klochner

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   by klochner 16y ago

   The author is lacking an understanding of business jargon. Very little jargon was vacuous when coined. It is the endless repetition by the uninformed that renders it meaningless. Ries is trying to change the way people think about startup
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   by klochner 16y ago

   gravity + obfuscation for the masses, hence the growing movement to do away with legalese: http://www.plainlanguage.gov/usingPL/legal/index.cfm
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   by klochner 16y ago

   Sociopaths are unconstrained or uninfluenced by how they affect the well being of those around them, unless the effects help achieve their own goals or ambitions. You can certainly find a sociopath that is helpful to society, they just woul
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   by klochner 16y ago

   agreed. I liked your reddit link - interesting read.
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   by klochner 16y ago

   It wasn't really that hard: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Bastard-Autobiography-Sociopath...
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   by klochner 16y ago

   They're orthogonal issues: To be relentlessly resourceful is a great quality in anyone. You get things done. To be a sociopath means you have lack of empathy or remorse, usually with an inflated sense of self worth. You can be a resourcefu
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   by klochner 16y ago

   Wish I could double-upvote that one. well played.
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   by klochner 16y ago

   I was excited until I realized it wasn't about the music service.
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   by klochner 16y ago

   Odd post for Atwood - I have to imagine that 90% of his readers didn't come away with any new knowledge.
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    Is Ev Williams The New John Sculley?(businessinsider.com)

    5 points by klochner 16y ago|0 comments
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    by klochner 16y ago

    Searching SO via google works great, but their native search kinda blows: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=rails+has_and_belongs_to_m... http://www.google.com/search?q=rails+has_and_belongs_to_many...
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    by klochner 16y ago

    I'm all for Ries, Blanks, lean, mvp, etc. etc., but all the lean jargon is getting overused and abused.
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    by klochner 16y ago

    I often find fonts a little too light as well (this post included). Anyone have a better/quicker method than firebug for darkening fonts?
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    by klochner 16y ago

    And if a tree fell in the woods . . . ?
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    by klochner 16y ago

    "Kodiak itself is a start-up, founded late last year with $250 million under management. Hodson says the firm typically invests between $5 million and $25 million in public companies and larger private companies."
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    by klochner 16y ago

    Two things: a) oil != gasoline http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleum.htm b) Demand destruction doesn't preclude $500/bbl crude, it just means that when oil hits $500 there won't be nearly as many products that are depen
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    by klochner 16y ago

    Clearly we need a test of female cognition during and after pregnancy.
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    by klochner 17y ago

    This method essentially converts the typical tabular calculations into a lattice, where the x-axis is the 10's coefficient. Cool way to think about it, but I doubt it would give any extra insight to someone learning how to multiply. It also
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    by klochner 17y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Transformations
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    by klochner 17y ago

    I'm not taking sides yet, but . . . "why CSS needs no variables" http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090401/why-css-needs-no-variable...
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    by klochner 17y ago

    I can't believe I'm the first to post this nugget: "In a seemingly serious situation, what nuggets of humor or irony can I find?"
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    Oxytocin Spray Increases Empathy(dailymail.co.uk)

    4 points by klochner 17y ago|1 comments
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    by klochner 17y ago

    One of the two linked papers (AnnualReview.pdf) discusses formal settings, including those with disparities in power: 'Brown & Levinson’s (1987) polite-ness theory takes into account an individual’s efforts to preserve the “face(s)” of
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    by klochner 17y ago

    They just need better privacy settings, where the default is to make your scans publicly available on facebook.
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    by klochner 17y ago

    The only problem I've found with remapping keys (and getting used to it that way), is that you look like an idiot when using someone else's machine. This was particularly unfortunate in a coding interview: "I'm used to a different keyboard
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    Facebook Expanding Virtual Currency (30% cut)(readwriteweb.com)

    2 points by klochner 17y ago|0 comments
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    by klochner 17y ago

    The Ivy League/State distinction is a little more subtle than professors' regard for students' futures. At private schools, tuition is much higher, parents are wealthier, and alumni contributions are important. So the utility function of t
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    by klochner 17y ago

    Applied Statisticians: {R, SAS, SPSS} Basic Stats Research: Same as CS people. There's a ton of overlap between stats faculty and cs faculty these days - machine learning (usu. within AI) being the field of overlap in CS.
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    by klochner 17y ago

    MBA: Excel CS: {R, Python, Matlab, Mathematica}
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    by klochner 17y ago

    Given the volume of idiotic blog writing, I hope I'm forgiven for giving up on this one after the first three lines (and subsequently wondering wtf all the HN comments were about).