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by philk 16y ago
It's funny but the most useful books I had to buy for college weren't actually textbooks and didn't come out in yearly editions. Those that had yearly editions I read for the course and have never needed again.
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by philk 16y ago
Lastly, people use Facebook at work and at home, and they log onto it from their friend's houses, their phones, etc. If it's all on my "node" at home, do I have to leave my stuff running all the time? That's not very convenient or green. A
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by philk 16y ago
Awesome news. Thanks guys!
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by philk 16y ago
"If I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said 'A faster horse'" --Henry Ford
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by philk 16y ago
I really didn't find it that egregious. I liked the article (as it's summarizing a book that I'd be interested in purchasing anyway) and I really can't begrudge the guy an Amazon commission if I eventually buy it from there.
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by philk 16y ago
I'm not sure it's possible to make the right choice every time when hiring - and even if he's firing a third of his hires it means that he's getting it right two thirds of the time. Given how lousy interviewing is as a method for discerning
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by philk 16y ago
Recently, I started another side business. One of my cousins who knows almost nothing about technology came to me and said, "Let me tell you something. I know how you can get your business started and I want to tell you about it." At this
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by philk 16y ago
My business model consists of convincing users that their giraffes are private and then, once I've got half a million, shamelessly changing my privacy policy to help advertisers.
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by philk 16y ago
...and I discover this just as I was about to launch my new startup: fivehundredthousandgiraffes.com Oh well, back to the drawing board.
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I can't help but wonder if this opens up a niche in the marketplace for a social networking site that actually does respect your privacy.
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by philk 16y ago
The lectures were unfortunately too big to ask questions. Ultimately I found that to learn effectively I needed to try applying the material to problems, try to solve the problems, and then use questions to overcome any sticking points I wa
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by philk 16y ago
EDIT: LOL, I get down-voted on this comment along with the parent who said they will be paying for their child's college soon and likes this system? That is comical. You, who through the first stone, are one of those people that must have
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by philk 16y ago
Tell your kids you'll only pay for classes they pass and don't accept any excuses. I never found lectures to be particularly useful anyway.
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by philk 16y ago
If students are able to learn material on their own then I really can't understand why they should be forced to attend. If they don't attend and can't learn the material then just fail them.
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by philk 16y ago
I think those screens were more a remark on the way that every new game seems to sign you up to a shitty social network that nobody cares about.
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by philk 16y ago
A lot of us are likely to have enjoyed games for long enough to find some of their modern developments annoying.
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by philk 16y ago
This reminds me of the parts in Dragon Age: Origins where NPCs actively shill premium content to you: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/6/
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by philk 16y ago
But of course risk and reward are usually proportionate. In aggregate startups should actually provide greater than proportionate rewards as they're not merely more risky, but also more poorly defined and require more internal motivation.
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by philk 16y ago
If you've always been a success it's really hard to do something that carries the risk of failure.
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by philk 16y ago
Not really. If they derive a cure for cancer unethically, and I have cancer, I'll be the first in line for it.
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by philk 16y ago
It's important to remember that Calacanis and Suster are writing advice from a selfish standpoint. Of course they want the people they hire to keep working for their companies no matter how shit the conditions are. If I were them I'd be
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by philk 16y ago
Yeah I was reading about those. But if you look at that, there's clearly some point to his previous experiments (studying maternal attachment) whereas it's incredibly hard to see the value in the "pit of despair" stuff he switched to after
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by philk 16y ago
Voting you up because I see your point, but the problem is that without ethics committees you get cases like these slipping through. When the public hears about these cases it serves as a rallying cry for the animal rights movement and make
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I'm not sure that those two situations are in any way comparable.
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From the article itself: In 1971, Harlow's wife died of cancer and he began to suffer from depression. He submitted to electro-shock treatment and returned to work but, as Lauren Slater writes, his colleagues noticed a difference in his de
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by philk 16y ago
What incredibly creepy experiments. Makes you glad we have ethics committees these days.
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by philk 16y ago
I think he's applying lean development principles too broadly. You don't need to find a unique niche for exercise, you simply need to find one of the many solid workout/dietary plans that are already out there and faithfully apply it.
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The idea is that a free press protects society and protecting people/sources who publish things that the powerful don't want published facilitates this.
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Just because someone makes a trivial mistake does not invalidate their argument.
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No it wasn't. It was caused by lenders being able to lend money that wasn't theirs, facilitated by complex financial instruments. If you're a bank and you're lending your own money you've got an incentive to make sure the loans can be repa

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