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by mfringel 12y ago
That is a brilliant way of stating that observation. Thank you.
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by mfringel 12y ago
Along with what others have posted, it may mean that you've chosen a business model that only scales linearly.
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by mfringel 12y ago
I disagree. Feedback is usually necessary for anything to actually get better. Negative feedback might be necessary for the commenter to feel better.
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by mfringel 12y ago
Parse error: Rant did not include word "sheeple".
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by mfringel 12y ago
Full text of bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1466...
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by mfringel 12y ago
VW TDI owner and Boston resident, here. Typically, gas stations which sell Diesel fuel put in anti-gelling additives that vary with the time of year. In the 12 years I've owned my car, I've never had a problem with gelling fuel,
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by mfringel 12y ago
I'm presuming that local constabularies and insurance companies adore adaptive cruise control. A whole bunch of cars clocked at 12mph over the limit? That's a bonanza of low-mileage speeding tickets, which is good for police dept
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by mfringel 12y ago
It appears that you're implying an obvious conclusion based on a very specific experience, but I don't follow the implication. Can you elaborate?
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by mfringel 12y ago
Re: Investing in the Escalades, can you explain how that business model works? Does the owner of the vehicles lease the vehicles out to drivers who then use them to provide Uber Black-car service?
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by mfringel 12y ago
Despair doesn't look good on anyone, even when dressed up in jaded mockery.
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by mfringel 12y ago
Completely correct. "Correlation" and "causation" are spelled differently, and have different numbers of letters.
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by mfringel 12y ago
What leads you to believe that it's a fairly simple change?
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by mfringel 12y ago
The 10k hour concept is sticky/durable because it holds out hope. The hope that you could be one of the best in the world if you just worked hard enough. The hope that it's not too late.
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The Impact of the Big Game on the Web(blogs.akamai.com)
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by mfringel 12y ago
...and that's the thing, right there. Having deployed a large Aruba installation, I really like the Aruba system in general (consumer-unfriendliness aside). That being said, unless things have changed since a few years ago, you're
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by mfringel 12y ago
If all you have is a resource allocation problem (e.g. scheduling, launching jobs, etc.) in a group of people lower than the Dunbar Number (i.e. ~150), then replacing middle management with an API is a reasonable choice, because you don&#x2
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by mfringel 12y ago
Alternately, one could embrace the power of "and."
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by mfringel 12y ago
When I was a kid in the 70's, there were three kids in my town who died due to bike accidents. I'm betting that at least one of them would have not happened if the kid was wearing a helmet. Survivor bias is real.
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by mfringel 12y ago
So Cringely guessed incorrectly, but forced IBM's hand in announcing more accurate information. Well played, I say.
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by mfringel 12y ago
In 2002, a company I interviewed with did just that. They tore my code apart, asking me to justify myself, and I felt like I completely bombed it. In the end they said "Okay, you pass." When I asked why, the answer was "Whi
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by mfringel 12y ago
I think that's mostly true, although there's also the case of the pathological sociopath that after making their pile of money, decides to whitewash their legacy through philanthropy, in order to appear to jump over to the other s
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by mfringel 12y ago
+1 I've been trying to understand the full remote supply chain, going directly from the offshore supply chain directly to FBA.
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by mfringel 12y ago
So, you've backed off your original point of not doing anything to reduce symptoms at all?
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by mfringel 12y ago
Are you arguing for the invalidity of most, if not all agent-based simulations?
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by mfringel 12y ago
"Politeness" is not a vestigial compile-time option, to be discarded in the pursuit of efficiency. Having a basic respect for another hacker's time on a project they're maintaining out of the goodness of their heart is w
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by mfringel 12y ago
Typically, I've heard "World Trade" when referring to 1 WTC, and "One World Trade" when needing to disambiguate.
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by mfringel 12y ago
Indeed, "dumping raises into savings" was one of the smartest things I ever did, financially. When I moved from working from a university to working at a mid-sized corporation, I got roughly a 25% pay bump. Every single dollar o
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by mfringel 12y ago
"I'm shocked you're shocked" is just fancy-grade despair.
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by mfringel 12y ago
I suspect you can significantly cut down the space by limiting it to valid JPEG files.
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by mfringel 12y ago
What does it mean to you for a salesperson to be honest about their products and services?

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