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by mfringel 13y ago
If your win condition is "eliminate all cheaters", you've already gone to "ditching the program in its entirety". Human systems have defectors, otherwise game theory wouldn't exist. If your win condition is &
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by mfringel 13y ago
Author here. You bring up a very good point. How do you enforce the 15 minute rule? Part of it is incentive structure. That is, detecting when a team implicitly rewards augering in on a problem when stuck. After that, showing that th
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by mfringel 13y ago
Author here. That's more or less how I define it. "stuck" means "completely stuck," as in "no forward progress." More importantly, by the time a person realizes they're going in circles, they'v
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You Must Try, and then You Must Ask(blogs.akamai.com)
366 points by mfringel 13y ago|48 comments
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You Must Try, and then You Must Ask(mattringel.com)
2 points by mfringel 13y ago|0 comments
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EBay to buy Braintree(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by mfringel 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 13y ago
It's like asking a chef to prepare a very simple meal, but what most bad tech interviewers actually ask is "prepare it exactly the way my mom used to make it for me, which I'm not going to tell you."
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by mfringel 13y ago
If you;re in a commodity business and there are no other comparative advantages, then sure.
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The Buttermilk Problem: When reason goes up against self-worth(mattringel.com)
1 points by mfringel 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 13y ago
I have no doubt that the information in that posting, if followed, makes operations easier at Return Path. I can not say the same about how that would benefit any individual employee.
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Kindle Matchbook: Amazon bundles print and ebooks(forbes.com)
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by mfringel 13y ago
+1 A "dumbphone that can make calls, send texts, and tether" would be pretty much perfect.
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by mfringel 13y ago
Okay. What about the next time you want to speak with them?
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by mfringel 13y ago
One involves a human requesting a reservation in real time. The other does not.
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LearnMoreSecurity(f.adric.net)
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by mfringel 13y ago
If you pay your mortgage on time, why would they ever foreclose?
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by mfringel 13y ago
So, judging by the text of the article, the cost of the government's backing is a test drive in a shiny car. Please tell me there's more to the story than that.
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InfoSec's Jerk Problem(adversari.es)
1 points by mfringel 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 13y ago
The population of NYC wasn't appreciably less in 1965 than it is now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City#H... 8.1MM in 2010, compared with ~7.8MM between 1960-1970
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by mfringel 13y ago
[IANAL] Oh, probably. What will be really interesting is if the AG tries to pierce the corporate veil, under the notion that the troll created the corporation for express purposes of fraud.
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by mfringel 13y ago
If it's your job, you'd better get shots right out of the camera that need very little editing or touch ups. So your preferred development environment is cat(1), then?
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by mfringel 13y ago
As someone who had a wedding photography business, my standard contract had a "client agrees to allow photographer to use client's likeness for promotion of photographer's business."* clause. I'd go over the contract term-by-term with a cli
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Universal's Audible Watermark(mattmontag.com)
3 points by mfringel 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 13y ago
All you can tell by someone owning a consumer device is that ''at some point'', they had the money to pay for it. They may not have the money anymore, and it may not make sense to sell all of their high-depreciation items at large losses wh
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by mfringel 13y ago
I've seen a grand total of one of them in the Boston area (Somerville, to be precise), but Boston has never really been a big place for supercars... this is for two reasons: 1) General New England frugality. 2a) New England winters eat cars
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by mfringel 14y ago
All I can tell is that you've coded up a login page.
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by mfringel 14y ago
Every seller must have a buyer, and vice versa. A better way to state it is: "More people are willing to buy at the seller's asking price, than are willing to sell at the buyer's bid."
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by mfringel 14y ago
Thank you. That's the most lucid description of bitcoin spending I've yet to see.
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by mfringel 14y ago
[IANAL] A bitcoin miner sidesteps "unauthorized access to information", taking advantage only of the the compute resources. I'm not sure if that makes any real difference in the eyes of the law, though.
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by mfringel 14y ago
You've explained why you like posting/updating/etc., but you haven't explained how it enhances your experience of whatever you're doing at that moment (i.e. the subject of the posts/updates). By way of example, how does taking a picture of

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