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by ci5er 9y ago
This sounds interesting. Can you break down your embedded assumptions, claims and conclusions in bullet-form? No matter how many times I re-read this, I am not able to follow it front-to-back. EDIT: I love this line -- "lack of awarene
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by ci5er 9y ago
Somehow it appears that you tried to make a point. What is it? That placebos heal too?
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by ci5er 9y ago
The Eastern thing worked for Steve Jobs! Oh, wait...
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by ci5er 9y ago
I don't understand the last half of your last sentence, but the rest sounds about right.
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by ci5er 9y ago
People are funny. I am the complete opposite. (Not that I don't get lonely working alone)
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by ci5er 9y ago
Well, that's just your opinion, man. 200:1 P/E is kind of an outrageous thing...
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by ci5er 9y ago
Hmmm. My product has "this cluster of users" vs "that cluster of users". But we really don't attempt to imagine their home-life. Or race or sex or orientation. Just what they are into feature-set wise. EDIT: I think
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by ci5er 9y ago
> I've seen talk about building personas where you try to specify all kinds of ancillary data about the personas: where they live, how many kids, etc. What is the stated justification there?
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by ci5er 9y ago
Agreed. Some of the old SIGGRAPH course material like Baraff's PBM stuff[0] was simple/clear and stood on its own legs. He didn't use the Notes section of PPT to print leave behinds (like my lazy own self does) - but took the
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by ci5er 9y ago
The other problem with Powerpoint is that it enables the some of the worst professional behavior in us individually and in groups. Some people don't like to write. Some people don't like to read. Or read mail-outs before a meeting
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by ci5er 9y ago
I tend to put my narrative / talking-points / take-aways in the Notes section so that I can print them out together with the slides themselves and leave them behind for the audience after the talk. That way - I'm not reading
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by ci5er 9y ago
Doesn't the CDC know that anyway?
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by ci5er 9y ago
I hadn't thought of that. I have noticed the Mercator projection leading people to think that Canada is larger than Africa, though...
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by ci5er 9y ago
> I feel like a lot of Europeans don't really realize how vast the USA really is. That's true! And conversely - we (Americans) don't really "get" how compact all of Western Europe is. A few years ago, I had a fri
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by ci5er 9y ago
That makes sense. Interests vary across individuals - and certainly some people have both less a taste for the exotic and less comfort visiting places where English might not be spoken than others. And, traveling the US is great!
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by ci5er 9y ago
A lot of Europeans take some months (up to a year or more) to backpack across various regions and get service jobs in various countries for a month or 6 weeks while living at youth hostels. Lonely Planet press has books about this for vario
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by ci5er 9y ago
> Nevertheless I encounter research close to the second meaning you mentioned frequently. Would you mind sharing the context? I work in a field where the PR machine of my target "research" jumps ahead of the methodological repo
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by ci5er 9y ago
No.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Some problem spaces have boundaries and exceptions. These can be somewhat ameliorated by better representations ... but sometimes (e.g. device driver apis, or context switching code that works on multiple processor families, or (heaven forf
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by ci5er 9y ago
That we would like terms defined, and examples given? This suit-story's various spins are starting to feel very Orwellian (in aggregate).
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by ci5er 9y ago
This happens. It has lead to most of my workplace disfunctions. It seems that even programmers can not grok that you can't even English right now.
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by ci5er 9y ago
English is my native language, but I spent the first 10 years of my career in Japan. I didn't really notice a difference with which language was being spoken. My Japanese colleagues came up with a joke (?). They'd ask me something
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by ci5er 9y ago
> and morally questionable imo. Why? And what do you think of medical tourism? I can get a flight to/from Taiwan from (say) SFO for ~USD$450. I can get a fairly complicated dental procedure done for (uninsured, out-of-pocket), USD$4
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by ci5er 9y ago
My old GP (now retired) called himself a "diagnostician", and never spent less than an hour on any visit. He'd ask a lot of (prying?) questions about home-life and work-life and social-life as part of getting a holistic view
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by ci5er 9y ago
Ha! You are funny. Please show me the regs via which this is as possible as you suggest.
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by ci5er 9y ago
I tend to agree. I've lived in Indonesia - when the Nike plants paying several cents/day and had hunreds of people line up for those horrible jobs that Americans were boycotting Nike for. I've seen the jockeying at the line a
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by ci5er 9y ago
Woah! If that is true... wait. I see that they've shrunk the square-mile definition of "Manila" proper in this table. That makes sense. Thank you for the reference. You know - it's funny. Paris rates above Hong Kong (whi
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by ci5er 9y ago
I have a question (actually two) for you... I'm thinking about comp for a company. I'm looking to make it (I think they call it) "remote-first", because there are some fabulous people on planet earth that don't live
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by ci5er 9y ago
> Manila (most dense city) This comment doesn't take away from your point - but isn't densest either Dhaka or Mumbai?
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by ci5er 9y ago
That's certainly depressing. I'm going to have to go w/ McCloskey and push some pencil on some of that. I would have put it on the plague, the protestant revolution, the magna carta and the printing press. All pre-dated the i

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