michaelhoney

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by michaelhoney 12y ago
My company works a four-day week, and it's excellent. Note that the transition from five to four days has the most pleasure impact (+50% weekend) for the least work cost (-20% work). The next two transitions – 4->3 and 3->2 – wou
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by michaelhoney 12y ago
Real talk: if someone describes themselves as conservative (in US political parlance) they are probably (not certainly, but probably ) more selfish and more likely to have either factually incorrect or morally indefensible views on e.g cli
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by michaelhoney 12y ago
With 1K employees, no one thing is going to provide best fit for everyone. Work out what the internet is for , and realise that you might end up using multiple systems for different uses, and find ways to use them together. That's a g
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by michaelhoney 12y ago
Lot of people in here offering cheap opinions, while mgirdley's team has done the actual work. They're not saying that the kinda of algebra test they're proposing is foolpoof, perfect, subjectivity-free, or even the best way
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by michaelhoney 12y ago
I have seen the 1830s-sh remains of such a system in Tasmania. They sent coal in buggies down a ~200m inclined railway to the dock below, using it as counterweight to haul goods up the hill. Win-win!
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by michaelhoney 12y ago
They still have copyright on the software: copying it and, say undercutting the AEC on the fee-for-service would be illegal. Far more likely that the AEC don't want to have their software open to scrutiny by politically-motivated geeks
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by michaelhoney 12y ago
I am glad I learned my times tables and would encourage everyone to do it. It's not that hard and it pays dividends for life. Having complete familiarity with human-scale numbers is part of being a numerate human.
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by michaelhoney 12y ago
Poul Anderson's The Man Who Came Early ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_Early ) is a lovely, short exploration of this idea. Full text available at http://www.classicly.com/poul-willi
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by michaelhoney 13y ago
Anselm's ontological argument is, however, bollocks. Merely postulating the existence of a greatest possible being is irrelevant as to whether such a being exists, or whether free will is even possible. There's no evidence that it
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by michaelhoney 13y ago
"I'm pretty sure you'll find the same sort of cameraderie anywhere that's hard to get to." Yes, shared effort leads to mutual respect. Nice insight.
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by michaelhoney 13y ago
I don't think tumultco would see ROI porting to Windows or Linux. Quite apart from the actual development effort, managing two or more codebases, dealing with Windows fragmentation and piracy... ugh. Yes, you'd drastically expand
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by michaelhoney 13y ago
.. and it's not like it hasn't been done before, to Japanese Americans in WWII.
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by michaelhoney 13y ago
Upvote for the bonus prediction.
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by michaelhoney 14y ago
We're (mainly) in Australia, with one worker currently in Belgium an another in Tokyo. Europe checks in to Campfire before breakfast to catch us "live" at the end of the day for an hour or so of realtime interaction. Asking a remote worker
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Go Hard Early(icelab.com.au)
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by michaelhoney 14y ago
We've been doing four-day weeks since 2008, with two offices in Australia and remote team-members in Berlin and the Phillipines. Apart from the obvious 50% more weekend for 20% less work, and the flexibility to work from anywhere, doing it
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by michaelhoney 15y ago
You do understand that taxes are how we pay for the good things, right?
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by michaelhoney 15y ago
No-one is suggesting that everyone should graduate college. What Brooks is saying is that those who don't have a university degree have dramatically worse lives than they used to. There is a growing working-poor underclass, and Brooks corre
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by michaelhoney 15y ago
And all of these ways are longer and less clear than the original. Better to write code like Hemingway than like Proust.
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by michaelhoney 16y ago
Un-done to-dos are like unread books on the shelf: they tell us who we wanted to be. The fact that we haven't done them tells us who we really are.
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by michaelhoney 16y ago
Why so negative, btipling? The OP's striking out on her own, and that's exciting. She's not pimping a new thing, just trying to convey her feelings. Lighten up, dude.
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by michaelhoney 16y ago
John, outstanding work. Word-for-word is IMO more interesting too, because you understand enough to get the point across - but you still get the flavour of the language and enjoy the idioms. Huge, huge potential. You win the Internet today.
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by michaelhoney 16y ago
Seconding jawn's request for you to tell us more. if there's a something our community lacks, it's elders with some perspective.
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by michaelhoney 16y ago
Hey - travelling to the South Island at Xmas. Always been interested in Dunedin. seems like a cool university town: any tips?