marklgr

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by marklgr 8y ago
Far right is having a strong time in many parts of the world, partly due to the rejection by electors of "establishment", but also because some politicians are quick to kindle nationalism and xenophobia to get cheap votes from ang
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by marklgr 8y ago
It could be argued that those two examples are good cases where the customer could be concerned about the value they get, even including the status factor. Diamonds are notoriously high-priced because of a quasi-monopoly, and high-end cloth
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by marklgr 8y ago
> No one cares what the product costs to make The production cost is one of the metrics customers use to decide if a price is fair or not, to them. There are other metrics, like the time that can be saved by using the product (ie. some w
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by marklgr 8y ago
> Good for the Internet is good for AWS. Isn't it begging the question to parent's point?
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by marklgr 8y ago
Jack-of-all-trades come in all shapes and forms; some are just average in many things, while some others are quite good in some areas, competent in some others and can also get up to speed in other parts if necessary. In small teams, these
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by marklgr 9y ago
Ah, maybe we're talking of different things indeed. As for the padding, in my experience it happens very often, not with random sentences of course, but with unnecessary chapters, paraphrasing, too many anecdotes etc. If you think abou
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by marklgr 9y ago
So perhaps the author shot a lot of anecdotes at you and a few stick, but another author could have done the same job with half as many pages. Again, I'm not against storytelling or anecdotes.
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by marklgr 9y ago
You don't have to do away with the storytelling structure; just make it significantly shorter and designed for information retention. Quite a few books contain a good deal of filler to reach the 250+ page threshold for marketing purpos
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by marklgr 9y ago
> It's "everyone thinks they're roughly 75th percentile." Unless you know that everyone thinks they're 75th percentile, and then you can assume it's the deluded answer--and more likely, you're much clos
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by marklgr 9y ago
Are there new ideas in this book that were not discussed in his previous ones? I can grind my teeth and put up with the insufferable style if there is something valuable to learn, but from what I've seen so far, it seems to be the same
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by marklgr 9y ago
One can be "semi-famous", as OP said, in small circles, Eg. chess, and you wouldn't recognize his username--but maybe lots of chess players would. I didn't see it as humblebrag anyway, since it was a true part of his poi
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by marklgr 9y ago
Reminds me of the ol' poker advice: "If you're almost never caught bluffing, then you're just not bluffing often enough".
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by marklgr 9y ago
It's ok for short code/stories, but how many pages of that would you read? There's often a point where there just are better structural choices than the crude linear approach -- hence, OOP, FP, RP and everything else.
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by marklgr 9y ago
Hardly anyone ever seriously accuses the cat, which is why the rule of thumb works in the first place. That's pretty much my point.
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by marklgr 9y ago
Fair, but establishing the truth from a mathematical standpoint and navigating in life, which involves a huge amount of (most often serviceable) rules of thumbs, are two different things. So there seems to be some arbitrary threshold where
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by marklgr 9y ago
From the link itself: "Much of the time the truth does indeed lie between two extreme points" That's the problem with all these fallacies lists: things are a fallacy, except when they are not. So most often, they are just use
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by marklgr 9y ago
The conspiracy theory crowd is always full of "facts" (ahem) that "people just don't want to hear". Because people "live in their bubble", obviously.
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by marklgr 9y ago
I read mostly non-fiction on my Kindle, and the things that bother me the most -- apart from badly formatted books -- are keeping content up-to-date for books in progress (early access and so on), and viewing figures or screenshots. Too man
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by marklgr 9y ago
> At that point, to me, neither side has done anything wrong. Well, tracking my mother who doesn't know enough about ad-blockers or the implications of being tracked is already wrong, to me. Collecting detailed personal information
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by marklgr 9y ago
I understand your points, people don't want to pay (enough) for content, so content provider have little choice. I'd say it's the content-provider responsibility to market its content in such a way that people are willing to
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by marklgr 9y ago
I liked that book very much when it came out, but I'm now in the leery camp. Replication and the general quality of studies is a matter of concern, but even one of the core tenets of the book, namely system I vs system II, turns out to
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by marklgr 9y ago
I happen to have worked with the system author coded/maintained. We're not in touch and I'm not here to defend him, but he's no hipster. Rather, he had to integrate a lot of heterogeneous services, as that system was act
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by marklgr 9y ago
System I/System II [1] has been all the rage lately, making it to a wide audience with Kahneman's bestseller [2], but it is not without criticism. For instance, the usual two-column list of System I/System II traits makes thi
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by marklgr 9y ago
> There is a consistent knee-jerk reaction citing the same tired, old meme, "All software has bugs", and "Software is never finished." It's not as much of a meme as fairly good heuristics. Most software has bugs,
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by marklgr 9y ago
Or Sybase Open Server.
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by marklgr 9y ago
It's pretty common to write session data in memory eg. memcache/redis.
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by marklgr 9y ago
Nice, thank you.
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by marklgr 9y ago
I'm typing on an AZERTY keyboard (used mostly in France and Belgium, and a few other countries according to Wikipedia). I'm not suggesting not to use wasd by default if people like it, just try and make it customizable for people
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by marklgr 9y ago
I was referring to some stock non-US keyboards, not alternative layouts like Dvorak. hjkl is lined up the same way on most keyboards I have seen.
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by marklgr 9y ago
Not all keyboards have a qwerty layout.

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