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by dalai 10y ago
I know, but somehow the motivation is not there, especially with side projects. I started a couple that aimed at improving our internal stuff, but they are sitting there. Everybody is positive until it is time to deploy/use something n
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by dalai 10y ago
My #1 reason is that I don't have enough to do. I've complained about it so often to colleagues and supervisor it has become a running joke, but nothing changed. Previous job was even worse. I've been doing 2-3 weeks of work,
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by dalai 10y ago
The article is also criticizing their particular version of scrum. For example "collecting points" or obsessing about them is not unadulterated scrum; the word points or planning poker are not even mentioned in the scrum guide. An
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by dalai 10y ago
All the dentists I've tried so far in Germany have recommended flossing. The last one actually showed me how to do it properly and gave me a free sample to use until I bought my own. Perhaps things are changing here too?
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by dalai 10y ago
> how they think Nokia would've fared any better than HTC (or Sony, or Motorola) Back in the day Nokia had good hardware, a 40% marketshare, brand recognition, a loyal customer base and a wide distribution network. Certainly noone k
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by dalai 11y ago
> Mixing the two is convenient, but can stifle innovation. Could you elaborate? I think I've heard the argument before, but I don't really see how. These outages show up again and again, partly because people cannot access the
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by dalai 11y ago
I personally prefer Asciidoc(tor). The syntax for the basic stuff (headings, source code, links) is at least as easy as for markdown, but it also allows more advanced cases (tables, splitting into files, text substitutions, etc.) without re
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by dalai 11y ago
> They are in the EU also ;) I thought they capped just the roaming charges, isn't calling to mobile numbers in other EU countries still (relatively) expensive? My german carrier currently charges 20 times more for those.
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by dalai 12y ago
Honestly, since when is that a great feature? I can't think of any other piece of modern software that requires that of its users (other dvcs with similar feature sets included). Noone should care about "internal" interfaces,
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by dalai 12y ago
I am not sure what your point is. Subversion, git, hg, darcs all get the job done. Was your choice of git based on its superiority over the other ones or just a side effect of its popularity? The problem with git is not that you will run in
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by dalai 12y ago
DE, FR and IT have the same currency only the last 15 years or so. One would expect that they would be using the same conventions because of the history and relationships between CH and all of these countries.
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by dalai 12y ago
True, but I would assume that most people have a reasonable expectation that their phones will not get damaged in typical usage scenarios. And yes, I do think that putting your phone in your front pocket is typical. In my view that means th
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by dalai 12y ago
And how many fail before they get any backing but after sucking a lot of money? The 1 in 10 chance of success could actually be optimistic. Anyway I think the 90% failure rate might be based on this: http://www.wamda.com/20
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by dalai 13y ago
It only took a couple of days to find where the Air France 447 crashed despite its location. Moreover, I doubt either accident would have been prevented or people would have been rescued if the precise location of the crash was known sooner
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by dalai 13y ago
I think his point was that is should also be an option in large, proven and socially important markets.
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by dalai 13y ago
> conversation threading I believe this existed before gmail > gigabyte storage was not a tech problem before > speed in what way? the ui was and still is as fast as most lightweight desktop clients > powerful search maybe, alth
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by dalai 13y ago
It is not about basing his salary on that of the cleaners. It is about having a limit on the range of salaries in the organization and the cleaners happen to have the lowest there. The idea is that the extra profits should be shared by all
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by dalai 13y ago
This is not done by the publishers. They only provide an online system to do so. The editors and reviewers are other scientists.
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by dalai 13y ago
So much wrong with this coverage. The only thing new is the exclusive "fake" find video. From a cnet article back in September: But Jobs' mouse wasn't easily found inside. Rather, it was hidden amidst hundreds, or even
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by dalai 13y ago
If it is not meant to be hand coded then I would think that starting with Markdown is a bad idea. Markdown was meant to be human readable with minimal markup. This means that there are many limitations as to what you can represent in Markdo
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by dalai 13y ago
> I agree that getting out of loneliness is hard but it's not impossible. I don't disagree there. My point (which I probably didn't really make) was that you can't have a recipe for it. Too much depends on the particu
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by dalai 13y ago
I understand what you are trying to say, but I think mercer (in a sibling thread) has it right. A lot of us are in environments that feel like they are designed to keep us separated after we enter our professional life. This is particularly
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by dalai 13y ago
Why a failure? As you say this is a niche topic and if the info is correct on Amazon, it has only been out a year and a half. I am an author of a robotics book in an even more niche topic and I doubt our royalties totaled more than ~$5000 i
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by dalai 13y ago
Do they actually have prediction models that work? Goldman Sachs is not an outside observer. Every time they make a public prediction they are also affecting the outcome. The same goes for several well-known economists. Even if the predicti
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by dalai 13y ago
Well the problem with trying to counter the argument that piracy is killing the music industry is that we are talking about potential sales that would have happened in a universe where no piracy existed. I doubt the graph will help much. Th
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by dalai 13y ago
I sometimes wonder whether there is indeed less need for professors or whether it is easier and cheaper to use postdocs, adjuncts, "research professors", etc. for the work that professors are supposed to do. It appears that univer
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by dalai 13y ago
A "data scientist" or a "programmer" are hardly senior level positions. In my experience as a PhD with (currently) almost 4 yrs postdoc experience, I rarely get an interview when I apply for an industry position. I think
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by dalai 13y ago
A tenured professor though can get $20k per class or more, assuming that he/she is only teaching and not involved in any research (most start with 3 courses per year). Of course many tenured professors also bring money to the universit
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by dalai 13y ago
The issue as I see it is that the probability exists that the other envelope contains Z/2 or 2Z, but not both - ie. the probability that one of those exists negates the other from existing, because in order for both to be possible you
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by dalai 13y ago
The DX is not very good for reading pdfs. It does not render them very well and the pdf viewer is lacking in features. This is remedied a bit with jailbreaking and using other software. Personally, I am still disappointed at the lack of off

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