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by pmichaud 13y ago
This seems like an interesting example of the fundamental attribution error. I guess one could phrase it: I see others as they are and myself as I hope to be.
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by pmichaud 14y ago
I think you may be missing some of the difficulty in RWD. The hard part, as you said, isn't implementing a few media queries and resizing stuff. That is easy, you're right. The hard part is the design . If you need to shrink an element dow
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by pmichaud 14y ago
I think you have an unrealistic view of how well a large team of engineers can "self organize." It's hard to keep track of the 10,000ft view when that's your job, it's nearly impossible when you're in the thick of code, in some subsection o
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Doing Truly Important Work: The Life of Aaron Swartz(petermichaud.com)
7 points by pmichaud 14y ago|0 comments
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by pmichaud 14y ago
I was married to a professor for years, and it's a little more complicated than that. Full time professors do have some leeway, but they catch shit if they try to require something "weird," or inconsistent with other professors teaching sim
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by pmichaud 14y ago
Sure, but the only people I've interviewed have either been employed at the time and looking to move, or they have had really specific job requirements, like: I want to be a web dev, but I want to write python only, but nothing Django. I wo
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by pmichaud 14y ago
I've never tried it, but I can speculate that it's similar to the 100+ms latency of comparable devices. It needs to be more on the order of 5-10ms for it to truly viable, and then the screens need to be bigger to make it feasible to do a lo
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by pmichaud 14y ago
That's weird, I've never once met an unemployed programmer.
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How to Model a Problem (with Math)(petemichaud.github.com)
2 points by pmichaud 14y ago|0 comments
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by pmichaud 14y ago
As what I would describe as a "semipro" artist, I would not use an ipad to draw, because the latency isn't good enough yet. People might play with it, but no professional can use it until the latency is about 10 times better than it current
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by pmichaud 14y ago
This is interesting because I've seen the opposite trend. You seem to view food as a kind of art (and more power to you), but many people hold the very American view that food is magic. It's medicine for sadness, it's a symbol of manliness,
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by pmichaud 14y ago
Strong AI would could potentially dwarf all past profits, you're simply not correct.
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by pmichaud 14y ago
I play all the games that the cool kids play, I just play them a year later. I'm in no rush.
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by pmichaud 14y ago
I have a PS3 because it's dead simple to buy a game, pop it in, and just play it without worrying about anything else. I would never use this, it defeats the purpose of the ps3 for me. I'd rather just spend $20 on a game.
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by pmichaud 14y ago
You monster.
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by pmichaud 14y ago
Being "fearful" or "worried" about the political consequences of a document being made public isn't the same as "terror." Not wanting to leave your family alone because they may be raped and murdered is terrifying. I think that's the diluti
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by pmichaud 14y ago
A call to action like an e-mail update form would've been a good move, don't you think?
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by pmichaud 15y ago
In my experience, if the book isn't a blockbuster with a huge marketing budget, ratings make or break it. If someone searches for a book on amazon, and finds a "maybe," they look at reviews. If the reviews are consistently good, they buy. I
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by pmichaud 15y ago
It explains in the article that he changed certain elements of the assignment so that it was obvious when someone turned in the old version.
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by pmichaud 15y ago
I'm not sure of the exact dates we've been at war since WW2, but I just checked and saw that we've been engaged in armed conflict continuously since at least before I was born. I don't think that rule would really work. "No, I mean a REAL w
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by pmichaud 15y ago
Newer/better ones will force you to take your card back before dispensing cash, which I think it's an elegant solution. Keeping your card in the first place is, I suspect, a security thing.
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by pmichaud 15y ago
Facebook has "circles" but they are called "groups." I have sources that say, unofficially that: 1) They were not blindsided at all. They worked hard to compete on major features before g+ ever came out. 2) "Groups" has more or less similar
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by pmichaud 15y ago
Price for volume. Also, no book of mine that had established competition in the search rankings of amazon ever sold very well. YMMV.
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by pmichaud 15y ago
Sure, take a look at the techzing link in the sibling comments, I talk about several of the titles in that interview.
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by pmichaud 15y ago
I do most of my volume through e-book reader sales like kindle. A lot of people do this whole "launch formula" thing with e-books, but I've never tried that, I just pick topics that gets decent google juice and let organic search bring in p
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by pmichaud 15y ago
Last month my revenue was shy of $35,000, pretty minor expenses, and it's basically passive. I sell a combination of e-books and physical books, I have a few dozen titles.
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by pmichaud 15y ago
Dissent IS crime though. For example, stealing is dissent from the accepted notion that property can be owned. It's an assumption so baked into your brain that you accept it implicitly, but it's not a law of physics or anything. Any deviati
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by pmichaud 15y ago
Direct link to the Startup Corps website: http://www.startupcorps.org These guys are doing amazing work, I hope they take over the world 8)
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Startup Corps: An Incubator for [High School] Students' Startup Ideas(articles.philly.com)
6 points by pmichaud 15y ago|1 comments
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Oh sorry guys, I wasn't sober enough in my reply. Dear Sir, Your submission that an eye patch would cause the wearer to see in only 2 dimensions is false. I myself wear such an eye patch full time (here is a self portrait for illustration:

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