curiouscats

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by curiouscats 7y ago
I agree, you might enjoy the Deming subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Deming/ with links to applying his ideas on management.
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by curiouscats 7y ago
Those interested might also find these worth reading: Deming and Software Development https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2014/03/17/deming-and-software-development/ What’s Deming Got to Do With A
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by curiouscats 7y ago
I am pretty sure there are smart locks that don't rely on an active connection to the cloud. The lock downloads keys when it has a connection and a smartphone can download keys. This means they work even if no active internet connect
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by curiouscats 8y ago
Any I have seen allow you to set what you want as the default for your sales and also chose to use a different style on each sale. Default setting for accounts I have seen is selling high cost first (as that will result in the lowest taxes)
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by curiouscats 8y ago
> There is no way to get people to freely build affordable > housing in or around larger cities under this current system. This is largely true but needs more qualifiers. There are non-profits that have done this successfully in coop
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by curiouscats 8y ago
But now they don't get to see the huge amount of traffic sent from Hacker News :-(
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by curiouscats 9y ago
One of the items frequently mentioned themes around this quarters results is that Snap is finally making some progress overseas (emerging and everywhere else). Tencent bought 12% of Snap in Nov of 2017. Likely that has, and will continue t
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by curiouscats 9y ago
This is the solution that seems sensible for me. Creating a "locker" (mudroom, just a big box, a garage... with access only to that space for Amazon and others). Granted that isn't going to be worth setting up for many peopl
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by curiouscats 9y ago
A 500 year flood event is very likely new data that tells us our prediction it was a 1 in 500 year event was wrong. http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/07/13/500-year-floods/ It is of course
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by curiouscats 9y ago
True. All I was trying to point out is that the return isn't just the sales price having to beat inflation. You are completely right that I forgot to mention buying and selling costs (which, as you note, are very high in real estate).
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by curiouscats 9y ago
In most cases you have a mortgage so it isn't as simple as that. For example, you didn't pay $1 million (even if that is the cost) - maybe you put down $200,000. If it goes to $1.2 million you sell it and get $400,000 (paying of
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by curiouscats 9y ago
I agree, same sentiment from W. Edwards Deming: "A company could put a top man at every position and be swallowed by a competitor with people only half as good, but who are working together." http://quotes.deming.org&#x
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by curiouscats 9y ago
It is one of the rare organizations where the people responsible for the budget of the organization have long track records of trying to have them disrupted (or just eliminated). Congress has often tried to undermine the ability of the EPA,
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Testing Smarter with Alan Page(hexawise.com)
1 points by curiouscats 9y ago|0 comments
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Testing Smarter with James Bach(hexawise.com)
7 points by curiouscats 10y ago|0 comments
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by curiouscats 10y ago
They could pay what is justified if they wanted. University pay is usually topped by sports coaches (and not just head coaches, at many universities numerous assistant coaches make more than any executives at the school and all academic st
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by curiouscats 10y ago
I believe the "one time tax hit" is adjusting for their past fake non-GAPP earnings which pretended giving away billions in stock wasn't material (I am guessing, so I might be wrong). The practice of excluding billions in sto
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by curiouscats 10y ago
Undue attention is paid to short term blips. And it is indeed silly to get excited about exceeding analysts guess or falling short by a couple pennies a share. About the 22% growth, that isn't being called a miss. They actually excee
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by curiouscats 10y ago
It was taught plenty well at my college, Davidson College http://www.davidson.edu/academics/humanities , but I can imagine they did quite a bit better job than most of doing so. Still reading Adam Smith it is very obvio
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by curiouscats 10y ago
I see this as a huge problem too. Apple just doesn't seem to have high level advocacy for software quality. This is driving me to Ubuntu at the desktop. I am sticking with my Macbook but on my next laptop purchase it will be a matter
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by curiouscats 10y ago
I stopped using si.com (CNN's sports site) because of the incredible user hostile actions on that site - as you say not only autoplaying but intentionally coding around users expressed desires to stop autoplay.
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by curiouscats 10y ago
They also have a long way to go in instilling trust. Their decades of abuse of customers using their printers shows they are very happy to throw customers under the bus (intentionally preventing printers from printing). I just don't
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by curiouscats 10y ago
It sure would be great to see Sonic https://www.sonic.com/ buy it out.
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Bill Scherkenbach Interview with Dr. W. Edwards Deming(blog.deming.org)
3 points by curiouscats 10y ago|0 comments
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by curiouscats 10y ago
I wonder if Dvorak keyboard walks are also targeted?
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by curiouscats 10y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with the website asking instead of just collecting. The "wants to know" is based on browser settings to not just share your location without approval.
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by curiouscats 10y ago
Except our patent system is so screwed up that may not be the case. For example, if you wanted to stop such idiotic policies being placed on users of any devices getting patent on doing it and then charging those that want to do it $500 m
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by curiouscats 10y ago
Price discrimination is an economic concept - charging different prices for very similar products or services to get the value that each customer is willing to pay. That is often difficult and what normally happens is each customer is char
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by curiouscats 10y ago
I just hope the commitment to good service that Google Fiber has started with isn't trashed by foolish executives. The state of customer dis-service in the USA is so strong that it seems pretty likely any company that has good service
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by curiouscats 10y ago
Not only that the FBI continues honoring his memory with his name on their building. That they keep up that public honor to his memory is consistent with their continued behavior. It is sad we continue to elect people that allow that type o

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