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by emfle 19y ago
Well, there is actually a latency gain to be had from parallellizing indidvidual requests, rather than just running several requests in parallel. Think about this example: You have 10 printers each capable of printing 10 pages per minute. T
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by emfle 19y ago
That the tip is a percentage of the bill makes no sense whatsoever. Bringing you Filets de venaison frits sur leur sauce a l'echalote is no more work than bringing you a Sloppy Joe with fries. The only explanation I can think of is that i
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by emfle 19y ago
The concept of reciprocity may very well be hardcoded in human nature, because it is such an effective strategy.
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Scott Adams: Giving Stuff Away on the Internet(online.wsj.com)
25 points by emfle 19y ago|25 comments
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by emfle 19y ago
Yes, he thinks evidence based scheduling is a worthwhile thing to do, so he builds the feature into his application, then blogs about it. How dare he.
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by emfle 19y ago
Of course there is more at stake for them which should make them more careful. But whether someone reads the text in the UI is not in general a measure of cluefulness. In fact smart people may be even less willing to read anything because t
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by emfle 19y ago
Yes. Where is the down-arrow when you need it?
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by emfle 19y ago
This reminds me of a excellent blog called enplaned that was unfortunately shut down. Someone made a cache of it at http://www.enplaned.com/ .
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by emfle 19y ago
Yes, I trust the beautiful one more, and I also consider her more intelligent. Not consciously of course, but it's definitely there. It is a somewhat disturbing fact that most people do this, although many won't admit it. See Robert Cialdin