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by fefzero 9y ago
This about sums it up for me: "Nor does United seem better for its employees, who used to own the airline, but are now stuck enforcing cruel and arbitrary rules, and assessing the punitive fees. They are cast as wardens, trying to keep
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by fefzero 9y ago
The bar for basic service has dropped so far that you are no longer treated like a person if you don't pay for the extras. My wife and I saved up for a resort trip for our ten year anniversary only to find that our 4-hour flight includ
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by fefzero 14y ago
Agreed. I think there's a way to add in a few features like this and still make it simple and user-friendly. One request when you do MPAA ratings is to not make it a slider bar, but just use checkboxes like you do for genres. Netflix tends
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by fefzero 15y ago
I was only referencing the parent post about the 200 buttons, it's certainly true that they're available in ribbon form. If the commands are things that were previously available and less discoverable, then that's one thing. However, I felt
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by fefzero 15y ago
What do you mean when you say "is it risky"? * You risk that you won't be able to find developers at a salary that will help your company earn money * There is a risk that you may have to do lots of the work yourself and may not be able to
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by fefzero 15y ago
If I took all that time to customize my command ribbon, I'd certainly want it to look the same across every computer I use. Will there be a way to synchronize my preferences for settings like this anywhere?
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by fefzero 15y ago
It definitely seems like a jump. Did they interview users? If so, why not reference that data? If not, why not? And what user data prompted them to create 203 buttons if some of the (far less than 200) commands they have now don't get used
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by fefzero 15y ago
Personally, I can't stand Finder. I used a Mac for several years every day before I felt like I really figured it out, and even then I didn't feel like it was user-friendly - it just felt incapable of doing many advanced things (for example
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by fefzero 15y ago
I thought it was great that they discussed what user's actually do within Windows Explorer before they decided what to change with it. Too often I feel like changes are forced for change's sake, and, despite my own opinions on the design, i
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by fefzero 15y ago
I thought it was great that they discussed what user's actually do within Windows Explorer before they decided what to change with it. Too often I feel like changes are forced for change's sake, and it's great that they're open about their
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by fefzero 15y ago
Awesome that you guys are still following along here. I don't see a back button anywhere, but maybe with 2 you were referring to the ability to copy a link, which works great. It seems really speedy tonight. I'm pretty sure part of this is
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by fefzero 15y ago
A few things: 1) I just tried a query (weezer "buddy holly") that had worked a couple of days ago but didn't now (it didn't work with quotes, either). 2) I miss the back button and, as others have said, the ability to bookmark anything 3) I
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by fefzero 15y ago
I don't have any Macs at my house, so I hadn't experienced Plex before a few weeks ago when I installed the media server on my Windows Box to serve to our Roku. It was already the best local media app for the Roku, and this just makes it ev
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by fefzero 16y ago
In regards to equating being overweight and being irresponsible, I think you're right. I just had never seen it that way, and hopefully this can start a paradigm shift for me. What this implies is that overeating/under-exercising should be
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by fefzero 16y ago
"But the real reason [married people gain weight] is moral hazard, or the tendency to take more risks and behave more irresponsibly when there are no consequences." I'd never equated being overweight as behaving irresponsibly. If everyone t
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by fefzero 16y ago
It's tough. I certainly haven't mastered this, but it takes a reputation of delivering outstanding products, which often comes from passionate developers. Feeding that passion is key.
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by fefzero 16y ago
I liked Kurzweil's response best: "As long as AI has any flaws or limitations, people will jump on these. By the time that the set of these limitations is nil, AI will have long since surpassed unaided human intelligence." Watson isn't the
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by fefzero 16y ago
The writers had no knowledge of which clues would be used for the Watson episodes; they only mention that they don't use audio or video clues. I certainly haven't done any analysis of it, but I didn't feel like they were any less common in
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by fefzero 16y ago
I'm sure that's true for a lot of people, but I think there were probably a lot of people who thought of it as "try before you buy". This mentality certainly applies to some percentage of those who would have pirated it, but I think there a
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by fefzero 16y ago
Another key to remember is that there is time after the button press to think of the answer - it's a common strategy to ring in when you have a certain confidence level that you can think of the answer quickly. Watson uses confidence levels
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by fefzero 16y ago
I can definitely follow along with this or any game of Jeopardy!, but my problem is that I just don't know all the answers. To me this is part of the appeal. This is definitely faster-paced than regular episodes of Jeopardy!, but I don't th
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by fefzero 16y ago
Starting young is great. You're hinting at one of the other keys that has helped me, which is to make it automatic. This is often more important than the vehicle you choose for investment. If I automatically invest a certain amount each mon
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by fefzero 16y ago
I think the point here isn't just that the CEO was performing a mundane task, but that he was doing work that had to get done, even though it wasn't a desirable task. There was a giant pile of dishes - he cleaned them. The dishes were the t
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by fefzero 16y ago
I think they left a few things out, like playing back local media. This appears to be built on android, though, so maybe that means that functionality like this can be enabled later. I wonder if it will support hardware decoding for H.264 a
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by fefzero 17y ago
I certainly bet it's a large struggle. The costs to redesign (based on the real business process), implement, and train users on the new system would be incredibly large. This is another reason to get things correct in the requirements anal
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by fefzero 17y ago
Related to this specific article, I wonder how statistically significant these figures are, because the sample size (number of touches) is comparatively small. This has a lot to do with the reason baseball defensive metrics aren't as good a
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by fefzero 17y ago
Yes, definitely, although I'm personally more interested in baseball than football. I originally saw this article via The Book Blog here: http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/how_...
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by fefzero 17y ago
Yes, but then you'd probably have to subtract the amount of time that he would have spent implementing the other type of solution or getting training on how to administer it. The salary doesn't necessarily have to be included; it's a fixed
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by fefzero 17y ago
Why should I use it (I'm especially interested in the Django case)?
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by fefzero 17y ago
At first, some of these items seem to conflict (like "something every day" and "let life intrude"), but these are great rules of thumb. From what I've seen, too many developers just set out on a path without really mapping it out first. In

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