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by jckt 13y ago
> filtering out everyone who wasn't a born narcissistic enabler. Do you mean that there instances where he really listened or liked/respected/etc someone because they had similar narcissistic tendencies? I was under the im
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by jckt 13y ago
I think Bill Gates is a good counterexample. Microsoft was not the nicest company around, but as a boss he seems pretty normal, even good. And I'd say he's just as successful as Jobs, if not more. (Also difficult to imagine a soci
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by jckt 13y ago
There's a name for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granular_convection
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by jckt 13y ago
Old dessert. Meanings of words change. Hence probably not a horrible "product name" back in the day.
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by jckt 13y ago
It's not so much that it's military equipment. Some of it is just amazing engineering, regardless of context. Since many HNers are engineers, it is not surprising that posts about interesting/amazing feats of engineering get
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by jckt 13y ago
Try cheffing. Up to 16 hours a day at a high-end place with only a 5 minute breakfast break, 5 minute supper break. Mind's constantly working. Certainly not solving world hunger, but creativity and concentration are required all the ti
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by jckt 13y ago
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/linus-t... Pretty shitty reference, admittedly.
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by jckt 13y ago
Certainly "I'm right but I don't have the time to prove I'm right" comments are just as bad, if not worse because, at least the "you're wrong" comments give us a healthy dose of scepticism?
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by jckt 13y ago
Youtube handles traffic better than ccc's site, maybe?
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by jckt 13y ago
Haha it does cost quite a lot though...I've only ever seen them in professional kitchens.
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by jckt 13y ago
> I fail to see the difference The difference is that food, by and large, is not even an art. And I'm saying that as someone who cooks professionally and looks up to the greatest chefs of all time. If you are not developing new dish
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by jckt 13y ago
I disagree. I believe this actually puts food farther away from the common man, more esoteric than it really has to. Food is fundamentally different from the arts you mentioned. Some people may facetiously say that they can't live with
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by jckt 13y ago
This looks rather good (sadly no iDevice). Looks as if Apple came up with it, if they weren't so silly with the way they applied their skeumorphism. I always imagined that if you were aiming for the mathematician market (huge market!!1
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by jckt 13y ago
By OSS spirit I meant that it's better to get coding than start complaining. But I see your point -- indeed we should do both, and plenty of it.
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by jckt 13y ago
Graphing functionality on a phone reminds me of an old TI calculator. I really don't know why recent OSes (be it on PC, smartphone, tablet) always came with such feeble calculators. It's not like TI calculators are difficult to us
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by jckt 13y ago
Ah, thanks for that. I look pretty stupid now...I have actually heard of that definition but somehow I was thinking of time being ultimately defined by Planck units (time required for light to travel a Planck length).
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by jckt 13y ago
The whole dimension-tautology has always irked me. Time, as a unit, is simply the "time" it takes for light to travel a certain distance. Distance, OTOH, is the "distance" it takes for light to travel under a certain amo
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by jckt 13y ago
IR radiation?
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by jckt 13y ago
Assuming the un-promoted person is pretty good at judging people's expertise as well, as per the DK study. In your experience, do you think incompetents' promotions tend to increase or decrease the confidence of the competents&#x2
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by jckt 13y ago
He said more people in Ivies are there because of legacy/earning power of parents, relative to the average school (which I think is a rather uncontroversial point). He didn't say everyone , which is what you're saying.
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by jckt 13y ago
Yes but you don't necessarily lose tenure if you don't publish, no? So realistically the promise isn't that important if you don't really suffer from failing to keep it.
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"German Tank Problem" - Statistical Intelligence(en.wikipedia.org)
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Lyapunov time - Pluto's orbit becomes impossible to predict in 20mil years(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jckt 13y ago
I wouldn't say the whole Ars team, just Peter Bright (not to offend -- it's his opinion and I myself don't really have one), who is mostly responsible for MS coverage.
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by jckt 13y ago
I know quite a few of these people and most of them say that when they do that it feels like they're using a totally new phone, without much cost.
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by jckt 13y ago
Exactly. Engineering =/= Maths.
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by jckt 13y ago
Does it make sense to buy insurance if you take a hypothetically accurate genetic test? The business of insurance companies only makes sense (at least to me) if we are talking about preparing for uncertain loss. But with a genetic test kit
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by jckt 13y ago
Maybe not as violent, but a bad diet can quickly lead to disease. We never see it in the affluent West but micronutrient disease was and still is a pretty big problem -- you are getting enough food energy, so while you're not starving,
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by jckt 13y ago
You raise a fair point wrt the context of the word, but this isn't actually a new use of the word "hack" or "hacking" or "hacker". In fact, if you read this link by our beloved rms: http://stall
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by jckt 13y ago
> They spent 3,000 hours with more than 1,000 consumers at their homes, in stores and in small group discussions. They observed people's routines throughout the day, sometimes staying late into the evening. Is this really necessary?

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