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by csbrooks 13y ago
I'm not a scientist, but doesn't a large enough sample-size greatly limit the chance of this, statistically?
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by csbrooks 13y ago
I feel like it conflicts with the advice to trust your employees, too. Like, trust them, but have them on camera at all times.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
I don't think that's correct. Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon before he was indicted or impeached: http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/ford.htm
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Presumably they talked to the employees affected in person first. Then the email was for everyone left... right?
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Reminded of when this happened, because mute on the iphone doesn't mute the alarm, I guess: http://betabeat.com/2012/01/man-whose-iphone-interrupted-new...
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by csbrooks 15y ago
This isn't any different than dozens of other "special offers" a typical consumer encounters every day. I get calls all the time telling me I've won a free trip somewhere, for example.
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by csbrooks 16y ago
I've just personally known so many professional programmers who grew up in a barely-middle-class household. Myself included. (Not that one more anecdote is needed, but I remember getting a Commodore computer one Christmas, and getting a har
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by csbrooks 16y ago
>That's just the real world calling, and their refusal or inability to answer. If they were in corporate america, a co-worker or middle manager would steal their work and take credit, or capitalize on their inability to resist additiona
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by csbrooks 16y ago
I'm starting to see this on Pandora. I listen to it nearly constantly at work (I usually end up paying a $1 a month to keep listening), but the ads are starting to get out of control. It doesn't help that there is a very limited selection,
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by csbrooks 16y ago
Have you seen a psychiatrist, or tried any medications for it?
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by csbrooks 16y ago
>I'll spend 5 minutes doing the task, and as soon as I encounter any difficulty, I take a break to 'clear my head'. This is one symptom of ADHD. You should see if you have any others. (I'm not a doctor, etc, etc.)
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by csbrooks 16y ago
Am I being naive when I say that I bet the programmers working on gcc could be expected to know how to use constructers and destructors properly?
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by csbrooks 16y ago
Python is one of my favorite languages, but every time I use + to concatenate strings I get a kind of gross feeling. I think one reason is that python encourages the use of duck typing, and as a result when you look at a piece of code you
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by csbrooks 16y ago
> In this blog, I’ve tried to state my opinions and have taken small risks from time to time, but when I write, I often worry. I don't think Jobs' success is what caused his willingness to openly state his opinion. From what I've read,
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by csbrooks 17y ago
"I captured a couple of next-actions for me." ...
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by csbrooks 17y ago
Texas. Ok, not really a country, but it feels like it sometimes.
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by csbrooks 17y ago
Very interesting article. A little too tidy, though. For example, I wonder how his wife felt about this?
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by csbrooks 17y ago
One thing that comes to mind is that people with autism tend to react negatively to changes of plans, or disruptions of routine. (That may be a longer time-frame effect than we're talking about here, though, and not related.)
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by csbrooks 17y ago
Maybe that's ok, since in the future most of their customers will probably want to watch everything online (through them) anyway.
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by csbrooks 17y ago
This was the takeaway point for me (which was depressing): "Traditional games developers are really difficult for any investor to fund. They look like quite late-stage businesses: they may have hundreds of staff, millions in turnover and a
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Why VCs Won't Fund Game Companies(gamasutra.com)
64 points by csbrooks 17y ago|20 comments
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by csbrooks 17y ago
Does it matter what his name was, or where he's from? This sure seems like an act of terrorism to me.
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by csbrooks 17y ago
I think it's a clever marketing tool, not an actual tool for committing fraud...
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by csbrooks 17y ago
My first thought was "cool! Now I can tell everyone who cares what I'm up to, just like the old days!" Then I remembered facebook...
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by csbrooks 17y ago
I can't answer to what the parent post specifically means here by it, but it just means "get everything in order". Pay attention to the details, plan for different possibilities, think through what might happen. That sort of thing.
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by csbrooks 17y ago
Ok, so say you want to make a website that works reasonably well on all the major "smartphone" platforms that use WebKit. And furthermore, say you don't have the budget to get your hands on all of them, or even to go through a testing servi
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by csbrooks 17y ago
Hey, if everyone starts believing it, it'll happen, right?
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by csbrooks 17y ago
This book: http://www.amazon.com/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/d... ...told me everything I needed to know about Larry Ellison, and the history of Oracle...
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by csbrooks 17y ago
Isn't multitouch patented by Apple?
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by csbrooks 17y ago
What does it mean to call a language "slow", though? It's all relative, and it depends on the problem set. I'm wary of analogies, because they can be tortured into "proving" anything you like. But what's faster, a car or a bike? In a big ci

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