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by moron 14y ago
Well, I wish you luck. But I think you've made a mistake (unless you only plan to hold it for a short time).
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by moron 14y ago
These questions are not designed to demonstrate intelligence if you get them right. They are designed to show how our cognitive biases trip us up, often without us even noticing. You're not stupid if you get them wrong, you're completely no
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by moron 14y ago
Excellent point. Also, if you adopt that value system, you may be just as susceptible to making errors, but you will be slower to trust your own thoughts. In terms of the examples given, you may get the ball and bat thing wrong intuitively,
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by moron 14y ago
I notice this all the time, all over the place. It drives me nuts, to the point that I am now extremely skeptical of what we call "intelligence". Taleb's "The Black Swan" really opened my eyes to this. He talks a lot about how we reason in
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by moron 14y ago
Ah yes, good old feature checklists. Those have been working so well for us these last couple of decades.
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by moron 14y ago
Really? The biggest-selling smartphones are made by Apple, who famously downplay specs in mobile devices.
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by moron 14y ago
I thought the "informal economies" in places like Spain and Italy was well-known. At any rate, I don't understand why a bunch of people evading taxes is supposed to make us feel better about Spain's ability to service its debt.
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by moron 14y ago
I'm not sure it's even possible to do. I take a more creative approach involving "deny" file permissions everywhere and deliberately writing over various .exe files with gibberish.
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by moron 14y ago
I would've thought people who get shit done don't do much hanging around, on account of all the shit they're getting done.
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by moron 14y ago
True, though the dev has the same relationship with Heroku. I agree with the content of the article, but you're right -- users don't wanna hear it.
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by moron 14y ago
I don't!
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by moron 14y ago
Sure, agreed. But it is reasonable to assume from this that HBO considers whatever losses it is suffering from piracy to be acceptable in some sense, or at least preferable to selling their shows online, which is interesting in its own righ
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by moron 14y ago
I think the idea was that those people are willing to pay directly for the show, as opposed to paying for a subscription.
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by moron 14y ago
Yeah, it's just a button, right?
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by moron 14y ago
Never used the library, but I did inspect the "Multiple Select" control while building something similar last year. So, thanks!
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by moron 14y ago
I can see the narrative being set up already, just like I could last time with Vista and Windows 7. The first one "sucks" and the one directly following is "great", except under the covers they are basically the same. And with the first one
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by moron 14y ago
Lumping it all under "government spending" is burying the lede a bit.
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by moron 14y ago
Hopefully it is better than the dreadful tablet/laptop hybrids MS hawked a few years back. That standard is painfully low, though. They were awful.
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by moron 14y ago
My favorite thing about JS now coming into wider use is how it drives a certain class of older hackers bonkers. It has 0 and -0! The default namespace is global! It has a === operator, for crying out loud! For folks who spent a bunch of tim
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by moron 14y ago
Indeed we are!
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by moron 14y ago
Judging by what I've read, this is far from contrarian.
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by moron 14y ago
Ugh, give me a break. Either they work or they don't, his motorcycle has nothing to do with it.
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by moron 14y ago
I've decided that I am too stupid to figure out such schemes. I just figure out how much my work is worth to a company and then ask for that. As I see it, working for equity is essentially begging to get screwed by someone who understands t
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by moron 14y ago
> So the guy that watches YouTube videos for 3 hours, and the guy that takes 2 hours worth of smoke breaks a day got the same as the gal that works 50 hours a week and fixes the majority of the product issues? If those guys have jobs at
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by moron 14y ago
Yeah, this is what he should have said in the first place. I don't see what's so hard, just be a big boy about it.
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by moron 14y ago
I was surprised to see they're still using the goofy PenTile display stuff. The device is the display, you can't skimp on that.
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by moron 14y ago
I work for a financial-services company and I still think investing in the stock market is crazy. There are people who spend their days figuring out how to separate "investors" (basically, gamblers) from their money either without getting
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by moron 14y ago
Interesting but Tim Cook is not a "sales guy"
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by moron 14y ago
If some mundane thing is taking too much of your time, then by all means "hack" it so you can get on with your life. Otherwise you are engaging in our old friend premature optimization. There are a lot of different kinds of wankery in the w
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by moron 14y ago
I like Gruber's writing and often chafe at some of the less-insightful things people have to say about him, but I agree 100% with Dan here. It would have been right for Gruber and him to properly cap off the show for the listeners. It would

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