davidroberts

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Burning Question: Why Sit Up Straight?(online.wsj.com)
3 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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Why, They’re The “Cupcake-iest” Generation Ever(michaelgraham.com)
2 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Aren't Smartphones Making Us More Productive? (online.wsj.com)
1 points by davidroberts 13y ago|1 comments
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Is volunteer tourism a bad thing?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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The story of how the tin can nearly wasn't(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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The mysterious powers of Microsoft Excel(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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A Mother, a Feminist, Aghast(online.wsj.com)
33 points by davidroberts 13y ago|18 comments
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What Does a Successful CEO Sound Like? Try a Deep Bass(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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Internet drug dealing on the rise(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidroberts 13y ago
I think it's because they have a dream, and know that if they tried to accomplish that dream in a big corporation, they'd have to sell it to people at multiple levels of bureaucracy whose job description often includes killing dreams. Even
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by davidroberts 13y ago
Emotions do sell things. I like to think of myself as a rational person, but it certainly works on me. For example, when I was living in Japan around 1996, we needed a kerosene heater for our apartment. We went to the big department store,
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by davidroberts 13y ago
In 2001, I was going from one Intel factory to another, teaching Nikon technicians about VMS, which ran on the Alpha stations Nikon was still putting into its steppers (big machines used to make computer chips). They switched over to Window
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by davidroberts 13y ago
I think they are failing because sometime in the mid-Nineties, in the effort to compete with lean and hungry overseas companies, they lost their legendary reputation for quality and customer service, as they tried to respond to changing cir
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What happened to Japan's electronic giants?(bbc.co.uk)
115 points by davidroberts 13y ago|110 comments
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Samsung probed in Taiwan over 'fake web reviews'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidroberts 13y ago
In the mid-Seventies, the era the OP was talking about, the only way a kid could access computers was at school, and pretty much only high schools had them available to students. The computer would typically be one single minicomputer or a
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by davidroberts 13y ago
You forgot the fact that riding one makes you look like a total geek, and not in a good way. Al Yankovic's song "White and Nerdy" captures the image perfectly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
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Threats And Crises Are 'Just Normal North Korean Diplomacy' (n.pr)
1 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country(sacbee.com)
1 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidroberts 13y ago
I spent years as a technical translator. When I understood the source documents well, typing speed was the main limitation to how much money I could make in an hour, and so the keyboard I used was very important. I discovered the key to fan
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The Surprisingly Serious Quest to Make Muggle Quidditch a Real Sport(theatlantic.com)
1 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidroberts 13y ago
This does not just apply in India. A long time ago, I had a job soliciting donations door to door in the US. We did all we could to avoid the rich neighborhoods and actively sought out the poor minority neighborhoods. People in those neighb
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by davidroberts 13y ago
I think there are cycles in cycles. Having lived for a while, I've seen similar cycles in my own life where each phase lasted several years, even as a yearly cycle like the OP described continued within them. The year cycle itself contains
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by davidroberts 13y ago
Patents: Meant to encourage innovation, and now destroying it. Is there anything lawyers touch these days that doesn't get irrevocably corrupted? Law was supposed to protect rights and clarify correct behavior, not become a profit center fo
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Diluting the scientific method: A look at homeopathy(arstechnica.com)
6 points by davidroberts 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidroberts 13y ago
I quit my last job because: * I was hired as a commodity, not a person, and treated as one. * Management beyond my immediate supervisor had a fantasy about our working situation that colored their every decision, and no effort by front-line
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by davidroberts 13y ago
I found myself drifting into this pattern about a year ago, when I had moved into a new town by myself without much to distract me. I found myself getting sleepy about 8 pm, going to sleep, then waking up around midnight for and hour or so,
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by davidroberts 13y ago
You are right. It might be sexism. So you have a choice. You can act on that belief and sit around pining for a world where nobody judges another based on anything external, or you can get to work winning respect in the culture that exists.
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by davidroberts 13y ago
I think even the non-dickheads are in competition. They just do it in non-dickhead ways, like actually being really good at what they do. Perhaps it is a mainly American thing. I've never worked in Europe, but the Europeans I've worked with
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by davidroberts 13y ago
I'm a guy, and while I've never been mistaken for HR, the other things have happened to me from time to time. The guy that listened to someone else before accepting the OP's opinion might have done so because he knew the other person better

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