn't mean I will, or that I am necessarily "free" to do so, or that that freedom isn't highly limited (for example, I may be free to start a company with a 2
821.
by calinet6 13y ago
This is quite astute. Truly, I only dream of what the world would be like were we free to pursue our most profound curiosities instead of only our most profitable ones.
822.
by calinet6 13y ago
> As usual Anandtech has one of the best reviews. No one does reviews like Anand—even other reviewers at Anandtech. When I see him as the author, I know I'm in for a treat. I mean, down to the metal, and a full understanding and cle
823.
by calinet6 13y ago
Seriously! Just find something wintry you can enjoy (and with skiing, enjoy more than almost any other activity) and you'll never dread the great white winter ever again.
824.
by calinet6 13y ago
Try moving to New England from San Francisco. Part of the difference is that you don't realize it's winter in San Francisco. New England winters make you very aware that it is in fact winter, and thus very legitimate about how y
825.
by calinet6 13y ago
FYI -- don't always assume this. I frequently type posts of this length and detail on my Droid 4 (good keyboard). Phones with keyboards are a dying breed, however -- that's more interesting.
826.
by calinet6 13y ago
As a Berkeley grad, never was I happier to see a headline. Up with the Blue and Gold, down with the red!
827.
by calinet6 13y ago
We do. The iPhone and iPad have a single physical button. This forces the OS to have a flexible, on-screen keyboard which changes state depending on context and utility, effectively advancing the state of text input. On top of that, most ph
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by calinet6 13y ago
I like this too. There's very little to criticize, since it basically tells it exactly like it is without too much embellishment, and makes intelligent, honest conclusions.
829.
by calinet6 13y ago
It's important to make the inner workings of our tools visible and understandable, so that we can make the right decisions about them. In this case, this article does nothing but elucidate the truth, quite plainly and clearly, in fact.
830.
by calinet6 13y ago
The two button ability is nice, and convenient at times. Everyone is missing the point, though. Having 1-button as the default (as it is in OSX) forces developers to make better UI decisions. Plain and simple. When you can hide the compli
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by calinet6 13y ago
All of the Apple trackpads are pretty incredible. Coming from the PC laptop world, I used to hate trackpads and thought of them as highly inferior devices. I thought the epitome of mobile mousing was the ThinkPad TrackPoint (to keep this di
832.
by calinet6 13y ago
That was really the first step to working beyond the capacity of our minds.
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by calinet6 13y ago
> You get at the degree to which all human knowledge is limited by the central nervous system that humans possess. I think that our current revolution, the Internet and computers in general, is allowing us to overcome these limits. The q
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by calinet6 13y ago
There is an economic benefit to a great many pursuits, but it is generally controlled by short-term benefits, at the maximum within the lifetime of a single human being, which is incredibly short-term still on a geologic time scale. The ben
835.
by calinet6 13y ago
What this page needs is a big "Download" link.
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by calinet6 13y ago
That's the problem, his books are dry and boring, but they are fascinating once you get into them. Start with Out of the Crisis -- a book basically about the concepts he used to bring Japan out of its post-WWII depression and into a wo
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by calinet6 13y ago
Read W. Edwards Deming, and learn statistics. Apply it to how you look at your life. Apply Deming to how you look at work, management, and other people. Yes, it's pretty broad, and it's a neverending learning process. But become a
838.
by calinet6 13y ago
I suppose. I have never understood an aversion to databases in general (though I do understand the general concept that the filesystem is, in a sense, a perfectly fine database for many purposes). I just like Postgres, that's all.
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by calinet6 13y ago
Truth right here. His systems thinking advice is phenomenal. Love this quote too: "Throughout my career I've had my antennae up, looking for examples of people who use systems as opposed to goals. In most cases, as far as I can te
840.
by calinet6 13y ago
Paperweights for the wads of cash resulting from their former jobs...

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