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by gpcz 14y ago
I think one way to help fix this negative feedback loop is to use the advice of the Harvard Business Review's article "How Customers Can Rally Your Troops" (src: http://hbr.org/2011/06/how-customers-can-rally-your-troops/a... ). The prem
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by gpcz 14y ago
It seems that the author developed the underlying kinematics needed to implement an inertial measurement unit (src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_measurement_unit ), though with his introduction of GPS, he could probably convert i
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by gpcz 14y ago
I'm not quite sure what the phrase means to the author after reading the post. Is he/she referring to the standard (and less vulgar) software engineering concept of eating one's own dog food? If so, it seemed that the article went off in
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by gpcz 14y ago
I just hope a patent troll doesn't sue Stack Exchange for patent infringement in order to bring this service offline...
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by gpcz 14y ago
It's not a perfect fit, but it's unsettling to me how close the leading PIN digit graph corresponds to Benford's Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law ). You would think intentional human randomness would not fit this dist
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by gpcz 14y ago
I think the people advocating against "me too" companies had in mind the people who thought they could make a Facebook killer by copying them and adding that one extra feature/twist that would compel everyone to switch over. I think the big
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by gpcz 14y ago
The remakes look really good -- good job! Does the original Pac-Man remake use the same AI behavior as the original arcade version? I ask because I tried using the "safe spot" trick (src: http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Pac-Man/Tips#The_saf
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by gpcz 14y ago
The web site hosting the Harper's article "Secrets by the Thousands" linked in "Patents considered evil" posts questionable ideas if you look at their root site. Also, linked from their version of "Secrets" is another article titled "The G
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by gpcz 14y ago
How well does the business.txt standard hold up against malicious behavior? For example, what happens if I want to defame Restaurant X, so I make restaurantXsucks.com and put a business.txt file in my root directory with the same address a
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by gpcz 14y ago
Jobs was running NeXT during the development of the Newton. Steve Jobs resigned from Apple in late 1985 and became interim CEO in September 1997. He discontinued the Newton project in March 1998 to refocus the company toward profitability
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by gpcz 14y ago
The "Are we clear?" -> "Crystal" exchange gives me an uncomfortable A Few Good Men vibe that reeks of Command and Control Management ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/08.html ).
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by gpcz 14y ago
If I could tell my 17-year-old self (who had already learned a high-school-friendly subset of C++, SQL, and a scripting language or two) the fastest accelerator for learning general programming concepts, I'd say learn a form of Lisp. I sta
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by gpcz 14y ago
I'm fascinated to know the author's opinion about Joel Spolsky's "Evidence-Based Scheduling" approach. The author mentions that breaking the schedule into the smallest possible pieces can lead to "overfitting," but Evidence-Based Schedulin
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by gpcz 14y ago
I don't believe MacGyver vs. Careful Designer is a strict dichotomy of anti-pattern vs. pattern. Instead, they are both valuable approaches when used with proper judgment at the right times. For example, the MacGyver approach is appropria
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by gpcz 14y ago
I think a big aspect of the problem is that people literally are children (or less than a year into adulthood) when social proof from their high school classmates dictates that they choose a college. As PG said in "Why Nerds are Unpopular,
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by gpcz 14y ago
Long-term thinking and predicting the future are related but not the same thing. For example, if you knew you were going to unavoidably die in a month, you probably wouldn't eat the same way as if you thought you had 30-70 years ahead of y
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by gpcz 14y ago
What struck me about the reporters was their insistence on measurability. The reporter framed the idea as a East/West coast philosophical difference, but I believe it goes deeper than that. W. Edwards Deming (who brought modern management
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by gpcz 14y ago
Derek Sivers is one of my philosophical role models, as he writes on life from the perspective of someone who already did something "great" (starting a successful business and gaining financial independence). Ironically, one of his most re
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by gpcz 14y ago
Are you referring to stealing in terms of ethics, or theft in terms of the legal system? Ethics are subjective, so I don't really want to go down that road. In terms of US law, however, the Supreme Court case Dowling v. United States foun
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by gpcz 14y ago
As you said, the author was probably mixing up ghettos (which are by definition involuntary) with the concept of an ethnic enclave ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_enclave ). It's easy to do because many ethnic enclaves were histori
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by gpcz 14y ago
The WSJ previously wrote an article titled "Sitting for More Than Three Hours A Day Cuts Life Expectancy," and now they backpedal by writing an entire article summarizing that correlation does not necessarily imply causation. Unfortunately
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by gpcz 14y ago
If tens of thousands of people in the world can dance better than you, then let's assume the maximum number of "tens of thousands" before hitting "hundreds of thousands" -- 99999. Let's assume there are 7 billion people on Earth (not perfe
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by gpcz 14y ago
I freely admit that I'm not a lawyer, which is why I asked a question instead of making a statement. I thank you for your insight, though, as I see you are a lawyer.
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by gpcz 14y ago
If the amendment is passed still titled as the "Uber Amendment," would the law be considered a Bill of Attainder against Uber? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder )
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by gpcz 14y ago
Isn't the definition of engineering to use scientific principles to design and build things?
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by gpcz 14y ago
What era did we come out of in order to enter the Era of Design?
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by gpcz 14y ago
One of W. Edwards Deming's "Lesser Categories of Obstacles" contends that the system designed by management is responsible for 85% of mistakes and unintended consequences in a business, while workers are responsible for about 15% (src: htt
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by gpcz 14y ago
The article and the linked NIST page were not specific about the BIOS flaw, but based on Google searches for "bios security flaw," it seems that even the worst ones (the CompuTrace Lojack flaw and Johanna Rutkowska's Intel flaw) require the
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by gpcz 15y ago
Apple was also very secretive about the early Macintosh when it was being developed, but time passed and eroded the necessity of the secrecy compared to the entertainment value of the story. Archive.org records show that Folklore started h
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by gpcz 15y ago
Given the precedent of the DocX foreclosure signature fraud, the DirecTV smart card lawsuits, and the RIAA lawsuits, I think bulk lawsuits are a ripe territory for a combination of fraud and lawsuits with poorly thought-out evidence that on

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