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by dworin 11y ago
I love that he uses "Spacely's Sprockets' as his example customer. I used to always use companies from cartoons in the case studies I made up for trainings, but I reached a point a few years ago where the people in the train
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by dworin 11y ago
I use onenote on my surface for this, although I've still found myself going back to real notepads, mostly because the battery life is better.
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by dworin 11y ago
I agree about software - one cool thing is that there are a number of apps where the traditional PC or tablet is actually a sub-optimal user experience and they've focused on them - for instance, Stormboard is in their demo, and it wor
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by dworin 11y ago
Dragonbox isn't just for kids! My sister was studying for the GRE and struggling with the math section. For people who aren't as into math, there are a lot of things you forgot, and probably a few you just never learned right (f
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by dworin 12y ago
I'm skeptical. Less than 20% of milk produced in the US uses rBGH, and most health organizations, including in Canada and Europe, agree that milk from rBGH/rBST cows is safe for humans. The reason it's banned in the EU and
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by dworin 12y ago
I had the same issue with the power connector, and when I contacted Microsoft support (I used the online chat), they sent me a new one right away. It looks like the new one is designed slightly differently so that the fraying won't ha
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by dworin 12y ago
Charging for hotel wifi is about price discrimination. The only people willing to pay $25/day for in-room wifi are business travelers who aren't paying for it themselves anyways. That's why you're more likely to pay for
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by dworin 12y ago
In the PR industry, this is called "mediagenic research" and it's been around for decades. The idea is that if you want earned media coverage (what people in marketing/communications call the news), you need to have a s
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by dworin 12y ago
Senators also have dozens of staff members who support them, especially on issues they're passionate about or committees they're involved in. And the committees themselves have their own staffs. Most likely one of these staff me
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by dworin 12y ago
Electronic Medical Record systems, and their non-healthcare counterparts in Enterprise Resource Planning systems, never delivered the cost savings and efficiency they promised because, at the end of the day, they're designed to streaml
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by dworin 12y ago
Air traffic systems aren't a good analogy - for the most part, they're funded through user fees. Eighty percent of the FAA budget [1] is funded through the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, which is based on taxes and service fees l
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by dworin 12y ago
Someone in IT at a large bulge-bracket bank once told me that the reason tech was so shoddy despite the amount they spent was because by the time they did something the "right" way, the market opportunity was gone, or regulations
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by dworin 12y ago
Did it? The majority opinion was joined by 2 of the 5 conservative justices and all of the liberal justices. Three conservative justices dissented based on their reading of the law, which didn't seem particularly ideological.
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by dworin 12y ago
The supreme court is the ultimate court of appeals in the United States - once you lose there, your only remedy is to change the law, or in some cases, change the constitution. Since the supreme court interprets the law, the way you to chan
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by dworin 12y ago
I clip mine onto the cover, the same way I used to clip regular pens onto the cover of my notebooks.
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by dworin 12y ago
It does - at least sliding from the left or right. I'm not sure if there are others I don't use.
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by dworin 12y ago
There are situations like survey research where percentages matter a lot and absolute values not so much.
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by dworin 12y ago
There is actually a business reason why this is the case. The general assumption in most investment banks is that either the market or the regulations will change so quickly that by the time you've written software the "right&quo
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by dworin 12y ago
Are you sure it doesn't exist? I've seen a lot of them in a corporate setting, and in increasing numbers. When I ask what people like, the answer is almost universally that an iPad is good for watching movies, but they can actua
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by dworin 12y ago
I've found that many organizations tend to have a 'dominant function', and CEOs tend to come from that function. So if engineering calls the shots in your company, or is the main driver of success, the CEO tends to come from
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by dworin 12y ago
A less cynical explanation for the same data: a great manager helps many people to be more productive. A great manager of managers help many more people to be more productive. Management scales much more than individual contribution.
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by dworin 12y ago
Reminds me of this NYTimes article about queuing theory: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/why-waiting... I tell this story all the time to help clients understand that customer perce
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by dworin 12y ago
It took Jobs a while to turn Apple around. He was brought back on in 1997 and profits were relatively minimal for almost a decade. It wasn't until the release of the iPhone that they really started to soar. I can think of a few faste
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by dworin 13y ago
I find it interesting how all of the people who complained about how terrible math education was when they were kids turn into grownups who wish they would just go back to the traditional way of teaching math. My sister is an elementary sch
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by dworin 13y ago
An even better example is the Acela, which makes fewer stops than the regular Northeast Regional trains, but stops in Wilmington, Delaware (pop. 70,000 and a 30 minute drive from Philadelphia). Joe Biden, now Vice President and formerly Se
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by dworin 13y ago
As a casual hackathon participant, this is a really great tool. I've seen countless teams with winning ideas go down in flames when they spent two days on the log-in page. And I attribute any success I've had at hackathons more
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by dworin 13y ago
The two are similar, and you'll often see them combined. For the most part, president pre-dates the CXO nomenclature. Before there were CEOs, COOs, and CFOs, there were Chairmen, Presidents, and Treasurers. Those titles/roles st
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by dworin 13y ago
Interesting - I never thought of the Thinkpad niche as developers, I thought of it as business professionals. In an airport, it used to be the way you knew someone worked for a consulting firm was that they had a Thinkpad, especially if it
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by dworin 13y ago
Definitely more context, but I don't think that paper really backs up the assertion. He asked finance professionals or students, not social scientists. And he asked them at a seminar where I'm guessing they didn't have acce
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by dworin 13y ago
Great additional advice, two other thoughts building on it: 1) Make sure the client knows that you're doing work that's out of scope, but that you're not charging for. Otherwise they just think it's part of the package,

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